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Happy belated birthday, R. We miss you over at the pastrysharp boards too.

I'm not sure whether to give a or a . Well said, anyway.

Wow, it's weird to read something that I wrote 7 months ago. I never would've remembered that I'd said that.

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Yeah, I felt a little of that myself--and tried to suppress it.

That makes me smile. I'll always like Phil no matter how many goofy hand gestures he makes. There's something about his nerdiness that just seems natural.

There is a live version here: http://www.owlandbear.com/2007/10/02/hoste...eedy-1997-2003/

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I hear you loud and clear, but what is to be done? (And please) don't say Ron Paul.

Chris, don't sweat it. You don't need to defend yourself. Anyone who is reading your posts should be able to understand what you mean.

12/9 12/8 12/7 12/6 12/5 All in MP3! Just kidding. They're all FLACs, as always.

Thank God. Maybe it's because I'm a Democrat, but I would definitely like to see a Democrat in office over a Republican, whether the parties are similar or not. I dunno. I think I would've preferred to have not gone in at all. (If we're truly having success in Iraq, though, I'm not going to try to argue that we should leave right now.) There is something screwed up about the logic that we should spend $474 billion on a war in Iraq when we could've easily used half the money in America to make a huge difference in national security and other areas. Not that Republicans justify spendin

That's true, but you've also just pointed out another reason why Bush's presidency will be influential for years to come (Supreme Court). I seriously doubt that Gore would've gone through all the trouble to try to partially fabricate and sell the Iraq war to us.

To be honest, I'm getting tired of hearing about it. To say that they are the same seems more like an excuse for people to say "everything sucks" instead of thinking about what needs to be done. The parties disagree on many issues, including religion, environment, welfare, social security, taxes, government involvement, privacy, terrorism, homosexuality, abortion, etc. In fact, our elected Democrats and Republicans disagree on just about everything. The only real commonality between the two parties is that industry dollars talk more than the Americans the politicians are supposed to represen

That's more like it.

Exactly. It's also kind of funny how he used a lot of big words that probably aren't even in his vocabulary, like "embolden the false purveyors of populism in our hemmersphere." If I didn't have the flu right now, I would've considered doing some kind of MST3k version of the speech.

Offer closed. Move along, nothing to see here.

I have too many magazine subscriptions and I'd like to pass this on to someone who might read it instead of me skimming and throwing away each issue. Each issue comes with a CD sampler containing songs of varying quality. My subscription expires in 11/08. Anyone interested? First person to PM me gets it. Note: I'll also mail the Jan. and Feb. issues to you, along with their respective unopened sampler CDs.

Paste is one magazine that I think is on its way out. The content seems to be getting more generic or uninteresting, and I this month's issue is one of the slimmest in a while.

Stay in the French Quarter...in general.

Damn, I need to quit skimming ahead when I'm reading (and get my schadenfreude in check too).

Also, on a CNN slideshow: "One of Ledger's breakthrough roles was Sir William Thatcher in 'A Knight's Tale.'" The next slide says: "Ledger played a gay cowboy in Brokeback Mountain..."

There's an awesome (sarcasm) slideshow on MSNBC where they show him in a promo shot from "I'm Not There," and the headline is "'Not There' Anymore." Good one, MSNBC! God, I hate the news.