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- November 9th, 2008
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The Fatcats Club: “Postbellum”
The Fatcats Club: “Postbellum”There’s a place in New York where they all go when they’re in town. Sometimes it can be a rowdy joint; the great space between those carved and po…
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- November 8th, 2008
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- November 7th, 2008
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A final, fond look back at Election Night 2008
So, let's review: Re-electing Roscoe Bartlett, putting a creationist on my local school board, and passing bigoted anti-gay marriage constitutional amendments in three more states — bad. Electin…
- November 6th, 2008
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And now the bad news . . .
What with the American electorate sweeping Barack Obama into the presidency with the largest majority in twenty years, it’s easy to forget that not everything went my way on Tuesday. My man won…
- November 5th, 2008
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The Snark-Gap Transmission, Show #0017 - Post-Election Day Episode!
From Steve Likes to CurseHo, ho, ho, what's this? The podcast, two days late, and not online until after 10 p.m. at that? We'd better have a good explanation, hadn't we?We don't, really.&n…
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History.
Forty years ago, in the final days of a year that had seen the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, the Tet Offensive and the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam, violent civil rights p…
- November 4th, 2008
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- November 3rd, 2008
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My learned and well considered pre-election day advice to you, version 2008
(By the way: This week’s podcast will be up on Wednesday, so McAsherson and I can include our reactions to tomorrow’s election. So be back Wednesday night for the special sixty-m…
- November 2nd, 2008
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- November 1st, 2008
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Roscoe Bartlett yard signs break my heart
Ashley and I drove through Boonsboro today. Standing on the sidewalks at three corners of an intersection were some McCain campaign volunteers, holding up signs and waving to passing cars. Is that r…
- October 31st, 2008
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Jim Varney's folksy affability soothes my pre-election nerves
This election has me a wreck. I'll be glad when it's over.How do people do this? I liked it way better the other seven times when I didn't give a shit who won. I need an escape, a respite, a short sab…
- October 30th, 2008
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Phightin' Phils Phinish Phormidable Phloridian Phish to Capture Phirst World Series in 28 Years!
Phucking Phillies!Taking advantage of an archaic, seldom invoked "the team with the most runs after nine innings wins" rule, the Philadelphia Phillies completed the postponed fifth game of t…
- October 29th, 2008
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My World Series dynasty will be built on creative ground rules
Tonight the Philadelphia Phillies can claim their first World Series title since 1980 by winning the final third of Game Five, which was postponed, tied 2-2 in the sixth, two days ago on account of in…
- October 28th, 2008
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The Celestia Teapot, and other wonders to astound you
Buddy, if you haven't downloaded version 1.5.0 of Celestia, you ought to. It is like having the entire known universe on your hard drive.Since I first got Celestia last year, I've enjoyed u…
- October 27th, 2008
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The Snark-Gap Transmission, Show #0016
From Steve Likes to CurseAh, Monster Movie Night. Jack Griffin, Count Orlok, and a shitload of zombies were there, and so were we, and so should you have been. McAsherson and I bask…
- October 26th, 2008
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Time for the Muppets to get serious
Come on, who doesn’t love the Muppets? I grew up on reruns of The Muppet Show, and recently I’ve been watching them again for the first time in years, thanks to DVD. That’s just good shit. Un…
- October 25th, 2008
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Something to keep in mind next time you watch Night of the Living Dead
Maybe it’s just that I’ve got this election on the brain.Watching Night of the Living Dead at Monster Movie Night earlier this evening, Ashley and I had the same thought at almost the same time:…
- October 24th, 2008
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Obama gains coveted Opie endorsement
The wait is over, the long silence has been broken, and we now finally know who former child star and alleged filmmaker Ron Howard supports in the presidential race. He's voting for Barack Obama, and…
- October 23rd, 2008
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Why I am rooting for the Rays
The Phillies won the first game of the World Series last night. It's been 28 years since Philadelphia won its one and only World Series, so the Phillies winning this one won't break my heart.&nb…
- October 22nd, 2008
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- October 21st, 2008
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My local school board candidates weigh-in on teaching creationism . . . sort of
Apparently there are races other than McCain vs. Obama to be decided on Election Day. I had no idea until I opened the Sunday edition of Hagerstown’s own old gray lady with late-stage demen…
- October 20th, 2008
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The Snark-Gap Transmission, Show #0015
From Steve Likes to Curse Perplexingly pointless bumper stickers, and electric scooters ridden by people who don't need them — these are the twin banes of Wal-Mart for McAsherson and I. Seriousl…
- October 19th, 2008
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The Red Sox are doing this on purpose
For the second year in a row, and the third time in the last five years, the Boston Red Sox have rallied from the brink of elimination to force a deciding seventh game in the American League Champions…
- October 18th, 2008
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Pap got jokes
My Pap was a great joke-teller. After four years in the U.S. Navy and thirty working on the Western Maryland and later Chessie System railroad, he ought to have been. He had a joke nearly ev…
- October 17th, 2008
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McCain and Obama say funny things
