Tag: written by 1fastdog
Big Brown Delivers Derby - Derby Delivers Death To Eight Belles
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Posted to Sport on Sun May 04, 2008 at 08:43:56 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Promising race horse extraordinaire, Big Brown, demolished the field and put himself in the position to make a legitimate run at the Triple Crown with his historic run at the 134th running of the Kentucky Derby.
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Ben Stein And Intelligent Design: Truth Sings The Devolution Blues
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Posted to Media on Sat Apr 19, 2008 at 11:40:52 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
In his new movie, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, Ben Stein decides to take a page from the Michael Moore school of film-making in his attempt to debunk evolution and the science community that teaches it. Moore has often been accused of not telling the whole story, and it seems as if Stein has fallen into an even more extreme version of disingenuous documentary film-making than Moore has yet taken.
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REM - Accelerate [review]
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Posted to Music on Wed Apr 09, 2008 at 07:28:44 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
REM finds the guitars and brings the rock on their latest.
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Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War) [review]
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Posted to Music on Tue Apr 08, 2008 at 09:54:57 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
R & B songstress drops an album full of funky, freakadelic weirdness that reaches for parts unknown.
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Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull [review]
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Posted to Music on Mon Mar 24, 2008 at 07:11:20 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Earth's newest slab o' guitar drones finds the band making a cinematic statement and throwing open the doors for fans new to their sound with their most accessible album yet. For those with adventuresome tastes and a liking for slowly unfolding guitar notes, The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull, the latest album from Drone specialists Earth, will be sure to please.
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STD? Yeah, You (Teenage Girls) Know Me!
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Posted to Politics on Wed Mar 19, 2008 at 10:41:15 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
The numbers from the CDC are startling.
A new CDC study indicates that one in four (26%) female adolescents in the United States has at least one of the most common sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Led by CDC's Sara Forhan, the study is the first to examine the combined national prevalence of common STIs among adolescent women in the United States...
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Eliot Spitzer Dabs On Some Love Potion #9
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Posted to Legal on Mon Mar 10, 2008 at 07:56:33 PM EST (promoted by Acefantastik). RSS.
"I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself. I must now dedicate some time to regain the trust of my family.""I have acted in a way that violates my obligation to my family and violates my or any sense of right or wrong," said Mr. Spitzer, who appeared with his wife Silda at his Manhattan office. "I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public to whom I promised better."
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Leaky Little Wiki-Boat Still Floating Despite Judge's Orders
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Posted to Legal on Thu Feb 21, 2008 at 02:00:55 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Well, if this case shows nothing else, it certainly shows that the courts aren't up to speed in the digital world. The whistleblowing site, Wikileaks, is still up and running despite Judge Jeffrey S. White's order that it be shut down over the publication of bank documents exposing the bank's money laundering and tax evasion schemes.
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NFL Blitzes Super Bowl Parties At Churches
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Posted to Media on Sat Feb 02, 2008 at 06:28:02 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
David -vs- Goliath: round 2, in which Goliath clubs David with his Copyright Stick© and David may or may not fight back using Goliath's own weapon against him.
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Liar, Liar, 935 Pairs Of Pants On Fire
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Posted to Politics on Fri Jan 25, 2008 at 02:47:06 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
President George W. Bush and seven of his administration's top officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, made at least 935 false statements in the two years following September 11, 2001, about the national security threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Nearly five years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, an exhaustive examination of the record shows that the statements were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses.
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The Best Albums Of 2007
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Posted to Music on Wed Dec 26, 2007 at 07:02:32 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Well, the year's almost up and that means that it's time to make yourself heard and let everyone know what you listened to the most this year.
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Steve Earle - Washington Square Serenade [review]
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Posted to Music on Fri Oct 12, 2007 at 06:29:51 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
What happens when hard-core troubadors find love and pull up roots? Well, you get a little something like Washington Square Serenade, the latest musical offering from firebrand alt-country icon and leftist posterboy, Steve Earle.
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