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With no details yet. TiVO won their patent lawsuit against Echostar, for 173 million. There’s a “breaking news” blurb on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, but so far, no further information.

William Donohue of the Catholic League is a complete idiot.

Charade is on, and the difference in class and morals between actors then and now can be summed up in this one fact.
Cary Grant was extremely uneasy about playing a lead to Audrey Hepburn, who was young enough to be his daughter, and almost turned down the role. He took it only because they worked […]

By now, you’ve heard — if you didn’t see it — that after last week’s South Park episode, which dared Comedy Central to censor Mohammed out of this week’s episode — Comedy Central did, indeed, censor the episode.
What were they thinking?
South Park is Comedy Central. Sure, they could limp along for a while on the […]

When you hear an ad on the radio for a pizza place’s lenten specials.

Fred Astaire never tap-danced in roller skates. Gene Kelly did.

One of our dogs, Minnie, the ten year-old, has always been scared of thunderstorms. She vibrates, and tries to find a “safe” place to hide. Lately, she’s been quivering for no apparent reason — as she’s been doing all day.
Here she is in one of her favorite places to quiver:

And after being appropriately embarrassed, she […]

John Gibson won a steak, though I’m betting the leftist can’t afford to buy him one:
The continuing saga of the streak dinner I have now officially won.
A night or two ago on this program, Brent Wilkes of the League of United Latin American Citizens, LULAC, bet me a steak dinner that I couldn’t find one […]

Technorati: russ diamond, operation cleansweep, pennsylvania, coward, spineless, gutless
The Trib-Review reports:
Russ Diamond, the 42-year-old founder of a group targeting incumbent officeholders, today announced he will run as an independent candidate for Pennsylvania governor.
Diamond, of Lebanon, needs to gather about 67,000 signatures on a petition by Aug 1, in order to […]

Tried it. Hated it.

No, I am not going to switch themes again, not for quite a while. But I want to make this a variable-width theme, so I will be hacking the css and graphics later this morning. So if it looks a bit weird, sorry.

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