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	<description>I couldn&#039;t possibly fail to disagree with you less.</description>
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		<title>Aetna sunshine when he&#8217;s gone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Could this all be &#8220;a giant mind-frak&#8221;?  Smitty entertains the possibility:

Say that BHO, surveying the wreckage of the steaming pile of manure delivered to his desk, decrees that it is too contentious, too perilous, and that Reid and Pelosi have done what they could, but that the legislation simply wasn&#8217;t up to signing standards.

Well, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian bakin&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For some reason, the Thunder have had no particular problem scorching the Raptors this season.  Last time, at the Ford Center, I figured it was due to temporary Boshlessness; but tonight in Toronto, Chris Bosh was in good form (22 points, 10 rebounds), and still the Raptors were boiled, 115-89.  Since Toronto averages [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The old S&#246;fft shoe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When someone tweets about &#8220;the most comfortable heels ever,&#8221; I pay attention.

This is &#8220;Ramona&#8221; by S&#246;fft, which latter sounds like one of those goofy Web 2.0 names but apparently actually dates back to 1927.  It&#8217;s a label of H. H. Brown, which also produces a line called &#8220;B&#248;rn.&#8221;  Go figure.
Ramona stands 3.5 inches [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quote of the week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael P. DeCicco, a resident of Severn, Maryland, writes to the Baltimore Sun:

I&#8217;m not part of the black helicopter crowd. I don&#8217;t think the census will be used to track my movements or steal my DNA. Still, I don&#8217;t see any advantage in filling out the form and returning it.
My county knows who and where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>365</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Technical difficulties&#8221; are blamed for the recent absence of the Carnival of the Vanities, now in its 365th edition.
Then again, there are technical difficulties, and then there are technical difficulties:

Slightly after daybreak, and heralded by a thick succession of fiercely shaken thunderbolts, the solidity of the whole earth was made to shake and shudder, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What they&#8217;re looking for</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jenn is perplexed for some reason:

&#8230;nearly 500 hits today with almost half coming from searches for Yvonne Strahovski.

I admit here that I had no idea who Ms Strahovski is, so I checked Jenn&#8217;s post containing the Strahovski reference, which included a couple of photos.
And then, reasoning that I couldn&#8217;t sneer at 250 or so hits, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A bottle of Frontier Red</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We doff our coonskin caps (oh, yes, we have them somewhere) to the late Fess Parker, television&#8217;s Davy Crockett in the mid-1950s, and I point you to this remembrance by Lisa:

In the ultimate example of following your market, Fess Parker moved on to making wine. And his low-priced Rhone style wine even has his face [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Form following function, or something like that</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not all motor vehicles place the same emphasis on cargo capacity.  At one extreme, for instance, there&#8217;s the Infiniti G convertible, which has just about enough trunk space for a Mounds bar, though not an Almond Joy.  (Almond Joy got nuts; Mounds don&#8217;t.)
The droptop G, however, is not ideal for a growing family. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Below Milk Dud level</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So it&#8217;s come to this: the head of a Hollywood studio objects to popcorn, fercrissake.

One of the most powerful studio bosses in Hollywood &#8230; would like to see cinemas selling healthier snacks.
Michael Lynton, chairman and chief executive of Sony Pictures, says that audiences would be better off nibbling on granola bars, fruit salad, yogurt and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dustbury.com/archives/10087</link>
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		<title>Speaking of March Madness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And who isn&#8217;t, right?
A study released this week reports that the graduation rates for women&#8217;s teams competing for the NCAA title exceed the rates for men&#8217;s teams:
There were 19 women&#8217;s teams that had a 100 percent graduation rate compared to six men&#8217;s teams. And 51 women&#8217;s teams graduated at least 70 percent of their players [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dustbury.com/archives/10083</link>
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		<title>I always preferred &#8220;mile relay&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lynn is treating the Census with the utmost seriousness:

I plan to be a good, obedient citizen and fill it out properly. Exercising one&#8217;s freedom by putting down &#8220;human&#8221; as one&#8217;s race could result in having unpleasant people knocking on one&#8217;s door.

