Spitball Army

About a week ago, on the Facebook website, someone posted an event entitled “Election Day.” Members were asked to choose whether they were “attending” or not, much like R.S.V.P.’ing for a dinner party. I selected Yes, and added a note: You would have to kill me to keep me from attending. I haven’t always felt this way.

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Rachel Maddow, she of the new self-titled Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC, breaks the current economic mess down for those of us who respond to simple ideas. And concepts related to food.

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You can’t make decisions based on polls or whether those decisions will keep you in the White House. You can’t kowtow to your advisers, consultants, public relations people or the media. You have to do the right thing, opinion and politics be damned.

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Flynn was at his Manhattan apartment on the day the planes hit. He jumped on his bicycle and headed straight to the scene, arriving in the area as thousands were fleeing.

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Czech archer Milan Andreas has had his Olympic dreams shattered after testing positive to marijuana.

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The collision of President John F. Kennedy, James Mason, Sean Connery…and Barack Obama. By way of the twisted mind of Eddie Izzard.

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Friday, June 13, 2008 2,000-year-old seed is oldest to germinate By Wendy Hansen Los Angeles Times Scientists using radiocarbon dating have confirmed that a Judean date palm seed found in the ruins of Masada and planted three years ago is 2,000 years old – the oldest seed ever to germinate. The seed has grown into […]

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Bette Davis, trapped behind a chalky white face of pancake makeup, gets about as much emotional mileage from her facial expressions as would a drunken mime.

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I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.

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I was not prepared for the emotional wallop contained in this seemingly simple documentary about Tennessee middle school students studying the Holocaust.

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