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Today's the big day: My wife's first garage sale in about eight years. Our house was bursting with toys, clothes, and other stuff, much of it pretty good, but we didn't need it and I was getting tired of twisting my body through the

While doing a little channel surfing last night, I watched ten minutes of The Colbert Report [http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_colbert_report/index.jhtml] (my sons' baseball game was rained out, thus blessing me with a little free time). I was dumbfounded. I've never seen

A rugby team made up at least partially of New York firefighters forfeited a game to a gay rugby team. Link [http://outsports.com/local/2006/0621gotham.htm]. The story isn't well-written, but it appears that one of the FDNY guys approached the gay team and asked if

Even the New York Times has taken notice of ISI Books' American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/21/books/21conserve.html?_r=1&oref=slogin]. It's a pretty even-handed treatment, from what I can tell: > "We've gone from

I said yesterday [https://thedailyeudemon.com/4749/] that I hadn't received ISI Books' [http://www.isi.org/books/index.aspx] most-recent catalogue. I was wrong. It came yesterday (maybe Monday, since I didn't check Monday's mail until last night). The Tory Anarchist [http:

> Lurking just over the horizon are liabilities for three Republicans who have topped several national, independent polls for the GOP's favorite 2008 nominee: Sen. John McCain (affair, divorce), former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (affair, divorce, affair, divorce), and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani (divorce, affair, nasty

Interesting piece at The New Yorker about Timothy Leary [http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/articles/060626crbo_books], the godfather of LSD. A few random excerpts: > Leary's father was a dentist whose career was ruined by alcoholism; he abandoned the family in 1934, ending up as a

> [Madonna] has been shocking audiences during her Confessions tour, repeatedly using the f-word, flipping her middle finger at the crowd, reaching inside her pants, and suggesting that people perform a lewd act on President Bush. At a recent show in Chicago, however, the naughty talk was all but absent,

Joe Tremblay at Chesterton and Friends provides a personal recount of last weekend's 25th Annual Chesterton Conferenc [http://chestertonandfriends.blogspot.com/2006/06/conference-review.html]e, the only conference in the world that combines great beer, great wine, great cheese, great books, great speakers, and great conversation in