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  • Christmas Gift Guide 2009

    Football and Football Jersey Let’s say you’re approaching thirty years of age. You got a new wife. A job as a janitor or newspaper reporter, and you’re going through a crisis. You’ve always been a jock, but a recent knee surgery has slowed you down a bit and you’re desperate to [...]
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    Posted: December 08, 2009, 2:32am EST
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  • links for 2009-12-06

    10 Easy Paths to Self Destruction (tags: psychology health) 7 Thoughts That Are Bad For You Hmmm…cynicism, doom and gloom, stress and a few others are bad for me…I'm boned. I went 5 for 7 on this list. (tags: psychology work health numbersandstudies) Cabin 28 Scary stuff. (tags: documentary crime movies randomlinks) Cabin 28: The Keddie Murders (tags: crime [...]
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    Posted: December 06, 2009, 9:00pm EST
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  • Christmas Gift Guide 2009

    For Teens (and others) A College Education You could do this the right way, send your budding mush-brain off to some pricey ivy-league school and throw 30,000 dollars down the drain a year for four years only to get some liberal arts degree that will do them no good whatsoever. Or you can [...]
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    Posted: December 06, 2009, 1:42am EST
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  • links for 2009-12-05

    CBO, the Wizard of Oz, and the Keynesian Fairy Tale | Cato @ Liberty Via KB. (tags: economics) Superior man arrested for trespassing on his own land | Duluth News Tribune | Duluth, Minnesota When will people in America realize there are no property rights? (tags: freedom liberty governmentcreep) Study Reveals the Angriest Americans | LiveScience Quote:"For [...]
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    Posted: December 05, 2009, 9:00pm EST
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  • links for 2009-12-03

    Riehl World View: Feinstein, Durbin Seek To Limit Citizen Journalism Amendment aimed at removing any kind of "protection" from bloggers that the MSM enjoys. (tags: blogging Media) Shot in the Dark » Blog Archive » Democrats: Criminalizing Dissent Why not just incorporate? (tags: MOB blogging Media) Master List (A Wiki of Social Media Marketing Examples) Big list [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 9:02pm EST
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  • Christmas Gift Guide 2009

    Private Island Sure, professional money men laughed at you. All those years where you put money away in the form of gold and silver, buried in the back yard and in mattresses. They told you to get a savings account. Give the money to a bank. Invest in a home. Invest [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 7:09pm EST
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  • Christmas Gift Guide 2009

    For the Ladies: Star Trek Blue Dress This is the perfect gift for men to give to the platonic never-a-chance-ever-of-a-romantic-relationship ladies in their life. It sends a simple and completely understandable message, I just forgot what that message is. Needless to say, you won’t be forgotten soon with this high impact gift. [...][...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 3:25am EST
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  • Christmas Gift Guide 2009

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    Rolling Hoop I don’t care if this looks like I stole the idea from some stupid video game commercial. I had this site bookmarked last summer. Give this gift and teach those young people that life isn’t all exploding Russian WWII soldiers with magic spell grenades you found on SIMs while playing Civilization [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 9:41pm EST
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  • links for 2009-12-02

    Help Wanted, No Private Sector Experience Required « The Enterprise Blog Quote:"A friend sends along the following chart from a J.P. Morgan research report. It examines the prior private sector experience of the cabinet officials since 1900 that one might expect a president to turn to in seeking advice about helping [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 9:02pm EST
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  • links for 2009-11-30

    Berlin Wall for Sale – Buy Pieces of the Berlin Wall (tags: shopping christmasgiftguide randomlinks) Climate change data dumped – Times Online Quote:"The admission follows the leaking of a thousand private emails sent and received by Professor Phil Jones, the CRU’s director. In them he discusses thwarting climate sceptics seeking access to such [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 9:01pm EST
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  • Christmas Gift Guide 2009

    A Skull You can’t really underestimate the impact you can have on someone when you give them the remains of someone else’s head. Most skulls go for less than a thousand dollars (unless you need a lot of teeth, then it gets expensive). It’s macabre, people will question your commitment to [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 3:11pm EST
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  • Christmas Gift Guide 2009

