February 2012
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Boats Against the Current: A Brief List of... →
Anything tribal…God, so true.
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Stars (ex. clusters of rainbow colored stars)
Barbed Wire (ex. the kind found on men’s biceps)
Diamonds (ex. the two dimensional kind found on the hips of multiple gay porn stars)
Cliched sayings and/or dumb phrases (ex. “Only God Can Judge Me”) — I’m judging you anyway.
Music notes — Do…
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The Lost Santorum Speech
The following was recovered from the bathroom floor at a recent autoworkers rally in Flint, Michagan where Republican Presidential Candidate Rick Santorum was speaking.
“Under Mr. Obama’s stewardship American is becoming a place where white people can no longer earn as much money as possible and have as many Christian babies as they can without ignoring their effects on the...
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Dead Presidents: "Any politician who regards the... →
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— Connor Friedersdorf, “Rick Santorum Wants Your Sex Life To Be ‘Special’”, The Atlantic, Feb. 15, 2012
THANK YOU, Mr. Friedersdorf! This is almost certainly my favorite sentence that has been written so far about the 2012 Presidential campaign, and the entire article in The Atlantic plainly…
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A Review of GogoBot →
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“I want everyone here to know, there’s not gonna be no trouble from me!”
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Facebook History of the World →
“Religion and Common Sense are no longer friends.”
Hilarious
Last known WWI veteran dies at 110 →
LONDON—Florence Green, the world’s last known veteran of World War I, has died at the age of 110, the care home where she lived said Tuesday.
Briar House Care Home in King’s Lynn, England, said Green died Saturday, two weeks before her 111th birthday.
Born Florence Beatrice Patterson in London on Feb. 19, 1901, she joined the Women’s Royal Air Force in September 1918 at the age of 17.
She...
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Upon Further Review
I was rewatching the Super Bowl and at various points during the broadcast you can totally hear Al Michaels or Chris Collinsworth’s iPhone dinging in the background.
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Gingrich
Gingrich continued, “Every time you turn around, secular government is closing in on and shrinking the right of religious liberty in America, and I think there are millions of people who are very disturbed by that.”
One thing I miss about being a teenager in NJ was the illusion that religion had no affect on policy making and was essentially irrelevant to public life.
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Public Enemy #1
In the 2011 season the Giants literally or effectively ended the seasons of: the Eagles & Jets (in the same game), the Cowboys, the Falcons, the Packers (who were 15-1 and defending champs), the 49ers and they beyond tortured the Patriots (did anyone else read about Tom Brady’s post game shell shock?). They swept the Ryans 4-0 (Rex, Rob twice and Matt). They put a huge dent in the...
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4 Time Champs
Congratulations Giant!
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Prep and Cleaning Complete
Pigs in a blanket = blanketed.
Wings = battered.
Chili = chilling.
Just need to cut up some veggies and put condiments in little serving dishes.
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Super Bowl Party
Buffalo-Bourbon Three Bean Chili simmering on the back burner. I’ve got the Giants-Falcons game on the laptop.
Wing prep next.
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Game On!
Cooking a whole pheasant for dinner.
Wish me luck!
January 2012
25 posts
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Top 1000 in 2011 (and a new article for y'all) →
In the past month I have been honored by Yahoo as one of their top 500 contributors for last month. Well it seems that the surge in page views that I had at the year’s end also pushed me over the top for the year. My contributor page has thus been newly outfitted with a Top 1000 of 2011 award.
If you’ve got 5 minutes to kill, also check out this article about Spring vacations in...
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“Until this tournament, I never fully realized how much Nadal means to tennis. I...”
– Brian Phillips writes about the epic Australian Open Final between Djokovic and Nadal and manages to lay out my exact thoughts on good ol’ Rafa. Go read the rest of the article for Phillips’ apt comparisons of our tennis greats to the ancient Greek warriors of the Iliad. (via chels)
Personally...
dashasprinkles asked: Beet, pomegranate and blueberry, is that all you put in your smoothie? Any liquids? I'm dying to make it. thx :)
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What to Eat in Colorado →
Fried bull balls, elk meat, edible marijuana?
If you’re interested, check out this latest piece from Yahoo Voices.
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Machines Then and Now
According to Wikipedia…
“To promote the ruggedness of its typewriters, George Edward Smith, president of Royal bought a Ford-Stout tri-motor airplane in August 1927. This plane, commonly called the Royal Airtruck, dropped over 200 typewriters in crates with parachutes to dealers over the eastern seaboard of the USA on its maiden flight. Royal eventually delivered over 11,000 this way...
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Schiano to Tampa Bay
In my first three years at Rutgers, the years preceding Greg Schiano’s arrival, the team won exactly one game. Nobody went to games and it went without saying that other regional powers like Syracuse and Pittsburgh would routinely beat us. When I was a sophomore Donovan McNabb put up more than 70 points in the Rutgers defense.
Schiano changed all of that. I was at the Cook Campus Center...
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“If Crabtree wakes up in the middle of the night to pee, he’s going to have...”
– Yahoo Sports on the Giants Defense
Super Bowl!
Giants! Giants! Giants!
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NFC
Come on Giants, play for the rematch.
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Giants-49'ers
It’s wonderfully ironic that in this Year of the Quarterback that the Giants and the 49’ers dispatched the Packers and Saints by *gasp* playing solid defense. Now the two cross-country rivals play one another.
I can’t begin to express the excitement and memories that this match up generates. I grew up during the late 80’s and early 90’s when both teams were in...
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