Last night the UFC’s Chuck “The Iceman” Liddell was knocked out in the first round. Which wouldn’t be so striking — you fight long enough, you lose on occasion — except it’s the third straight fight this has happened and this time it was to a guy in his mid-30s with a broken arm. Now there’s talk that Liddell should retire, as he’s 40 and has lost five of his last six bouts (including another first round knockout)…but I say keep reaching for that rainbow. [Read more →]

Tags: sports by Sean Cunningham
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Up until last week, 2.1 million gallons of crude oil per day had been pouring into the Gulf of Mexico. Since then BP and the Coast Guard have done some to siphon the leak, yet millions of gallons of oil, in hundreds of thousands of patches, float throughout the Gulf. They hurt and threaten tourism, fishing, and ecology. BP suggests that the leak might be almost completely stopped within a month. However, nothing is really certain of the future of the leak or the spill and its effects. [Read more →]

Tags: environment & nature, politics & government by Robert O'Hara
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We could really, really, really stand to cut the DoD’s budget.  And I’m talking about serious, drastic cuts of like 50% in one year and probably 75% further cuts in the following fiscal year.  Let me explain.

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Tags: politics & government by Mike McGowan
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Abby Sunderland, the sixteen year old who was feared lost at sea, is safe. Sunderland had been attempting to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world when her boat went missing on Thursday. After an agonizing stretch of twenty hours with no contact from the teen, a search plane spotted her boat and confirmed her safety. Sunderland will abandon her voyage and return home to California. This is truly wonderful news. And now that we’ve all breathed a huge sigh of relief, I have one question: Why the hell was a child allowed to sail around the world by herself? [Read more →]

Tags: diatribes, trusted media & news by Meg Boyle
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We’re having trouble with our internet out here in BFE, so my online time has been severely curtailed.  As such, I will state only two more things:  1) The Democrats asking for Mr. Alvin Greene to step down are, essentially, asking for a mulligan after chipping one into the drink, and 2) it’s not gonna happen in a game with that much money on the line.

Tags: politics & government by Mike McGowan
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A man named Alvin Greene won the democrat senate primary in South Carolina on Tuesday, for the right to take on the republican incumbent Jim DeMint in the fall. The man is, according to this Yahoo! news story, a “Mystery SC nominee with a pending felony charge.”

Greene, a 32-year-old unemployed military veteran who lives with his parents, defeated Vic Rawl on Tuesday for the Democratic Senate nomination despite having run essentially no public campaign – no events, no signs, no debates, no website, no fundraising.

The result has baffled political observers, who had heavily favored Rawl – a former state legislator, attorney and prosecutor who had the edge inasmuch as he actually campaigned and tried to win.

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Tags: politics & government, trusted media & news by Ricky Sprague
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John Timoney, the man Esquire magazine called “America’s Top Cop,’ has written a book about his experiences commanding police forces in New York City, Philadelphia and Miami. The book is called Beat Cop to Top Cop: A Tale of Three Cities (University of Penn Press).

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Tags: on thrillers and crime by Paul Davis
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Sometimes, I wonder what it takes to make the move to the big city, and earn the big bucks as a marketing VP for a major corporation. Do I have what it takes?

Maybe not.
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Tags: language & grammar by Jeff McDonald
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June 5, 2010

I dream I am on an undercover job at an institution and I’m concealing the following things:  I have a metal fitting under my pierced nipple, another metal fitting under my pierced testicles, and I’m wearing a full body harness/undergarment.  Fortunately, it’s cold so the harness/undergarment is not unpleasant to wear.  The people on my crew know what’s up and they help me conceal my true identity.  Meanwhile, back at our home/headquarters, we are living among people we don’t know.  There are Asians there and I don’t know if they are with us or against us.  I take a nap on the sofa and someone removes the metal fitting from my pierced testicles.  I pretend to be asleep, but I know what’s going on.

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Tags: Fred's dreams by Fred Siegel
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It belongs to a genre that I do not always like, so my expectations for Get Him to the Greek were low. But this film has smart dialogue, likable characters, great performances and best of all, it is funny. It is really funny. [Read more →]

Tags: Gail sees a movie, movies by Gail D. Rosen
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Dramatis Personae
Helen Thomas, former columnist
Jan Brewer, Governor of Arizona
Reporters

BREWER: It’s with great honor that I introduce this woman — who, as I’m sure you all know — has been a victim of Washington PC gone amok. A woman who won’t have to worry about political correctness here in Arizona. Or any correctness. A woman, who, in the last few days, has shown herself to be an expert on immigration. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Arizona’s new immigration minister, Helen Thomas. [Read more →]

Tags: politics & government by Colin Cohen
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In Ice Cold by Tess Gerritsen, an unhappy woman makes an impulsive decision that leads to tragedy.  Stranded, cold and in danger, she has plenty of time to contemplate the choices that lead her here.  Pretty standard stuff, really, as far as mysteries go.  Luckily, Ice Cold has a handful of plot twists that keep the story moving along.  Good beach reading, when you need to cool off a little. [Read more →]

Tags: books & writing, Lisa Reads by Lisa Hura
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I don’t think I’ve ever written a follow-up to any of these columns, but I feel the need to elaborate somewhat further on what I said in my last one. In particular, I have been thinking quite a lot about one sentence in the passage I quoted from one of G. C. Lichtenberg’s Waste Books: “Nature creates, not genera and species, but individua, and our shortsightedness has to seek out similarities so as to be able to retain in mind many things at the same time.”

