Daily Archives: March 2, 2006

She Outshot Jack Bauer!

Posted on March 2, 2006 by Alaska

   From my wife’s copy of this month’s NRA’s Woman’s Outlook: Eva Longoria told Cosmopolitan magazine that being from Texas, she and her family “kill wild pigs for tamales,” according to published reports.  The “Desperate Housewives” star said “hunting is a … Continue reading →

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Blogging the Black Death

Posted on March 2, 2006 by Alaska

…or airborne avian flu, or the second cousin of that pesky airborne Reston ebolavirus, or even whatever it was that killed five billion people in Twelve Monkeys — what would blogging the experience be like? Well, while unpacking the contents of the garage* this past … Continue reading →

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The Wisdom of Daniel Weintraub

Posted on March 2, 2006 by Alaska

Weintraub is one of two Sacramento Bee columnists who gained some prominence among Washington, D.C. journalists back during Schwarzenegger’s run for the governorship. What I found amusing was that he was almost universally cited by the East-Coast meida as “an … Continue reading →

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RNS Quote of the Day

Posted on March 2, 2006 by Alaska

“You can buy a grenade for $15 or brass knuckles for $5,” he said. “We had a guy showing off a gun in school yesterday. He said if we told on him, we’d be killed. It’s gotten worse over the … Continue reading →

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