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John McCain

Author: meta | Filed under: Uncategorized Tuesday Apr 5,2005

Something to remember next time you’re tempted to view John McCain as the acceptable face of the Republican Party:
A last-minute amendment added by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., would require the Department of Homeland Security to create an “integrated screening system” inside the United States.
McCain envisions erecting physical checkpoints, dubbed “screening points,” near subways, airports, bus [...]

Vegas Day 3: The Hoover Dam

Author: meta | Filed under: Uncategorized Sunday Jan 4,2004

I’d always wanted to see a dam, and as dams go, they don’t come much bigger than the Hoover Dam. Named after Herbert, rather than the more infamous J. Edgar, it’s possibly the most impressive piece of structural engineering of the 20th Century. Hoover gets the credit because as well as being a politician, he [...]

Rush

Author: meta | Filed under: Uncategorized Wednesday Nov 27,2002

After comparing [Rush] Limbaugh to a “circus clown,” the Arizona Republican [John McCain] apologized. “I regret that statement,” he told an interviewer on Fox News the other night, “because my office has been flooded with angry phone calls from circus clowns all over America. They resent that comparison, and so I would like to extend [...]

LaTOUR

Author: meta | Filed under: Uncategorized Monday Nov 25,2002

Ripped LaTOUR’s self-titled CD yesterday. Listening to it today, I wondered to myself what he’d been doing since 1991. A few quick web searches revealed the story…
William “Bud” LaTour was a DJ for a radio station in Arizona, and had recorded a novelty/parody single that still gets airplay on Dr Demento’s show. His first semi-serious [...]

Fancy a pork chop?

Author: meta | Filed under: Uncategorized Saturday Jun 9,2001

From News of the Weird:
In April, the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Ariz., surgically removed a dead worm from the brain of a woman because, having entered the woman’s body via pork she ate in Mexico and then having died, its carcass was causing her periodic seizures. The operation took six hours and required that the [...]

Only apparently real

Author: meta | Filed under: Uncategorized Thursday Mar 1,2001

This is a scene a couple of blocks from where I live. The curvature of the pole isn’t just distortion from the cheap zoom lens; it really is leaning over slightly.
When I first moved to America, one of the things I noticed was the ugly cabling everywhere. Not just cables, either—big cylindrical metal [...]

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