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Month: May, 2006

where does one go on Memorial Day weekend?

Way too much drinking and rocking out to Hell’s Bells (an all girl AC/DC cover band) on Saturday meant that we didn’t get started until 11:30 on Sunday, and even then with wickedly debilitating hangovers.
Guessing that most Front Range crags were going to be crawling with people, Tim and I went north to Vedauwoo. Lots [...]

century saturday

Rode my first century this season with a bunch of friends (ultimate frisbee names used to protect the innocent) — Big Sexy, Touchdown Brown, the Difference, and the Summation — going from Ft. Collins to Estes Park, down 36 to Lyons, and then back up to Ft. Collins via the flats. Big fun, although [...]

lunatics on both ends of the spectrum

A few days ago, the CSM had an interesting pair of stories. The first one was entitled The Caliphate: One nation, under Allah, with 1.5 billion Muslims. The basic idea would be:

that Muslims should abolish national boundaries within the Islamic world and return to a single Islamic state, known as “the Caliphate,” that would stretch [...]

9 good ideas

Josh Cohen wonders what can we do about high gas prices and came up with a list of 10 ideas (note that he originally blogged in September of last year). I would say that 9 of those ideas are good, with one stinker:

8. There’s a lot of unused land. It’s not being farmed. It’s not [...]

home depot sucks

Home Depot
2455 Paces Ferry Rd.
Atlanta, GA 30339
To Whom It May Concern:
I am writing to voice my extreme displeasure with a recent experience I had ordering an item from Home Depot Online.
On February 2, 2006, my order # 97652250 was shipped to me. It consisted of a Hampton Bay “Flex Track Starter Kit” and six track [...]

Moussaoui’s mom understands

Zacarias Moussaoui is going to be denied his martyrdom, a fitting punishment for a megalomanical, attention seeking craphound. The sentencing judge, Leonie Brinkema, told him to die with a whimper. Good.
At first, it might seem tempting to root for capital punishment, and just be done with him. Upon further investigation, however, a) slowly killing him [...]