July 2011
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March 2011
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February 2011
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December 2010
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October 2010
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Somewhere, there's a very uncomfortable squirrel
Just overheard on the police scanner: “Woman reports a squirrel has fallen and is now impaled on a stick in her backyard.” Our doomed rodent had no idea this morning it would die a grisly, stick-related death and be mocked on Tumblr, all before noon. The indignity of it all.
There’s a lesson here for all of us, folks. And it is don’t climb trees in the cold.
September 2010
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“You should go with a Bieber haircut.”
– Advice received today during an informal interview with a city council member. BIEBER FEVER EVERYWHERE. God save us.
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August 2010
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July 2010
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June 2010
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Armando Galarraga might be a better person than...
Can anyone imagine themselves acting as graciously as Armando Galarraga did after umpire Jim Joyce, to quote the guilty party himself, “kicked the shit” out of the 28-year-old pitcher’s perfect game? A blown call wipes one of the rarest feats in sports off the record books — seriously, only 20 in history, even though two of them, stunningly, came in the last month — and the kid...
May 2010
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“The Brevard County doctor who was arrested for groping a woman while dressed as...”
– They wouldn’t even have to pay me to write that lede. (via Deadspin)
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April 2010
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“Appreciate the fact you can even (travel). If you’re lucky enough to go to...”
– The wisdom of Anthony Bourdain, from his Friday night show at Minneapolis’ State Theater.
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“Last I checked, Sarah Palin’s not much of an expert on nuclear issues.”
– To be fair, Mr. President, Sarah Palin hasn’t appeared to be much of an expert on most issues.
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434. A suntan is earned, never bought.
(via rulesformyunbornson)
Preferably from the left field bleachers, I say.
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March 2010
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Today in: Things I've learned covering floods
When interviewing someone, they will say, “The river goes where it wants,” or some variation thereof. And you must use it. It lends a grizzled, knowing, vaguely Huck Finn-ish quality to whomever says it. (Though, Huck would have had his reservations about purchasing a house well within the reach of non-record seasonal flooding, I assume for no particular reason). Because, you know, the...
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February 2010
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‘Crown’ - Mason Jennings.
Been stuck...
January 2010
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But Prince always looks so bored at Vikings... →
Amazing. Move over, ‘Skol Vikings.’
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Supreme Court rolls back campaign spending limits... →
While the national media gets sweaty and breathless over the John Edwards-as-Rielle Hunter’s-baby-daddy story, this happened. Corporations can now spend to support political campaigns — though not directly to the coffers of candidates themselves — unfettered by pesky campaign spending limits meant to limit the influence of America’s wealthiest corporations on the electoral...
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“See, it’s not that the Democrats are playing checkers and the Republicans are...”
– - Jon Stewart, on Monday’s The Daily Show
It is staggering that the Democratic Party is basically conceding defeat on an issue that has been at the forefront of what the American liberal movement has been aiming to achieve for decades because of a special election loss that cuts their Senate...
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“Be sure to get the opinion of failed political candidates on all major...”
– FakeAPStylebook makes me laugh every single day.(Follow on Twitter.)
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A rose is, by any other name, twenty ten.
A week in and I’m comfortable with it: ‘TWENTY TEN.’ I’ve given serious thought to this question, as trivial as it seems (also: ‘The Aughts’? That’s what we’ve got to call the past decade? Christ.) Hell, even the National Association of Good Grammar weighed in on this pivotal issue. ‘Two thousand ten?’ It’s just too much. It’s...
December 2009
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Dec. 22
time to start Christmas shopping.
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Daniel Elazar was right! And other terribly boring...
Call it fruitless. Or maybe call it fascinating. Covering a budget hearing Thursday night I watched taxpayer after taxpayer get up, more than a dozen or so, shuffle to the lectern and address the city council from the small suburb of Newport, Minn., about their tax bills.
Now, make no mistake: it was mundane stuff. Unexciting. Painfully so. I, your humble reporter, may have, at times, let his...
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“If, as seems increasingly likely, Obama wins passage of a health-care-reform...”
– Weisberg, on why Obama’s do-nothing reputation is wrong. (via newsweek)
November 2009
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WatchPart of me just wants to dislike Jimmy Fallon. His cutesy, aren’t-I-so-damn-cleverness. His borderline terrible interviews on Late Night. Fever Pitch.
But, no, Fallon has to be likable. His stuff on Late Night is pretty damn good. He looks SHARP in those gray suits. Slow-jamming the news? Why, yes, yes I think I’ll watch that. And, on top of it, he goes and does something like this...
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A hearse tailgated me, then passed me while...
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