Today's topic for discussion is:
| Barkers has been back in business, in a store this time, for about a year. This is a mandatory visit next week. |
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Today's topic for discussion is:
| Three city managers in 15 months? Life on the Milton Plantation ain't all gravy, I suppose. |
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I've been superbusy lately, directing any scraps of blog/writing energy toward revising the dining page. Plenty of new and updated entries are pending. All manner of projects and work are in flight the next few weeks. It's a zoo. And, DragonCon is this weekend. I'll need the break. For now though, I'll enjoy this rain. |
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| TS Fay is just what we needed. How much rain are we getting? Check out the USGS gauges, grouped by river basin. |
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Today's topic for discussion is:
| More Krispy Kreme: their "football" doughnuts are shaped like they're filled , but they aren't --- they're 100% warm, risen doughnut goodness. With chocolate frosting. |
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How's this for a bittersweet birthday present: Susan Eisenhower is now an independent. Among other things, it's a nail in the coffin of the Republican party, and a signal that Senator McCain has failed in whatever attempt he made (or didn't make) to salvage a party which lurches onward, with its terminal cancer, toward its fate. The operative quote is here: As an independent I want to be free of the constraints and burdens that have come with trying to make my own views explainable in the context of today.s party. Hijacked by a relatively small few, the GOP of today bears no resemblance to Lincoln, Roosevelt or Eisenhower.s party, or many of the other Republican administrations that came after. |
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Today's topic for discussion is:
| My new word for the week: Craniorectalitis. |
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| Fay is so close, it's just pitiful. At least the southern portions of the state are getting rain, and maybe we'll catch an outer band or two over the next few days. |
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Today's topic for discussion is:
| Favorite Cleaning Tool: Mops, Brooms, Rags, or Dusters? |
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| Saturday involved cookery: Fried Chicken, Green Beans, a lame attempt at biscuits, and Banana Bread. The banana bread turned out the best, actually: golden brown instead of dingy gray, in large part due to the not-quite-dead bananas I used. There's something to be said for banana bread that tastes bananas and not like sweetened dishwater. |
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Today's topic for discussion is:
| Astatine. |
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| Mostly correct analysis from Athens today (h/t Safe as Houses), regarding Secretary of State Karen Handel's role as election-rigger for our taliban/plantation set. Like I mentioned before, if she's going to carry water for the party of bigoted wifebeaters, the sorry wench may as well fetch me a beer. |
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Today's topic for discussion is:
| Rhodium. |
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| I finally, finally, finally got to see Omar Vizquel play shortstop today; it was the main highlight of another Braves loss. |
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Today's topic for discussion is:
| A thought that's bouncing around my head this week: "Social Media", in a commercial sense, is truly "Lowest Common Denominator" media. |
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Today's topic for discussion is:
| Wikipedia, en Esperanto. |
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| Kool Korners closed (property sale) on July 31. More info here. This is highly sad news, as the best sandwich deal (and best cuban sandwich) in Atlanta is no more. |
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Today's topic for discussion is:
| Beaker's Ode to Joy. |
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Today's topic for discussion is:
| Favorite club: Driver, Fairway Driver, long iron, short iron, wedge? |
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| In the span of two months, I've lost two umbrellas and one broken pair of sunglasses. #*%$! |
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Today's topic for discussion is:
| How ornate is your business card? |
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| Looks like all hell is breaking loose between the seas, as Georgia seems to have drawn the ire of Russia. By 'ire', we mean an ass-kicking. Georgia is finding out the hard way that Russia does indeed wear the pants in that part of the world, and the supposedly independent nation is little more than a buffer state to be claimed (or not), at Moscow's whim. |
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I've been up all night, it's time to ramble. There was some disconcerting news over the wire Monday, regarding the increasing practice of psychiatrists to eschew psychotherapy (aka "analysis") for "medication management." Per the article, 1/3 of office visits that used to involve social therapies and analysis, now involve prescription writing and a revolving door. In other words, roughly 1/3 of the psychiatrists in the U.S. said "Psy...psy...F*** this, I'll be a stripper," by 2005. Hilariously (and greasily) enough, this is exactly the backdrop for which marijuana could end up being legalized for medical purposes: insurers will be able to grease the wheels for Big Pharma, by offering incentives to psychiatrists who prescribe pot (or derivative pills); but the practice (and cultivation/distribution) has to be legal. Terminal patients, being short-timers, die off too quickly to form an adequate market share, and are considered too expensive in the first place. Head cases and pseudo-cases, on the other hand, already exist in market-making numbers. This is not to say that people will be allowed to grow their own pot, as the growing and/or manufacturing rights would likely be auctioned off to the highest bidder(s). Actually, I can't see this kind of legalization happening any other way, as governments at all levels profit far too much to relenquish their power. This does, hoever, make for a rather unorthodox path to reap benefits from that plant, while ensuring the principal players don't risk their safety in the bargain. Call it a Pickens Plan for Pot. |
