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Month: June 2006

  • Connie Chung Says Goodbye

    Maury and Connie’s show got cancelled. Yep – they had a show. I caught it once. Yeek. Though I did like her interview on Colbert. Nothing can prepare you for Ms. Chung in a prom dress atop a grand piano singing Thanks for the Memories. Listen for the grunt when she jumps off the piano.

  • Got 30 Seconds?

    Last year, you helped me blitz the MarketingSherpa awards and my professional blog became one of the top marketing blogs of 2005. Wanna go another round? First, I gotta get a nomination – got 20 more seconds to nominate me? http://andywibbels.com/sherpa/ Thanks so much, Andy Wibbels andy at andywibbels dot com p.s. Nominations close today […]

  • Assassins, PBS, Parades and the Turtle Creek Chorale

    It is Monday. Ron asleep to my right. Kitty asleep in front of me. It’s 9:01 am. (from Sunday, stuck on the laptop, posting now) Went to see Brigitte in Open Eye’s production of Assassins. She was filling in for the role of Emma Goldman – along with her duties in the ensemble. Assassins remains […]

  • GOP Congress Repeal Measure That Would Prevent Permanent Bases in Iraq

    It’s not an imperial over-reach of an occupation if we aren’t going to have permanent bases there. That’s out the window… Congressional Republicans killed a provision in an Iraq war funding bill that would have put the United States on record against the permanent basing of U.S. military facilities in that country, a lawmaker and […]

  • When to Stone Your Children

    A drama in six slides, performed by Legos: When to Stone Your Children

  • Guantanamo Admiral Calls Detainee Suicides ‘Acts of War'

    Try to keep down your breakfast: They are smart. They are creative, they are committed,” he said. “They have no regard for life, either ours or their own. I believe this was not an act of desperation, but an act of asymmetrical warfare waged against us.” And now for the smartest thing I’ve heard all […]

  • Possibilities and Timebombs

    The grass pollen is out of control. I was snorting and sniffling all during X-Men 3 last night – much to Ron’s chagrin. I tried to time my sniffs with the explosions. I can blow my nose for an hour and it won’t help. Chagrin is another word you only hear in one context. ‘Much […]

  • An Inconvenient Truth

    We’re completely fucked. There’s no bones about it. This planet, this country is completely screwed in so many ways and unless Americans wake up and smell the glaciers melting. Al Gore helped spearhead the first Congressional hearings on global warming in the 70s and made it a centerpiece of his bid for president in the […]

  • Federal Marriage Amendment Quashes State Laws

    I was right! I was right! The 2006 election is going to come down to either ‘faggots’ or ‘beaners’ – it looks like we’re slouching towards ‘faggots’. But it is getting burnt out as a hot-button issue. But why are ‘they’ bothering with the Marriage Protection Amendment aka No Same-Sex Longterm Fudge-packing Companions Ban? Are […]

  • US to Trash Geneva Convention Article

    The Pentagon has decided to omit from new detainee policies a key tenet of the Geneva Conventions that explicitly bans “humiliating and degrading treatment,” according to knowledgeable military officials, a step that would mark a further shift away from strict adherence to international human rights standards. Even when so many experts explain how torture doesn’t […]