Items by Leigh C.

• After you drown your sorrows and realize ...

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  After you drown your sorrows and realize Breesus is not only human but Drewish (funny, he doesn't look Drewish), that maybe the Unknown Who Dat shouldn't take up permanent residence in a Tomb of the Unknown Who Dat just yet, and contemplate that the Cowboys not [...]
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  Posted: December 20, 2009, 7:32am EST
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• When we are now told as Americans ...

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  When we are now told as Americans to "find a happy place", we'll know exactly where to go.
  
  Of course what will temper the impulse people who don't live here might have to pull up their stakes and come running over the state line might be some facts [...]
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  Posted: December 18, 2009, 4:35pm EST
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• So the kiddo got ...

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  So the kiddo got the aforementioned Nazi plane set for Hannukah from the grandparents:
  
  It came with some nifty decals and all to put on the plane parts and make it look more camouflaged:
  
  But, you know, something [...]
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  Posted: December 17, 2009, 10:13am EST
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• Another gem from my Queens synagogue's listserv:

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  Another gem from my Queens synagogue's listserv:
  
  A woman goes to the post office to buy stamps for her Chanukah cards. She says to the clerk, "May I have 50 Chanukah stamps?" The clerk says, "What denomination?"
  The woman says, "Oh my God. Has it come to this? Fine." [...]
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  Posted: December 17, 2009, 6:35am EST
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• Got a little hopped up on making ...

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  Got a little hopped up on making and eating latkes last night, but I did take a little time to listen in on the first mayoral debate through WWNO online (you can watch it here if you wanna) and commiserate with some folks on the Tweeter Tube whilst [...]
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  Posted: December 16, 2009, 10:25am EST
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• My cousin attended a prospective student meeting ...

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  My cousin attended a prospective student meeting at Tulane and told me about the answer to a question someone asked a current student there concerning what traditions, quirks, and other strange things occurred on the Tulane campus.
  
  The girl who answered told the students about some lady who's, like,' [...]
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  Posted: December 14, 2009, 9:36am EST
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• Seems my blog is beginning to look ...

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  Seems my blog is beginning to look a lot like Adrastos', what with the holiday vids and all. Especially this past week, where I've been running 'round like a chicken with its head off trying to get things ready for my son's birthday and Hannukah. As it is, the' [...]
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  Posted: December 13, 2009, 7:06am EST
  by Leigh C.

• Oy, Neil Diamond's done ...

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  Oy, Neil Diamond's done a gazillion Christmas carols, but which Hannukah song does he choose to do?
  
  
  
  Think I'm gonna go see if Arnie Fielkow is running or not.
  
  Happy Chanukah, everybody.' [...]
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  Posted: December 11, 2009, 6:22am EST
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• Only one night away from a double ...

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  Only one night away from a double whammy - the first night of Hannukah and my 37th birthday.
  
  As a friend of ours on our Queens synagogue's listserv has posted: A friend of Rabbi Kalman Packouz tells him that as he grows older he experiences a personal miracle on [...]
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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 2:38pm EST
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• All right. Now Greg's done it. ...

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  All right. Now Greg's done it. I have to whip out the OGs.
  
  The following ain't safe for work. The kids' ears'll bleed, I know. But the sight of Orrin Hatch whipping out his mezuzah on a chain is truly nauseating.
  
  
  
  The GOP senator from' [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 11:07am EST
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• Just a couple of questions/heads up this ...

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  Just a couple of questions/heads up this Monday morn:
  
  Is this happening all over the country, or just here?:
  Basically, the President of the LCTCS (Louisiana Community and Technical College System) Board has dictated that Delgado can not give pay increases with any promotions this year, despite [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 10:19am EST
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• Gonna be a ...

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  Gonna be a hot time in this cold town tonight.
  
  You think I'm kidding.
  
  Ha. Ha. Ha.
  
  Who. Dat.
  
  ' [...]
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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 6:20pm EST
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• It's a little too easy to dismiss ...

