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This is why I have

by John Cole|  March 11, 20025:25 pm| Leave a Comment

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This is why I have not posted much lately. Every time I try to do something, blogger dies. Supposedly (according to status.blogger.com), I am able to post images now. However, there is no UPLOAD image button like there was last week. Weird how blogger works. Last week, there is an upload image icon that DOES NOT WORK. This week, apparently you can upload pictures/images, BUT THERE IS NO ICON.

Uncle. I give.

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Did not post much from

by John Cole|  March 11, 20025:02 pm| Leave a Comment

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Did not post much from Thursday till now, so I will start off lite with a couple of these little tests/quizzes/etc., via Moira Breen.


Which Evil Criminal are You?


Take the Affliction Test Today!

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Sympathy for the Devil? According

by John Cole|  March 9, 20029:12 pm| Leave a Comment

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Sympathy for the Devil?

According to this story, Osama was frequently sedated and in pain, and under pressure from ‘work.’

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New Rall takedown.

by John Cole|  March 9, 20024:24 pm| Leave a Comment

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New Rall takedown.

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Not much posting lately. Blogger

by John Cole|  March 9, 200211:57 am| Leave a Comment

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Not much posting lately. Blogger has been testy. Today I am doing some spring cleaning, so the posts will also be kept to a minimum. Then I have to go out with a friend, who is as I write this taking her boards.

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A good bit of talk

by John Cole|  March 9, 200211:56 am| Leave a Comment

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A good bit of talk about Glenn Reynolds running for Fred Thompson’s soon to be vacated speech. Matt Welch says he is in favor of it here.

I would vote for him, and he has already passed the first hurdle to determine if he is fit for political office: He doesn’t want the job.

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In an Olympian effort to

by John Cole|  March 8, 200210:46 pm| Leave a Comment

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In an Olympian effort to appear supremely stupid, Alec Baldwin proclaimed that the outcome of the 2000 election was just as bad as 9/11.

“I know that’s a harsh thing to say, perhaps, but I believe that what happened in 2000 did as much damage to the pillars of democracy as terrorists did to the pillars of commerce in New York City,” Baldwin said, drawing applause from the breakfast audience of about 200.

Which means that there are approximately 201 idiots in Florida.

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