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• This item is no longer available as a refrigerator magnet...

  
  
  What a shame.
  
  There is a woman at the gym I attend who has one of those 60's hairstyles. She is a normal-looking woman, but looks like she has a basketball for a head. Where did she find a hairstylist old enough to fix [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 10:33pm EST
  

• Somewhere a mop...

  
  is missing its strings. [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 10:15pm EST
  

• Holly berries, fallen leaves

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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 5:42pm EST
  

• Tree with orange leaves, blue lights, Longwood Gardens

   
  
  On a misty November day. [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 11:55pm EST
  

• If you are following me on Twitter, stop!

  I am not worthy of Twitter. Or at least, Twitter seems to think so. I tried to sign up, but was unable to do so. Twitter says I have an account, but gets coy when I ask them what my username and password are. We are at an impasse.
  
  [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 3:44pm EST
  

• Tall people make us short people look ridiculous, don't they?

  
  
  These short people would look a lot better without those tall people next to them.
  
  I wonder who they all are? [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 1:13pm EST
  

• Two limelight hogs

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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 12:49pm EST
  

• Bless his heart?

  What does "Bless his heart" mean?
  
  Whenever I tell someone how old my aged relative is, the response is: "Bless his heart!" uttered in admiration. I guess.
  
  Anyone who has lived long enough is forgiven for everything short of murder. [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 7:51pm EST
  

• Thousands don't have car insurance...

  even though it's the law.
  
  Why should they?
  
  Think about it. Mandatory automobile insurance hurts the poor most.
  
  States with higher poverty rates show a corresponding rise in uninsured drivers.... Simply put, people skirt car insurance when they can’t afford
  it.
  
  Poor people can't' [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 7:16pm EST
  

• People standing in the rain, watching fountains

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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 7:02pm EST
  

• Decking the halls, Longwood November 2009

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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 7:01pm EST
  

• Literally!

  James Taranto takes John Kerry to task for misusing the word "literally."
  
  First of all, remember when they kept telling us how smart Kerry was? The guy doesn't even know how to use the word "literally."
  
  
  This is mean and completely unfair.
  
  In' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:49pm EST
  

• Selling your house

  The new mantra about how to sell your house concerns "staging." This is the art of turning your home into something impersonal. It's supposed to look like nobody lives there. Think motel room, or better yet, motel lobby.
  
  Down come the pictures on the refrigerator. Off comes the wallpaper. [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:19pm EST
  

• Remembering the Gettysburg address

  
  
  
  
  at Gettysburg, PA.
  
  
  The Union Army's victory in the Battle of Gettysburg was a turning point in the Civil War. Lincoln delivered his brief but powerful speech while dedicating the cemetery on Nov. 19, 1863.
  
  146 years ago on [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:18pm EST
  

• Commenting

  Why don't I ever get any comments? Is commenting disabled? Or what? Or has this blog become boring?
  
  Nobody even says "boo!"' [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 3:50pm EST
  

• For those who want to get a head start on Thnaksgiving preparations:

  
  
  It's not too early to post the picture of Bush with the "plastic" turkey, a perennial favorite bit of moonbattery. It's been proved over and over that the turkey is real, but that's not the point. The point is:
  
  Bush lied, and people died![...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 3:07pm EST
  

• Outrage

  
  
  I am just heartsick at the thought of the five terrorists being brought to New York for trial. Quite aside from the problems of providing security and the inconvenience to its citizens, New York will be polluted by their presence there.
  
  This is a [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 3:10pm EST
  

• Roses 11/15/09

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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 3:03pm EST
  

• He deserves a sgn pasted on his posterior...

  
  
  that says, "Kick me." [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 10:47pm EST
  

• Some interesting local color

  from Saudi Arabia, of all places. [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 10:37pm EST
  

• Warty Bliggins

  By Don Marquis.
  
  I should explain that the following was written by archy, a cockroach, who composed by hopping from key to key on a typewriter. He could not operate the shift key, thus no caps. No punctuation, either.
  
  i met a toad
  the other day by [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 3:34pm EST
  

• Oxymoron

  Fat-free half and half. [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 3:19pm EST
  

• Very true.

  and well put.
  
  For those that have not been paying attention, Islamofacist terrorists declared War on America in the 1970s. In 2001, we finally declared war on them. As for Israel, these terrorists began their Jihad 1400 years ago. Israel has fought back brilliantly from a military standpoint. [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 10:42pm EST
  

• Non-news

  At the gym, being a captive audience while riding the recumbent bicycle, I was treated to an interview with Gorbachev. Yes, that one. The fellow who stood by as the Soviet Union finally self-destructed. I suppose one should be grateful that he didn't turn his thugs loose on the rebellious' [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 3:47pm EST
  

• Painting of some roses

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 5:27pm EST
  

• Why Jews are lefties

  I keep getting e-mails from Townhall.com, full of articles by right-wing fanatics like myself, asking me to subscribe to their magazine.
  
  I'm never gonna do it.
  
  Why? Because this site continually features articles by Pat Buchanan, a barely-disguised anti-Semite whose views are anathema to me.
  
  The left' [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 9:46am EST
  

• Tenure means never having to say you're sorry

  and "gender studies" are just plain idiotic.
  
  So over at Depaul University - allegedly a college - students and faculty are up in hairy arms over the denial of tenure to Melissa Bradshaw, a professor of "women's and gender studies." In case you don't know what tenure is, [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 11:02am EST
  

• Things on my to-do list I'm pretty sure I'm never going to do

  1. Dig out the instruction booklet for my clothes steamer and figure out how to use it.
  2. Weigh myself every day.
  3. Stop eating chocolate.
  4. Get liposuction. (Unless I stop eating chocolate, drinking chocolate, thinking about chocolate.)
  5. Clean out the closet in the spare room.
  6. Weed [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 9:58pm EST