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  It's a little too easy to dismiss this as Oh my God, it's a white boy discovering police prejudice!
  A few months ago I had a run-in with the Jeff. Parish cops. I'll preface this story by saying I'm a white man, college educated, from California, and I generally [...]
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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 9:50am EST
  by Leigh C.

• Allright, enough mushy stuff. Here's a hostilidays ...

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  Allright, enough mushy stuff. Here's a hostilidays vid that'll burn you up:
  
  
  
  ...if it were an actual monkey that were harmed in that video, PETA would sue and you'd be out a whole lotta gelt. But there's a whole lotta people short of gelt these days, anyhow. [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 1:17pm EST
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• In a couple of days, my son ...

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  In a couple of days, my son turns seven.
  
  Seven years and a little less than nine months will have passed since the day I turned green from smelling the gas I was putting in my car at the Magazine Spur station and decided to get a pregnancy test.
  [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 11:48am EST
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• Well, crud, people. Seems the demand ...

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  Well, crud, people. Seems the demand is outstripping the supply. Imagine that.A report from Education Sector raises questions about the ability of charter schools and charter-management organizations to scale up as dramatically as their supporters might hope.

  “The extraordinary demands of educating disadvantaged students to higher standards, the challenges [...]

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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 12:44pm EST
  by Leigh C.

• Oy ve-E-eh-E-ey. More Hostilidays entries have reared ...

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  Oy ve-E-eh-E-ey. More Hostilidays entries have reared their ugly heads:
  
  
  
  Steven Wright once had a bit about sitting next to a beautiful blonde Chinese girl on a bus...
  
  Well, here's the reality of Bucky Goldstein:
  
  
  
  Those cowboys need to get schooled in [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 7:27am EST
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• The one moment in the whole Monday ...

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  The one moment in the whole Monday Night Football broadcast that made me giggle uncontrollably:
  
  
  
  I mean - Brees to Obama??? Come on, people! How unreal is that?
  
  Then again....
  
  11 and 0.
  
  Lemme say it one more time...
  
  11 and 0.
  [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 11:20pm EST
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• Finally, we're off the road.We ...

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  Finally, we're off the road.
  
  We passed the time at places both swank and mundane, freaked my son out by touring a coal mine and a salt mine (too many dark places, though he did grow to like the salt mine when he found out about all' [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 10:39am EST
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• I've opened this up on Humid ...

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  I've opened this up on Humid City as well, where I gotta cut the Cthulu somehow...
  
  ....but I couldn't pass this one up, as it features a certain Rising Tide keynote speaker:
  
  
  
  Remember where you came from, folks!
  
  And don't worry 'bout me. [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 5:56pm EST
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• Oh....don't forget the shayna maideleh.

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  Oh....don't forget the shayna maideleh.
  
  
  
  hehhehhehhehhehhehhehhehhehheh....
  
  And...before I forget...as a general public service to all around the holidays, settle things like one's sexual orientation with one's family members before you light the menorah.
  
  
  
  ...even if it does make for some great Hostilidays moments.[...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 1:38pm EST
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• Shecky's kicked it off ...

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  Shecky's kicked it off on two corners of the interwebs, dammit...
  
  ...now I have to go all farkakhte on his tuchus...
  
  
  
  Oy vey iz mir. It's that Hostilidays time of year. [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 12:44am EST
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• Some travel notes:Hearing my husband ...

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  Some travel notes:
  
  Hearing my husband tell my son,"In 1803, this was part of Louisiana!" makes me feel a bit better about traveling through the Midwest.
  
  Note to Iowa: folks, the people in your state are so nice, one of 'em even had me - a world class' [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:40pm EST
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• Heading off to points north for a ...

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  Heading off to points north for a bit, folks. Gonna see friends and family, check how my parents' Frankendog is doing after his operation, try to transport a huge bunch of bananas to my family to show 'em our backyard banana trees can beat the heck outta their puny indoor [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:01am EST
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• So fine, now we have a campaign ...

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  So fine, now we have a campaign commercial that will most likely end up in the local TV ad pantheon. We must wait and see if it will be received like this or like this.
  