I think this is precisely right and that we ought to ponder it more deeply. Darwin may have thought he figured out the origin of species, but the fact remains that no species had its origin as a species. [Read more →]

Tags: that's what he said, by Frank Wilson by Frank Wilson
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Federal officials have finally gotten a handle on the oil catastrophe. No, not the catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, but an apparently much more important catastrophe — the olive oil catastrophe. [Read more →]

Tags: environment & nature, politics & government by Colin Cohen
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As much as I love sports, I understand very clearly that professional sports are big business. It feels like I read as many stories about contracts, unions, and endorsements as I do about actual athletic accomplishments. This is more of an observation than it is a complaint, of course. I would not have the incredible access I have to a huge array of sports and sports information right from my couch if there wasn’t an amazing amount of money involved. [Read more →]

Tags: bad sports, good sports by Alan Spoll
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10. Prelude to a Hangover

9. Fumbling With A Bra Strap

8. The Popular Kids Are Just Better

7. Never Give Up Grope!

6. Not Even McDonald’s is Hiring

5. Almost Legal

4. This Limo Rental Cost More Than My Car

3. Getting Faced!

2. Abstinence Makes the Hard Grow Fonder

1. A Gulf Coast Sludgefest
 

Bob Sullivan’s Top Ten Everything appears every Monday.

Tags: art & entertainment, Bob Sullivan's top ten everything, education, ends & odd by Bob Sullivan
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Admiral Mike Mullen, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, our top military officer, spoke of the common sacrifices of the U.S. military from D-Day to today.

You can read Admiral Mullen’s remarks at my site.

Tags: terror & war by Paul Davis
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Helen Thomas, Jews back to Auschwitz!

Thank you, Helen Thomas! This semi-retired muppet made from old painters’ rags is not a hag, but a haggis. However we see the consoling virtues that compensate the aesthetically, chronologically and temperamentally challenged in her forthright statement of principles that speak for the Left generally on Zion. What is the problem in the Middle East? The Jews. What is the solution? As Ms Thomas, White House press corpse, states so succinctly, “get the hell out of Palestine!” And go where? asks the unseen and unnamed interviewer… well, back where they came from, Poland, Germany…. you know, Jewland. Or as the radio operator of the Hate Boat put it more bluntly, back to Auschwitz. You see here the power of not caring. The seasoned Ms Thomas is above petty concerns like decency or even the appearance of decency and does a real public service. She demonstrates that “peace activists” are no such thing. Rather than being anti-war on principle these 60s style radicals like Bill Ayers, one of the organizers of this New Nazi Navy, are a-okay with war but are on the other side. [Read more →]

Tags: politics & government, terror & war by Ken Watson
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Like many Americans, I’m a life-long Beatle fan who was offended by Sir Paul McCartney’s insult to former President George W. Bush last Wednesday when the singer, songwriter and former Beatle accepted the Gershwin Prize from the Library of Congress.    

Sir Paul should have taken a lesson in class from the Duke – John Wayne.

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Tags: art & entertainment, politics & government by Paul Davis
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War clouds gather in the Persian Gulf; Israel and her muslim, if not islamist neighbors are closer to a major clash of arms, and a more decisive one than has been the case for 30 years. Closer to your hearth and heart, oil pours out of an artery in the Mexican Gulf and even with a tourniquet applied the doctors forbid any further, even measured blood letting. Off-shore rigs are being closed in all American waters. In the most mundane of news; school’s out for summer, lies a mystery. The notorious Summer Driving Season began with the Memorial Day weekend. Additionally there are seasonal requirements for fuels in many states that tend to slow down supplies at the pump, driving up prices. The pros will tell you this was the issue year before last, when we saw $5 and $6 dollars for go- juice. But not this time. Despite international chaos and man-caused disasters at sea and in the Executive gas prices are declining a skooch as are crude prices (dropped 4% yesterday), and this is after a slow decline over a year. Can this voodoo be explained? Yes, quite simply. The market prices always look forward to the future, whether to the annual rush of corpulent families towards modest shore rentals or to the new century needs of manufacturing and shipping. In their torpor the markets signal their grasp of one simple fact: The future has been cancelled. [Read more →]

Tags: money, politics & government by Ken Watson
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