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Today's topic for discussion is:
| A flickr photoset: "Urban Exploration" makes decay look downright colorful. |
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There are, according to the late, great George Carlin, seven words that can't be spoken on (broadcast) television. This game will make you say them in bunches, and may award you a ribbon for certain combinations. Amorphous+ is yet another Flash-based game that would be much better served on a real gaming platform. The object: splat the hand-drawn blobs with the hand-drawn sword lifted from FF-VII. Oh, and stay alive as long as you can, until some combination of biting, sticking, acid-bursting, lunging, bumping, enveloping, skewering, and/or slicing species of said blobs decide your game is over. To keep you entertained along the way, a system of named checkpoints (awards) are set up for meeting certain scenarios, from your very first blob-splat ("Participation"), to splatting each type of blob (e.g., "Custard" for yellows), to being killed from something spawned off-screen("Unfortunate"), to the standard metrics such as Number of Kills and Time Survived. Here are some criticisms I have of the game, so far:
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Today's topic for discussion is:
| Sandwich of the day: (real) peanut butter, strawberries, dark molasses, and thick-cut potato chips. |
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Today's topic for discussion is:
| Video-based, meta commentary is more tedious to watch than porn. |
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"The Bases are Loaded, and I Wish I Was."
Skip Caray passed away in his sleep last night. We all knew Skip was in bad health, and this season, it showed up in his broadcasts. That doesn't make tonight's news any easier to read, however. So, I'll toast Skip Caray with a few fingers of the good whiskey, and an appropriately wry musing: this is not the kind of Getaway Day we had in mind. At least we sent him off with a win. |
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| Time to talk Braves for a bit. Charlie Morton gave up two runs in seven innings today, and the second of those two runs was given up in a futile effort to spare the bullpen from another clobbering. This guy, along with Jurrjens, has a serious future in the majors. I just hope Tim Hudson returns from rehab as a Brave. |
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DeSpin: Patterns in the Bullshit
And now, a minor flood of de-spin posts. Tell me if you've heard these before (followed by what I think about them):
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Today's topic for discussion is:
| Video-based commentary is more tedious to watch than porn. |
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A McCain Presidency would not be a third Bush term. Almost daily, I hear this line crop up in lieu of a valid argument, and it clearly indicates a person's loose grasp of reality. These are the same people who have bought the "Iraq War" theme, and stamp their feet in tantrum at the dissonant notions of context and reason. |
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DeSpin: Obama's Lemming Run Continues
There's no proof quite like self-validation. Witness the ongoing lemming run for Senator Obama. They have swallowed the "Iraq War" fallacy without question, and flock to Obamas campaign with little more than self-assurance that electing the Senator will result in some magical exodus from the Middle East. Even Obama's disclaimer of such a withdrawal's duration (18 or 19 months minimum), and the admission that we'd return to theatre in the event of another terrorist attack, have not dissuaded the lemmings from running headlong into the Sun. If there is a trend among these lemmings, it's that 9/11 was their introduction to foreign relations and policy. |
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DeSpin: The upcoming Re-separation of Church and State
James Dobson's recent weighing-in on Senator Obama's statements on religion is simply the defensive howling of a taliban leader. This type of declaration should not be surprising from someone whose mission has been to ensure the U.S. is governed as a Christian Nation, and has indulged in the spoils of that atrocity for the past 7 1/2 years. He has to choose one candidate or the other, and it seems that Obama's 2006 speech--which Dobson has parsed for the purposes of framing a case--makes that candidate the greater threat. Let's review: Obama proposed that even if the U.S. was a Christian Nation, if all other religions were dispensed with, one would still have to choose which denomination of Christianity would rule over the others. This point, not only completely valid, illustrates the need and value of the Separation of Church and State. Dobson's response: Obama's statement is not a valid christian view in this country. Let's be clear about this: James Dobson's response, and the underlying concepts of religious government these statements support, define him (and his ilk) as taliban. Specifically, Dobson is a taliban leader, waning in power, who by making these statements, seeks to retain his faction's authority in increasingly brighter times. |
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