October 2008

Day 1157: Fall

October 27, 2008

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Day 1157: Request From Our Galveston Friends

October 27, 2008

Krewe du Vieux’s Krewe de C.R.A.P.S. has received a request from two of our long-time members and friends who live and work in the Galveston area. Below is the original note and link if you would like to pass along to others or send donations directly. Pediatric Dental Care, Texas First Bank and Galveston.Com & Company have [...]

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October 26, 2008

Rachel Hulin is working in Wisconsin to get out the vote and discovered the following in Wausau, not exactly a liberal hotbed within the Dairy State: “There is plenty of solid Obama hope around here, but also some serious vitriol. Here’s the latest propaganda that’s being stuck to mailboxes in Wausau, under the guise of [...]

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Day 1155: Reanimated Badgers

October 25, 2008

My alma maters, Illinois and Wisconsin, are playing one another today. It’s Homecoming weekend in Madison, so I’m glad Wisconsin is ahead right now 27-17. Hope you have fun at home, fellow Badgers, here’s a video for you. Put your hands up, in the air, that’s right! Tweet

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October 21, 2008

Yesterday, somewhere in the ether, Ashley Morris turned 45. As I sat on an airplane headed back to New Orleans, I scanned the world from above and wondered what happens to the much-theorized-about non-corporeal aspect of the body or, in other words, the soul of the dead. Is it everywhere at once? Is it beyond the [...]

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Day 1149: It All Comes Back To Rocks

October 19, 2008

The Times-Picayune | The Rock That Ruined New Orleans Just over five years ago, a meteorite crashed through the ceiling of a home in Broadmoor, and since then everything has gone down the toilet. Yep, that’s it. That’s the cause of Katrina, the flood, FEMA, Ray Nagin and everything else that’s happened since then, down [...]

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October 16, 2008

Since everything comes from India, Ultrabrown presents the Joe The Plumber – Desi connection. Tweet

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Day 1146: Running Against Bush’s Policies

October 16, 2008

From the transcript of the final presidential debate: Barack Obama: “When President Bush came into office, we had a budget surplus and the national debt was a little over $5 trillion. It has doubled over the last eight years … And, frankly, Senator McCain voted for four out of five of President Bush’s budgets.” No, [...]

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Day 1145: The Dude Still Abides

October 15, 2008

Question from the BBC: Is The Big Lebowski a cultural milestone? My answer: Yes. 1998′s The Big Lebowski was the cinematic equivalent of what Nirvana and Soundgarden were to C&C Music Factory and Color Me Badd at the beginning of the ’90s, a breath of intelligent and refreshingly-malaised air in the midst of fluff and crap. Don’t [...]

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Day 1144: NOLA Levee Termites Quit Holding Hands, Study Finds

October 14, 2008

Levees here were stuffed with newspaper and lined with termite-attracting sugarcane waste. The absurdity never ends. Science Daily | Did Termites Help Katrina Destroy New Orleans Floodwalls? Author Gregg Henderson, a professor at the Louisiana State University AgCenter, discovered Formosan subterranean termites (Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki) in the floodwall seams in August, 2000 – five years [...]

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