I love this movie…

The Royal Tenenbaums This scene is definitely in my top 10 favorite movie scenes of all time (the ‘needle in the hay‘ scene in this same movie also probably makes the cut–as does the ‘green line‘ scene–speaking of which, this … Continue reading

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which percentage is worse?

D. Lloyd-Morgan has a great piece over at The Liberty Sphere. Obama criticizes McCain for voting with Bush 90% of the time but HIMSELF is more liberal than Bush is conservative. It’s like voting with Dennis Kucinich 100% of the … Continue reading

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wind energy has problems??? NOOOO.

Windmills of Change, originally uploaded by red321. Expansive dreams about renewable energy, like Al Gore’s hope of replacing all fossil fuels in a decade, are bumping up against the reality of a power grid that cannot handle the new demands. … Continue reading

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Back in the USSR!

About 2 years ago I read a book by John Lewis Gaddis entitled: “The Cold War: A New History“. The Cold war was, at the time, a very vague, amorphous concept; I neither knew who the players were nor the … Continue reading

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funny how some things DONT change…

how many times do democrats have to run on this platform??? image courtesy of Slate.com

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Charles Krauthammer rocks

via thewashingtonpost.com Worry about the press? His FISA flip-flop elicited a few grumbles from lefty bloggers, but hardly a murmur from the mainstream press. Remember his pledge to stick to public financing? Now flush with cash, he is the first … Continue reading

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Were the Coke adds REALLY that great?

Ok… something hit me today as I was washing my car.  Remember those Coke adds during the Olympics?  Remember the one that said, “if you have bought coke in the past 10 years, you have helped support an olympic athlete”…?  … Continue reading

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new jquery project

new jquery project, originally uploaded by jrossol. so… havent’ been blogging in a while…. well… there is a GOOD REASON. Just finished teaching myself some basic jquery so I can be more marketable as a web developer. FUN STUFF.  Basically, … Continue reading

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