    Roswell “Original I-Beam Replica“ Back in the 40’s and 50’s it was a popular past-time to make up cool things about yourself. Things like “my ranch got hit by a UFO” or “my children won’t grow up to be spoiled, drug smoking hippies.” The former has its own mythos, including the existence [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 2:51am EST
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  • links for 2009-11-29

    19th century (1800s) childrens toys and games (tags: martyemail christmasgiftguide shopping) [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 9:00pm EST
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  • links for 2009-11-28

    Free Online English to Latin Translators Cheating? (tags: English language randomlinks) [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 9:00pm EST
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  • links for 2009-11-27

    How To Download All Your Twitter Updates (tags: blogging technology twitter) [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 9:01pm EST
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  • links for 2009-11-26

    China, gold, and the civilization shift – Telegraph Blogs Gold: Buy or Sell? My inclination is to sell. (tags: economics) Reliable Source: Tareq and Michaele Salahi crash Obamas' state dinner for India Awesome (tags: martyemail obama politicalhackery) [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 9:01pm EST
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  • links for 2009-11-25

    Shot in the Dark » Blog Archive » SITD Redux: How To Save Public Schools (tags: MOB education) Turbaconducken (Turducken Wrapped in Bacon) | Bacon Today Recipe for a duck-stuffed turkey wrapped in bacon. Hmmmmmmm. (Via KDeA) (tags: food humor recipes cooking turkey thanksgiving martyemail) Sweet Success Antiques: How to Soak Cards out of a Victorian Scrapbook [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:01pm EST
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  • From the Notebook

    Couple of quick notes: -The Christmas Gift Guide will be a little different this year. I’ll be posting gift ideas singly. Posts won’t be forced together by theme and I doubt I’ll do too many. Sorry. This year has been a real bummer for the blog and things aren’t getting any [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 2:22am EST
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  • links for 2009-11-24

    Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of ‘Anthropogenic Global Warming’? – Telegraph Blogs It will be interesting to see the reactions of AGW proponents to these revalations. (tags: globalwarming environment climate science) EDITORIAL: Hiding evidence of global cooling – Washington Times So, is our Al Gore learning? (tags: globalwarming environment climate ethics science) Laptop Reliability; [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:01pm EST
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  • links for 2009-11-23

    Pope tells artists beauty can be a path to God | Lifestyle | Reuters The hard part is going to be getting traditional Catholics back into art. In America especially, this is going to difficult. (tags: faith Catholicism art) [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 9:01pm EST
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  • Star Trek, 5th Edition–Revised

    Still sucks. From RiffTrax: Like the odometer on your 1984 Plymouth Reliant rolling back over to zero, the Star Trek series gets a reset! The previous thirty-eight films had barely begun to scratch the surface of these fascinating characters, and so Star Trek is back to answer all your burning questions: What’s [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 10:17pm EST
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  • From the Notebook

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    -Another MBA class down, just a few more to go. My final grade isn’t in quite yet, but assuming I got at least a 33% on the final test, I’ll have at least a “B” in the class. (Update: got an “A”) I’d prefer to Ace out from here, but [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 6:23pm EST
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  • Δ Liberal-Conservative

    This email forward is from Captain Bogs: If a conservative doesn’t like guns, he doesn’t buy one. If a liberal doesn’t like guns, he wants all guns outlawed. If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn’t` eat meat. If a liberal is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 2:23am EST
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  • For Captain Bogs

    Rec’d via an email from Dick.M.: A C-130 was lumbering along when a cocky F-16 flashed by. The jet jockey decided to show off. The fighter jock told the C-130 pilot, ‘watch this!’ and promptly went into a barrel roll followed by a steep climb. He then finished with a sonic [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 12:42pm EST
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  • 2009 Elections

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    Some thoughts on the results of the 2009 elections in Virginia, New Jersey and New York -There might be a lot of talk about what these races mean in the larger context of the coming 2010 midterm elections but those discussions don’t really mean anything without hard data from exit polling. -Exit polls [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 1:50am EST
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  • On New York’s 23rd

