tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-130026292012-01-20T21:34:32.446-05:00Don't forget to feed the cat.Dean ASChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07199833072631356942noreply@blogger.comBlogger5641100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002629.post-27473717452877701572011-08-28T21:12:00.000-04:002011-08-28T21:13:39.690-04:00

I just watched the movie traffic and it got me thinking about some issues that are actually in the media lately. Actually they might not be, I don't really follow the media. Forget the previous 2 sentences, I'm abandoning the pretense that I am in any way aware of what issues are in the media. Imagine that Canada is relaxing on the prosecution of small pot offences and it looks like steps

Dean ASChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07199833072631356942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002629.post-70801925537020135952009-10-18T10:31:00.001-04:002009-10-18T10:32:24.518-04:00

Why did the government think they could do something about a child trapped in a balloon except wait for it to fall out of the sky? I mean do something other than shoot the balloon down.

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“It’s important to me that my child looks like us.” As soon as I said it I thought we’d be thrown out of there. It smacks of intolerance and that subtle New England brand of racism. We love the race but hate that ethnic family that lives down the street and cooks strange food. Ok, we like the food but that family is sooo “not our kind, dear.” Imagine my surprise when I learned that there is

Dean ASChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07199833072631356942noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002629.post-40530446088201903002009-04-17T02:01:00.000-04:002009-04-17T02:01:00.779-04:00

You are not responsible for what happened when you were a toddler. You are not responsible for what another individual does. You are not responsible for what happened before you were born. You are not responsible for what happened without your knowledge or consent.You are only responsible for what you do. You are responsible for what you allow to be done in your name. Since I've turned voting age

Dean ASChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07199833072631356942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002629.post-11760500039299425782009-04-15T02:17:00.002-04:002009-04-15T02:17:00.706-04:00

For a few months I haven't really felt like talking. I had a lot on my mind but nothing approaching a cogent thought. For much of the time we were simply exhausted from, well from life.Lisa's grandfather passed away. Now I'm almost free to talk about it. It's hard to talk without sounding like I'm gloating. I'm not. Tom was my best friend these last few years. We played together. I

Dean ASChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07199833072631356942noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002629.post-55512930177482371102009-04-10T02:00:00.000-04:002009-04-10T02:00:00.370-04:00

10 The TV News Anchor fight in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.9 The gunfight in the bar after Quentin Tarentino tells a piss joke in Desperado.8 Automatic transmissions.7 Partial credit.6 Freedom.5 My first celebrity crush.6 Trivia.7 Safety in numbers.8 Knowing more about math than the rest of you.9 When cats puff up their tails.10 Pattern recognition.

Dean ASChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07199833072631356942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002629.post-18275359230707840782009-04-08T22:28:00.003-04:002009-04-08T22:39:33.197-04:00

Most of the crimes the cops go after and most of the "criminals" in jail are there for small time drug problems. I guess it's the cops causing the problem. Leave people alone and you don't have nearly as much crime.Good, get rid of the cops so we don't end up with more of these.Two years ago I witnessed 100 jackbooted armored thugs walking arms locked down Derby Street in Salem. They would

Dean ASChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07199833072631356942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002629.post-37234517195891097112009-04-07T02:24:00.002-04:002009-04-07T02:28:48.540-04:00

Between TSA thugs and militarized police forces jackbooting around where's the little guy going to go for some liberty? I don't know about that. I do know that we're getting tired of being pushed around. The police haven't learned dick since they got caught doing what they do every day to Rodney King. We're tired of getting fucked with. We're getting desperate for our jobs, or families

Dean ASChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07199833072631356942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002629.post-77342610099754489312009-04-05T10:22:00.006-04:002009-04-05T11:36:57.831-04:00

The State of Hawaii is considering a law that will, if enacted, ruin tourism. It seems that in order to stamp out uninsured drivers they're going to require identity papers and permission slips before you can purchase gasoline. Now the first thing that comes to my mind is that not every last drop of gasoline purchased goes to the automobile. If I'm riding a moped or want to mow the lawn or use

Dean ASChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07199833072631356942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002629.post-8199707011126316752008-12-23T20:20:00.001-05:002008-12-23T20:21:32.014-05:00

Right now Barney is licking a plastic bag and I think he's making his intentions to have relations with it.

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Lisa's grandfather is dying.

