Thursday, November 20 Jonah Goldberg unloads both barrels on the quisling Kathleen Parker: I don't know what's more grating, the quasi-bigotry that has you calling religious Christians low brows, gorillas and oogedy-boogedy types or the bravery-on-the-cheap as you salute — in that winsome way — your own courage for saying what (according to you) needs to be said. Please stop bragging about how courageous you are for weathering a storm of nasty email you invite on ...

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The sixth song on their third album, Sheer Heart Attack, it was written by lead guitarist Brian May while he was in the hospital. In the UK, the song hit #11 on the charts when released as a single in 1975. The song has many features on it including Mercury, who hit some of the highest notes in his career. The song is also noted for its hard riff and vocal harmonies. The song remained ...

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Sam Kinison, preacher, vitriolic humorist, screamer, ranter and great comedian in this 1987 classic. 1 of 5 in this YT playlist.

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I was there for the first one, and became part of the team. Now it's at the end, and the philosophy dovetails with what I'm personally trying to do perfectly. "[T]he things that you use every day should be the best-designed things you can get." Everything else, get rid of.

tags: viridian note, philosophy

The Christ Child and the spawn of Satan, a.k.a. secularists, have been duking it out in Lakewood about who gets to claim "that major event in December involving an evergreen tree and lights on a string." Though Andrew Neiditz, the Lakewood city manager, says he wants to use inclusive language whenever possible to avoid offending non-Christians, he is firmly in Baby Jesus' camp: Neiditz declared that at least on his watch, said wintry event shall ...

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Found in our Theo Chocolates promotional newsletter this morning: "Sales of existing houses dropped more in Washington than anywhere else in the nation last quarter, compared with a year earlier, according to a new report. King County's median sale price also dropped roughly 10 percent from a year earlier." Who was saying that Seattle wasn't immune to, but typically lagged the national trends? With the drop, 57 percent of the state's first-time buyers have enough ...

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