Category: Alex
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A Hastily Assembled Music Post
I\’ve been meaning to do this since Tuesday, and since it there is some actual time-limited content, I\’m throwing this together even though I don\’t have time to do it justice. Matthew Good\’s third solo album, Hospital Music, was released on Tuesday. Two cool things: The first single, Born Losers, is available for free from…
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Comings and Goings
I\’ve spent about fifteen minutes trying to tie something coherent today about the Twins/Timberwolves trade shenannigans, and I just can\’t do it. Partly, I\’m just angry about the Twins. They\’ve had great pitching for years, and it seems that the organization is incapable of adding enough hitters to win a title. They handed Cuddyer the…
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Speech Writing for Dummies
You can fool some of the people all of the- …or was it all of the people some of the- …no, wait, I think it was fool me twice… don\’t, don\’t get fooled again. And in that spirit, click on the following link to learn how to successfully fool Americans. Text of the most recent…
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Say What Now?
Play along with me here for a minute. Let\’s say that you\’re perusing one of your favorite SP Endorsed websites, in this case the usually entertaining Fire Joe Morgan, and you come across a link that you can\’t help but click upon, even though you\’re thinking to yourself: That can\’t possibly be a real website.…
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Vote Brewster!
According to a recent poll, there\’s a new leader in the race to become the GOP\’s nominee for President in 2008. And here he is! That\’s right, your new leader is: None of the above! I guess it\’s not too surprising, because frankly all the GOP candidates are insane in their own way. I will…
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My Absence
No, not absinth. That\’s different. Sounds tasty, though. Some of you may have been wondering where I\’ve been. I\’ve been building a fort. (No, really.) Simply put, I\’ve been pretty swamped with work, and have chosen life over internet in my spare time. For now. I suspect things will lighten up soon, and when it…
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Warren Buffett is my new hero.
The proof is in the pudding, as the saying goes.* Buffett said he makes $46 million a year in income and is only taxed at a 17.7 percent rate on his federal income taxes. By contrast, those who work for him, and make considerably less, pay on average about 32.9 percent in taxes – with…
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Irrelevant Music Note of the Day
B-Sharp. Thank you folks, I\’ll be here all week. Try the veal. Sir, how\’s your steak? Ahem. Irrelevant, because I\’m coming about fifteen years late to this party, but I\’m ready to proclaim that The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion, the sophomore effort by The Black Crowes, is quite possibly superior to their debut album,…
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Intelligent Mathematical Design
I\’m expecting to see this popping up in Kansas any day now: Pi = 3.0, dammit. The funny thing is that I\’m pretty sure I was taught that it also equaled 22/7. Or possibly it was the cube root of the volume of a can of SPAM. It\’s hard to say. Or, if you\’d like…
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Question Answered
Do you all remember how Wade\’s darling little daughter asked why the Chicago Bulls mascot logo looked so angry? Of course you do. Well, courtesy of a site named Rivalfish, which I found naturally via Deadspin, I think we\’ve found our answer. It\’s because Harrison Ford keeps stealing all his chicks. I\’d be a little…