Dean ASChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07199833072631356942noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002629.post-53267022573941306602008-12-20T13:19:00.005-05:002008-12-20T13:27:18.581-05:00

Lisa and I have been flat out busy. Her grandfather has had one heck of a fall and start to winter. His long standing heart valve problem took a turn for the worse at the same time his prostate ballooned like a bad mortgage interest rate. Then pneumonia landed him in the hospital before Thanksgiving.He was only in the hospital for a couple days but since then he's been a 24 hour job for Lisa.

Dean ASChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07199833072631356942noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002629.post-5931952364168538732008-12-14T11:47:00.003-05:002008-12-14T12:03:40.672-05:00

Why is Senator Jim Oberstar trying to block the construction of the Cape Cod Wind Farm? Isn't this guy from Minnesota? Isn't he House Transportation Committee Chairman? Shouldn't he be worried about fixing bridges in his home state? What favor does fellow bridge hater Ted Kennedy now owe? Or maybe it's not a favor. What juicy bit of dirt could a drunk driving cheat be using against Oberstar

Dean ASChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07199833072631356942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002629.post-15715258273955731142008-12-11T01:06:00.004-05:002008-12-11T02:25:55.120-05:00

If ever there was a case of it taking one to know one this is it. So there's this guy who's nearly 60 and he's a junk collector in North Carolina. Dude has a simple dream, one he's been pursuing for a while now. He's got these Christmas trees that he's been growing. He wants to string lights on them. Six hundred and fifty thousand lights to be exact. So far the story seems kind of ordinary.

Dean ASChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07199833072631356942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002629.post-31031134025554574722008-12-09T03:09:00.002-05:002008-12-09T03:09:00.845-05:00

This picture makes Baby Linus Pauling weep. It's kind of like making Baby Jesus weep except that Linus Pauling wasn't made up. OK, I believe Jesus was a real person but I'm not so certain about that walking on water and infinite catering myth.The picture is from the TV drama show Eleventh Hour which I haven't watched and probably won't if they can't get their sophomore year organic chemistry

Dean ASChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07199833072631356942noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002629.post-65152421598283834232008-12-07T09:27:00.002-05:002008-12-07T09:33:05.382-05:00

I can't tell if this is more like when narcotics cops smoke pot or when vice cops fuck the prostitute before arresting her.In any event, shit like this has got to stop.It seems that the gangsta rappers where right all along.

Dean ASChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07199833072631356942noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002629.post-77828592565105954172008-12-06T10:48:00.004-05:002008-12-06T10:53:02.830-05:00

This is either going to be awesome or suck beyond belief and thoroughly and inexorably link that suckitude to the original.

Dean ASChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07199833072631356942noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002629.post-47860391178083481882008-11-28T23:19:00.005-05:002008-11-29T00:14:05.013-05:00

My old friend Rodney and I finally met face to face the other day. In between jabbering at me a mile a minute about how his co-workers thought he was acting weirder than usual and how he had a stroke he said to me "You don't post anymore." Well I do post but I made myself a promise that my blog would no longer be me complaining like a bitch and that I would post only substance and quality

Dean ASChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07199833072631356942noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002629.post-3611478262776884922008-10-18T17:26:00.001-04:002008-10-18T17:31:04.002-04:00

While we're on the topic of Wall Street, this is called a "dickshark":http://view.break.com/589473 - Watch more free videos

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Yesterday I posted about my new hero in life, Andrew "Fucking!" Lahde.Meritocracy. Say it out loud with me. MERITOCRACY. I remember when America was one. I was once part of one. Fuck. It's been 13 years. I think GE will let me talk about it now and if they don't want me talking then show me the paperwork and I'll give back the $2000.Here's something that most people don't know about me.

Dean ASChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07199833072631356942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002629.post-43660847277343632962008-10-17T20:19:00.003-04:002008-10-17T20:40:19.690-04:00

Ever wonder why fund managers can't beat the S&P 500? 'Cause they're sheep -- and the sheep get slaughtered. I been in the business since '69. Most of these Harvard MBA types don't add up to dog shit. Give me guys that are poor smart and hungry and no feelings. You win a few, lose a few, you keep on fighting... I got 20 other brokers analyzing charts, pal. I don't need another one.Gordon

Dean ASChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07199833072631356942noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002629.post-65852628150362531752008-10-13T19:23:00.003-04:002008-10-13T19:54:29.049-04:00

I have tickets to see The Dead Milkmen play in Philadelphia in 2 weeks. It's an all ages show at the Unitarian Church so I'm going to be all like right next to them.And I just bought tickets to a secret show on 10/25. It's gonna be an all Dead Milkmen weekend for me and the Mrs!

