garth brooks live in la – Garth Brooks started his first of five shows in two days at L.A.’s Staples Center right on time for CBS’s live broadcast to all but the West Coast. Raising money for firefighters, Brooks did 12 tunes in the first hour – we were led to believe “Two of a [...]

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houston auto show – Researchers at The City College of New York (CCNY) and Rice University have developed a low-cost, environmentally friendly technique for embedding antimicrobial silver nanoparticles into vegetable oil-based paints. The method, to be reported in the March issue (online January 20) of Nature Materials, could give homes and workplaces a new defense [...]

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irs rebate – My local TV news is interviewing people and asking them, “What would you do with the money from Bush’s Economic Stimulus Plan?”  Almost all of them, including the reporter, are calling it free money. These people have short memories.  It’s not free money.  It’s your money. Back in 2002, when Bush did [...]

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shannon miller – From the level of their rhetoric, you’d think that Democrats in Virginia’s House of Delegates had been forced to voted in favor of homosexual pervers… er, child molesters. But no, it was just a bill introduced by Alexandria perv… er, Democrat Adam Ebbin to grant a special privilege to Virginia labor bosses, [...]

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towelhead movie – Oh what a difference an hour (of sleep) makes.  I felt totally refreshed this afternoon, driving through a blizzard from Park City to Salt Lake City for a Downloading Nancy/Adventures of Power double feature. Director Johan Renck’s Downloading Nancy is a rough one to watch.  Very good, with solid performances from Jason [...]

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esne – Latina:Probabiliter vos me cogitatis scelestum dirumque scriptorem esse, nunc quia scribo me recantare omnia quae scripsi vulgavique, et relinquere dubitationem indiciaque actorum futurorum, et vos duxisse ut erraretis in nullum in loco. Dirum scriptum, exclamatis vos, et cur fecis quod fecis; sed quaeso ut me audireatis et scite bene me sub impulso Mali [...]

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Today’s newspaper makes depressing reading. The country is indeed in a parlous state. The crime rate is on the upsurge and shows no sign of decreasing. Even formerly peaceful rural areas are now suffering the scourge of armed robberies, ram-raiders, muggings, assault, rapes, and murder. What is to be done? Many people (Muslims, especially) advocate [...]

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Top fiction books I think every adult should read at least once in their lifetime:(alphabetical by title, unless I think you should read the author’s works, then by last name) Aesop’s Fables*Alice in Wonderland*Animal Farm – George Orwell*Anything by Jane Austen*Beowulf – Anonymous*Big Red – Jim Kjelgaard*Brave New World – Aldous Huxley*Bulfinch’s Mythology – Thomas [...]

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AP – Republican presidential contenders depicted Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton as weak on Iraq and certain to raise taxes Thursday night, setting aside their own campaign debate squabbles long enough to agree that she is unworthy of the White House. “She is so out of step with the American people,” said former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt [...]

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heather hull – You have to hand it to Heather Hull. The woman loves her job as a prison guard. Why else would she go through all the trouble to get her $41,000 a year job back after she was fired last April after the warden found out that Ms. Hull had posed in Playboy [...]

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