Meanwhile, I&#8217;m trying to figure out where I&#8217;m supposed to get a time machine to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Old Goat Express</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of her ChicagoNow debut, E. M. Zanotti asserts &#8220;I once had my boobs ogled by John McCain,&#8221; and provides what she describes as &#8220;photographic semi-evidence&#8221;:

Oh, he was looking, all right.  Guaran-damn-teed, as we used to say.  Consider this video capture, previously seen here:

At least the man has some redeeming social value.

© [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With feline ferocity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am forced to conclude that no one, except maybe Michael Jordan, is quite used to the idea of the Charlotte Bobcats as a playoff team.  The Thunder piled up a lead of 19 points in the second quarter, but the &#8216;Cats ran off 11 straight to finish the first half, and were up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dustbury.com/archives/10086</link>
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		<title>There&#8217;s a joke in here somewhere</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night I found an unopened bottle of Tilex Mildew Remover under the sink.
So far as I can tell, it had been sitting there for six years, unnoticed.

© 2010 by Charles G. Hill.  All rights reserved.  See legal notice at dustbury.com/legalese.
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		<link>http://www.dustbury.com/archives/10081</link>
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		<title>Half-staff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The music industry&#8217;s fear of the Dread Pirate Anyone borders on legendary these days. (And of course, when Anyone retires, someone else will assume the, um, position.)  This ongoing neurosis, I submit, has affected them in ways they never anticipated.  For instance, it would be nice if they could handle a simple task [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big men, yesterday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a piece about Glen A. Larson, I came up with this observation:

All this supports the case for the Four Preps (!) as major cultural influence: the very same Glen A. Larson was a member, and so was the late Ed Cobb, who went on to write iconic tunes like &#8220;Dirty Water&#8221; and &#8220;Tainted Love.&#8221;

Time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You don&#8217;t need this functionality anyway</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Redmond hath so decreed, so live with it:

Windows Phone 7 Series will not have copy and paste functionality. There is a data-detection service built into the text-handling API that will recognize phone numbers and addresses, but Microsoft says most users, including Office users, don&#8217;t really need clipboard functionality.

Meanwhile, iPhone OS 3.0 will have it:

A double-tap [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White dogs can&#8217;t jump</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
The Bichon Fris&#233; Club of America, which is holding its national specialty in Indianapolis this year, evidently believes otherwise.
And is that goaltending on #20?

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		<title>The cost of March Madness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The old lost-productivity shtick, right?  Right:

Filling out the brackets has become a sacred ritual in almost every office in the country. A Microsoft survey last year found 58 million people will fill brackets out, many at work and on the clock. The estimated cost of the lost productivity is $1.8 billion.

This is about $31 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hold that wrecking ball</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, I grumbled about the New! Improved! SandRidge Energy complex:

[I]t strikes me as a bad idea aesthetically to remove the [Kermac] building simply to increase the visibility of the new SandRidge plaza.

Well, would you look at that.  The Downtown Design Review Committee sees things much the same way I do [pdf]:

The loss [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And the abyss looks back</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scarcely anyone, or so it seems, knows the best record over an 82-game NBA season.  (Chicago, 1995-96, who went 72-10 and beat Seattle &#8212; remember them? &#8212; in the Finals.)   But everyone can quote you the worst record: Sixers, 1972-73, 9-73, largely because the last couple of years there have been teams [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dustbury.com/archives/10072</link>
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		<title>Whatever happened to style?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s the opening line of a four-page Chrysler ad in Entertainment Weekly, and it caught me off-guard in several ways, not least of which is the fact that it&#8217;s printed in centerfold orientation &#8212; turn left edge of magazine to top, or turn head &#8212; despite not actually being a centerfold.
In various fonts, you read [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes it&#8217;s almost apt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not often I get a Nigerian-scam letter purporting to be from Dothan, Alabama, and this one is a beaut:

I am Mrs. Sherry Rose Martins, I am a US citizen, 48 years Old. I reside here in Dothan Alabama U.S.A. My residential address is as follows. 462 North Oates Street &#8212; Dothan, AL 36303, Dothan [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dustbury.com/archives/10069</link>
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		<title>The bench seems so much warmer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One reason to go to a Spurs-Thunder game &#8212; most years there are four, two here and two in San Antonio &#8212; is to see how the student has learned from the master: OKC GM Sam Presti honed his skills working for Spurs head honcho R. C. Buford.  (This season, the Spurs lead the [...]]]></description>
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