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Black Sunday

We'd never heard about Disneyland's opening day fifty years ago. This writer gives a concise overview of a miserable day: > The heat and the crowds, along with a Magic Kingdom full of other problems, contributed to what will forever after be called Black Sunday in

Hollyroit

Interesting commentary piece at NYT that compares (not contrasts) Hollywood and Detroit. Link [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/10/weekinreview/10gross.html?ex=1278648000&en=dc676f56bc9e3354&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss] . Excerpt: > Consumers today face an unprecedented array of choices for how to

Words of Dylan Wisdom

> You may be a state trooper, you might be a young Turk, You may be the head of some big TV network, You may be rich or poor, you may be blind or lame, You may be living in another country under another name > You may be a

Something for Sunday Morning

We're blogging from Chicago and the blog change-over threw some wrenches at us that we didn't successfully dodge. We're not even sure this and other posts will go up, but here's a neat blog that also contains some words for Sunday

The Nine Monarchs

Joe Sobran raises interesting points in a discussion about the Almighty Court: > Many controversies end prematurely not because one side is necessarily right, but because it wins elections, or a war, or just manages to get its view established as conventional wisdom. Eventually, people just stop debating very debatable

Dry Iraq

A soldier writes about serving in dry Iraq. One of the funnier pieces we've read recently. Link [http://moderndrunkardmagazine.com/issues/04_05/0405_dry_war.htm] . Excerpt: > Winston Churchill said the Royal Navy promised nothing to its enlistees but “rum, sodomy, and the lash. ” . . . > In

PSA

Blogging will be a little light later today and tomorrow morning. Eric Scheske is attending an out-of-town wedding, and the blog is changing web hosts (iPowerWeb has gone down or malfunctioned one too many times). During the change-over, you will still be able to access the site,

Lactating Lawsuit

Mrs. Scheske breast-feeds the Scheske babies. The cost savings have bought Eric hundreds of cases of beer. But there's something unsavory about the militant mammary movement: > A Great Lakes Naval Base mother is crying foul after an employee at Six Flags Hurricane Harbor allegedly asked her

The Next Civil Right

An absolutely-disgusting article. Link [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002382718_horse15m.html]. The only excerpt we'll present: > The farm was talked about in Internet chat rooms as a destination for people looking to have sex with livestock, he said.

Warped Sports Culture, Episode 1,542,901

> A T-ball coach seeking to keep a player with a mental disability off the field allegedly asked another player to hurt the boy, state police said Friday. . . > During pre-game warmups, Mark Reed Downs Jr. offered one of his players $25 to hit the 8-year-old