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    Isn't that a euphemism for oral sex?
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    Another visit on Saturday night with my daughter. I had the delicious Fuggedaboudit-- corned beef, pastrami, on grilled rye with swiss, coleslaw, Russian dressing, and a schmear of chopped liver. My daughter had a burger. We weren't so crazy about it given that it was probably 95% lean. It definitely needed some juice.
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    I'm drinking a cup of coffee and thinking about my friend Gary who died early this morning at home from cancer. He had a long struggle with brain tumors. He was as kind and sincere as they come.
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    Oh, and I can't leave this out by gum:
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    Check out some photos of abandoned HoJo's including the one in Afton VA. http://weburbanist.com/2013/12/29/hojos-lost-mojo-10-abandoned-howard-johnsons/2/
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    Article on NPR about Pablo's son. One crazy life. "Renouncing Pablo Escobar's Sins, His Son Trafficks in Motivational Talks" by John Otis on npr.org
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    A response to the insanity in Missouri from a US Senate candidate:
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    This is insane: Missouri: The Shoot-Me State - New York Times " The law will let citizens carry concealed weapons in public without a state gun permit, criminal background check or firearms training. It strips local law enforcement of its current authority to deny firearms to those guilty of domestic violence and to other high-risk individuals. And it establishes a dangerous “stand your ground” standard that will allow gun owners to shoot and claim self-defense based on their own sense of feeling threatened. " Why, why, why, why?
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    Wow, it's like I'm looking in a mirror!
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    I was disappointed to find out it wasn't true. Though, by all accounts, Bob was a real dick. Hmmm. Maybe I AM related to him.
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    Perhaps instead of receiving a tax break for each child, there should be a tax hike! A bigger family is more of a tax burden on the rest of us! Ok, I'm not really suggesting that, but it does make logical sense, no? I don't associate large families with selfishness per se, but I do question the motives of a family like the Duggars. Nineteen freakin' offspring? Also, I think it's strange that we purchase expensive wooden boxes to put our dearly departed in and then put them in a big field with a bunch of other people in wooden boxes. Cemeteries seem like a waste of space to me. George Carlin: When I die I don’t want to be buried, but I don’t want to be cremated either. I want to be blown up. Put me on a pile of explosives and blow me up. Or throw my body from a helicopter. That would be fun. One stipulation: wherever I land, you have to leave me there. Even if it’s the mayor’s lawn. Just let me lie there. But keep the dogs away.
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    So here's the deal. My grandfather only met his father a couple of times. I guess Grandpa decided to, uh, embellish his heritage a bit. You're right Don, I'm not related to Bob. My great-grandfather came over on the boat from either Poland or the Ukraine, settled in Detroit, married my great-grandmother who played piano in speakeasies (my daughter Ruby is named after her), and then did time in prison for bigamy (!) and tax evasion. He may have been involved in smuggling liquor from Canada into the US during prohibition. We recently discovered this info and it's interesting because my great-grandfather was Jewish. My grandfather's brother, who was notoriously anti-Semitic, went to his grave never knowing that he was half Jewish! So, I'm going to drop my vendetta against Billy the Kid's family. Other parts of my family claim to be related to Robert Fulton and Robert Burns. So, there are a lot of Bobs for some reason. Shalom and Happy Trails, Al
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    Ol' Deppity Bob.
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    Some cool street art can be found here at streetartnews.net.
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    "Blazing Saddles" and "Young Frankenstein" are two of the greatest comedies I've ever seen and they both starred Gene Wilder. Mel Brooks is certainly a comedic genius, but I don't think these movies would have been nearly as good without Wilder. I think I'll give Blazing Saddles a view tonight. And then maybe watch the best skit from "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex":
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    I can taste those rubbery fried goodies now.
