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So what happens when you open up the blog to an esteemed law professor? Apparently you get American Idol blog posts. Of course no one would mistake In re: for an academic proceeding so of course this isn’t a problem, I myself can’t say I’ve really seen much of American Idol, aside from tuning in [...]
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Yes these dogs really are using the ATMS, despite not having their own bank accounts… It was to good a story to pass up on, dogs using ATMs? Well its actually assistance dogs who help by taking care of the cards and cash while the people handle the pin code. A UK assistance dog program [...]
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So anyone who has had to endure my presence over the last few months has known that I got into the Wire, the HBO series about Baltimore police, drugs, politicians, corruption, violence, the streets, etc. The show which started out looking like a police drama has gone on to address so many areas. Enough on [...]
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Okay so the name isn’t Polonium 210, but there is a Polish restaurant in England named ‘The Polonium Restaurant‘ and since the poisoning and subsequent death of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko was confirmed to be from 210Po poisoning the restaurant has experienced a dramatic surge in business, despite not serving the sushi that may [...]
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In getting ready for my upcoming trip to Ireland and Northern Ireland a friend (Thanks to seniorcoffee) pointed out an applicable movie directed by Paul Greengrass, ‘Bloody Sunday‘ about the 1972 civil rights march, turned massacre that occurred in Londonderry (Derry) where 13 were killed by British troops. The movie isn’t for the crowd that [...]
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All week the Daily Show is hosting its ‘ Midwest Midterm Midtacular‘ from the campus at Ohio State. Due to the fact that so few tickets were available and that more then the 1000 folks who got them (I got free tickets via email but won’t be able to use them this Thursday due to [...]
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OSU v. Michigan, the final regular game of the season each year is shaping up to be possibly one of the biggest games ever played. With it looking more and more like an undefeated number 1 ranked Ohio State playing an undefeated number 2 ranked Michigan, Ohio Stadium is going to be electric. The excitement [...]
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Ali G aka Sacha Baron Cohen aka Borat from Kazakhstan, duped a number of folks into being in his movie (he did pay them, and they said the things they said knowing it was on camera). The question comes up can they sue him for ‘tricking’ them. The Slate explainer goes over the release forms [...]
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Some movies have sat for a month at a time in my house, still encased in their Netflix envelope. I must have been the dream customer, the customer who doesn’t get around to watching the movies, so I decided I had to downgrade my membership big time considering I didn’t have time to squeeze in [...]
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