Judging by these Facebook listings, there’s little doubt which politician the Internet generation supports.
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zomg rice shortage!!!1!!
Want to know a brilliant way to sell more of something? Tell Americans they’re running out of it. Have Costco and Sam’s Club post signs that restrict buyers to x number of boxes or gallons or bags. Let the media run with the story. This week the panic is about rice. In the case of [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Chester county results
Here’s how it ended up in my county, Chester. ********** (DEMOCRATIC) ********** UNITED STATES PRESIDENT (VOTE FOR NOT MORE THAN ) 1 BARACK OBAMA . . . . . . . . . 40,411 55.06 HILLARY CLINTON . . . . . . . . 32,814 44.71 WRITE-IN. . . . . . . . [...]
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The Obama campaign has probably done everything humanly possible to make sure that people know the primary is tomorrow, where to go to vote, what to expect when you get there, and, of course, who to vote for. The TV ads have been mostly non-negative — up until one of Mrs. Clinton’s ads today. A [...]
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One Call Originally uploaded by bbhart Should I be worried that this appeared on the road directly in front of our house sometime yesterday? There’s an oil or gas pipeline that runs under our yard, so I’m wondering if this is in preparation for some sort of digging.
Read the rest of this entry »Only a few more days…
Only a few more days until the Pennsylvania primary. I’ve got my voting finger all warmed up. (ps. if you made this graphic and want credit, email me.)
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The toy I referenced a few days ago has arrived. It is a new TiVo for our home. There are several problems with the old TiVo I’m hoping the new one will solve: Unreliable channel changing. Because TiVo has to tell the cable box to change the channel, and it does so via infrared, there’s [...]
Read the rest of this entry »So long, Al Swearengen, Lucius Vorenus, Titus Pullo…
© HBO We’ve watched all of Rome and Deadwood now. Ian McShane will always be Al Swearengen to me, in the same way that Jason Alexander will always be Costanza or Ratzenburger will always be Cliff Claven. Less so with Lucius and Titus from Rome, I think, but time will tell. What next? I may [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Ear: fixed
My ear is fixed after a quick trip to the doctor and I feel like I’m on top of the world. He flushed my ear out with water/peroxide and a special turkey baster and out came a solid wad of shit a little smaller than a marble (!!). Rarely do you go into the doc’s [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Oh, and about my ear
As the whining about my recent periodontal procedure tapers off, I need to find something else health-related to bitch about, right? Fortunately, my body decided to offer up a painful ear ache. So now my left ear is the new thing for me to obsess about. Well, I can’t say for 100% that it’s my [...]
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