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Sharp humor ahead

Posted on December 29, 2007 | Comments Off on Sharp humor ahead

Cobb vows to be funnier, skewier, in ’08. I can relate. Also to his dismissal of a certain overcrowded city to our north as Fart Worth. But while I agree that Houston is an armpit, I would disagree that it’s the one of the South. That label still goes to Atlanta, still the place everyone down South has to go through even on the way to hell.

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That other Dec. 25 event

Posted on December 18, 2007 | Comments Off on That other Dec. 25 event

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Some forget the historical significance of Dec. 25–other than being Christmas Day–as in Gen. Washington’s crossing of the Delaware River in 1776 to attack the mercenary Hessians at Trenton, N.J. Well, Fred Thompson remembers, and he wants us all to commemorate the date by exercising our Second Amendment rights (thus far, anyway) by buying guns. Just think, we were one capsize away from losing our first president, who had this penchant for standing up in overburdened boats.

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Happy Percanat

Posted on December 8, 2007 | Comments Off on Happy Percanat

A shameless effort to attract hits, via Simply Jews and Linky Love. If you don’t understand, don’t worry.

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Eat right, exercise, die anyway

Posted on December 6, 2007 | Comments Off on Eat right, exercise, die anyway

Scott, The Fat Guy, is lamenting his newly-acquired healthy change of life. It sounds awful, especially the colds, the headaches and the insensate right hand. I did the diet already, I didn’t drink to begin with or gamble, but I was steeling myself to start exercising again, take cholesterol-reducing pills and quit smoking. Maybe the last three require a rethink.

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Missing Mark

Posted on November 28, 2007 | Comments Off on Missing Mark

As one of the recent commenters at Mark in Mexico says, the last post in July was politically provacative enough–a Puebla state reservoir lined with toxic sludge–to make you think the proprietor might have joined the list of Mexico’s involuntarily disappeared journalists. In any case, the blog has been inactive for so long now that the spammers are trying to take it over. It had become so popular that it was regularly cited by Instapundit, so it’s hard to believe that it would just stop, without an adios, and its author vanish into cyberspace.

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Death of a young princess

Posted on November 6, 2007 | Comments Off on Death of a young princess

Akaky outdoes himself in this essay on the unexpected death of a young friend. A pavane, indeed.

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Going ashore

Posted on November 1, 2007 | Comments Off on Going ashore

The Seablogger has become the land blogger, selling his cabin cruiser and moving ashore:

"It is a burden shed, but also a grief acquired. I shall not forget this day."

I can’t quite imagine selling the family sloop, a mere pocket cruiser, and I’ve never even lived on it. 

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