Dean ASChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07199833072631356942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002629.post-69673453220931655402008-10-11T12:14:00.005-04:002008-10-11T12:42:39.599-04:00

One of these photographs was taken 15 years ago. The other one appeared in the New York Times yesterday. They're both starving children. Both from Western Africa. Both depending on UN food aid for survival. No one knows what happened to the baby dying in the field. Not even the photographer who won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for taking the picture.I don't know what's going to happen to that

Dean ASChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07199833072631356942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002629.post-86105662623452323902008-10-05T10:24:00.003-04:002008-10-05T10:40:53.842-04:00

Two years before I was born a computer program called Eliza was written to simulate how computers and humans may someday communicate. The program was simple. It recognized some parts of speech and would construct responses from a database of potential statements. The program crudely simulated a session with a psychologist. That it vaguely responds like a person was enough for computer science

Dean ASChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07199833072631356942noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002629.post-33479497891439732282008-09-29T19:11:00.003-04:002008-09-29T20:03:07.138-04:00

Back in the day when I used to talk to people face to face, you know before the blog, I said to a friend who was pissing all his money away on Internet Stocks that turned out to be nothing more than wishful thinking that I thought the DOW should be 3000. This was back when the DOW was giddy over hitting 11,000 for the first time. Now it's not fair to try to compare the DOW today with the DOW of

Dean ASChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07199833072631356942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002629.post-43626096728294749592008-09-28T09:32:00.002-04:002008-09-28T09:36:43.577-04:00

Been a while. Both since a new post and also since I added a new feature to the ol' Dean Rules!It's called "Dean Finds A Continuity Error" and it works like this. I spot a cut in a movie where something is impossibly different from the moment before it. I get to brag about my cleverness.The first one comes from the fine motion picture "The Legend of Bagger Vance". In the scene where Matt

Dean ASChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07199833072631356942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002629.post-8381234092211098682008-09-07T11:52:00.005-04:002008-09-07T12:07:34.459-04:00

I guess Florida has a law requiring gas stations to have self contained generators in case society collapses. This sounds like a great idea to lawmakers who don't actually have to pay for the burdens on the cost of doing business themselves. As the article points out you can have all the generators in the world but if your evacuate the staff who's going to turn the pumps on?I don't think the

Dean ASChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07199833072631356942noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002629.post-54090953258412979362008-09-04T22:58:00.001-04:002008-09-04T23:00:19.408-04:00

I pretty much have to close out this thread for a while but before I go there's this.

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From Rolling Stone:In the Rolling Stone article, Letterman discusses guests including Madonna, Oprah Winfrey and Howard Stern, with the most moving remarks about musician Warren Zevon, who appeared on "Late Show" shortly before his 2003 death from cancer.Letterman recalled his "heartbreaking" meeting with Zevon in a dressing room after the show."Here's a guy who had months to live and we're

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Now things are just getting weird.I wish Dr Hunter Thompson was still alive. He'd have something meaningful to say about all this. Or maybe not.Fuck. This is beginning to sound like "The Birdcage". Thank you Agador. That will be all Agador.I never understood why the Senator believed the Cultural Attache to Greece lived in Miami Beach. That seemed like something he could have looked up. I

Dean ASChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07199833072631356942noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002629.post-76241512315022210472008-08-31T18:19:00.004-04:002008-08-31T18:30:54.609-04:00

Oh well. It was nice while it lasted. Unless...Do you think McCain purposely imploded his campaign just to call America's bluff. I mean certainly he can't be thinking Middle America is so racist that his campaign could survive the dead whore/live boy in the backseat that usually ruins politicians. Does he really expect us all to roll into the voting booth and collectively say "Lie'n sluts or a

Dean ASChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07199833072631356942noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002629.post-68553504145202848402008-08-31T09:17:00.003-04:002008-08-31T09:27:58.084-04:00

Can I be first to call it that?Sure Sarah Palin has some inexcusable personal problems looming but I think I'm going to vote for her because she's hot. That seems as good a reason to throw my vote away as any other.As for the Dems attacking her for being some small town mayor with no experience, just who the fuck do they expect to be in the voting booths? Here's a little hint for all y'all

