Just saw Million Dollar Baby. About as heartbreaking and gut-wrenching as it gets.
On a lighter note, I have decided I could listen to Morgan Freeman recite the dictionary, I like his voice so much.
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Just saw Million Dollar Baby. About as heartbreaking and gut-wrenching as it gets.
On a lighter note, I have decided I could listen to Morgan Freeman recite the dictionary, I like his voice so much.
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Andy at the World Wide Rant is holding the latest RINO sightings.
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So I was reading this:
Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Craig Wilson was placed on the 15-day disabled list Sunday with a fractured left pinky.
Wilson, who has had just 96 at-bats this season, was hit on the hand by a pitch from Chicago Cubs starter Greg Maddux in the first inning of Saturday’s 3-0 victory and left the game.
And for no particular reason, I found the appearance of the word ‘pinky’ in a news report amusing. Then I realized I did not know why the little finger is called the pinky. Google to the rescue:
Actually, pinkie `little finger’ comes from an early Dutch word which meant `small;’ that word was pinck. The Dutch word is also the source of English pink `pale red,’ because pinck was what the Dutch called a flower of the species Dianthus, which has small, often pink flowers with pinked edges.
Interesting.
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Coolio, Al Qaeda, and Al-Jazeera cross paths in this post by fellow West Virginian Don Surber.
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This is a fascinating picture of a mammatus cloud formation:
More pictures by the same fellow can be found here.
If tornado pictures are your deal, check out Twister Chasers.
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The Modulator has today’s version of the Ark (massive loads of pet-blogging) posted.
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I don’t know about the rest of you, but the Hotline’s Blogometer is now as useful to me as the Daou Report and Memeorandum.