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Chris Rock is right

Monday, July 20th, 2009

Don Rickles is hilarious.

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01/14/09 Gee, I hate having to write political blogs… I’m a musician… what do I know? And, I can certainly agree that all Presidents make BAD decisions. But, I can’t take anymore Bush bashing about Iraq. So here’s the deal - I’m flipping by Boston Legal tonight and I hear some […]

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“Unfiltered thoughts”… a good thing?

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

I see where pop culture now considers it a desired virtue to speak your mind in an “unfiltered” manner. I flipped by the TV Channel today and heard people hailing a character from “Lost”, and the lead character on “House” (which I enjoy) because they voice their thoughts - unfiltered.
Not that this is all […]

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Found this on Digg.com — Too funny. (Trackback added)
From John Cleese’s “Letter to America” (Speaking of Presidential madness):
In view of your failure to elect a competent President and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately.
To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency, the […]

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Nutshell News - Installation 1

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Nutshell News will be an on-going blog of combining all of todays news into a mish-mash of pontifications. I’ll be doing something that I do quite often…Speculating on things that I know very little about.
Today Ike Turner died. God rest his soul, and may he remain in God’s presense eternally.
Now, setting the serious […]

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Farfignewgen? (spelling? who cares?)

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

Or is that “hakuna-matada?” Anyway, what ever happen to that Volkswagon ad campaign? Which ever ad agency came up that sales pitch should’ve been paid double for getting Volkswagen to buy it. Or… should they only have been paid 1/2 because the public didn’t latch on to that word as a catch phrase?
I like watching […]

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C. Underwood sings Skid Row?

Monday, November 19th, 2007

The wife and I were browsing You Tube the other day and ran across clip of Carrie Underwood singing Skid Row’s “I remember you.” Dang, she sings it a little better than Mr. Bach. No disrespect to him — his voice is an amazing blend of whiskey throated rocker with clear as […]

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