Yes, I know what Dave Letterman looks like, that doesn’t mean whoever is running the show on the local channel should paste  stuff over his face. I guess that’s somewhat better than replacing him with a weatherperson for an hour or two.
I don’t care anyway, I was just flipping channels…

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Putin on the Ritz…

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Overwhelming success of the previous caption-writing contest suggests that if a blogger can’t encourage enough comments by the quality and content of his writing he should look into attracting comments by offering a valuable prize. This week’s prize is a gift that keeps on giving and then can still be recycled - it’s a magazine [...]

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I wasn’t going to write anything tonight, I had a long day and nothing exciting was coming to mind. That is until I attended the annual orientation for my daughter’s summer camp. I can’t even remember exactly how many times I’ve been to this meeting, my daughter spends every summer at this day camp since [...]

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I guess I had never paid enough attention to the literature sold at the rest stops along I-70. For just three dollars I could have come home not lonely, not fat and cured of my future diabetes (I don’t have it now, but 3 pounds of chocolate and 3 pounds of other candy from [...]

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Results of the previous poll were almost evenly split between the people who watch DVD extras and the ones who think it’s a waste of space. Considering that the vote is within the margin of error results were inconclusive.
This idea for this week’s poll came to mind while browsing the St.Louis exhibit at the Missouri [...]

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On the way back from the weekend trip to St.Louis I composed this piece of fine poetry:
O, Trader Joe’s, I’m drawn to you
Like light-attracted bug.
I have to drive two hundred miles
To buy your legal drug.
O, CEO of Trader Joe’s,
Please clear up this mess
So I can have my choco-fix
And also save on gas!

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Here is a video of MIG-29 in the air:

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Some day I will go out to get lunch and come back dead or it least in a “critical but stable” condition. That’s because unlike the local lunch-reviewing icon who eats in the safety of Johnson County,I have to forage for food around the war zone a.k.a. Independence Ave. Its unpredictable mix of ethnicities, [...]

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Memory is a strange thing. One minute I am reading a story about outpatient surgery in prison and the next minute it takes me back about 20 years when I was sitting in a small army hospital room and another soldier, who was supposed to be a nurse, was poking a scalpel at the infected [...]

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