Year: 2008
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I Never Really Processed 9/11…
It’s good to see the Office back again. Here are my favorite parts of the season 5 premiere (possible spoilers ahead!): –Another classic Psychopath Jan moment: Jan: “Remember last week when that girl went missing? Guess whose candles they used for the vigil.” Kevin: “Yeah, thank God they found her.” Jan: “They found her?” –When…
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Kristen Wiig = Hilarious
I’m always annoyed when people say Saturday Night Live isn’t as good as it used to be. It’s unfair to judge a group of relatively unknown performers against their much more famous predecessors. Especially when their predecessors and their funniest skits have had time to become more popular and time-tested. That said, these first two episodes…
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Here’s Looking At You…
On WordPress, the moderator has a “dashboard” that keeps track of comments, number of hits on blog posts, etc. It also has a cool feature that shows Internet searches that eventually brought people to my blog. So if I write a post saying, for instance, “The Dark Knight explores complex moral issues by focusing on…
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Everybody Know What Time It Is?
You know what’s a good show? Home Improvement. A few years ago, I wouldn’t have said such a thing. I thought the cheeseball factor rivaled that of Full House. But in the last year or two, I’ve been catching the re-runs on cable randomly during the day, and it has really grown on me. The…
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Where Were You?
I was in 8th grade, climbing on to the school bus after an early morning swim class. The bus driver had the radio on. “A plane has hit the World Trade Center.” Oh, I thought. How dumb do you have to be to crash into a big building like that? That is the moment I…
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Happy First Win, Aaron – Here’s To Many More
I loved Brett, but he’s not the Packers’ quarterback any more. Congrats, Aaron Rodgers. I know you’ll do well.
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Forty-One
I’m watching the video tribute to George H. W. Bush at the Republican National Convention. It reminded me how great a person and American he is. World War II fighter pilot, Congressman, Ambassador to the U.N., envoy to China, Director of the CIA, Vice-President, and finally, President — there are few public servants with such…