I installed a new plug-in to keep this post stuck on the top of the page. I just wanted to remind you to participate in the Caption Contest. I don’t want to seem pushy and I don’t gain anything from running these, but look at this possibly award-winning entry. If this doesn’t encourage you, nothing [...]

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Many of you have probably seen this political commercial:

It combines an interview with a lady who lost her house to foreclosure with some shots of John McCain’s multimillion dollar properties of which he has several. For a good measure they also throw in some of his quotes where he says that people in this predicament [...]

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Before I go back to posting about irrelevant subjects, I’d like to recommend a recent article by one of the few America’s  remaining journalists with balls - Matt Taibbi. Matt is a vocal critic of the current President and voiced his opinion in print and TV, frequently appearing on the Bill Maher Show.
For a careful [...]

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Some time ago PlazaJen posted a link to a political advertisement discussing the sad state of our education system. Having a child currently in this system makes this subject very important to me, so I replied with my thoughts about the system. Reader “Lance” responded with the following passage:
If you are aware more than Democrats [...]

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Are you pretty good at recognizing a person’s country of origin by their accent? Test your skills at the Accent Game. As I expected, my score was pretty low, but to my defense they picked pretty good English speakers and each one of them only read two lines from Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If”.
Lucky for you, [...]

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Matisyahu

Bei Mir Bist Du Shein

Hava Nagila

This is a Jewish take on old beer commercials:

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Thanks to the cool guys at Rasterjam this turned out to be the best caption contest ever. Based on my suggestion (I think) they even created a widget which is now placed on the right side of my blog displaying all the entries. Some of these are truly funny. Few people noticed that V.I.Lenin, whose [...]

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One weekend last year I was looking for something to do (for free) and noticed an announcement about the Kansas State Fiddling and Picking Championships which coincidentally will be conducted this year on August 23-24 in Lawrence, KS. My appreciation of music is limited, but that doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate someone’s superior skill and [...]

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Faith offered me to pay a whole dollar for landscaping their yard which coincidentally looks like a Russian army just drove through it. While I appreciate every offer, I know of a few better ways to make a dollar or two:
- Chris Farley with Patrick Swayze - try out4 Chippendale @ Yahoo! Video

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In a recent comment to my post about Georgia I wrote:
I think we (USA) gave Georgia too much encouragement, they feel like we have their back so they can do whatever they want. Would they act the same if we weren’t backing them? Probably not.
Today I read an article expressing similar sentiment:
Simes said U.S. encouragement [...]

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