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Another great movie from the BBC.
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last modified Jul 8, 2008 at 22:33
This is too good. In the words of Syndrome or Heineken beer commercials, "Just brilliant!"
Real estate developer aims to use eminent domain to confiscate Justice Souter's New Hampshire home in order to build a money-making (and consequently, tax revenue generating) hotel called Hotel Lost Liberty.
Again, brilliant.
This has got to catch on sooner or later. For those days when you get back from a long trip to Wal-Mart and you have fifty bags of groceries to bring in the house and the little ones need to go to the bathroom.
It's summer (in case you haven't noticed).
Our garden is producing some great vegetables. Our jalapeno, banana, and bell pepper plants are producing wonderfully, but for some reason they are not as juicy as store bought peppers. Still very good. We also have squash and zucchini plants careening and expanding throughout the garden decorated with their green and yellow bounty. We also have roma, grape, and regular tomatoes growing in vast numbers, tethered lightly to scraggly sticks and other sturdy supports discovered in our back yard.
Gardens are good. Adam and Eve surely enjoyed the easy fruit and vegetables that flourished in Eden. I'm pretty confident that Heaven will have gardens requiring our happy labor.
There are other things to do in summer. I am craving a good book, checking out Anna Karenina for the nth time. I may actually finish it. Michael Crichton's State of Fear is on my reading list, if I can bum a copy from someone or hit the jackpot at the library.
We've got some new music to listen to: Lucinda Williams' Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Hem's Rabbit Songs, and Taj Mahal's Senor Blues. For the kids (yeah right), we got O Veggie Where Art Thou and On the Road with Bob and Larry.
Right now, I'm trying to write a book based on some stories that I tell the kids at nighttime. When I'm done, I want my kids to illustrate them. It should be hilarious.
Way too early college football predictions.
It happens to you on a weekly basis. You get out of work. You've got a pile of bills and thirty minutes to get to the post office, buy stamps, address your letters, and mail them off before closing time.
Or, you just bought a new vehicle. You want to get your license tag. On your lunch, you head to the courthouse. "You have to show proof of insurance." No problem, you're prepared. "Have you paid your tax?" Uh, no. Go down a few doors down and get in line. "Have you bought your title?" Huh? And it goes on and on and on. Before you know it, your lunch hour has been blown trying to comply with your state's vehicle registration laws.
When you think about it, I mean really think about it, isn't our service industry (both private and governmental) built on the paradigm of its employees working 9 to 5? Wouldn't it make more sense for the service industry to try to maximize the hours when most of its customers are through with their workday, instead of offering them a few hours of open time? If this industry wants to grow and meet the demands of its consumers, it will adapt to their disposable time instead of competing with their consumers work hours.
Could it be that Jeb (Bush the Younger) continues to say that he won't run in 2008 because it would distract from his brother's Presidency? In other words, to announce now (only 6 months into GW's 2nd term) would focus national attention on Jeb and steal some of his brother's political capital.
I think that if Jeb is going to run in 2008, we won't hear him express any presidential intentions until late 2006 or early 2007. And, if you think about it, there is no real need to announce right now. Why subject yourself early to the political attack machines of Larry Flynt, George Soros, and the rest of the filth-diggers of the Left?
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