Baseball: Astros is 18 INNINGS over the Braves

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Sunday October 09, 2005 · 5:34 PM PDT

2005/10/09 · 17:34

Oh my dear lord, what a game! The Houston Astros eliminated the Braves 7-6 in the longest MLB playoff game in history .. eighteen freaking innings!! Read More

A Houston trial lawyer's take on the Delay indictment

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Thursday September 29, 2005 · 7:43 PM PDT

2005/09/29 · 19:43

A old friend who is a longtime Houston trial lawyer (and iconoclastic progressive) had the following comments in response to my request for a quick legal analysis of the Delay indictment (God, it feels so good to type those words!). [lightly edited for clarity]

From SR (name redacted due to the vengeful nature of DeLay and his myrmidons), a Houston trial lawyer who often has to appear before the Big-Business biased, tort-reformer Repub judges and nutcase Christian evangelists who currently comprise the vast majority of the Harris County state court judiciary. Read More

Let's not go Krogering ... ever again

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Wednesday August 31, 2005 · 5:50 PM PDT

2005/08/31 · 17:50

[cross-posted at Reality.Hole]

I just wrote this email to Kroger's head offices via the contact page on their website:

I was absolutely shocked driving home today as I passed two Kroger stores featuring regular unleaded gasoline prices of $3.31 per gallon. Across the street from one is a Shell station (generally one of the higher-priced gas retailers) with gas at $2.89, almost fifty cents per gallon difference.
If I were buy gas from you instead of the Shell station across the road, it would cost me an additional $8 to fill up my tank.
I don't know what you call such a brazen and shameless disparity, but I know what I call it: freaking price gouging. And I believe the Texas Attorney General's office just might have a similar opinion after I lodge a complaint against you with them.

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Terri Schiavo died many years ago. Today she found peace.

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Thursday March 31, 2005 · 9:31 PM PST

2005/03/31 · 21:31

CNN.com readers react to Terri Schiavo's passing. Those on both sides of the debate wish her peace wherever her spirit has gone. One comment -- in italics -- is very apropos and quite heart-rending.

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Maybe messing with Social Security really is America's political "third rail"

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Friday March 11, 2005 · 3:21 PM PST

2005/03/11 · 15:21

[ Blatant blogwhoring alert ] This is from my 2 month-old blog Reality.Hole. Please come visit and comment if you feel like it.

Remember all that political capital President Bush said he'd earned after the election? And how he said he'd be spending it to advance his agenda?

Well, he's spending that virtual money as wildly as he's spending our real money ... and getting about the same results. After a month-long stump-speech-laden campaign trip (affectionately termed on Daily Kos as "Bamboozlepallooza") to drum up support for his nebulous "plan" to "reform" [destroy] Social Security, the public's opinion of him and his "plan" is worse than when he started. [it's a good time for another terror alert, don't you think?]

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WMD story is being freeped down on Yahoo

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Thursday January 13, 2005 · 2:42 AM PST

2005/01/13 · 02:42

With 318 votes, the Yahoo News' story on the fruitless end of the WMD search has a current rating of 2.44 out of 5.

This story is far too important to allow it to be rated under U.S. to Crack Down on Lasers Pointed at Aircraft or New U.S. Food Guidelines Stress Vegetables, Grains (cmon, are you freaking kidding me?)

This should stay in the news for several days and not just be blithely passed over like the latest celebrity breakup or "stupid criminal" piece.

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EPIC: a neo-Orwellian fable

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Monday November 29, 2004 · 9:39 PM PST

2004/11/29 · 21:39

http://www.letitblog.com/epic/

[Warning: verbosity alert]

An ambitious morality tale on the inherent dangers of media consolidation. It's decently executed, but could have stood to be longer and more in-depth. I'd be interested in seeing version 2.5 (positing that this one was 1.0).

But it does give rise to broader, more profoundly frightening thoughts about the malleability of reality through manipulation of perception ... a phenomenon we see merely the pale beginnings of today in FoxNews' viewership's view of the world. A schism between actual facts and the stage-managed perception of the real ... which becomes a reality unto itself. Read More

Post-election therapy

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Saturday November 06, 2004 · 9:08 PM PST

2004/11/06 · 21:08

So after the fundie uprising the other day, I decided to do something constructive instead of sitting around thinking "Oh God, the next four years is gonna suck!" and fighting the overwhelming craving for the taste of a gun barrel.

In the past, I've created snarky and sarcastic Bush/Cheney reelection tshirts and sold about 80 of them on zazzle.com (short url to my collection: http://bush.mirrorz.com). So I've decided to continue sniping from the sidelines. Read More

A little election day/Dia de los Muertos satire

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Tuesday November 02, 2004 · 10:29 AM PST

2004/11/02 · 10:29

How fitting that today, Election Day, is also Dia de los Muertos (The Day of the Dead ... and no, not that George Romero film). I got to thinking of things death-related and, of course, Edgar Allen Poe came to mind.

After reflecting on the (seemingly outlandish) theory that Poe's death resulted from being abducted and repeatedly doped up and forced to vote by election-rigging thugs in Baltimore (an apparently common practice in those days), I was inspired to write a bit of political satire based on Poe's immortal "The Raven". Read More

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