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■ THE QUOTE “More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.” — Jeff Greenfield ▲ BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG SKY Heads up for another cool sky show tonight. The annual...
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Love It Or Hate It? Barack Obama yesterday did what American presidents do every Fourth of July. He told us how fabulous we are, how rich our history is, what intractable problems we’ve solved, what...
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Flying Saucers And Pink Dresses Yesterday, of course, was the 66th anniversary of the fabled crash of the UFO into the desert in southeast New Mexico. ■ It seems that UFO conspiracy theories have...
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Hide And Seek Alright-ee-o — here’s a list of as many Malyasia Air Flight 370 theories as I could find (before I was driven to stick a fork in my eye.): ● From the New York Daily News: The North...
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Quickies Lots of little bits today, mainly because I’m lazy. ▼ The Color Of Law Today’s the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. The unanimous US Supreme Court decision was the...
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Just The Facts, Ma’am Loyal Pencillistas know I’m a defender of Genetically Modified Organisms, AKA GMOs. That puts me in a distinct minority in this food fetishist town. People here know me as a...
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[MG Note: Pardon the weird paragraph leading today; WordPress is eff-ing up.] ▼ Scandal! Just when you think the Far Right-wingnut mob can’t get any farther or nuttier (and how many times have I had to...
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The Bloom Is Off The Foods Store? Here’s some alleged inside dope about the air that Bloomingfoods workers breathe. I caution you to take it with a grain of salt. It’s one person’s observation. I’ll...
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Black Helicopters Take Out Bambis So, the White Buffalo outfit whacked some deer Monday night and Tuesday morning — apparently. The City’s being closed-mouth about the operation. Do not enter signs...
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An Unmistakable Statement Think what you will about Barack Obama’s presidency. You’re entirely welcome to piss and moan that he’s a failed president, that his policies are leading us toward socialism,...
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