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    Will next week matter? Off year elections tend to be better for Republicans (same goes for runoffs), so there’s really nothing about the elections in Virginia, New York or New Jersey that should be considered a bellwether for the 2010 elections. New Jersey slipped over to the Democrats over the last decade, [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2009, 3:10pm EDT
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  • Some Quick Reviews

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    -The Bruce Willis film “Surrogates” was a real joy. The ending was a tad Hollywood-vanilla that I hate with such a passion, but the message was a good one, if not entirely thought out. Sometime in the near future, advanced robots connect us to our lives, we never have to [...]
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    Posted: October 22, 2009, 3:21am EDT
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  • A Twins Blogger Returns; Another Twins Book

    The pressures of trying to actually learn things in school, along with getting the best grades possible (these things being very, very foriegn to me), are cutting into my available writing time. Instead of posting on this blog I’ve been sticking to flame wars on Twitter and personal TMI revelations [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2009, 3:50am EDT
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  • Lincoln the Fascist?

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    From LINCOLN’S YARNS AND STORIES by Alexander Kelly: SENT TO HIS “FRIENDS.” During the Civil War, Clement L. Vallandigham, of Ohio, had shown himself, in the National House of Representatives and elsewhere, one of the bitterest and most outspoken of all the men of that class which insisted that “the war was [...]
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    Posted: October 09, 2009, 3:07am EDT
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  • Better than Fiction

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    Ignoring the fact the Twins are 25:1 underdogs in the current ALDS; the incrediblenessitness of the Twins 1-game tiebreaker against the Tigers for the AL Central title was a mind blowing deal. Mind Bottling. Ridonculous. To understand how superlative this game was, in entertainment value, we need to compare it to [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2009, 11:22pm EDT
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  • From the Notebook

    -Did double duty yesterday in the Twins Podcasts. The pregame podcast saw myself and Seth Stohs hanging out during lunch. It also included a 20 minute rant about Joe Mauer is the only moral choice for the AL MVP award. The second podcast was a lot of fun too, Nick Nelson [...]
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    Posted: October 07, 2009, 2:47am EDT
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  • Upcoming Twins Podcast

    So the Twins defied all the rules of logic and reason and decided to have another 163 game season. In celebration, I’m bringing the podcast back, at least for a day For anyone interested, I’ll be hosting a TWO Twins podcasts tomorrow. One before the game at 1pm CT, another well [...]
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    Posted: October 05, 2009, 1:51pm EDT
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  • From the Notebook

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    -If anybody wants to make a big deal about it, today is the celebration of the anniversary of the day my life became legally protected under Roe v. Wade. -Finished reading Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” earlier this month. I had about three weeks to read the novel and prepare a long [...]
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    Posted: September 28, 2009, 1:16am EDT
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  • Travels through America’s Purgatory: Rochester, MN

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    Just a note: I have finally finished this essay, over a year after I originally started writing it and almost 14 months removed from the event that took me to Rochester. It’s famously known for being the home of the Mayo Clinic, the premier medical center of the world. Well, if [...]
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    Posted: September 26, 2009, 7:47pm EDT
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  • Quote o’ the Day

    When I die, I’d like to be scattered over my hometown. But not, like, cremated or anything. –Mitch Berg [...]
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    Posted: September 21, 2009, 10:10pm EDT
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  • More Cases for Capitalism

    Via one of the guys on my Twitter feed. [...]
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    Posted: September 17, 2009, 3:36am EDT
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  • 9-11

    This year, I choose to remember what was lost, not how it was lost. [...]
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    Posted: September 11, 2009, 1:45am EDT
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  • Lincoln the Hack

    From LINCOLN’S YARNS AND STORIES by Alexander Kelly (via DailyLit): DIDN’T KNOW GRANT’S PREFERENCE. In October, 1864, President Lincoln, while he knew his re-election to the White House was in no sense doubtful, knew that if he lost New York and with it Pennsylvania on the home vote, the moral effect of [...]
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    Posted: September 09, 2009, 1:07am EDT
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  • The September Campaign