Dean ASChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07199833072631356942noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002629.post-71026730407693454102008-08-26T19:00:00.003-04:002008-08-26T20:03:18.182-04:00

I've been looking for information on the court case from my day of jury duty. I've been looking in the papers and the court record has been filed for every day the week before and after but there's no information available for that day. I'm thinking that it was in fact a juvenile case and records are sealed.So in this case I would guess that perhaps one benefit of dismissing the jury would be

Dean ASChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07199833072631356942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002629.post-43577460172887530722008-08-22T14:34:00.000-04:002008-08-22T14:36:03.590-04:00

I hate camping but my Dad loves it. So every once in a while when I was a kid I would break down and go if the camping didn't involve walking more than a mile (200 yards if wearing a back pack.) Mostly taking me "camping" meant driving a camper to someplace with hookups. At that point is it really camping or well appointed parking? Dad could get a campfire and the tenting in the wilderness vibe.

Dean ASChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07199833072631356942noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002629.post-14799980303634573602008-08-18T12:49:00.003-04:002008-08-18T13:31:38.014-04:00

Read this. Pay particular and close attention to the block quote in the "Gangsta Generation" section. I thought the author of this piece clearly didn't understand the irony inherent in his or her prose. It is clearly lost on David Kupelian. There are so many things wrong with Kupelian's use of this citation in his assault on modern culture. The quotation felt dated and trite the first time I

Dean ASChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07199833072631356942noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002629.post-7510322667501102382008-08-18T11:50:00.001-04:002008-08-18T11:51:19.555-04:00

I want to be the kind of father who does this kind of stuff with his kids.

Dean ASChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07199833072631356942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002629.post-10909637988838218552008-08-14T12:53:00.008-04:002008-08-14T14:45:40.056-04:00

Could someone explain to me what possible benefit a defendant could achieve by going to trial in a criminal case but waiving the right to a jury and having the case be decided on by one judge?Mr Funk, I'm looking at you.I've been waiting 13 months for this. I got called to jury duty in the beginning of July 2007 for a trial in October of that year. I sent in the deferral card asking to serve in

Dean ASChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07199833072631356942noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002629.post-43828243231341593432008-08-13T01:06:00.002-04:002008-08-13T01:06:00.696-04:00

Been nice knowing you. It seems that in our lust to bring peace to the Middle East at the point of a gun we've pissed off the only country that can stand up to us without loosing every dime they have. China is not about to fuck with us. We owe them too much money. Besides, they're actually smart. They're capable of planning things ahead of time and actually following it through to successful

Dean ASChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07199833072631356942noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002629.post-87929093021684668412008-08-11T18:30:00.004-04:002008-08-11T18:54:18.158-04:00

True story time. I once took an analytical chemistry class at Salem State. There were 24 students in the class. Ten were chemistry students the rest were from the bio department. One of the labs we did was to detect chlorine in various aqueous samples. One way was with a special electrode and a pH meter. The other way was through gas chromatography and mass spectrometry. It was in the fall

Dean ASChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07199833072631356942noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002629.post-76987770450768830342008-08-10T03:15:00.003-04:002008-08-10T03:15:01.079-04:00

This is a Periodic Table. Most periodic tables put Hydrogen in the same category as Lithium and Sodium. However metallic hydrogen is very very rare and so I've always felt that H-H really belongs above the Halogens as it bonds more like F-F or I-I. On the other hand HCl dissociates in water much like NaCl and does not form the bond that IBr does.I have also seen Hydrogen placed in both periods

Dean ASChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07199833072631356942noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002629.post-22376804696485736742008-08-09T13:42:00.004-04:002008-08-09T14:02:50.687-04:00

Because in Massachusetts if you're not part of the vaulted Cambridge elite curiosity and intelligence are against the law.That's Thomas Edison's home laboratory. Possession of those bottles alone is enough to go to jail in Texas. Actually the Texas law merely requires a permit which is free but from my understanding there is a 21 day waiting period to buy thermometers. I'm not joking the law

Dean ASChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07199833072631356942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002629.post-13772385185368687472008-07-28T10:20:00.003-04:002008-07-28T10:34:18.364-04:00

I feel bad for Steve Jobs. He's one of the greatest assholes who ever lived. Apple computer wouldn't be insanely great if he wasn't at the helm. Just look at what happened when he was gone and how that all turned around when he returned. I hope his cancer is treated and he survives. Apple will survive without him. Not as insanely greatly as the last decade has been but Apple holds a niche

Dean ASChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07199833072631356942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002629.post-59798829704398118962008-07-23T22:42:00.002-04:002008-07-23T22:50:26.958-04:00

I watched movies. Can you guess which one?There is no way she drove a manual transmission in those heels.That’s the band in “From Dusk Til Dawn”.He’s got a PhD in kicking ass but he can’t kick cancer.That means “Two Shits”.You can’t just give someone a car by handing them keys. The registry will want some paperwork to back up the transaction.I’d like to see her get nipple to nipple.Ha Ha Ha.

