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Oh, to be in Mexico

Posted on June 29, 2006 by Bob

The good news: Fox News Channel is going off the air.

The bad news: just in Mexico.  And only until the elections are over.

Dang.

But still.  I gotta get me to Tijuana.

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Exciting upset: Humanity and the Constitution 5, Dictatorship 3!

Posted on June 29, 2006 by bob harris

Wow.  Neat.

Surprisingly for these days, five members of the Supreme Court are not clinically insane after all, and have just ruled that Guantanamo, where human beings

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Why would Rush Limbaugh take Viagra to the Dominican Republic?

Posted on June 27, 2006 by Bob

Glib answer: To keep his pants up!

On second thought, ewwww.  Never mind.

In fact, please slap your computer right now, hard enough that my own will shake violently.  I need to get this image out of my head.

Ewwww.  Eeeeyeewwwww.

I’ve noticed, btw, that the wire story seems to be morphing before our eyes.  One early version

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Looks like Texas executed another innocent person

Posted on June 26, 2006 by Bob

Again.

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An Inconvenient Melting Ice Sheet

Posted on June 26, 2006 by bob harris

Yesterday’s L. A. Times story is pretty damn scary:

By all accounts, the glaciers of Greenland are melting twice as fast as they were five years ago, even as the ice sheets of Antarctica

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