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Ennui\'s a bitch ... and then you blog
With a couple of exceptions, I've been gone from dagblog for several months. I've rarely posted. I've barely commented. Heck, I've even stopped visiting the site on a regular basis. I have a number of legitimate excuses - and some not-so legitimate e...
Multiple Senators hospitalized after obstructing bathroom visits
WASHINGTON - Nearly 50 Senators suffered embarrassing internal injuries this afternoon, after Republican Senators - joined by moderate Democratic Senators - obstructed the Senate’s new bathroom rules. As the Senators prepared for recess, a simple ...
Sexy Brazilian lets her hair down, cheats on a cruise ship
[Author’s Note: This was originally posted on this site on Jan. 8, 2008. But with my wife, Emilia, out of town and me deep in the throes of missing her (Don’t let her know that, tho) I thought it would be a good time for a re-post] I try not to ...
Sarah Palin takes time away from promoting Japanese shoe company to release a book
While most of Conservative U.S. has blown three or four gaskets because U.S. President Barack Obama bowed in Japan (every time a President bows, a nuclear bomb dies), they seemed to miss an even greater bow to the Japanese by Political Super-Gadfly ...
Writer\'s Block Sucks
You know what else sucks? Republicans. Because they hold a minority opinion and lost an election (several elections, actually) but are holding policy hostage anyway. Democrats. Because they are so scared to lose their majority that they’d rather hi...
Congratulations, Deadman!
Hello dagsters. I'm happy to announce the marriage of one of our legendary founders, the man who puts the D in dagblog, the blogger with a thousand questions and inordinately large sunglasses: Deadman. He was married to the lovely Mrs. Deadman on Hal...
Congrats to Dan Mirvish, Eitan Gorlin on release of Martin Eisenstadt book
When I began looking into one “M. Thomas Eisenstadt” last May, part of me was irritated about how the hoax was screwing with public discourse. But as time went on, that feeling changed. And that’s because Eisenstadt changed, and not just the fi...
Catholic Stayed I
William K. Wolfrum released this statement to his supporters at 3 p.m. "Having seen the love and admiration pouring from Conservative circles following Newt Gingrich's conversion to Catholicism, I feel it is time for me to come forward with an admiss...
42 Up: Articleman's Lazy Birthday
Remember all those cool Michael Apted films? No, not Nell, or The World Is Not Enough -- the "Up Series," those fascinating documentaries 7UP, Seven Plus Seven, 21UP, etc. through 49UP, that traced the lives of a series of subjects by depicting ho...
Questions: The Wedding Edition
Oh man. I used to love weddings. I really did. I thought they were fun affairs where you got to see family and friends, drink and dance, and just have a good ole time. Plus, when I was single, I almost always got lucky at weddings - something in the ...
MOFT: Episode 18 (Monk)
I have to apologize for my prolonged posting absence, but things have been getting hectic. And with several trips upcoming, including two jaunts to Vegas (one my bachelor party!!), a pre-wedding party in my hometown St. Louis, a wedding (with still a...
Vanity (Plate), Thy Name Is Article(man)
I got tired of my old vanity plate. It was the name of a dog I had to give away five years ago. He wanted to eat my son. His name was Trajan. No, not for the basketball player, the Emperor. What to replace it with, though? That was the ha...
Twist and Shout: Why the Politics of Rage Makes Me Want to Cry
"...it is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing" I was livid when I first saw video from the health care town hall meeting that took place last week in my hometown St. Louis. I had already seen enough similar footag...
RIP: John Hughes
I just want to take this moment to thank John Hughes for some of the most indelible movie moments of my childhood. The director died of a heart attack while taking a walk in NYC, where he was visiting family. He was 59. While going over his filmogra...
Questions: The Regrets Edition (Part II)
Great answers to Part I of the regrets column. Here are my other 5 top regrets. 6) I regret being afraid of dying. In some ways, I feel my whole life's purpose is to finally accept (at least on a Zen-like level) the inevitability of my death. Instead...
Questions: The Regrets Edition (Part I)
In a post long ago, I talked about regrets and how I view them as a natural part of the examined life, something to be embraced, not feared. A person who claims he has no regrets is either a magnificent liar or an unreflective fool. You can learn a l...
MOFT: Episode 17 (Crocs)
As devoted deadman blog readers with photographic memories know (a surprisingly slim sample size), I've never been a fan of being barefoot. For much of my teenage, young adult and now creeping middle-age life, my bare feet have been a rare site, ind...
Hello From Monterey
Hello from Monterey/yes, today's your lucky day/it's foggy, cold and grey. Or something like that. (That's a butchering of KRXA Hal's theme song...) Anyhow, Articleman is in Monterey, CA for the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference all week. Fir...
Orlando Is Better Than Genghis
This is an opinion site, so I have to use this forum to share a point that burns within me, and the reasons why I think it. You see, upon careful, studied reflection, and after close consideration of this important issue, I have concluded to a reas...
MOLFT: Episode 2 (Cell phone taxes, fees and surcharges)
I'll get back to the regularly scheduled My One Favorite Things soon enough, but right now I got a bone to pick with my cell phone company, T-Mobile. I mostly have positive vibes toward T-Mobile as their customer service has been very helpful and the...
