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• My life is complete.  Zubaz pants are back!  I’ll take a Michigan pair, a Denver Broncos pair, a Notre Dame pair… I have been waiting since I have been in grade nine for this day.
• Wendy has found the Grinch and she lives in Saskatoon
• Mike Birbiglia: I kind of feel like Rudy [Giuliani] thinks 9/11 is his birthday. He gets that excited look on his face and buys himself a cake and lights two candles and watches them burn down. And then he looks around and says, “What do I get?” And his advisors are like “$15 million in speaking fees!” and he’s like, “That’s even better than last 9/11!” via
• Pack an emergency kit for holiday driving :: Having driven to Spiritwood and back on many, many Christmas Eve’s, I had to stop more than once to help a stranded family.  Each time with a new car and no emergency kit.
• Jon Armstrong has an excellent post on what it is like to live with someone with depression.  While Wendy’s depression affects her differently than Heather’s does, it gives an idea of what life can be like around here at times. via
• Facebook for old people
• 37 Signals has a thoughtful post on self-promotion
• 101 Appetizers in 20 minutes or less
• J. Edgar Hoover had plans in 1950 of arresting 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty :: Hoover wanted President Harry S. Truman to proclaim the mass arrests necessary to “protect the country against treason, espionage and sabotage.” The F.B.I would “apprehend all individuals potentially dangerous” to national security, Hoover’s proposal said. The arrests would be carried out under “a master warrant attached to a list of names” provided by the bureau.
• A fine resume can’t buy you electoral love :: Just ask John McCain
• Mitt Romney is finding that facts can be such awkward things :: Some of the instances when Mr. Romney has tripped up on his facts show that he is prone to exaggeration, taking what is essentially a kernel of truth and stretching it to bolster his case. :: Romney could learn from Tony Blair as the facts never got in Tony Blair’s way when he was in power :: Politicians are meant to be ruthless when necessary, and they are admired for it. Sometimes they are also “economical with the truth,” or make use of what Kipling called “The truthful, well-weighed answer / That tells the blacker lie,” or, in wartime, rightly employ the ruse de guerre, tactical deceit. But Blair gave new meaning to ruse de guerre with his elaborate campaign of disinformation about Iraq, designed not to mislead the enemy about the conduct of the war but to mislead his own people about its origins.
• Is Bill Clinton doing more to harm Hillary’s campaign than help it?
• Jon Birch on the problem with the “Just War” theory
• Steelers apparently hate their players and plan to go to an artificial turf to replace the real grass :: So who will be the first, second, third… player to blow out his knee at Heinz field.

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