In court today for a speeding ticket, I got to hear one of the best lines ever heard in a courtroom.
The defendant was a heavy-set, snowboarder dude from California, with blond hair and a goatee. After reading the statement of violation, the judge asks him if he has anything to add, and the defendant, without [...]

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I’m miserable.
Or so I’ve been told, at least.

Sharing their misery
John Wallace
It is tragic that there are people who apparently have no hope and are so hollow inside that they will spend huge amounts of money to spread their misery to others (”Atheist group spreads word on billboards,” Nov. 12). I guess it makes them feel [...]

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Anyone who has had a brush with conservative economic or political principles will readily recognize the language that is used to communicate such simplistic ideas. “Taxation” becomes “redistribution of wealth”; structured tax brackets become “punishment for success”; social welfare programs become “the government teat”; and anything less than laissez-faire capitalism becomes “socialism.”
These terms are great [...]

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Usually, the letters to the editor in the Rocky Mountain News are of a relatively vapid quality. And then, on occasion, we get crap like this:

Nightmare for Dems
Jim Schwartz, Centennial
The Democrats’ worst presidential election nightmare has occurred: They have been im-Palin-ed with John McCain’s vice presidential choice.

What the fuck?
Who on the Rocky’s editorial staff thinks [...]

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Yeah, yeah, I know that Mythbusters already proved the myth about shooting fish in a barrel, but when the Rocky Mountain News passes along a fish like this, its time to lock and load.

Dobson: Obama distorting Bible, Constitution
Associated Press
COLORADO SPRINGS — As Barack Obama broadens his outreach to evangelical voters, one of the movement’s biggest [...]

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Why does “God” always get the credit? Or does he?

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“Light”
Photo by Becca00.

Sunday coffee in a warm quiet place, watching the sun creep across the floor, and a lazy day eases by as myriad ideas germinate in our heads.

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Stuff that’s been rotating on my iPod lately (mostly during my workouts).

Lake Shore Drive, Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah

Det Snurrar I Min Skalle, Familjen

High Roller, Crystal Method

Ten Seconds Before Sunrise, DJ Tiësto

First Cool Hive, Moby

Testament, VNV Nation

Cities in Dust, Junkie XL

Teardrop, Massive Attack

Sweet Misery, DJ Tiësto

Ohne Dich, Rammstein

Run, Snow Patrol

Standing (Motion), VNV Nation

More Human than Human, White [...]

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Michigan & Wacker.

Shortly after dawn along the Chicago River and the city is already bustling.

Darkness and fog settle in on the Chicago River, eerily transforming it into something else entirely.
Photos by Becca00.

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Sometimes these things almost write themselves.
Albert Mohler plays the part.

Accounting for the Gender Confusion of Our Day
Recent news of a pregnant Oregon woman, now living as a man, has understandably garnered a large amount of media coverage. But what is especially troubling is the way in which culture and media apparently lack the moral categories [...]

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