Blog Master G

It’s just before midnight on 6/6/06, so I thought it would be a fun excuse to post something. Three years ago I wrote about another 666 — my 666th blog post. Satan. Yeehaw! And speaking of evil, Jen and I just returned from 5 crazy days in Sin City — yes, Las Vegas. It was […]

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Pretty much in line with how I feel: SFGate.com / Bring On The $6 Gallon Of Gas / It would revolutionize America. It would make us all better humans. But could you handle it?: Here’s what we could do: Give gas discounts to cab drivers (at least initially) and metro transit systems and low-income folks, […]

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Nothing ever happens in my wife’s small hometown of Kinderhook, NY, where there are more cows than people. So when a man entered a real estate office and took the employees hostage yesterday afternoon, it was big news. We heard about the standoff with police via the Kinderhook News Network (my mother-in-law) before the story […]

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How cool is this thing? OK, it’s pretty crazy looking, but to be presumed extinct for 11 million years and then to reappear is pretty nuts. And, as Jen said, why does it look like he’s posing in a Sears portrait studio? Rat-Squirrel Not Extinct After All: It has the face of a rat and […]

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It’s almost creepy how much this reminds me of recent episodes of 24. Video Shows Bush Warned Before Katrina Hit: On the eve of Hurricane Katrina’s fateful landfall, President Bush was confident. His homeland security chief appeared relaxed. And warnings of the coming destruction — breached or overrun levees, deaths at the New Orleans Superdome […]

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The face of New Orleans is changing from black to white, and the city is still not OK, nearly 6 months after Hurricane Katrina destroyed the city. Who will New Orleans be rebuilt for? Before Katrina struck the Gulf Coast last August and exposed compromised levees, 70 percent of the close to 487,000 residents of […]

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“‘How dare you maintain that those who believe in the Judeo-Christian values are better qualified to govern America than Hindus and Muslims?’ My simple answer is, `Yes, they are.’” – Pat Robertson Yesterday was a lazy day around the A_nderson household — random computer stuff, video games, TV — so we found ourselves watching the […]

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Here’s what really happened: 12 of 13 W. Va. Miners Confirmed Dead: TALLMANSVILLE, W.Va. – In a stunning and heartbreaking reversal, family members were told early Wednesday that 12 of 13 trapped coal miners found were dead — three hours after they began celebrating news that they were alive. The devastating new information shocked and […]

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I don’t often comment on religion in this blog, but it’s in order today. It seems that about 70 million Americans — 25% of the population — believe that the Rapture is imminent, according, at least, to an extensive article in the December 2005 issue of Vanity Fair: 204 | AMERICAN RAPTURE Best-selling author and […]

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Just when you think you’ve seen it all, you channel surf to ESPN 2 on a slow Monday night and there it is: The United States National Jump Roping Championships — at Disneyland, of course. From complex, coordinated team events to high-speed tag-team agility to three-person, choreographed dance roping (spinners and jumpers rotated for added […]

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