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    It’s the 70th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of Poland. I was originally hoping to write a series of posts on the invasion, but life and grad school got in the way. Instead I point you all to Mitch Berg’s excellent piece on the subject. But, Mitch only scratches the surface. [...]
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    Posted: September 02, 2009, 8:43pm EDT
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  • Aaron Clarey: Defending Capitalism Lecture

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    Posted: August 31, 2009, 12:27am EDT
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  • Random Graph/Picture/Stuff Day

    Thank you Google.   Jet Slalom, perhaps the greatest waste of time ever. Worst. Content. Ever. [...]
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    Posted: August 28, 2009, 5:00pm EDT
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  • From the Notebook

    -Last Thursday I attended the Rifftrax Live event in St. Cloud. It was Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett (The final MST3K crew) doing a life riffing of “Plan 9 from Outer Space” and it included a short on airline travel and a couple of sci-fi related songs. It [...]
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    Posted: August 25, 2009, 2:04am EDT
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  • Random Graph/Picture/Stuff Day

    It was so popular (in a google search sense) that I’m bringing it back: [...]
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    Posted: August 22, 2009, 12:21pm EDT
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  • Random Graph Day

    I collect a lot of graphs off of the Internet. Normally I want to post these pictures up with some text (i.e. a blog post) but don’t always get the time. So, here are a bunch of graphs to look at: Nothing better than violating copyright laws (uh, done for educational [...]
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    Posted: August 19, 2009, 3:10pm EDT
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  • Who’s out in 2010?

    Number of comments: 2
    Looking at the Twins 40-man roster, I see a bunch of players the Twins should/will/have to drop for next year: Bobby Keppel RA Dickey Mike Redmond Joe Crede Orlando Cabrera Matt Macri Nick Punto Matt Tolbert Brian Buscher Jason Pridie Of these, Nick Punto is the one player I’d wager money on being here next year. In fact, I’d also wager [...]
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    Posted: August 16, 2009, 1:37pm EDT
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  • Nick Punto–2010…A winner?

    Knowing this: Would you think this: Was worth investing in? If I had to predict Nick Punto’s 2010 OPS, it would be between .500 and .600. I would put it closer to .500. That’s terrible. Nick Punto is on the downslope of his career, and with an expected dropoff coming soon, he should be [...]
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    Posted: August 13, 2009, 1:59am EDT
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  • From the Notebook

    -Hey, I’m on Twitter! I’ve also added the WP Twitter widget to the sidebar so those of you who still read blogs the old fashioned way (as I do) can now go to just one place to stalk me in my boring life. So far I’m actually seeing the appeal [...]
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    Posted: August 09, 2009, 7:16pm EDT
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  • Conversations and Frustrations

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    Anonymous: I’m a conservative, but not a Republican. Me: So you’re basically worthless. Anonymous: No I’m not, I keep Republicans honest. Me: No, you just make it so Republicans are “punished” by Democratic victories, which really just punishes everybody. Anonymous: Without guys like me, the GOP can just be a liberal as it wants. Me: [...]
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    Posted: August 07, 2009, 1:46am EDT
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  • Abe the Lawyer

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    From LINCOLN’S YARNS AND STORIES by Alexander Kelly (via dailylit.com) A PECULIAR LAWYER. Lincoln was once associate counsel for a defendant in a murder case. He listened to the testimony given by witness after witness against his client, until his honest heart could stand it no longer; then, turning to his associate, [...]
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    Posted: August 04, 2009, 4:17pm EDT
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  • Cabrera’s Fielding

    How good is it? I suggested in an earlier BR column that I felt Cabrera wasn’t the same quality glove at SS as he used to be. Ubelmann at SBG took a look at the UZR numbers I based my argument on and suggested Cabrera’s UZR this year didn’t reflect his true [...]
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    Posted: August 04, 2009, 2:13am EDT
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