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• Casualties of technologyViral MediaThe war on stupidQ/A ...

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  Casualties of technologyViral MediaThe war on stupidQ/A with Accordion Virtuoso Todd Hildreth (PDF)A stitch in timeAttention angry mob: Focus!Is that a gun in your pocket? Next up: the sacrifice speechGoing post-postalPresent traumatic stressA dog's lifeHomegrown's all right with me [...]
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  Posted: June 08, 2009, 1:52pm EDT
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• Recent workA quiz we can believe inShock ...

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  Recent workA quiz we can believe inShock and Ah! (pdf)Bomb Calorimeters, Not People (pdf)A Christmas FableWii Fit diaryOutsourcing healthcareNaming the puppyAmerica: New and ImprovedCount your blessingsBlackout with your crack out!Battle of the presidential sitcomsAdventure Capital (pdf)Where is Bobby B? (pdf)Killing timeSticker shockFalls Fountain FlashbackMurketing MitchAutoReply [...]
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  Posted: January 02, 2009, 12:08pm EST
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• The Louisville Loop: lazy Susan of diversityLouisville ...

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  The Louisville Loop: lazy Susan of diversityLouisville Loop photosOregoing GreenBuying a legacyTurn off, tune out [...]
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  Posted: July 08, 2008, 5:09pm EDT
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• Some shite for yezSOD - Derby 2.0Absinthe ...

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  Some shite for yezSOD - Derby 2.0Absinthe makes the heart go yonder"True meaning of Derby" in LEO's Derby issue. (I also contributed to the 1875 fake LEO cover, but I don't think it's online.)What a Week, April 30+ 3Kentucky made news in a national ranking that didn't involve obesity, smoking [...]
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  Posted: May 01, 2008, 11:13am EDT
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• Recent morselsMary Welp's Crab and Mushroom SoupMary ...

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  Recent morselsMary Welp's Crab and Mushroom SoupMary reviews Life Class by Pat Barker and My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin.Spring Bellarmine Magazine (PDF)Summary of My DiscontentA Cry for SecessionWhat a Week, 4/16-20Fallout from the new state budget began settling on the Kentucky dystopia like a Harry Moberly White-Castle fart in' [...]
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  Posted: April 18, 2008, 3:17pm EDT
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• Summary of My DiscontentOCD is the new ...

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  Summary of My DiscontentOCD is the new green [...]
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  Posted: April 02, 2008, 5:22pm EDT
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• What a Week, 4/2-8Q: Why is the ...

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  What a Week, 4/2-8Q: Why is the Kentucky General Assembly like playing mumbelty peg with Helen Keller? A: Because it feels so good when it stops. The current session ends this week, with lawmakers taking a break until mid-April when they return for the ceremonial toe-stabbing of the governor. With [...]
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  Posted: April 02, 2008, 5:22pm EDT
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• What a Week, 3/26+4A House committee killed ...

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  What a Week, 3/26+4A House committee killed Senate Bill 112, which would have “protected” straight-on-straight marriage by prohibiting universities and public agencies from providing health insurance for employees’ domestic partners. In killing the bill, Representative David Watkins put the verbal smackdown on knuckle-dragging sponsor Vernie McGaha and Family Foundation Neanderthal [...]
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  Posted: April 02, 2008, 5:19pm EDT
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• BooksmartCheck out my brilliant sister's book reviews:"Against ...

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  BooksmartCheck out my brilliant sister's book reviews:"Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob" by Lee Seigel and "People of the Book" by Geraldine Brooks, here."The Good Soldier" by Ford Maddox Ford, here."Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter Cameron" and "Before I'" [...]
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  Posted: March 19, 2008, 3:25pm EDT
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• Summary of My DiscontentThe superdelegate: democracy’s Simon ...

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  Summary of My DiscontentThe superdelegate: democracy’s Simon Cowell [...]
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  Posted: March 19, 2008, 3:23pm EDT
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• What a Week, 3/19+8The House approved its ...

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  What a Week, 3/19+8The House approved its version of the budget, restoring many of the cuts Governor Beshear proposed. The new-math House version restores funding to universities, gives state workers and teachers a raise, includes funding for road construction, and avoids the most painful cuts in social services. The plan [...]
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  Posted: March 19, 2008, 3:20pm EDT
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• What a Week, 3/12+ 5Governor Steve Beshear ...

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  What a Week, 3/12+ 5Governor Steve Beshear finally looked in a mirror, discovered he's not Ernie Fletcher and started making some sense. The Guv came out in support of Kentucky education reform, a 70-cent cigarette tax, and voting rights for reformed felons. Momentarily reFletcherizing, he strongly hinted the that casino' [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2008, 10:50am EDT
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• Louisville Magazine - End InsightGiving Us ...

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  Louisville Magazine - End InsightGiving Us Gas [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2008, 10:41am EDT
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• Summary of My DiscontentCourting the imbecile ...

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  Summary of My DiscontentCourting the imbecile vote [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2008, 10:37am EDT
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• What a Week, 3/5 +5Because of a ...

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  What a Week, 3/5 +5Because of a "competitive religious marketplace," nearly half of Americans have switched religions, according to a study by the Pew Forum. But the fastest growing "religion" is no religion - fully 16% of us (a record number for America) abstain. Protestantism, which could soon become a [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2008, 10:35am EDT
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• What a Week, 2/27- 10Kentucky House lawmakers ...

