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goodbye, cruel league

Freddie May 26, 2009
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Comment of the Day

Chris Dierkes May 26, 2009
“If you were defining “God” as “Jaybird”, allow me to back up and say that I absolutely...
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a judicious quote

Erik Kain May 26, 2009
“I’ve only seen the headlines, but I expect all the clowns put on their clown suits this...
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when wars ended

Erik Kain May 26, 2009
I was watching The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with my wife this weekend (it always takes...
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Mark Levin, Asshole

Will May 26, 2009
Levin forcefully rebuts validates his critics.
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Yesterday

Erik Kain May 26, 2009
I was cold turkey on blogging all weekend for a much needed respite from the internet, and...
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atheist mythos (not “the myth of atheism”)

Chris Dierkes May 25, 2009
Mark’s sharp post the other day on PZ Myers (building off a similarly sharp post by Br....
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Please join me

Freddie May 25, 2009
in congratulating Ms. Dara Lind and Mr. Will Wilson on their graduating college. Now go get ’em.
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Monday Evening Humor

Chris Dierkes May 25, 2009
For Br. Will:
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Thank You Jesus, Subway, and NBC

Chris Dierkes May 25, 2009
Chuck got a Third Season.  Even if it doesn’t start until after the Winter Olympics here in...
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The Difficult Cloudy Middle of Abortion

Guest Authors May 25, 2009
By Dan Summers — I enjoyed Chris’s recent post about Obama’s commencement speech at Notre Dame.  With...
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AQFTD

Chris Dierkes May 25, 2009
At a minimum, Obama seemed alive to the moral and legal ambiguities implied by the issue. Not...
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the ballad of RSM

Freddie May 24, 2009
Worried that conservatives will really make a roaring comeback? Read Robert Stacy McCain, and be assuaged. Joe,...
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Sunday Poem Series

Freddie May 24, 2009
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (translated and modified by Edward Fitzgerald) 1 Awake! for Morning in the...
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Crazy Church Story of the Day

Chris Dierkes May 23, 2009
So I’m working at my church today and there’s a wedding.  It’s all going more or less...
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Quote o’ the Day

Chris Dierkes May 23, 2009
Even deciding where the two Qaeda suspects in Pakistani custody will be kept over the long term...
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Torture vs. Steroids

Will May 23, 2009
A cogent point from the Minnesota Timberwolves’ Mark Madsen: When the congressional hearing of Jose Canseco vs....
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Friday Night Jukebox

Freddie May 22, 2009
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a quote for anyone headed to the movies this weekend

Erik Kain May 22, 2009
“Like the enemy with which he is supposed to be contrasted, he is relentless, impervious, and utterly...
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Star Trek

Erik Kain May 22, 2009
By the way, I saw Star Trek this past weekend and it was great fun.  I’m not...
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