Author: Dr Wingnut
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Wierd from Nat
Weird, weird, weird music… “outsider music,” you might call it. Check track 7: a tuba playing Lonely Bull. Comfort Stand RecordsGreat sidewalk chalk drawings: DodgerFunny/weird Las Vegas travelogue by Bender: hetikIf you didn’t download it yet, here’s the Uncle Mark guide: (If you don’t know what it is, just download it and read it. Yep.)…
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Food for all
I can’t understand why we continue to pour resources into the industries of the 19th century.Intel CEO Craig Barrett bemoaning U.S. agriculture subsidiesMust be because he can afford to buy any kind of food he wants.Dr. Wingnut
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Unprecedented Summit
I was listening to the News Briefs on the local Boston all-news station when the reporter read a story about an unprecedented summit between the Prime Ministers of two countries who are encaged in heated territorial dispute.The reporter stated it was unprecedented because of the longstanding acrimonious relationship between the two leaders.Whoa! Acrimonious is not…
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Politically Correct
I came across this little stack of pages from a desk calendar "365 days of Political Correctness" that I was given in 1997. They were too good to just throw away, especially with the alternative spellings, so here they are: Saturday, 18 October, 1997In 1993, the Iowa City School District Equity—Affirmative Action Advisory Committee began…
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Immigration
It doesn’t matter if you came over on the Mayflower; you came over on a slave ship, or you crossed over the Rio Grande. We’re all in the same boat now.Presidential Candidate, Ambassador Carol Mosley Braun’s mother
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Christmas Fruitcake
1 cup of sugar4 large eggs2 cups dried fruit1 teaspoon baking soda1 teaspoon salt1 cup brown sugarlemon juicenuts1 gallon whiskeySample the whiskey to check for quality.Take a large bowl.Check the whiskey again to be sure it is of the highest quality.Pour one level cup and drink.Repeat.Turn on the electric mixer; beat 1 cup butter in…