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Politics, Satire/Absurdity
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Open Letter to Barack Obama
by Maynard on April 13, 2008Mr. College Man, the Better Arkyteck of Our Lives From some clodhopper in a Small Town who pulled his head out of Bitter long enough to send me an email. To: tammyblog Subject: My State's As Red As My...
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It’s SuperChavez!
by Tammy on December 1, 2007A post by Maynard Am I the first person to notice that this goofball seems to be auditioning for the lead role in Pixar's The Incredibles (which, by the way, is a wonderful family film)? Chavez, who is threatening...
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Bad Girls, Then and Now
by Tammy on October 19, 2007A note by Maynard Some observers wring their hands at the West's ever-rising tide of in-your-face depravity. Certainly a civil society has never seen anything like this before! If it makes you feel any better, celebrity misbehavior is nothing...
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Presidential Health
by Tammy on August 9, 2007A post by Maynard Tammy's post about GWB's Lyme disease made me wonder about presidential health in general. Here's an interesting site, and I can't vouch for its accuracy, but a seemingly-learned gentleman writing under the pen name of "Dr....
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What did happen at Roswell?
by Tammy on July 4, 2007A post by Maynard The many rumors regarding the flying disc became a reality yesterday when the intelligence officer of the 509th Bomb Group of the Eighth Air Force, Roswell Army Air Field, was fortunate enough to gain possession...
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Hamas Steals Arafat’s Nobel Peace Prize
by Maynard on June 17, 2007A Hamas interior decorator carefully adjusts pictures of Arafat and Abbas A post by Maynard Hamas militiamen today broke into the home of the deceased PA chairman Yasser Arafat and stole his peace prize. For anyone who doubted that...
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Is Spiderman Gay?
by Maynard on June 12, 2007Too bad Spiderman wasn't around when we messed up in Eden Maynard's cinematic philosophizing I finally got around to seeing Spiderman 3. The reviews were mildly positive, but the only opinion that matters is mine, right? And I mostly agree;...
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Liberating Paris
by Maynard on June 8, 2007A post by Maynard Did you catch the anguished scream interrupting the Superior Court spokesman's announcement that Paris Hilton was headed back to the pokey? It's the climax of this CNN newsclip: ALAN PARACHINI: The judge heard arguments, he heard...
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3 Days in the Paris Hilton
by Maynard on June 7, 2007A post by Maynard In a perverse way, I'm thankful for celebrity antics. As stupid and demeaning as it is to discuss these things, they serve to create a brief diversion from the real issues, sort of like a visit...
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Comic Relief!
by Maynard on May 27, 2007A post by Maynard Can we get some comic relief here? I don't know about you guys and gals, but I need a break. The news is just too overwhelming. Looked at from the most dire point of view, it...
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Cat Escapes From Commie China!
by Maynard on May 12, 2007A post by Maynard She eluded Chinese authorities and carefully read the labels on all the shipping containers until she identified a package that would carry her to America, where she intended to make her new home. China the...
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International Respect for Chickens Day
by Maynard on May 4, 2007A post by Maynard The chicken rights activists at United Poultry Concerns have declared May 4 to be International Respect for Chickens Day. Pictured above is the memorial statue of Roscoe the Rooster in Takoma Park, Maryland. This was...
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Flashback: The Day Jimmy Carter Was Attacked by a Rabbit
by Maynard on April 20, 2007A post by Maynard It was April 20, 1979, exactly 28 years ago, and Jimmy Carter was celebrating Adolf Hitler's 90th birthday and quietly contemplating his recent triumph in convincing the Shah of Iran to relinquish power to the...
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Grindhouse
by Maynard on April 19, 2007Maynard goes to the movies On Wednesday's show, Tammy briefly skewered this film, juxtaposing its excessive violence against the murderous rampage at Virginia Tech, and touching on the cultural degradation and normalization of the unspeakable. She was pleased to...