Monthly Archives: January 2003

alignments of actors and athletes

Posted on Tuesday, 2003 January 28 by Anton

Todd Weiner asks: On the surface, this is extremely perplexing. Professional athletes are filthy rich, are always in the public eye, and are an object of worship for millions of fans. Hollywood stars are also filthy rich, are always in … Continue reading →

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plink plank plunk

Posted on Tuesday, 2003 January 28 by Anton

Does anybody know a good guitar teacher (for beginners) between, oh, San Leandro and Milpitas inclusive? 2006 May: Never mind, I’m selling the guitar. I find no way to hold it without causing pain in at least one wrist.

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since we’re all pawns anyway

Posted on Tuesday, 2003 January 28 by Anton

FOXNews.com Sen. Ernest Hollings said Monday a return of military conscription is necessary to strengthen a military spread thin by its global duties and would show that the people stand behind any decision by the president to make war. “It’s … Continue reading →

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the doors of deception

Posted on Monday, 2003 January 27 by Anton

Jacob Sullum discusses the ‘gateway effect’, concluding: A few years ago in the Drug Policy Analysis Bulletin, the social psychologist Robert MacCoun laid out seven – count ’em, seven – different versions of the gateway theory. “Given our current state … Continue reading →

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fossils

Posted on Saturday, 2003 January 25 by Anton

Found in the archives (1999 Jul 15): What might be the biggest event of our time of which the only surviving evidence, a thousand years from now, will be indirect allusions rather than direct records? For example: the life of … Continue reading →

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the Red Book of Okefenokee

Posted on Friday, 2003 January 24 by Anton

Found in the archives: my cast list for Walt Kelly’s production of LotR: Porky Pine as Frodo Albert as Aragorn Deacon Mushrat as Gandalf Bewitched, Bothered and Bemildred as Sam, Merry and Pippin Hepzibah as Arwen Miz Beaver as Eowyn … Continue reading →

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annoying a cop is always a crime

Posted on Friday, 2003 January 24 by Anton

Ananova – Man arrested over police chief sex call An Ohio man accused of dialling a sex chat line says he ended up talking dirty to a police chief because he misdialled. . . . Mullen’s roommate claims he was trying to … Continue reading →

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