Necessary Roughness

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Archive for November, 2004

Happy Thanksgiving!
Wednesday, November 24th, 2004

No blogging for me tomorrow, so here’s my entry in advance:

The Artest formerly known as the NBA
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004

Friday night at Auburn Hills seems to me a predictable consequence of some of the practices in the NBA.

Big Trivia Night
Friday, November 19th, 2004

To mark what could possibly be my last night in Kilgore/Longview — plans call for me to be in Houston for December instead — I went to the Sports Page and played about 4 hours of trivia: 3 hours of ½ hour countdown and 1 hour of Sports Trivia.

Book Report: Persecution by David Limbaugh
Thursday, November 18th, 2004

After all the recent hubbub about the role of morals and religion in government, it struck me as funny (funny like Kurt Vonnegut’s Hocus Pocus, as opposed to funny like Blue Collar Comedy Tour) that the next book in my stack should relate to this topic.
David Limbaugh’s book, Persecution: How Liberals are Waging War Against [...]

Not much intellectual capital being spent on the opinion page of the Newark (Ohio) Advocate these days. The only article on the web site today was Democrats lack a streamlined message (link dead), by Ric Bolton in Granville. All quotes are complete, with the author’s grammatical errors. I feel guilty about even commenting on this, [...]