Growing Old Disgracefully

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Published on August 11 2008

IRLS416 The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) 3 Semester Hours Course Description This course will explain how an alliance of nations, formed to protect its member countries from a re-emergence of post-World War II Germany, transformed itself...

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To my kids...

Published on August 11 2008

...who explained the phenomenon of "Rick-rolling" to me. I disliked that song in the Eighties. The song (unlike your humble correspondent) hasn't improved with age.

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Comparisons?

Published on August 8 2008

One Nation, Under a New Obama Salute - Washington Whispers usnews.com George Bush had his three-fingered W salute that supporters flashed when greeting him at presidential campaign events in 2000. And now, if a Los Angeles creative agency gets its way,...

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Predictions you can really use

Published on August 8 2008

You all remember Kevin Barrett? He's the former UW lecturer who taught a single semester course on Islam during which he expressed his personal view that 9/11 was an "inside job" planned to justify a longterm war in the Mideast, in the name of Empire...

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Edwards 'fesses up

Published on August 8 2008

Edwards admits to affair, denies fathering child - Yahoo News WASHINGTON - Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards on Friday admitted to an extramarital affair while his wife was battling cancer. He denied fathering the woman's daughter....

Favre saga over as QB gets fresh start with Jets - Yahoo News Yeah, yeah, yeah..... more power to him and all that. Woulda been better he'd gone to the Vikings-- then they could have retired his number while he was in Lambeau for opening day-- dressed...

Genital artist projects himself on buildings | Metro.co.uk Genital artist? There is such a thing??? Like every red-blooded male he has a completely out-of-proportion view of his manhood and shows off his genitals because he says building are "organs of...

He ventured forth to bring light to the world ....And suddenly, with the men appeared the archangel Gabriel and the whole host of the heavenly choir, ranks of cherubim and seraphim, all praising God and singing: “Yes, We Can.”

Randy Pausch, 1960-2008

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I felt officially old today

Published on July 25 2008

My own birthdays have never bothered me. (My brothers, on the other hand, are really getting up there on the old age scale. That's scary!) But reading this.... man. I listen to geezer rock?!?!?! The Press Association: Sir Mick ranks high in sexy stakes...