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and thick silence falls across the room as every head turns to face the oddly-matched couple. "Relax, y'all," the donkey assures them. "Yeah," agrees the elephant, "we're just colluding to raise the ballot access threshhold even higher for new parties!" At which point the bartender notices that the donkey and elephant heads are conjoined on the body of the same terrifying mutant! Run for your lives! Democracy as we know it is over!
- georgiagreen30030, Decatur, GA, GA
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The Scoop on Tripp Cook |
| People I Would Like to Meet |
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Sadie Hawkins of Dollsquad,
Augusten Burroughs (to ask him why he gets a pass on faking biographies),
Barack Obama,
Tony Blair,
John Cleese,
Howard Schultz of Starbucks,
George Lakoff ('cause it must feel pretty awesome to be so damn rich you can both have opinions AND change the world),
Jane Monheit (cause baby has it going on),
Ken Burns (everything he touches turns to magic),
Stephen Hawkins,
Gina Bellman from the BBC's "Coupling",
crazed narcissist
Ann Coulter (but only if I am wearing a godless liberal tshirt to evoke her wrath)
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| My Favorite Books & Authors |
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Writer-Diva Hollis Gillespie,
author Shelby Steele,
"Zen" author Robert M. Pirsig,
Douglas Coupland,
Ellison's "Invisible Man",
Clarke's "Rendevous with Rama" and "2001: A Space Odyssey"
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| Favorite Television Shows |
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BBC's Coupling,
Scrubs,
Lost
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| Favorite Music |
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Jay-Z,
Julia Fordham ("Porcelain" is my all time favorite album),
Indigo Girls,
the entire amazing Gilberto family of Bosso Nova fame (Joao,
Astrud,
and moderist daughter Bebel),
Zero 7,
Dr. Dre,
Stanley Turrentine ("Sugar" is the most amazing jazz album EVER),
Chemical Brothers,
David Gray (right now I am really into his stuff),
Sonia and Disappear Fear,
Cowboy Junkies,
Yaz,
Jet,
Ani DeFranco (but only in limited doses),
Kabao,
Eliza Carthy,
and da Snoop Dogg. An honerable mention has to be made for Joey Ramone's version of "What a Wonderful World."
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Birthday: August 20, 1968 (39 years old)
Location: Atlanta, GA
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Posted: Apr 23, 2008
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| What is your favorite ice cream? |
| "Stephen Cobert's Americone Dream" by Ben and Jerry's. No lie. |
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| This question. (Where did I leave my drink, again? Damn.) |
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| What really makes you angry? |
| Spam from organizations I actually LIKE. I can't delete it! It just SITS there making me feel GUILTY for not forwarding the rainforest-saving, challenger-supporting, consumer-rights-protecting, Plan-B demanding petition on to 10 friends. Grrrr. |
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Big Oil are such (g)assholes. And so are we.
I researched some interesting data recently. Gas prices have been rising, and although they are not exactly proportional to the price increases in the price of oil per barrel (refining costs are a big part of what you pay), they have been way ahead of the regular rate of inflation. Industry commentators on the news feed us the lie that a) "constricting supply" has raised prices and b) the current US recession has left one of the few safe havens for investors to be the oil industry. These explanations would seem to make sense. Until this week, the beginning of earnings season. Check out the profits below. (FYI, in case you weren't sure, these figures are in billions. ...With a "B". For the QUARTER.)  ... Read More
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Dems grow a spine re: Bolton and Miers
House Cites 2 Bush Aides for Contempt By PHILIP SHENON Published: February 14, 2008 WASHINGTON — The House voted Thursday to issue contempt citations against the White House chief of staff and a former White House counsel for refusing to cooperate in an investigation into the mass firings of federal prosecutors. The vote to hold Joshua B. Bolten, the chief of staff, and Harriet E. Miers, the former counsel, in contempt of Congress followed bitter partisan wrangling on the House floor, including a Republican walkout from the chamber, and moved House Democrats closer to a constitutional showdown with President Bush.
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| A Donkey and An Elephant Walk Into A Bar c.2008 |
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