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8/28/07 I don’t know how I missed this

About a year ago, Forbes said Milwaukee was the hardest-drinking city in America.
Hey, I didn’t need Forbes to tell me that about my hometown.
It makes me proud, really.
[I like the quote from "Lips" LaBelle, too. I can't believe he's still DJing on WKTI. I remember him from when I first started listening to the radio [...]

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Filed under Amusing (if only to me) on August 28, 2007, 'I don’t know how I missed this' has comments numbering merely 0.
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8/24/07 The transit dilemma

Say you wanted to go from Oakland, California to Sacramento, California, a distance of 80 miles, to catch a Friday night Sacramento Rivercats game. (They’re a minor-league baseball team.) And you wanted to take public transit and come back the same night. That seems possible.

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Filed under Life, Sports, Transit on August 24, 2007, 'The transit dilemma' has comments numbering merely 2.
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8/16/07 Phasing out “E-modified”

“The Road to Clarity”, on nytimes.com, relates the story of the development of Clearview, the newish font system designed to improve the legibility of America’s highway signs.
Though it appears to me that adoption has been slow (have you seen this typeface on highway signs? Maybe I’m just hardly ever on the highway), it makes me [...]

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Filed under Design on August 16, 2007, 'Phasing out “E-modified”' has comments numbering merely 0.
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A problem for the Democrats

From Karl who? White House downplays Rove’s role in the LA Times:
“He controlled a great deal of the real estate and no matter how the White House spins his departure, the truth is that he leaves a gaping hole inside the White House,” said Donna Brazile, a Democratic strategist who has forged a friendship with [...]

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Filed under I Hate Politics on August 16, 2007, 'A problem for the Democrats' has comments numbering merely 0.
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8/14/07 Another fan of death

Well, well. Apparently some other bloodthirsty, self-promoting neocon thinks that we need another 9/11 to “save” America. Watch. Learn.

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Filed under I Hate Politics on August 14, 2007, 'Another fan of death' has comments numbering merely 0.
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Chicago, that toddlin’ town

As for me, I was in Chicago for 10 days recently… I went to Yearly Kos (soon to be renamed the “Netroots Nation” convention) and then spent 6 days doing very little except for enjoying blissful summer vacation fun.
I got to see Kim & Dave & young Eli (all of whom are going to be [...]

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Filed under Life on August 14, 2007, 'Chicago, that toddlin’ town' has comments numbering merely 0.
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