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    The pitchforks will come when the robots show up. From an email exchange with my brother... This is a fascinating, but troubling subject. I’ve read a good bit about what we’re looking at down the road in terms of unemployment. I don’t think any candidate wants to get on the stump and warn us about the coming of the robots. But we need to have a serious discussion about what to do with a million unemployed truckers, not to mention the millions of other jobs that’ll be on the chopping block in the next decade. What exactly do we train these people to be—assuming the gov’t or anyone else is willing to fund the training? I suspect there isn’t going to be a whole hell of a lot of replacement jobs. "Presidential Campaigns are Talking around the Robot in the Room" by Marilyn Geewax on npr.org I think we’re going to see even more inequality in income and more and more (in my opinion, misdirected) anger from voters. Given the whole Trump shitshow, what kind of leaders are going to appeal to these voters? I fear we’re headed toward something a lot worse than Trump. Unless, dare I say it, we find a more socialistic solution that the public can get their heads wrapped around. Wealth will have to be redistributed greatly. Feb 15, 2016 - "Robots will Steal your Job: How AI Could Increase Unemployment and Inequality" by Oscar Williams-Grut on businessinsider.com It’s happening already. Jul, 2015 - "A World without Work" by Derek Thompson on theatlantic.com “In 1964, the nation’s most valuable company, AT&T, was worth $267 billion in today’s dollars and employed 758,611 people. Today’s telecommunications giant, Google, is worth $370 billion but has only about 55,000 employees—less than a tenth the size of AT&T’s workforce in its heyday.” “Nine out of 10 workers today are in occupations that existed 100 years ago, and just 5 percent of the jobs generated between 1993 and 2013 came from “high tech” sectors like computing, software, and telecommunications. Our newest industries tend to be the most labor-efficient: they just don’t require many people.”
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    Thanks for finding that! He hits the nail on the head. We are heading towards feudalism and there's no political will to do anything about it. Special interests write their own legislation making them richer and everyone else poorer. I think this is very much tied to the conversations around the 2nd amendment-- we need laws, ideas, and a mindset that truly consider the new realities of our rapidly changing modern world. We're stuck in our ways and have so many leaders who believe (or purport to believe) that somehow our country is immune to decay because... well, America. It's gonna start getting real fucked up real fast if we don't have any plans that extend past the next election.
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    It's simple really...
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    I'm not sure. I seem to remember him having a short fuse from the get go.
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    Back in 1996/97 I backpacked my way all over Europe. In hostels, the two movies you could always find in the library were Trainspotting and Pulp Fiction. I spent enough time in Scotland that I could decode the dialogue-- especially after several viewings. I loved the flick. The mix of light and dark humor was seamless: Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: [narrating] I wished that I'd gone down instead of Spud. Here I was surrounded by my family and my so-called mates and I've never felt so alone. Never in all my puff. Since I was on remand, they've had me on this program, this state sponsored addiction. Three sickly sweet doses of methadone a day instead of smack. But it's never enough. And at the moment it's nowhere near enough. I took all three this morning and now I've got eighteen hours to go until my next shot. I've got sweat on my back like a layer of frost. I need to visit the Mother Superior for one hit. One final hit to get us over this long, hard day. [to Swanney 'Mother Superior'] Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: What's on the menu this evening, Sir? Swanney: Your favorite dish. Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: Excellent. Swanney: Your usual table, Sir. Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: Oh, why thank you. Swanney: Would Sir care to pay for his bill in advance? Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: No. Stick it on my tab. Swanney: Ah, regret to inform, sir, credit limit was reached and breached quite some time ago. Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: Oh, well in that case... [hands him some cash] Swanney: Ah, hard currency. Thank you, Sir. Can't be too careful these days. Would Sir care for a starter of some garlic bread perhaps? Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: No, thank you. I will proceed directly to the intravenous injection of hard drugs, please. Being a quarter Scottish, I also got a kick out of: Tommy: Doesn't it make you proud to be Scottish? Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: It's SHITE being Scottish! We're the lowest of the low. The scum of the fucking Earth! The most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash that was ever shat into civilization. Some hate the English. I don't. They're just wankers. We, on the other hand, are COLONIZED by wankers. Can't even find a decent culture to be colonized BY. We're ruled by effete arseholes. It's a SHITE state of affairs to be in, Tommy, and ALL the fresh air in the world won't make any fucking difference!
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    You don't get to pop it into the oven or anything. They bring out a plate with the raw dough on it and some little cups with sauce, cheese, and toppings. You load it up, they take it to the kitchen, and there you go!
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    I took a look at their website and noticed they have make-your-own-pizza for kids. So I took my 6.5yo daughter out there for dinner. They'll give your kid a helium balloon if you ask. The service was great, and my daughter loved making her own black olive-laden pizza-- she loves black olives. The tables were rather sparsely populated for prime time on a Saturday night, so I don't know how sustainable their business is. The pizza itself was better than your average American-style pie with good sauce and cheese, but the crust was the very doughy and thick variety. We might go back since it has a nice atmosphere for kids. It sure as hell beats going to Chuck E. Cheese's. As per usual I forgot to take my box of leftovers.
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