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If you are a materialist, yes.

That smiley is a Bastille Day smiley, n'est-ce pas?

I heard the Rump Floyd play "Dark Side" in like 1996 or something. It was the one part of the concert where I did not suspect the band was lip-synching to the record.

Your kids are all so cute. Dollar coins are good for tipping bartenders. Pretend you're a buccaneer handing out doubloons.

Pfft.

I have a legitimate beef with deer.

I kinda like Lynch's Dune. It doesn't really hold together as a movie, but the art direction is amazing and it manages to get at the mystic core of the Herbert novel.

16-7 is about as typical a Giants score as you can get. The Redskins adjusted nicely. They did not look too bad at all.

Brandon Jacobs, yeah. I hope Kiawanuka is OK.

Their ironclad support of the Second Amendment. Fuckin' bear will fuck you up, man.

Dio is a hell of a lot less burnt than Ozzy is, so I don't blame them for wanting to move on. (Shit, this was as true in 1979 as it is in 2008.)

Yes, and there has to be a cheaper way to address that situation rather than the show-up-at-the-emergency-room plan. A government-administered HMO?

What's so weird about it? Americans love guns. Always have, always will, black or white. Alaska, especially, has a lot of hunting going on.

Elephant cured of drug addiction An Asian elephant that became addicted to heroin after being fed bananas spiked with the drug is to return home after undergoing a detox programme. The four-year-old animal, called Xiguang, received methadone injections for a year at five times the human dosage, state media said. It was illegally captured by traders in 2005 in south-west China. When police arrested the

I dunno. I think the only solution that will fly is some sort of safety-net type of insurance for people who don't have access to it now. Some people I talk to who work for school districts and suchlike have awesome health coverage and fear reform would erode that.

We'll see if the political will really exists to do anything about healthcare. I suspect it doesn't yet. As boomers start to need more of it, it might.

Yeah, but if she REALLY believes that the earth is only 5,000 years old, that means she doesn't believe in science, and I don't want a potential president who doesn't accept the scientific method. Not that I was going to vote for McCain anyway, but geez, all the experience in the world doesn't make up for the not-believing-in-science.

Good to see he's making progress with that low self-esteem thing.

Have a great day, man!

Amen. Wagner's arm is getting better, too.

As an Episcopalian, I the KJV, but to be fair, unless you are an English major (which I was) it's kinda tough sledding.

Evangelicals tend to shy away from the KJV, in my limited experience, opting for the more modern translations.

Well, frac. JFK still did Marilyn Monroe, right?

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