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Ring! Ring! Ring!

January 19th, 2007 · No Comments · Funnies, Mini-Posts, Uncategorical Weirdness

Get Fuzzy is particularly funny today. Sometimes, the payoff is in the second panel, and what happens in the third panel is mostly left to the imagination.

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Orrin Hatch, Shame On You

January 19th, 2007 · No Comments · Only in Utah..., Politics, Schmolitics

firstamendmentcenter.org: news
Voting against the bill were Republicans Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and Orrin Hatch of Utah. Sens. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., and Tim Johnson, D-S.D., did not vote.

The bill in question: S.1, the ethics and lobbying bill.  

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What Laundry Day Looks Like At Chez Gique

January 19th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Funnies, Home Truths

My husband David did one load. The rest of the mountain of laundry is awaiting us upstairs, in the bedroom/laundry dump. Now that we’re both working out (at sundry health clubs) there’s even more laundry to be done, and critically stinky laundry at that.
Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use [...]

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The Victory Just Keeps On Giving: Bush Whacked

January 19th, 2007 · No Comments · Hot Off The Presses, Politics, Schmolitics, Radio, Uncategorical Weirdness

NPR : White House Retreats on Divisive Issues
He'll have to make a compelling case for them next week, when he delivers his State of the Union address Tuesday to the first Democratic Congress in more than a decade.

Oh boy! I wonder if Adam Felber will have a new drinking game for this year's SOTU [...]

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Want Freedom Fries With That?

January 19th, 2007 · No Comments · Hot Off The Presses, Politics, Schmolitics, Uncategorical Weirdness

BBC NEWS | Americas | Republican Ney sentenced to jail
Before the Abramoff scandal erupted, Ney was perhaps best known internationally for his role in renaming French fries "freedom fries" in the Congressional cafeteria due to US anger at Pariss refusal to support the invasion of Iraq.

Ney's going to prison, the first Congresscritter convicted [...]

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