I’ve been driving all day from Jackson, Tennessee to Dallas, so I haven’t caught any of the online reaction to McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin to be his running mate. In fact, I caught about five minutes of NPR from Texarkana before the radio signal faded, so all I really know is what she said [...]

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Still keeping it slow around these parts while the Repatriation Roadtrip is underway (today- Indianapolis to some stretch of I-40 between Memphis and Little Rock), but I figure I ought to make a quick announcement.
Starting Tuesday, on TROUBL.ORG, I’ll be writing Down and Distance, a weekly column on America’s two current favorite contemporary sports- [...]

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I never really gave a fuck about Metallica, even when I was fifteen and they were supposed to be my favorite band. I liked Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson instead. And if Metallica doesn’t do it for you at fifteen, they probably aren’t gonna rock your world at twenty-eight. Still, Rick Rubin produced their [...]

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Well, there’s probably dumber, but this is definitely the most embarrassing thing I’ve read all week. Here’s noted retard Glenn Beck trying to explain why taxing rich people is bad, using a straw-man “liberal whiner” and attempting to refute it with an NFL metaphor:
‘I’m just talking about leveling the playing field, to give everyone [...]

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So Rahm Emmanuel and Lindsay Graham have worked out the details with the CPD on the Presidential Debates. The news isn’t particularly surprising- same format as ‘04 and ‘00, for the most part, with three debates between McCain and Obama and one between the VPs, which sounds like a silly undercard but which is where [...]

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With today being my last day in England, I have to admit that my greatest disappointment with my time over here is the fact that Queen Elizabeth didn’t die while I was living in the country.
Not because I wish the lady ill, or the grief upon her family. She’s actually pretty admirable, as far [...]

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Because we all love Lost, but can struggle to find the 22 hours required to re-watch an entire season after we know where all of the plot twists are going to come in, clearly we’ve all been seeking the ideal medium for enjoying an entire season’s events in roughly an hour. But which medium [...]

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Things’ll be a little slow around here for the next week or two, probably, as moving back to America becomes priority number one. Just to give you a head’s up.
Also, one from the “moving is complicated” file: When we moved here, we bought a big 26″ widescreen CRT television off of Gumtree, the UK equivalent [...]

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