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by DougJ|  June 26, 20128:20 pm| 16 Comments

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16Comments

  1. 1.

    Maude

    June 26, 2012 at 8:22 pm

    Keith G. called me dear. I am so proud.

  2. 2.

    tulip

    June 26, 2012 at 8:23 pm

    I hate the Giants.

  3. 3.

    Anne Laurie

    June 26, 2012 at 8:29 pm

    Sorry, DougJ — you type faster than my machine loads. I swear this was not visible when I went from ‘Preview this’ to ‘Post’!

  4. 4.

    Linnaeus

    June 26, 2012 at 8:29 pm

    Today I didn’t even have to use my AK. I gotta say it was a good day.

  5. 5.

    N W Barcus

    June 26, 2012 at 8:31 pm

    Oh, looks like Murdoch’s been forced by his shareholders to split up News Corp. How’re you?

  6. 6.

    Baud

    June 26, 2012 at 8:33 pm

    Nora Ephrom has died.

  7. 7.

    BGinCHI

    June 26, 2012 at 8:35 pm

    @Baud: Wow. That’s a bummer. Funny lady.

    Drinks with friends from Denver at a Venetian tapas place (cicchetti in Italian), then Chicago style thuggery deep-dish pizza down the street. I think they got the picture.

  8. 8.

    DougJ

    June 26, 2012 at 8:40 pm

    @Anne Laurie:

    No worries, I just threw it up cos things were quiet!

  9. 9.

    DougJ

    June 26, 2012 at 8:41 pm

    @Anne Laurie:

    Also too, I like when a whole bunch of posts go up at once.

  10. 10.

    daverave

    June 26, 2012 at 8:41 pm

    @tulip:

    NY or SF?
    or do you mean our Galtian overlords? or the SCOTUS?

  11. 11.

    tulip

    June 26, 2012 at 8:50 pm

    Sorry… SF Giants.

    I’m an A’s fan.. and I won’t lower the standards of commenting on this blog by saying what the Giants made my A’s over the weekend.

    Oh and I hate the SCOTUS too! Well I really dislike 5 of the current justices.

  12. 12.

    Baud

    June 26, 2012 at 8:54 pm

    Almost forgot. EPA’s greenhouse gas rules were completely upheld today by the D.C. Circuit. The industry and wingnut states will probably take it to the Supremes, and then who knows? But that won’t be until after the election.

  13. 13.

    Walker

    June 26, 2012 at 8:55 pm

    ME3 extended edition. Still issues, but endings are much better explained. Particularly the revelation that the star child is not actually a star child.

  14. 14.

    Marcellus Shale, Public Dick

    June 26, 2012 at 9:56 pm

    chute newt, your zoot suit, is a boot scoot, boogie.

  15. 15.

    Heliopause

    June 26, 2012 at 10:02 pm

    Read this article from Politico. “’Many have been struck by the chilling parallels between the novel and the current state of the world, and of America in particular,’ states an email to journalists from The Atlas Summit organizers.” Somebody tell me how this rhetoric differs from that in the Biblical Prophecy/End Times movement.

  16. 16.

    mclaren

    June 26, 2012 at 10:08 pm

    Whadday hear, whaddaya say?

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