all-encompassingly

our campus community was treated (subjected?) to a speech by the immortal (read: preserved by formaldehyde) helen thomas on tuesday. while i knew what i was getting into by attending her “speech”, most of my fellow students–at what may be the nation’s most conservative campus–did not.
on one occasion a few years […]

I invite you to read this story on NHL.com. [link]
Comedian, Dennis Leary, and Bruin legends, Bobby Orr and Cam Neely, helped organize a charity game for retired NHL greats and celebrities to raise money for firefighters. They hatched the idea after Leary’s cousin, Jeremiah Lucey, and five other Worcester, Massachusetts firefighters lost their […]

I’m voting for King of Fools “Caucasian Club”
[link]
if you do not know what this showcase thing is, then we are in the same boat. go to TTLB for details, i suppose.

why do liberals hate christianity and love islam? damned if i know! but the lovely ann coulter has composed an excellent short-take on the issue. [article]

Before snack time in her kindergarten class in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., little Kayla Broadus held hands with two of her classmates and recited this prayer: “God is […]

frank j is getting serious. and that’s saying something.

As I’ve said before on my own site, I don’t get legitimately angry that often, but one thing has been pissing me off lately, and that’s the coverage of the war in the media. All we hear is the negative news, and everything is […]

occasionally i find myself browsing the zeitgeist, a collection of “search patterns, trends, and surprises” compiled by the nerds at google. sometimes the stuff there is interesting. but sometimes….
you get something like this.

Fun Fact…
August 2003
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Last month, a computer virus spread that affected Microsoft software applications. This virus had many different names. […]

i’ve spent most of the morning dealing with critics
but i do have time to recommend THIS. it’s the coolest way yet to browse weblogs. not to mention the most aesthetically pleasing.
you can get involved here. you ping them with your blog’s latitude and longitude, then you magically appear on the […]

feliz dia de independencia a mis amigos chilenos! bailen mucha cueca por mi!

Puro, Chile, es tu cielo azulado,
Puras brisas te cruzan también,
Y tu campo de flores bordado
Es la copia feliz del Edén.
Majestuosa es la blanca montaña
Que te dio por baluarte el Señor,
Y ese mar que tranquilo te baña
Te promete futuro esplendor.
Dulce Patria, […]

hockey is better. i go on first to clean the hair. not hockey is better. i make the hair silky and smooth. oh, really fool? [scuffling noises]

doug religiously maintains, with the awkward giddiness of your child’s hall monitor, that ice hockey is inferior to many other sports. he is […]

they’re coming to get you. about 9000 hippies gathered to a remote part of the uinta mountains this past july. they do it often, at least every summer. the hippies are mad because the government is restricting their freedom to assemble by asking them to get permits and pay fines for destroying […]

Hola!
I am here in Cordoba, Argentina for the semester and wanted to take a couple minutes to give a tribute to the unrelenting Travis. What a blogger…
Anyways I am here in the sunny lands to the south, successfully avoiding the fall and first parts of winter of Utah. As a special bonus, Argentina […]

if you were a respected journalistic professional, racking your brain for that ONE thing for which to fault the beautiful and talented britney spears, what sin of hers would you point out?
jonathan alter notes britney’s patriotism as her most VILE misdeed. he mentions her act of sticking her tongue down the material girl’s throat […]

“we remember the lives lost. we remember the compassion, the decency of our fellow citizens on that terrible day.” –president bush
[perspective]

i have gotten emails both in appreciation of and in disgust for my remarks about treason. [here] before i blogged it, i was discussing the issue of liberals “hating” america with one of my liberal friends, and i had acknowledged that perhaps the reason for the dichotomy of opinions could be this: […]

1. politics in kentucky can get downright scary [link removed; it used to go to a site called “mullets for chandler” but the domain probably expired and it appears to have been spam-farmed into something else]
2. we had some problems with our computer’s modem at home, as i said. this basically describes […]