Category: wadE
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Why I\’m Becoming A Libertarian
Per usual I was reading the Star and Tribune, and came across this article about new driving laws. The first one I can accept: it\’s now illegal to drive and text/send email from your phone. But how do you enforce that; outside of actually seeing someone typing on their phone while driving 80 down the…
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Can American Gladiators Be Saved
Where were you on September 16th, 1989? I know where I was. I was sitting on the couch in my parent’s living room watching the debut episode of American Gladiators. There was nothing cooler to a teenage boy than a show that was part wrestling (but real), part football (big hits), and part war (Assault)?…
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Fine… then go…
When the Twins signed Mike Lamb before the season I was optimistic. While Lamb wasn\’t a huge name, he certainly was an improvement over signings from years past (Butch Huskey anyone?). He\’s hit over .300 a couple of times and is a .276 lifetime hitter and had just come off a few decent years with…
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Frustrated Inc.
As a founding member of simpleprop, and a prolific writer for the first several years, it actually pains me that my writing production has tapered off so dramatically over the past year. The reasons for this are plentiful: loss of access to SP from work, increase in workload at work, General Malaise (code for \”sheer…
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Man Throws Ball, Feels Regret; et al
It\’s long overdue to have a discussion regarding this.
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Back In The Saddle: News Version
Yes, I\’ve been MIA on SP as of late. No good excuses, just sheer laziness and focusing my time on different things. But there\’s nothing like a run through the daily news to get one back untracked… (I did that just to annoy Alex)… But enough rankling of fellow SP-ers, what\’s happenin\’ out there in…
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Guitar Hero IV – Desparate Times…
Courtesy of my good friend Amy: http://s231.photobucket.com/albums/ee88/ImBillPardy/?action=view¤t=GH4.jpg Turns out it didn\’t take long for Activision to respond to the immense success of Rock Band (as well as the lackluster reception of GHIII – and the horror of GH:Aerosmith). If you do a little internet searching you\’ll see that the immediate reception of GHIV isn\’t going…
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Co-winky-dink
So, I was reading this the other day: Petraeus picked to lead Central Command, which basically says that the current head of central command, Adm. William Fallon, was resigning due to widespread (but supposedly false) reports that he was at odds with the Bush administration over Iran that had made his job impossible. So this…
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…And Justice For All
If you are a newsie (kind of like a foodie, but with news) like me, you\’ve definitely seen and heard the \”not guilty on all counts\” verdict in the trial of NYPD officers who shot and killed a groom-to-be the day of his wedding. If you aren\’t familiar with the case, it echoes the 1999…
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Like A House Of Cards…
A really good three part series (one, two, and three) in the Strib on the rash of foreclosures have affected Wright County, but it\’s all quite applicable across the state and the country.