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July 31, 2008

More Iowa News [Dan Collins]

We’re not going to talk about the man who stabbed, gutted and decapitated a sleeping passenger on a Greyhound bus in Canada, because it’s a tragedy, and it’s better left to sensationalist websites to pander to the debauched taste for such ultraviolent tripe.  I’m just not going to go there. Instead, I’d like to write about an incident that occurred last Thursday in Iowa City, where Matthew Osing invited friend

Burge-Goldstein Put the Pressure on Obama, McCain [Dan Collins]

Today the Burge-Goldstein ticket received a major boost in this very tight race when Mr. Burge’s press relations office leaked to Bill O’Reilly the details of two major position papers, one dealing with the gas crunch and the other with the status of exotic dancing in Mr. Burge’s home state of Iowa. Responding to Obama’s recommendation that, rather than falling for the ‘hoax’ of drilling for more oil, Americans ought

What I’ve been doing with my summer vacation — a McCain/Obama metaphor and OPEN THREAD!

In this short match against an opponent 50 pounds heavier, I break the leg scissors, pass the legs, feint like I’m going for the choke, and secure the cross face. Yield: tap! Discuss — particularly as it pertains to contemporary politics / theories of interpretation / the death and eventual resurrection of Anna Nicole / the overwrought prose of James Wolcott. …Or else, just savor it.