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jellybean weirdo with electric snake fang (Free subscription) | yesterday
Here is the tally-sheet for a gang of sixty Thugs for a whole season - the gang was under two noted chiefs, "Chotee and Sheik Nungoo from Gwalior": "Left Poora, in Jhansee, and on arrival at Sarora murdered a traveler. "On nearly reaching Bhopal, met 3 Brahmins, and murdered them. "Cross the Nerbudda; at a village called Hutteea, murdered a Hindoo. "Went through Aurungabad...
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Captain of a Crew of One (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
The history of the race, and each individual's experience, are thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal. -- Mark Twain According to the local NBC affiliate, Chicago has seen a 17% increase in the use of machine guns in crime. ..machine guns that were purchased legally at gun stores in Indiana. View more news videos at: http://www.nbcchicago.com/video...
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Ramblin' with Roger (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
In the comments to a blogpost back in September, Andrew Bechard suggested that I write more about race. He had all sorts of good reasons and particular examples. Here's the thing: I find conversations about race exhausting. It's not that I think they aren't important and necessary, or that I don't engage in the topic occasionally. It's merely that talking about race often becomes either incendiary...
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Dubious Quality (Free subscription) | yesterday
Many months ago, DQ reader Carlos Anllo e-mailed and recommended "Let The Right One In", which he described as a "Swedish vampire movie." I headed over to Rotten Tomatoes and saw that it was highly regarded, with a 98% positive rating as well as its 8.2 average. Those were both exceptionally high, and I was looking forward to seeing the film. Six months passed. That happens a lot....
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Booker Rising (Free subscription) | yesterday
The conservative Republican commentator opines : "Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele and the New York Yankees can look back on a good week. Maybe Steele deserves extra credit. No one was writing obituaries a year ago for the Yankees as was the case for the Republican Party. Now we have a different picture. Borrowing from the words of Mark Twain, reports of the death of the Republican...
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This14U (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts - Henry Adams . Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire - William Yeats . The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been - Alan Ashley-Pitt . What is a weed? A weed is a...
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tabloid baby (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
A year after the election of Barack Obama, Disneyland officially inaugurated its first black princess with the debut of Tiana's Showboat Jubilee! starring Princess Tiana from the new animated feature, The Princess and The Frog.Singing and dancing and performing from the Mark Twain riverboat along the Rivers of America and culminating in a second line march into New Orleans Square, the spectacle
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Candy Sandwich (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
"I can't believe I'm going to go home and sleep in my bed alone," I shivered and he laughed. I wasn't actually asking him to spend the night with me, just stating the obvious. "I'm sleeping on the couch," he admitted. "And I have roommates." "Not fair," I sighed and shivered again. Throughout the ride home, dropping him off, heading back into the District, I...
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Watipaso Mkandawire of Chihoro Village (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Statistics and Tertiary Education A guy called Mark Twain claimed that Benjamin Disraeli once said, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics”. With that in mind, I browsed through the education statistics documented by UNESCO. The statistics provide very elaborate information that I am sure countries use to determine public policy as well as public expenditure. For...
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Dartman's World Of Wonder (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
I happened to be going through various posts from the past and I came along the Bill Cosby - Silverthroat post that I did way back in the first year of the blog. One of the comments left on that post wanted to know if I had the album where Cos talked to kids about drugs. It came at an ironic time as my wife and I recently listened to that album this past summer. Not to mention that the Cos has been...
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Charmed Life (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Why did the chicken cross the road? Here are a few responses how I believe some famous people may answer that very question? Mark Twain: The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated. Molly Yard: It was a hen! Zeno of Elea: To prove it could never reach the other side. Chaucer: So priketh hem nature in hir [...]
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Pattern Recognition (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
I don’t normally do single link posts, but…wow. Mark Leggott knocked it out of the park with this. So well done, if you’re at all still interested in this, you need to read this: A Response to Stephen Abram and SirsiDynixSimilar Posts: Google Maps Mashup that I want Quotes: Mark Twain Sirsi-Dynix vs Open Source Software 5 Weeks Clickthrough licensing dreck
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Book Soup Blog (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Harper Collins has published a collection of children's book picks from over 100 actors, writers, artists, politicians, and activists. These are the books that made a difference to them, the books that changed their lives. I asked the employees at Book Soup for their favorite children's books, and these are the books we picked....some will be familiar, some have been forgotten and some are just crazy!...
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Millard Fillmore's Bathtub (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
. . . try again, and then quit, Mark Twain said. “No use being a fool about it.” All I can say is, I’m happy she is not working to get a license to drive a bus. (News story: Woman passes written test for drivers license on 950th attempt.) Posted in Humor, Testing [...]
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thomasfortenberry.net (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Tonight I’ve been watching the reruns of Bill Cosby winning the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, since I missed half the broadcast on the 4th. Wanted to see everyone who spoke and hear all the accolades. Very nice. What I love about Cosby is his universality. This was touched on several times [...]
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kalyanim | 11/06/2009
A-listers from high and low will pay tribute to one of comedy's greatest entertainers, Bill Cosby , when he receives the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center
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