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Archive for August 20th, 2006

Sunday, August 20th, 2006

You Should Have Thought of That Before You Left Home, Ultimate Super Edition

Kenneth Fucking Pollack writes to tell us that civil war in Iraq is a very bad thing. Honest to god, this kind of thing is all the explanation this blog’s frequent resort to profanity requires. Ken baby, it’s your civil war as much as anyone’s. Pollack did more than anyone to encourage the famous “liberal [...]

Sunday, August 20th, 2006

Slow-Twitch Sunday

The sort-of return of fitness blogging, with an emphasis on endurance exercise professional and amateur.
Urine TROUB-le Update – John Eustice offers a defense of Floyd in the IHT. I still haven’t seen any of Floyd’s defenders address Jesus Manzano’s claims that testosterone supplementation can indeed have a short-term adrenalinelike effect. I’d really like to see [...]

Sunday, August 20th, 2006

Deadwood Blogging: Gotterdammerung Edition

Ellsworth, we should recall, was one of the first characters to appear in the first episode of the series. One of his first lines was a particular favorite of our faithful Mr. Obscura:
I’ll tell you what. I may have fucked my life up flatter than hammered shit, but I stand here before you today beholden [...]

Sunday, August 20th, 2006

Malaise Week 2: Synchronicity Edition

No lie. Today I saw a “Reelect Carter / Mondale” sticker – on a Prius.
That means someone’s selling vintage political bumper stickers, right? It was an authentic green & white design. In fact, it reminded me of the good old days before both political parties started doing all their major-candidate signage in dull combinations of [...]