  What thankfully did not go completely under the wire as far [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:00pm EST
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• You know, the other night, I experienced ...

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  You know, the other night, I experienced a moment similar to this one on listening to one of the folks managing Leslie Jacobs' campaign:
  
  
  
  It's not an inappropriate way to look at the mayor's race, really...
  
  ...just...don't drag the yaller blogger into this. Things [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:00pm EST
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• Just a couple of PSAs:

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  Just a couple of PSAs:
  
  Go help save the Hippo if you can. And no, it doesn't involve putting the big goof's tongue back in his mouth. Even if you can't contribute monetarily, see what kind of strings could be pulled to ease his doggie pains.
  
  Also, [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 10:25am EST
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• Observations and sneaking feelings on the upcoming ...

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  Observations and sneaking feelings on the upcoming mayoral race...
  Stop asking the mayoral candidates what they will do about education in this town, unless it relates to their past experiences (like, say, those of soon-to-declare-her-candidacy Leslie Jacobs). The state runs most of the schools, the mostly-neutered OPSB runs a [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 11:10am EST
  by Leigh C.

• OPINION POLL: 702-932-3401 shows up on the ...

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  OPINION POLL: 702-932-3401 shows up on the Caller ID, and I nearly let it run to voice mail...
  
  ...but I thought of this and decided to take a chance.
  
  My hunch proved correct.
  
  The pollster asked me about the 2010 mayor's race. I was asked first' [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 6:38pm EST
  by Leigh C.

• It was revealed to us this morning ...

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  It was revealed to us this morning that the confirmation class at the synagogue is taking a different route this year on their class trip.
  
  They are headed into Alabama and Georgia to visit many places where the battles of civil rights were fought, where blood was shed over [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 5:27pm EST
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• Ahhh, inequality......on a regional ...

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  Ahhh, inequality...
  
  ...on a regional level, concerning the world outside the home...
  And then Jonathan asked us if we had started thinking about schools.
  
  I had not as...School is Mike's department. Another linchpin of our Marital New Deal, aside from trying to use the night for' [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 8:00am EST
  by Leigh C.

• So I've been under ...

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  So I've been under the weather. No swine are anywhere near me, or their flu, thanks, but the collision in my body of antihistamines and cold virus is making for some bizarre dreams involving Maitri in a Bucky the Badger suit and some interesting [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 2:09pm EST
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• The things you learn through the ...

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  The things you learn through the Tweeter Tube...
  
  I have to wonder if the rappers who sampled the Miami Boys Choir have any understanding of the particular music they're rhyming over...
  
  Eshet Chayil - A Woman of Valor
  
  An accomplished woman, who can' [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 12:58pm EST
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• So nice that Joseph Cao voted ...

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  So nice that Joseph Cao voted for "life" and against his party lines.
  
  Even more lovely is the list of 65 Democrats who decided to add the amendment Cao supported with that yea vote...and they have all redrawn the lines of health care reform [...]
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 7:24am EST
  by Leigh C.

• FINALLY, the comic that ought to make ...

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  FINALLY, the comic that ought to make the term "Fujita-style" commonplace is online here. Just in time for the Saints to create the world's most incredibly pleasantly surprised emoticon.
  
  I got a call at Edie's, where we now go to watch most of the games, and it [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 10:16pm EST
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• I saw this in a snazzy ...

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  I saw this in a snazzy display in the local bookstore and couldn't resist venting to the bookstore employees over the sad irony of the sticker on the front proclaiming a free Gourmet subscription offer to the purchaser of the cookbook...especially after I'd seen the aftermath of Conde [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 7:49am EST
  by Leigh C.

• Tim says ...

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  Tim says it best.
  
  Get your adventuresome self over to the Bridge Lounge anyway, even if you haven't preregistered...because it is a FREE event, at the very least.
  ' [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 2:07pm EST
  by Leigh C.

• Jon Gruden, when he's not being ...

