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23
May

give again

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Having received my stimulus check, it’s time to do this again. Between now and the end of June, make a donation to either the Atlanta Community Food Bank or your own local food bank and I will match the donation. If you can’t donate money, but can donate food, I’ll match that as [...]

8
May

and it’s funny too

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I give you the results of a Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism survey of a year of The Daily Show, which state, shockingly to all of us I’m sure, that:
The program’s clearest focus is politics, especially in Washington. U.S. foreign affairs, largely dominated by the Bush Administration’s policies in Iraq, Washington politics [...]

4
Apr

bush did something right

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Figured that title would get more attention than pointing out that Sunday is National Tartan Day a.k.a. Forget Those Drunken Catholics, Let’s Celebrate an Ethnic Group to be Proud Off Day (I kid, I kid) (mostly). See back in 1998 the Senate declared April 6th to be National Tartan Day. The House followed [...]

20
Mar

was it too obvious?

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I kept telling myself that I should write down these thoughts, but then I’d remind myself of how obvious they are and surely someone would get around to pointing them out. Here we are a week later and it’s just now that I see someone point how if Pat Robertson had said what Reverend Wright [...]

3
Jan

excepting that thou then proceed to three

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Yesterday I thanked the only two people I knew of at that time that had taken me up on my offer to match food bank donations in December. Turns out my ex-girlfriend made a donation as well, to the Santa Barbara FoodBank, so I’ve gone ahead and matched it and want to thank her as [...]