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Friday, June 06, 2008

Benkabbou

By Tangotiger, 05:27 PM

Non-sports post.  Enter at your peril, avoid at your pleasure.

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(15) Comments • 2008/06/12 • News

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Texas sect: Sanity prevails in the (activist) courts.  For the time being at least.

By , 05:38 PM

Non-baseball post.

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(10) Comments • 2008/05/23 • News

Thursday, May 01, 2008

Mike’s Hard Lemonade

By Tangotiger, 06:58 AM

- “We don’t have room for all that on the sign”
- “Hmmm.. how many letters do we need to cut?”
- “5 characters”
- “Ok, let’s take out HARD and the space”
- “Won’t that confuse people who think that it’s only lemonade?”
- “Everyone knows Mike!”
- “Really?  How long they been in business”
- “Since forever… 1999”

Wow.  And check out a very blown up label, and how small the “5% alc” print is.

(15) Comments • 2008/05/03 • News

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

The Great Firewall of China

By Tangotiger, 04:32 PM

Non-sports post.  Skip the “party” if it’s not for you.

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(2) Comments • 2008/04/09 • News

Thursday, March 13, 2008

The Traveling Typo Guy

By Tangotiger, 04:46 PM

Non-sports post.  Enter at your peril.  Avoid at your pleasure.

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(4) Comments • 2008/03/15 • News

Mom, leaves baby in parked car, arrested by police, who leave her other kids in a parking lot

By Tangotiger, 12:50 PM

Non-sports post.  Enter at your peril, avoid at your pleasure.

(This standard tag line would be totally inappropriate if you read the articles.)

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(5) Comments • 2008/03/13 • News

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Governor…

By Tangotiger, 10:28 AM

Non-sports post.  Enter at your peril, avoid at your pleasure.

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(21) Comments • 2008/03/13 • News

Monday, February 25, 2008

BALCO Judge shuts down Wall Street Journal’s entire online site

By Tangotiger, 03:41 PM

Non-sports post.  Enter at your peril, avoid at your pleasure.

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(18) Comments • 2008/02/29 • News

Friday, November 16, 2007

Have Taser, Will Shoot

By Tangotiger, 03:08 PM

In the last 4 years, there have been 18 deaths in Canada after being tasered.  Here’s the latest one (click on the Videos tab), as well as the
police report v video evidence.

(5) Comments • 2007/11/19 • News

Friday, October 05, 2007

Cardinals press conference transcript

By Tangotiger, 01:14 PM

Very interesting, notably the outright dismissal of Jeff Luhnow as a candidate.

(4) Comments • 2007/10/08 • News

Thursday, September 06, 2007

Good samaritan translator arrested, awaiting trial…

By Tangotiger, 01:17 PM

... in the most advanced society in the world.  Or so that society tells us.

This is what happened, including police video.  And this is where she stands today.  Maybe Seinfeld was right, that depraved indifference is better than being a good samaritan.

(11) Comments • 2007/10/17 • News

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Unlocking your iPhone

By Tangotiger, 04:33 PM

From the boy who heard ‘round the world:
http://iphonejtag.blogspot.com/2007_08_01_archive.html
Step 1 through 10 are in the sidebar

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Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Senator…

By Tangotiger, 10:25 PM

... this time, it’s Larry Craig:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0828071craig1.html
http://www.idahostatesman.com/localnews/story/143801.html

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Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Michael Moore, Larry King, and CNN

By Tangotiger, 11:46 AM

Two out of three ain’t bad.  I mostly love Michael Moore.  I mostly respect Larry King’s professionalism.  CNN.... well, I used to like them.  Other than Anderson Cooper and Larry King, I tune them out.  But, last night.... 

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(21) Comments • 2008/03/19 • News

Thursday, June 14, 2007

Satisfaction Guaranteed, Or… Uh, 54 million$?

By Tangotiger, 12:03 AM

The latest lawsuit, as the American legal system tests the statutes, with one family hanging in the balance.

(3) Comments • 2008/08/19 • News

Thursday, November 30, 2006

Court: make currency recognizable to blind

By Tangotiger, 06:50 PM

Non-sports.

“It can no longer be successfully argued that a blind person has ‘meaningful access’ to currency if she cannot accurately identify paper money without assistance,” Robertson wrote in a 26-page order.

“Of the more than 180 countries that issue paper currency, only the United States prints bills that are identical in size and color in all their denominations,” he wrote.

If a significant portion of the population were blind, you’re darn tootin’ that the currency would look different.

And, I’d bet that if men could conceive, abortion would have been legalized before the invention of the wheel. 

(9) Comments • 2006/12/02 • BloggingNews

Thursday, October 12, 2006

World News: City Wiped Off The Map

By Tangotiger, 11:41 AM

Oops, I mean 665,000 Iraqis have died in a war, almost all civilians. After the first five thousand, we forget to count.  Let’s just add them to the millions of forgotten civilians in WWII from Poland, China and Russia.

France trying to create a law to ensure the history of other nations, while conveniently forgetting their own.

(5) Comments • 2006/10/14 • News

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Cory Lidle in Manhattan Plane Crash

By Tangotiger, 02:21 PM

This is what is being reported:

A law enforcement official in Washington says New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle was on the plane that crashed into a 50-story condominium tower on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

The crash killed at least four people, and sent flaming debris raining down onto sidewalks.

(3) Comments • 2006/10/12 • News

Monday, October 09, 2006

When Music Meets Math

By Tangotiger, 01:59 PM

Cool article on a…

...way of understanding how music is constructed. His findings have resulted in the first paper on music theory that the journal Science has printed in its 127-year history, and may provide an additional theoretical tool for composers searching for that elusive next chord.

(1) Comments • 2006/10/12 • News

Monday, October 02, 2006

Politics: Today’s “I can’t believe they said that”

By Tangotiger, 09:26 AM

This is a nonsports entry.  If you don’t want to join the party, don’t be a party-pooper.  Just skip it.

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(8) Comments • 2006/10/04 • News
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