Archive for July 2nd, 2008

As opposed to other years, I fully intend to enjoy this year’s July 4 festivities. Barbecue some pork chops, fry up some chicken wangs (cuz grilled don’t quite capture the essence), bust down on some watermelon, and drank up a some red Kool-Aid and a li’l high gravity lager, if I’m feelin’ just so.

And some spades. Gotta play spades.

What’s yours lookin like?

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Uhhhh…what in the blim-blam? It’s bad enough when it’s girls. If it was a boy, there’d be a REAL problem.

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Speaking of real problems, what’s goin on with these teachers messing around with their students? For real. I just don’t understand it. But the killer part about these stories in particular are the names of two of the towns.

1. Mentor, OH
2. Trustville, AL. (okay, it’s trussville, but still…)

can’t make this stuff up.

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While most of us are trying to figure out exactly what’s going on with these gas prices, there are those among us who say that it boils down to the basic question of supply-and-demand. Nothing more than that. But usually, when somebody’s all like, ‘nothing to see here,’ it’s cuz there’s something to see. I’ll buy the fact that prices went up due to supply and demand over the course of the last few years. The last few months, though?

Think of it like this: in 2003, we permanently broke the $2 threshold. It took 5 years to permanently break the $3 threshold. Then in less than 6 months, we’re either breaking or kissing the $4 mark? So in six months supply and demand alone can explain a price increase that equals the previous 5 years? For real?

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