Dean ASChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07199833072631356942noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002629.post-47128301966406495452008-07-20T08:34:00.002-04:002008-07-20T08:52:26.710-04:00

OK, I admit it. I loved 'The Gong Show' when I was a kid. I didn't understand half of the raunchy humor but I loved the look of disappointment on peoples faces when they got gonged. Didn't those people know they sucked? I was only 7 but I could tell they were terrible. They were adults they should have known better.The other night I caught the last 10 minutes of the new Gong Show hosted by

Dean ASChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07199833072631356942noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002629.post-19574745119202143922008-07-10T10:39:00.003-04:002008-07-10T10:46:20.821-04:00

Yes Beverly Farms had a 'Horribles Parade' where some of the floats were more brazenly sexual than funny. Unless you're a certain Mr. Funk you're probably a resident of the NoSho and are already sick of hearing about condoms full of candy and sluts. As if one could ever truly lose interest in hearing about sluts.My favorite take on this story comes from the Salem Daily News/Gloucester Daily

Dean ASChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07199833072631356942noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002629.post-84479456498597533042008-07-07T02:39:00.001-04:002008-07-07T02:39:00.753-04:00

The picture is from the white board in my classroom during a test review. It's a pictorial representation of one of the test questions. Guess what the question was asking and I'll give you a prize. I'll give you a hint, there's a transporter beam involved.

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For those of you wondering where I’ve been since the close of the school year, here goes. In a hammock in the back yard drinking beer. For most of you who know me this will come as no surprise. However not all of that time was spent goofing off. Much of it was spent convalescing from a fall through my deck. I would like to take this moment to briefly say that the new Beverly Hospital

Dean ASChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07199833072631356942noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13002629.post-51784037667166182222008-06-18T23:32:00.004-04:002008-06-19T00:24:27.782-04:00

Well, I did get rehired. The union threw a fit because the administration did not follow contract with my dismissal. I don't want to stick around next year if the principal feels he needs to keep me on a short leash.I had a couple interviews. The town I grew up in was one. The other is run by one of my Brothers. The ring opened the door but I was really prepared. I floored them. I knew

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A word and a number will answer that question.XBOX 360I find shooting the people on my buddy list (mostly my students) in the head on Grand Theft Auto 4 to be a far better outlet for my personal issues than blogging. At least it's more satisfying. (especially my students) I especially like stealing a helicopter, jumping out at altitude and then crushing people (again my students) with my

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I got fired again. This time I don't think I want to go back.

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You're damn well right that those who are losing complain loudest. They wouldn't be complaining if they weren't losing out. When we were growing up the "Social Contract" we were given promised us comfort, family and emotional fulfillment so long as we didn't get pregnant, did our homework and kept mommy and daddies good name out of the police blotter. In exchange for sitting still when the

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Lesbians are just like me.

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Nothing but love from me if you know what I'm talking about. My money is on Zack or Paul getting this one.They hit me just as hard as I hit them why don't they die too?A hint in the labels and the answer in the comments section.

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I'm not going to rehash, here, what others have said about online music distribution. I'm not going to get into the legalities of file sharing. What I am going to say is if there is truth to online piracy being an indicator for what is popular than bands have got to come up with uniquely search able names. From my perspective Kiss is going to fall into obscurity real soon. There is no way

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I bet you're expecting some rant about how all my wildest conspiracy theories are coming true. Even though canned goods and shotguns are an ever more viable and less wacko portfolio option this is not a post about how "The MAN" is trying to keep us down. Actually, I'm a white male between 35 and 55, a school teacher and a Freemason. I am "The MAN". No the title of this post is not about how

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I want to call it "I'll Give Up My Laser When They Pry It From My Cold Dead Hands" but "My Laser Has Killed Fewer People Than Ted Kennedy's Car" is too tempting to pass up. It's a slippery slope between banning toys that the cat loves and trying to stop Scaramanga and Doctor Evil from building a Chinese Death Ray on the moon and ransoming the Earth for One Million Dollars.

