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The Past’s Always Yesterday

Why is Sunday night Historical Epic Night on the pay movie channels? Is Sunday a kind of high brow TV-watching night in the minds of the network programmers? Probably not. Last night saw the second season premiere of The Tudors on Showtime, and the 4th part (of 7) of HBO’s John Adams [...]

Charity Evolution

Yesterday when I was doing my grocery shopping at Safeway, they introduced a new wrinkle into the “hitting you up at the cash register for charity” game. And I have to say, this is quite clever. Instead of asking you “Would you like to donate a dollar to Easter Seals?”, they now say [...]

The Yellow Impurity

Remember the discussion we had back around this post involving red light cameras? Well, there’s been a new development. According to today’s Rocky Mountain News, the city of Denver is re-evaluating their plan to install red light cameras at the four intersections. The reason, as this article says, is because an RMN [...]

The Future’s Always Tomorrow

I’m tired and I have to get up early tomorrow morning and work, and I don’t have anything to talk about. I don’t even have a jogging listening list to post, since I didn’t jog this morning. Hmmmm… what to do?
Let’s go to the news:
It looks like Apple may introduce their 3G [...]

What I’m Playing At

I realize I haven’t posted an update about my Playstation 3 experiences lately. Well, I haven’t had much time to play it or play with it. I haven’t done any online play at all. I’m working my way through Heavenly Sword, which is a bit of a button masher, but pretty and [...]

Playing My ‘68 Race Card

Today, I want to tell one more story about my days at the Catholic school. One of my only friends at the school was the only African-American kid there. My area of town was insular and not very integrated; I don’t remember seeing a lot of non-white people around. Although, like Stephen [...]

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