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No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

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Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

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This may be the most

by John Cole|  February 13, 200211:45 pm| Leave a Comment

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This may be the most disturbing (and filthy) thing I have ever seen on the web. It is called the Pornolizer. I just love it.

Found this link on Richard Bennett’s Omphalos, a website I found from the Vodkapundit.

Dad- Do not show mom this.

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It has been merely 24

by John Cole|  February 13, 200211:35 pm| Leave a Comment

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It has been merely 24 hours since I typed the phrase ‘Sandra Bezic is just knock out gorgeous.’

Since then I have been googled 5 times for:

Sandra+Bezic+nude

*** Update ***

9 times.

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In one of the most

by John Cole|  February 13, 200210:15 pm| Leave a Comment

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In one of the most triumphant displays of rhetorical excess in recent memory, Tom Turnipseed (I am not making the name up) has managed to meld every hackneyed leftist ideal into one semi-incoherent smorgasbord of self-loathing and blame-shifting. In an article titled The Bush Administration’s Folly: Arrogance of Arms Abroad and Access to Avarice at Home, Mr. Turnipseed needs only 8 paragraphs to cook up and serve a paranoid stew that discusses:

1.) Chris Patten’s distaste for the phrase ‘axis of evil’
2.) Eu distaste in our not engaging North Korea
3.) Patten’s hatred of our ending terrorism but not attacking ‘root causes’
4.) American triumphalism
5.) Vladmir Putin’s insistence we not topple Saddam Hussein
6.) Kurdish (these are the people Hussein gassed) opposition to American interference in Iraq (he gets bonus points here, because he in one stroke claims our foreign policy is hand crafter by the Turks and mentions that they dislike us because we abandoned them in 1991)
7.) The London Observer and Paul Kennedy’s criticism of our defense budget
8.) Enron
9.) Shays-Meehan and Campaign Finance Reform
10.) Iranian anti-American protests

I am dizzy.

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I have long said that

by John Cole|  February 13, 20029:39 pm| Leave a Comment

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I have long said that Ice Skating is not a sport. I have said it here several times this week. It may still be an athletic event, but who the hell cares, especially since it is rigged. The only reason this bothers me is because I know there are a lot of people who really enjoy watching ice skating. Just another file in my I Hate France dossier.

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The more I watch it,

by John Cole|  February 13, 20028:47 pm| Leave a Comment

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The more I watch it, the more I become convinced that downhill skiiers are suicidal maniacs.

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This is just awful. Waylon

by John Cole|  February 13, 20028:44 pm| Leave a Comment

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This is just awful.

Waylon Jennings is dead at the age of 64.

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Instapundit is asking which blogger

by John Cole|  February 13, 20028:35 pm| Leave a Comment

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Instapundit is asking which blogger should take over editing Slate. Suggested so far were Kaus, Sullivan, and Postrel.

Well… If you ask me, I think Ken Layne should pull a Dick Cheney, withdraw his Kaus nomination, and throw himself into the mix. If you really want to make Slate a magazine I would like to read (and more importantly- would pay to read), give it to Layne and let him clean house.

Slate could be a magazine with a serious ‘tude AND complex sentences, all driven by a madman at the top with a take no bullshit, fear nothing, take the bull by the balls, drink red wine till dawn, tacos for three meals a day attitude. Imagine Layne’s blog with 30 writers and a budget for graphics. Bring it on, I say.

Plus, isn’t he unemployed?

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