Last night at the Alfred E. Smith dinner in New York, John McCain and Barack Obama both delivered funny monologues — actually funny, not “funny.” The tone was like a celebrity roast,…
- October 16th, 2008
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Christopher Hitchens his wagon to Obama’s star
Christopher Hitchens deserves a blow-job and a handshake. He’s my favorite non-fiction writer by a good stretch, biting and insightful and funny. Not hurting my opinion of him: th…
- October 15th, 2008
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Shittiest Film Dialogue
Entertainment Weekly has a list of the fifteen worst lines of dialogue in film history, by their reckoning. It’s not a ranked list, just fifteen nominations. I tend to ridicule things like this…
- October 14th, 2008
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Science refutes the Bible
We were at the computer lab in the library at Shepherd University last night when Ashley discovered something interesting. Slipped between the pages of a book in the reference section entitled Wh…
- October 13th, 2008
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The Snark-Gap Transmission, Show #0014
From Steve Likes to CurseWith our fourteenth show, McAsherson and I continue to count down to the second annual Monster Movie Night triple feature at Smithsburg Library. This week we discuss tha…
- October 12th, 2008
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Weekend Political Miscellanea
—On Friday John McCain was repeatedly booed at his own town hall meeting in Lakeville, Minnesota. His offense wasn’t promising to raise taxes, or wanting to close the Camp Delta gulag at Guantán…
- October 11th, 2008
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Two voices
“Why do guys grow those little chin beards like that?”“He looks like a beatnik.”“Or, like . . . an Egyptian king. Look, they’ve both got it, the pitcher and the batter. What is with that…
- October 10th, 2008
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Peter Cushing, holdin’ it down as Sherlock Holmes
The role of Sherlock Holmes has been taken on by some of the finest actors in the history of film and television: Basil Rathbone, Jeremy Brett, Vasily Livanov, Lieutenant Commander Data. My own famili…
- October 9th, 2008
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Pudgy, impotent Nazis are people too
Mark Levin (the shrill know-nothing radio know-it-all who tried to grab the attention of people outside his audience of Sean Hannity leftovers a few weeks ago by calling Bill O’Reilly mean names…
- October 8th, 2008
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Thomas Friedman puts his foot up Sarah Palin's ass
The second McCain vs. Obama debate last night was boring as hell, so what else is there to squawk about politics-wise today? Enter author and New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman.Author and…
- October 7th, 2008
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What does MY candidate think about science?
Phil Plait, creator of Bad Astronomy — one of the best sites on the whole wide world wide web, which you should check out immediately if you don’t ordinarily do so — posted a link ye…
- October 6th, 2008
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The Snark-Gap Transmission, Show #0013
From Steve Likes to CurseUpbeat, feel-good messages chalked on the sidewalks of my college piss me off. It's not that I object to a little encouragement; I just have the sneaking suspi…
- October 5th, 2008
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Cubs fail to dodge Dodgers, Cubs fans throw selves in front of the L
My condolences, Chicago.The Cubs lost to the Dodgers 3-1 last night, dropping their National League Division Series in three straight games, crushing the hopes of the longest suffering fans in sports…
- October 4th, 2008
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- October 3rd, 2008
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Not the bloodbath I was hoping for, but I’ll take it
Joe Biden won the vice presidential debate last night, and anyone claiming otherwise is making excuses for Sarah Palin. Let me get that out of the way up front. Biden won, Palin lost, and it wasn&rsqu…
- October 2nd, 2008
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- October 1st, 2008
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Holy Wrung-Out Premise, Batman! Or: Enough With the Prequels, Kids
According to Variety, which I understand to be some sort of entertainment industry publication, the CW has ordered a pilot for a television series called The Graysons, which will focus on Dick Grayson…
- September 30th, 2008
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- September 29th, 2008
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The Snark-Gap Transmission, Show #0012
From Steve Likes to CurseFor our twelfth show we return temporarily to the subject of music. Last week it was the most creatively vapid of genres, modern country music; this week McAsherson and…
- September 28th, 2008
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How I'd like to see the Biden vs. Palin debate go, in a nutshell
I actually thought the first Obama vs. McCain debate was pretty good. Jim Lehrer did terrifically as moderator, and even though it was like pulling teeth to get the candidates to actually talk to eac…
- September 27th, 2008
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Paul Newman: 1925 - 2008
Paul Newman made it look easy. Whether he was called upon to move us or make us laugh, no matter how old he was and no matter what role he was playing, he could do it. He was able to stretch…
- September 26th, 2008
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The Dark Bailout
I saw this today on Andrew Sullivan's blog, but it was originally posted to Overthinking It by Matthew Belinkie yesterday. For those of us who have wondered these last few days what the Joker would th…
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O’Reilly vs. Levin: Is it too much to ask that they might kill each other?
Those of you within range of radio stations that carry The Radio Factor and The Mark Levin Show, who are masochistic enough to actually listen to both programs, got a treat yesterday. It started with…
- September 25th, 2008
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Dog vs. Dog: Should the Mortgage Crisis Postpone the Presidential Debates?
Yesterday Republican presidential nominee John McCain announced he is suspending his campaign in order to return to Washington, D.C. to discuss a solution to the subprime mortgage crisis that has lef…
- September 24th, 2008
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A birthday poem
For Ashley my love, a sonnet composed in the Petrarchan style, on the occasion of this momentous date, her 25th birthday: O Ash, when on your sexy ass I muse,To my thoughts of…
