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  Archive for June, 2008

More Music Monday

Written by dave in Monday, June 30th 2008 under Humor, Music   
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Gilligan’s Island (Stairway) (aka Stairway to Gilligan’s Island) by Little Roger and the Goosebumps.

(via Miss Cellania)

74% Dixie

Written by dave in Monday, June 30th 2008 under Humor   
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The Yankee or Dixie quiz tells me I’m 74% Dixie.

Music Monday

Written by dave in Monday, June 30th 2008 under Music   
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Whiskey Before Breakfast performed by Brad Davis,Robert Bowlin,and Wil Maring. (via J-Walk Blog)

The Gourds performing their rendition of Snoop Dogg’s Gin and Juice. (via the Culinary Sherpas)

Shadowy Men On a Shadowy Planet performing Baby Elephant Walk. (via I’m Learning to Share)
Johnny Bond’s album Here Come the Elephants (includes Day Drinkin’). (via Uncle Gil’s Rockin’ Archives).

Developer Handouts in Hillsborough County

Written by dave in Sunday, June 29th 2008 under Local Politics   
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Kudos to Michael Van Stickler for excellent reporting. Van Stickler discovered that some of the $1 billion dollars the county purported developers had given to create and maintain roadways didn’t exist.
The county insists that this is only a few minor calculation problems and that developers still contribute enormous sums to help create and maintain roadways [...]

Telemarketer Torture

Written by dave in Saturday, June 28th 2008 under Humor   
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How to torment telemarketers using only one word.
(via Neatorama)

Katrina Did No Damage

Written by dave in Saturday, June 28th 2008 under National Politics   
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Not a single drop of oil was spilled in the Gulf of Mexico when Katrina hit.
Unless you count the oil slicks that were so huge that they were visible from space.

Newspaper Reporter Locates Blogger, Breathlessly Reports

Written by dave in Thursday, June 26th 2008 under Tampa   
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OK, I’m a couple of weeks late to this, but why is this even in the newspaper? This is news?
Barbara Behrendt locates a blogger who happens to be an assistant county attorney. And what exactly is the concern? That maybe he’s blogging on the taxpayers dime?
And check out this nearly incoherent accusation - “According [...]

Exxon Ruling in Perspective

Written by dave in Thursday, June 26th 2008 under National Politics   
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The Supreme Court ruled that jurors don’t have enough sense to properly penalize a good-hearted corporation, so they took it upon themselves to slash the penalty awarded by the jurors to those affected by the Valdez oil spill to $507.5 million.
To put this in perspective - Lee Raymond, the ex-CEO of Exxon received payments in [...]

June

Written by dave in Thursday, June 26th 2008 under Uncategorized   
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Alrighty, then. June was full of flu, flooring, and flying, which left little time for blogging or internet surfing. The flu’s gone, the floor’s installed, and I think I’m done with flying until at least December. So, in the word’s of the immortal Pink, let’s get this party started.

George Carlin 1937-2008

Written by dave in Monday, June 23rd 2008 under Uncategorized   
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Here’s Carlin on why education in the US is fucked:

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