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  Jon Gruden, when he's not being a schmo on ESPN, was actually a mouthpiece for these mouthpieces during the Saints-Falcons game Monday:
  The company, Makkar Advantage, is keeping details somewhat secretive, but we do know the the inventor of the PPM's, Dr. Anil Makkar, has been in New [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 12:13am EST
  by Leigh C.

• Maitri mused recently on the fundamental ...

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  Maitri mused recently on the fundamental interconnectedness of all things relating to power, oppression, and prejudice after a trip to Dachau, and I left my rant at the feet of her post.
  
  Of course, Lord David's most recent experiences in an ongoing battle of confronting the abuses' [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 8:41am EDT
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• Oh, and speaking of kids...and "gimme ...

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  Oh, and speaking of kids...and "gimme my money back!" moments...
  
  Soupy Sales passed away last week. He gained notoriety for his New Year's show, when, in a fit of pique at having to work on a holiday, he discovered the true power of television:
  
  
  [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 7:41pm EDT
  by Leigh C.

• Thank you, Disney, for making the ultimate ...

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  Thank you, Disney, for making the ultimate admission that Baby Einstein videos are absolute crap by offering this refund for their return.
  
  The better move for most parents would have been not to go near those products in the first place.
  
  Granted, I'm not that immune' [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 11:22am EDT
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• via this ...

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  via this link on the Tweeter Tube.
  
  I'd love to link to Greg Peters' latest Suspect Device comic in this week's Gambit, too, about "the boys in uniform", but it's not up yet.
  
  Hell, neither is all of this week's Gambit. Ummm,' [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 2:18pm EDT
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• Someone please tell me why I now ...

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  Someone please tell me why I now get so het up when these lists come out.
  
  A while back, when I was starting out college and the cheapest - not to mention one of the longest - ways to travel home was by train, then an hour and [...]
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  Posted: October 24, 2009, 10:15am EDT
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• Gotta love ...

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  Gotta love it. Ya just gotta.
  
  More on this from Rob Walker at NO Notes, aka, the virtual St James Infirmary HQ. [...]
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  Posted: October 22, 2009, 3:14pm EDT
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• Feeling a little like Michael Corleone ...

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  Feeling a little like Michael Corleone today...though I've actually been feeling like this for most of the past couple of weeks, ever since I had to get a bunch of pictures together of the little guy from each year he's been on this earth for a timeline project his [...]
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  Posted: October 21, 2009, 10:46am EDT
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• As Adrastos and Ray in ...

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  As Adrastos and Ray in Exile have noted, today is the day of Ashley Morris' birth.
  
  Having recently thought a great deal about this currently undefeated Saints team and how it is bringing families and friends together, this post of Ashley's popped into my [...]
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  Posted: October 20, 2009, 2:58pm EDT
  by Leigh C.

• They didn't know anything much, and was ...

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  They didn't know anything much, and was it a shocker.
  
  "Something very important happened in 1948," I began. "Anybody know?"
  
  Blank stares from these sixth and seventh graders.
  
  Someone tentatively said, "The Holocaust?" Another student said, "The atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima?" Ummm, no.
  [...]
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  Posted: October 19, 2009, 11:39am EDT
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• So Obama spends nearly four hours in ...

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  So Obama spends nearly four hours in New Orleans on the way to the Left Coast...
  
  ...he gets some takeout from Dooky Chase's shortly before he leaves...
  
  ...and, in-between it all, I can't help but think of all the footballs he probably hauled with him on Air [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2009, 5:34pm EDT
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• My right knee has never been the ...

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  My right knee has never been the best since college, when I had to walk innumerable flights of stairs to get anyplace on a campus located on the side of a large hill, but now both of my knees are aching.
  
  I went to pick up my son from [...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2009, 4:38pm EDT
  by Leigh C.

• Footballs.Turquoise and ...

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  Footballs.
  
  Turquoise and yellow footballs.
  
  click on the picture to enlarge
  Women of the Storm members dropped off about 200 turquoise-and-yellow footballs, tangible reminders that Louisiana is losing a football field of its coastline every 50 minutes, and they promise more today so [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2009, 9:50am EDT
  by Leigh C.