R.I.P. Michael Clarke Duncan — An Actor Who Made Small Roles Big
Jimmie | September 3, 2012 | Comments (0)
AP reported earlier this evening that actor Michael Clarke Duncan is dead at the age of 54. He was rushed to the hospital last month after he suffered a heart attack and spent a couple of weeks in the ICU before doctors moved him to a regular room. He was a huge man — almost [...]
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Clearing the Browser Tabs – Lying Liars and their Cozy Campaign Coverage
Jimmie | September 3, 2012 | Comments (0)
Because I am by nature a cynical man I am not often surprised when I read about the underhanded tactics our Dear Lightbringer and his lapdogs in the media have used to against Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. I have said before that I believe Mitt Romney is a weak candidate, the latest in a [...]
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Dear Romney Campaign, Make with the “D’awwwww” Stories, Please!
Jimmie | August 26, 2012 | Comments (2)
Andrew Ferguson, one of the best writers on either the right or left, has an interesting piece on the dearth of books about Mitt Romney and why that’s hurting him with voters thus far. The takeaway is Mitt Romney is a genuinely good guy, has always been one, and hardly anyone knows it. I assumed [...]
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R.I.P. Neal Armstrong: Nerd, Pilot, Explorer, Big Damn Hero.
Jimmie | August 25, 2012 | Comments (0)
In 1961, President John Kennedy delivered a challenge to the nation: put a man on the moon before the end of the decade. On July 20, 1969, Neal Armstrong became that man as he stepped onto the surface of the moon. Armstrong died today, at the age of 82, of complications from “cardiovascular procedures”, likely [...]
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The Delivery Presents – Is Four Podcasts a “-palooza” or an “-o’rama”?
Jimmie | August 19, 2012 | Comments (0)
You have ears and I have a whole lot of podcast to pour into them, so gather ’round the computer speakers, folks! I won’t give you long summaries of Episode 158 and Episode 159, except to say that the topics range from Harry Reid’s outrageous lies to the Curiosity Rover and my string of podcasts [...]
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Clearing the Browser Tabs – It’s Hard Out Here for a Government Inspector Edition
Jimmie | August 16, 2012 | Comments (0)
I know times are tough and good jobs are hard to come by. So why not head to California and work in the government-regulated porn industry? I don’t mean you should work directly in the porn industry. Just, you know, poke in once in a while, make sure everything’s on the up and up and [...]
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A Little Saturday Afternoon Workout
Jimmie | August 11, 2012 | Comments (0)
David Byrne is a maniac. There’s no other way to explain why he’d put himself and his entire band through a high-impact cardio routine during a seven minute live performance of “Life During Wartime”. But on the off-chance you successfully Jog Along with David, try a different challenge. Strap on a bass guitar and do [...]
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So, the Paul Ryan Pick…
Jimmie | August 11, 2012 | Comments (0)
This morning, Mitt Romney named Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan his Vice Presidential nominee. You might remember Ryan as the star of the feature film “Push Wheelchair Granny off a Cliff”, the subject of one of the most embarrassing Presidential rants of all time, and the guy whose budget plan got as many Democrat votes in [...]
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The Delivery Presents – Guns for Everyone; Serial Abuse for None
Jimmie | August 9, 2012 | Comments (0)
I’m still behind on the show posts, but getting closer to caught up. With any luck, you’ll see a bunch of new stuff over at The Sundries Shack that might help explain what’s I’ve been doing and why I’ve not been writing about, say, Episode 157. So yeah, Episode 157, the episode in which I [...]
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Wil Wheaton, the Geek Who Hates
Jimmie | August 4, 2012 | Comments (25)
I figure we’ve eaten up a lot of bytes over the story of how Chick-Fil-A has become a symbol of all that is evil in America, how every last franchise should be burned to the ground, how its employees should be harassed as they go about their duties, and how the poisonous hate-chicken should be [...]
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What’s the Big Deal About Chick-Fil-A, and Why Are People Protesting Them?
Tami Nantz | August 2, 2012 | Comments (1)
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.–George Washington In 1967, a man named S.Truett Cathy transformed a tiny Atlanta diner called the Dwarf House into a restaurant that would eventually become the nation’s second largest quick-service chicken chain–a place many Americans [...]
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The Delivery Presents – As You Can Tell, I Don’t Like Selfishness
Jimmie | July 30, 2012 | Comments (0)
Okay, so I’m a teensy bit behind on my show posts, since I recorded Episode 156 on July 17. Again. This is why I need a Producer to help me wrangle the content and the marketing and the show posts and all the things that help a really good podcast get a bazillion downloads a [...]
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