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I knew if I didn't defend the smokers that sooner or later someone would come for my beer.

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No give me the phone. Hello. You mean this really is ______'s father. Yes this really is _____'s teacher. No she's feeling sick. You think it's strep throat. Well usually students ask for a pass to see the nurse and I give them one. Then they don't disrupt my class with a cellphone. Well no she certainly doesn't sound like she normally does. I'll send her down, the number of the main

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The rules are that the phone is to be kept off and in the students locker. Otherwise the phone is a constant distraction to the learning process. Either to the student using the phone or the other kid being texted in another class. Every time I take a phone off a kid it's always "a call from my mother." Sorry kid, Mommy needs to learn to call the main office and ask to have you dismissed.

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But can they stand listening to 'Space' sober?

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Saw a deer coming home from school tonight. Peeping frogs in the swamp behind the house are peeping away. I'm drinking beer in the back of my truck. That was creepy. The frogs all just stopped peeping like they were on a switch. Now they're back. Coyote must be back there. Pictures of the Coyote in the newspaper taken from around the corner (print not online addition so no linky love.)

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By the way, I have bad news. Lisa miscarried. I’m not devastated. I’m actually rather excited. This is the closest we’ve gotten in a long time. It can happen. We’re not done yet.

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But it does work if I cut and paste into the window.

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BloggerSucksBalls

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വാട്ട് ദ ഫുച്ക് ഈസ് റോങ്ങ് വിത്ത് ബ്ലോഗ്ഗര്?

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Make up your mind. Either it's the worse vehicle on the road or the best!I'm happy with mine. I'd like to know where the leak is coming from though. Hopefully it's the radiator. Only because I'm expecting that bill after pulling a tree out of it.While it's on my mind... These two quotes are basically saying the same thing, right? "Why ­ of course the people don't want war. Why should some

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Every Sunday morning Lisa and I drink our coffee in bed and watch Saturday Night Live from the night before. The writers strike has made this show infinitely funnier, NOT! Schwing! Every Sunday it's the same thing. Lisa and I wake up. I start the VCR. Lisa asks me to pause it and wait for her to come back. She goes off to do god knows what. I stop the recording and find something on the

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Lisa is pregnant.

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Let me get this straight.There's a movie called National Lampoon's College Road Trip.It stars Martin Lawrence.It's rated G.

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A very good friend of mine just gave his bride a small pistol as a wedding gift. She gave him a big sword. The firearm was a Walther something. I don't know much about guns. I don't need to. I live in a safe little bubble free of confrontation and securely removed from the bad side of town. I don't have to worry much about crime in my neighborhood. The buses don't run out here. You have

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See Mike, it really does exist!

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I almost wish I didn't hate snow so much because this sounds like good clean fun. At least until the dog poop melts.OK, who here thinks the beer cases aren't random junk picked up by the plows but left over from one of the swim teams "celebrations."

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A little common sense. And to those opponents who think the cops won't be able to tell those defending themselves from the criminal shooter I have two things to say (well three actually.)1 fuck you2 What makes you think the gunfight will still be going on 7 minutes later when the police actually do arrive?3 The police, when they do bother to show up, will know that those lawful and legal

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View Larger MapWhy can't Google Maps show me labels in English? I spent ten minutes trying to figure out how to get Google to show me maps in my language before I gave up. It's nice that they show the maps in the local languages but fuck off. There's a point where annoying becomes more than useless.

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Creature Double Feature! March 2nd '08 No word on what the movies will be yet. And this one breaks tradition and airs on Sunday not Saturday. Still Ernie Boch is A-OK in my book!

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OK Wikipedia is not the least bit credible but there's something especially wrong with an encyclopedia that has more to say about a ball player than the man who ripped open physics and made the future possible.

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Top 10 fake movie or video game rock bands:Honorable Mentions A, B, C & At 5:01 in this one... That's exactly how I get into my car when I leave for work every morning.10 Blender Children - Tapeheads These guys have got to be the blueprint that Rockstar Video Games followed for #7.9 The Pussycats - The Adventures of Ford Fairlane Jack and Jill went up a hill each with a buck and

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Maybe now I can buy Lawn Darts!

