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Here Comes The Sun

The Sun makes a comeback by appearing directly over the Earth's Equator sometime later today, heralding six more weeks of Al Gore telling us we're all going to roast to death.

The rest of us in the Northern Hemisphere call this "Spring"

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My Enemy's Enemy is my... damn, can't say it

Clear Channel (aka: The Devil) is getting involved on the side of the Good Guys with the Internet Streaming Money Grab by the RIAA and their digital subsidiary, SoundExchange. [Reuters]

I still wonder how much it would take to make a RIAA clone that only dealt with small artists.

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Naruto continues as America's #1 Comic

#25 on the USA Today Bestseller list

Probably the most popular selling book series you may have never heard of.

Pop Culture has back channels. Ignore the popularity at your peril.

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BONG HITS 4 JESUS

I won't try to summarize the merits of the case aside as you can get analysis from all points on the globe on this free speech issue --

I just find it highly amusing to find conservative Supreme Court justices having to question arguments on whether that phrase on a banner on a sidewalk during a parade interfered with the message of anti-drug use enough to suspend the student responsible.

Why does this sound like a SIMPSONS episode?

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YOU FORMATTED THE BACKUP DRIVE, TOO?

Alaska's $38 Billion Oil Fund is a massive paperwork setup, all 800,000 images nicely scanned in from 300 boxes.

You could imagine if you accidentally deleted all that info. [link]

The main drive, the backup drive formatted at the same time.
The backup tapes were unreadable. The formatted drives unrecoverable.

Here's to you, high tech hard drive formatter guy...

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is so desperate for votes for the bill against the war in Iraq, the bill is magically getting padded with all sorts of goodies, including building peanut warehouses in Georgia. [WaPo]

Oh, and yeah, the bill also has $25 million for California spinach farmers. You really didn't think that the people responsible for harming the health of the American public would have to pay for the damage themselves, did you? It's just an Act Of God(tm) that they used tainted water.

Isn't it nice to know that price of Iraq is tied to Organic Spinach?

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WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA?
WAIT, WHY ARE YOU LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT?

Reporter for a left wing magazine in Italy goes to interview Afghani Taleban leaders.
Like other reporters trying the same thing, reporter, translator and driver get kidnapped, held for ransom.

Eventually, reporter released, supposedly after Taleban prisoners released in exchange.

Reporter says that the Taleban holding him executed his driver by cutting the guy's head off. The reporter got to watch. [BBC]

Here's the funny thing. This guy wasn't the first reporter to be kidnapped while trying to interview Taleban leaders in Afghanistan. Al-Jazeerah reporters have been kidnapped too -- only to be released later. So it's not like the Taleban guys are playing favorites. So here's my question now:

How many more reporters want to go interview Taleban leaders, and why?

Just because you're left wing and support anyone who opposes the United States and its allies, that doesn't mean those opponents are nice guys with a different point of view. I mean, it's kind of obvious, but hey, don't let that stop you.

I'm sure these Taleban are just misunderstood.

Go give them a cookie.

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