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Archive for July 10th, 2005

Sunday, July 10th, 2005

Four! (4.)

The story goes that during the glory days of the Jack Kirby’s run on Fantastic Four, he created the story of Him/Warlock in issues 66 and 67 as a critique of the Objectivism favored by stablemate Steve Ditko. FF cocreator and Marvel honcho Stan Lee gutted the story, which failed to save his and Marvel’s [...]

Sunday, July 10th, 2005

Raceblogging en Francais

Per this morning’s TV viewing, looks like Lance will hadn off the yellow jersey for at least a bit. Armstrong’s Yesterday the rest of his team pooped out on the climbs, leaving him to keep up with the leaders on his own, with nobody to break the headwinds for him. (Lance’s teammates exist to take [...]

Sunday, July 10th, 2005

If It’s Not Beyond Parody There’s Hope for the Republic Yet

Sure, prior to 9/11, it was wrong for Michael Jackson to rape the shit out of little kids, and I am on the record saying so. But that innocent world is gone forever.
Tomorrow’s Powerline Today.
I have to say that the Brit Hume statement lampooned in the first item doesn’t offend me. I think there’s been [...]