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Hey, Thanks for asking. Pretty good. Thanks to the news media in the United States prattling on about about a game that's rife with more homo eroticism than I'm comfortable with. (What the fuck was up with the racist panda bear?) I'm living my life blissfully unaware of the fact that muther fucking lies are being told about why much of the middle east was knocked off the internet. A ship

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Why not. It's not like there's such a thing as a slippery slope. Just before they outlawed smoking in bars MADD got several judgements against reason and personal accountability by backing successful lawsuits against bartenders who trusted their patrons to make their own decisions. I think it's a great idea to force people who scrape out a meager living depending on the good will called tips

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Sometimes I forget why I do this. The Commonwealth very desperately needs this electricity. This is particularly important since we no longer have Salem Power online. They're trying to turn it back on but my clean car is proof enough of the filth they spew. I don't expect them to be online for long.That means we really need more windmills. It's too bad Salem Power is so screwed right now.

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Enough of this so that I don't get sued out of existence is satire of public officials or corporate citizens who shouldn't have any rights in a sane world. Much of it is true. All of it I can cite my sources for if called out.This is fucked up. Even more fucked up than the fucked up day I had in the classroom. And it's finals week. I only had one class today. In that time I had an issue

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Hey,For my two readers, sorry, you're probably too far away to take advantage of this. For the rest of you, BIG FUCKING NEWS!!!!Maddies is going out of business tonight.I'll be there around 4.$2 beers! $4 drinks.For those of you who live in civilized places, beers are running around $5.25 here and Apple Watermellon Sour Patch Kids Martinis go for $9 bucks.Maddies is where the infamous "Himmler

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Ask me why I don't think it's street legal. There are folks who think that the new Hummer was inspired by this or this. I think they're afraid of having to compete with this.I will admit, I hear they're incorporating several features (probably as pricey options) that I'm currently building into my FJ like winches and cameras.Trail Cam!!! Fuck yeah! A camera showing me where each tire is about

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I have to admit it. I don't really find Jack Black funny. Lately I'm really finding him to be annoying. OK, I get it. You're crazy wild fun. Just try not to seem so rehearsed and calculated when you're out of control.

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Lisa's grandfather hasn't heard of Ron Paul.New media only has one shot here. There are only 80 million of us getting our news from tha internets and teh googles. The rest of the country is still getting their news from Katie Couric and Fox 25.The Aristocrats!

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The junior class talent show is going to present a skit poking fun at my teaching style and some of the things I've said and done in the classroom. Expect a video. The date of the show is TBD for now.Hopefully the community will understand the fake rock fakeout, the air horn, the Tesla coil, the Chinese death ray, Conspiracy Theories, Zombies, Grand Theft Auto, and Mr Safety.Individually

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My new phone number for those who want to call me when my computer is online is 011 852 8171 3303. It's a Hong Kong phone number. I'm giving it out to all my business contacts like those credit card weasels who've been selling my name to telemarketers. You can leave me voice mail when I'm not online. I love Skype!

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This.Here's another one.

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There are subjects that I just can't wrap my head around. It's not the material or the standards I don't get. I don't understand how we can teach them the way we do. English lit comes to mind. Give kids a list of books to read. Give them the books to read. If the books are worth reading kids will read them. We should be done here but we're not. "The Machine" then meddles where it

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3 weeks after making this move I was up $4 Grand (about 12%) but now I'm not up as much.

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The Lakota Indian Uprising

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I've been busy.

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Cheating is big business. We need to recognize that so long as we leave all of life up to one high stakes test we're going to have to live with cheating. Or else we can give up on the testing and actually evaluate and assess our students, employees or potential hires in a different way. Instead of the Bar Exam, read law and clerk with a lawyer as an apprentice. Eventually your mentor would

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"If we were hippies in the 1960s and 1970s and yuppies in the 1980s and 1990s, what are we now?" she wrote.Ummm... Sellouts?

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This is from an online catalog selling glowsticks.

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No for those of you who expected a picture of shotguns and canned beans, you'll be surprised to find I'm very upbeat about the prospects of my financial portfolio.Why you might ask? Because I just blew out of any American Equities we had left. I am going into Canadian Mines and something I like to call a BRIC."It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make

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Fucking hippies.That car gets the same mileage as my land yacht. I can do this in mine.At least I'm not this guy.Yet.Since y'all are going to be retiring soon how about putting down the bong and spending some of that free time undoing the damage your generation has done to The Constitution of The United States. The Patriot Act happened on your watch. So has the militarization of the local

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