Who would have guessed it? I thought for sure The Onion was headed down the tubes. Personally, I'm glad they'll be around -- otherwise, we'd need to rely too heavily on Al Franken for straight talk on the Ten Commandments.
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various and sundry
If you follow the San Francisco Giants, it's mystifying to see them succeed as they have with a payroll that makes this little sense. Two outfielders who almost never play (Jeffrey Hammonds and Marvin Benard) make $1,500,000 more than Tim Worrell ($2M), Marquis Grissom ($1.85M), Benito Santiago ($1.78M), Neifi Perez ($1.5M), Dustin Hermanson ($900K), Scott Eyre ($725K), Andres Galarraga ($500K), Pedro Feliz ($325K), Ryan Jensen ($317K), Chad Zerbe ($317K), Yorvit Torrealba ($312K), and Joe Nathan ($300K) COMBINED.
No amount of Billy Beane-ball could solve this contract problem.
Conclusion: Whatever they do during this post season, next season could look like the 1998 Florida Marlins, a 54-108 squad with a completely different roster from the team that won the World Series the previous year.
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sf bay area
This is merely Madonna passing her stage persona, life force, and personal history to the next carrier of the torch.
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celebrititis
"I haven't lived my life to be a politician." Well, why start now?
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california
Republicans get serious actors like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ronald Reagan, and Fred Thompson. Democrats get Al Franken and Bill Maher.
Who gets the old magicians?
Jugglers?
Aging pop stars? (I suppose the Republicans get that one.)
Who would you take?
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politics
The Hall of Documentation Weirdness proves what we all suspected: That the people writing product documentation want to hurt and confuse us.
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technology
This is great news. PanIP claims to have (more or less) patented e-commerce, and they've been suing the little guys to assemble a war chest before taking on the likes of Amazon & eBay.
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law,
technology,
the bad old days
Thank goodness. I expect Canada to be on the forefront of important issues like this.
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various and sundry
I know the article claims that the monk is holding a toy Yeti ...but I'm confident that the doll in question is actually the snow monster from Rudolph the Red-nosed reindeer.
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various and sundry
Good or Bad? After listening for about 5 minutes, I'm reminded why analytic philosophy interferes with my digestion. It's too bad that Richard Rorty wouldn't engage in this self-promotion.
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sf bay area,
the bad old days
Heart-wrenching.
Update (4/8/2005): Why would CNN remove the original article? It seems like most of their important content lives forever.
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war on tara
Though it was an atrocious movie, Starship Troopers contained some challenging take-away ideas. In that movie, people who had not completed military service were civilians, while the military and military veterans were citizens, thus able to vote. I wonder how the current administration would fare if only our military could vote...
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politics,
war on tara
"It's time to return Al Franken to the obscurity he's normally accustomed to" ...man, could Fox News sound any less professional in this Al Franken lawsuit? Rupert Murdoch's ship is adrift; if only they knew that the only way to discourage parody is to avoid inviting it.
Snoop's post-modern digestion of society is beautiful art. Thank you, Mr. Dogg. Of course, we all carve up society in lovely ways.
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technology
Though a multi-faceted individual, Wesley Willis will forever be known as a man capable of thoroughly whooping Batman's ass.
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various and sundry
