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November 16, 2007

9 numbers between 1-20 that, for my own personal reasons, I’ve come to despise, dislike, or regard with studied indifference

6 14 19 2 8 11 16 18 (tie) 13, 7

Awkward moments in animism, 4

“Sorry. But for a pie, you really did give off a kind of ‘come hither’ look…”

If a slaughterhouse falls in the forest, and no one is there to see it…

…do the terrorist butchers who ran those places really even exist…? Looking through the comments, the answer from some on the left is that evidently they don’t — meaning that at least this representative sampling of “progressives” (who, remember, love the troops — sometimes so damn much that they create stories about how the troops commit atrocities in an effort to have those troops pulled from theater before they really

Scenes from the Reagan Ranch Tour, 2

me: “Reagan famously noted that hippies ‘look like Tarzan, walk like Jane, and smell like Cheetah,’ correct?” YAF tour guide: “That’s true. But he was being flip. I don’t think he had anything against the long hairs individually –” me: “– Sure. Whatever. Fuck the hippies. My point is — again we get Reagan with the chimp references. See where I’m going here –?” YAF tour guide: “– For the

When Did Star Trek Jump the Shark? [Dan Collins]

That is the important question posed at Tech Republic. The Borg Queen single-handedly diminished the Borg from a personification of everyone’s secret fear of the dehumanizing power of technology and conformity run amok into two-bit techno-zombie henchmen of everyone’s un-fondly remembered codependent ex-girlfriend. (It’s worth noting that in First Contact, the Borg assimilate you vampire-bite style, rather than through the slow, tortuous process seen in “The Best of Both Worlds.”

Cremains of the Day [Dan Collins]

Some Disney watchers said park-goers said people smuggling in the cremated remains of their loved ones and then sprinkling ashes on rides has been going on for a while. They said it started at the haunted mansion, but now the “Pirates of the Caribbean” ride is growing in popularity. Al Lutz, who runs Miceage.com, told KABC that it is not unusual for people to scatter a loved one’s remains at