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  What a Week, 2/27- 10Kentucky House lawmakers recommended building nine casinos, a compromise between Governor Beshear's 12-casino proposal and the Senate's recommendation that we fear gays. Senate Republicans meanwhile declared war on education with Senate Bill 1, which would eliminate Kentucky's nationally renowned CATS testing system. Hillbillies David Williams and' [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2008, 10:34am EDT
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• Summary of My DiscontentSummary of y’all are ...

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  Summary of My DiscontentSummary of y’all are crazy [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2008, 10:31am EDT
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• What a Week, 2/20-2Governor Beshear unveiled his ...

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  What a Week, 2/20-2Governor Beshear unveiled his blackjack plans, proposing 12 Kentucky casinos - including one in Louisville - that could generate $600 million. The proposal faces stiff opposition in the Senate, which responded by passing a bill to ban health insurance for gay partners of state workers and one [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2008, 10:29am EDT
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• What a Week, 2/13-3Despite a new AP/Ipsos ...

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  What a Week, 2/13-3Despite a new AP/Ipsos poll showing that most Americans believe getting out of Iraq would be the best way to stimulate the economy (with 48% adding, "Duh!"), the Senate OKed the $168 billion "Buy-Shit-At-Target" anti-recession plan instead. Meanwhile, our ever-innovative corporate predators began unveiling their plans to [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2008, 10:27am EDT
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• Smartass w/ bass and saxI'll be reading ...

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  Smartass w/ bass and saxI'll be reading at tomorrow night's "Jazz and the Spoken Word" event at The Jazz Factory: Event cancelled because of slippery iciness. Stay tuned for rescheduledment."Jazz and The Spoken Word returns with a FREE night of music and readings. Writers and poets from around the region" [...]
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  Posted: February 12, 2008, 11:47am EST
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• McCain '08Like Hope,But ...

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  McCain '08Like Hope,But Different' [...]
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  Posted: February 12, 2008, 10:59am EST
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• Welp's Louisville, from LEO 2.6.2008At last, a ...

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  Welp's Louisville, from LEO 2.6.2008At last, a president who doesn't resemble my uncleIt looks like we're finally going to elect a president who doesn't reflect my privileged, status and I am psyched! As a straight, white, middle-class male, doors have pretty much always swung right open for me. And I'm' [...]
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  Posted: February 12, 2008, 10:50am EST
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• What a Week, 2/6- 2In yet another ...

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  What a Week, 2/6- 2In yet another whiny speech about how broke the Commonwealth is, Governor C. Montgomery Beshear proposed an "austere" budget that'll put such a hurt on us that we'll be dying (some literally, others illiterately) to vote for casino gambling and toll bridges. To make up the [...]
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  Posted: February 12, 2008, 10:47am EST
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• What a Week, 1/30- 25Times are turbulent. ...

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  What a Week, 1/30- 25Times are turbulent. Last week, the stock market fluctuated more wildly than Mitt Romney's position on abortion and, in response, the fed took a knife to interest rates like an emo kid on prom night. Sphincters clenched across Possibility City as Louisville unemployment rose to 5.4%,' [...]
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  Posted: February 12, 2008, 10:45am EST
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• What a Week, 1/23+5It's sweet to see ...

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  What a Week, 1/23+5It's sweet to see the hometown on top in anything green and that's what happened when recyclers ECO-CELL listed Louisville #1 in the US in cell-phone recycling at North American zoos. The Louisville Zoo recycled 3051 cell phones in '07, earning kudos from green groups and gorillas.-8What' [...]
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  Posted: February 12, 2008, 9:57am EST
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• SchtuffWhat a Week 1/23Welp's Louisville: SKYHOOK meeting ...

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  SchtuffWhat a Week 1/23Welp's Louisville: SKYHOOK meeting minutesGSO: Against the MachineGSO: Atlantic.com now freeWhat a Week 1/17' [...]
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  Posted: January 24, 2008, 10:42am EST
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• Over at GSO Feed Your ...

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  Over at GSO Feed Your Head [...]
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  Posted: January 11, 2008, 12:25pm EST
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• WL Smoking ban reversal: This time it’s ...

  WL Smoking ban reversal: This time it’s personal [...]
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  Posted: January 11, 2008, 12:21pm EST
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• This week's What A Week -18 Thanks ...

  This week's What A Week -18 Thanks to years of Republican economic fuckedupedness on both the state and federal levels, the Commonwealth's budget is $434 million outta whack. Gamely avoiding the word "gaming," Governor Beshear announced sweeping budget cuts and hiring freezes in education, environmental protection, healthcare, transportation and economic development. [...]
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  Posted: January 11, 2008, 12:19pm EST
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• Hiya Hey Friends, sorry I've been gone ...

  Hiya Hey Friends, sorry I've been gone so long. I've been busier than a fundamentalist Christian family at a fossil museum but I hope to get back to the business at hand in the coming days. I'll also be blogging over at General Sense of Outrage. In the meantime, here's some [...]
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  Posted: January 08, 2008, 4:46pm EST
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