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Wednesday, May 04, 2005

weed wackers

the sentencing projects report on the changing nature marijuana prosecution in the 90s.

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your liberal media

"Given the present bitterness, given the angry irresponsible charges being hurled by both camps, the nation will be in dire need of a conciliator, a likable guy who will make things better and not worse. That man is not Al Gore. That man is George W. Bush.""

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comity is central

""The Daily Show" regular will star each night in "The Colbert Report," likely starting in September. Comedy Central is revamping its schedule, recognizing that late-night programming is essentially prime time for its youthful audience."

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Tuesday, May 03, 2005

indifunkarai


A Tribe Called Quest - Electric Relaxation
Gang Of Four - He'd Send In The Army
Can - Moonshake
The Decembrists - Clementine
Gregory Issacs - Tam Tam
The Grifters - Pretty Notes
Cat Campbell - Hammering
Dump - Raspberry Beret
Funkadelic - Baby I Owe You Something Good
Lisa Germano - Candy



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all lubed up

something for the reality-based conspiracist in you. as if there were any doubt that blair and bush were not just holding hands before the war.

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Thursday, Apr 28, 2005

root root root for the home teeming with bacteria

that whole preventative dentistry thing turns out not to be a scam. and now that the anaesthesia is wearing off, i probably should fill those prescriptions....what do you mean it might get infected? youre just trying to sell me something i dont nee....ouch.

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Wednesday, Apr 27, 2005

moonshine over montana

"There are no lattes here, no Patagonia fleece or Sage flyrods. It’s a place where home-cooked methamphetamine is king and queen, and blasting the woods with a Chinese-made assault rifle is a far more popular recreation than snowboarding or hiking. People from that world don’t go skiing at Big Mountain on Saturdays. They meet in front of the Flathead County Jail, smoking cigarettes and talking about who’s locked up, and who’s getting out. And you can see them there, the impoverished young women, many of them with children and worthless boyfriends or runaway or imprisoned husbands, pale from meth use or from serving endless hours behind a cash register. They are always in bad need of cash."

via mark kleiman


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Wednesday, Apr 20, 2005

you make my motor run

i havent listened yet to this john peel version of Polysics My Sharona but i love the one on the album.

via polysics or die


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strat cat

""As I had when I was drafting Strat-O-Matic teams," he recalls, "I was reading the box scores every day, but with no purpose."

After a year without Strat-O-Matic, Okrent sketched out the rules for what became known as Rotisserie League Baseball on a flight from Hartford to Austin in 1979.

Okrent, now The New York Times' first public editor, has done many big things (founder of New England Monthly, managing editor of Life, editor of The Ultimate Baseball Book, and much more), but inspiring the tens of millions who play Rotisserie and its fantasy sports offspring -- and inspiring America's infatuation with sports statistics -- is huge."

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can a' corn

"The Mets' most outspoken fans travel to Philadelphia, not necessarily to watch their favorite players, but to talk about them at decibels that would be prohibited at most stadiums. They sit in the back of the concourse in Section 125, at a makeshift studio called Broadcast Dream, some to vent their frustrations and others to voice their hope.

For $10, anyone at Citizens Bank Park can broadcast a half-inning of a game and receive a CD of the occasion to play and replay on the way home. Most Philadelphians tired of the ear-splitting novelty in the stadium's first season. Mets fans, however, comprise something of a cult following. Every time the Mets make this trip down the New Jersey Turnpike, their fans come along for some baseball karaoke."

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