Posts from October, 2004

  • 25
    Oct    3

    Best SNL Moment Ever?
    At first I felt sorry for her. Confused and helpless, Ashlee Simpson had just been exposed to millions of SNL viewers as a lip-synching poser. To make matters worse, instead of immediately walking off stage, she tortured the audience with a bizarre jig dance. It was excruciating. Get off the stage girl! Don’t come back! [...]
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  • 24
    Oct    0

    All In with Phil
    My friend Phil is like a lot of people I know: he loves to play Texas Hold ‘Em. But unlike everyone else, he doesn’t seem to lose. In fact, just this past weekend Phil beat 440 people in an online Hold ‘Em tourney to win $11,000. Phil took a few minutes to answer some questions [...]
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  • 20
    Oct    1

    Quote of the Day
    You remember Mark Twain said, ‘He looks like a contented Christian with four aces.’ I mean he was just sitting there like, ‘I’m on top of the world.’ Pat Roberston, after the President had told him that there wouldn’t be casualties in Iraq.
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  • 4
    Oct    2

    The Manager and the Moralist
    David Brooks has most succinctly boiled down the debate, I think. Remove style, eloquence, and off-camera body language, and you basically have two ways to see the world. Like a “manager or engineer,” Kerry is results-oriented. He is mostly focused on the details and the process. I?m not sure he?s “coldly secular,” but undoubtedly the [...]
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