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I Love Manny Ramirez

I’m making it official. Manny Ramirez is my all time favorite baseball player. I’m just basing this on raw talent and entertainment value. I’d say that I admire Jackie Robinson more or whatever, but for

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Florida vs. Joe Francis

Sometimes, right wingers can be funny, albeit in a deeply spine chilling scary way. The other day I saw some guy on a panel show mention Joe Francis. He said something to the effect

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My Grandfather on California Disasters

My late Grandfather was for some reason proud to be a Clevelander. One of his daughter’s proudly lived in Los Angeles. Everytime there was some sort of California-centric disaster (quake, flood, drought, fire, riot),

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Bruce Lee: A Warrior’s Journey

You can’t go wrong watching any of Bruce Lee’s completed films, and I have a special place in my heart for Rob Cohen’s Dragon, which posits Lee’s life had it resembled something as exciting

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Do I Hear 2 Trillion?

Jesus, I hate to care about politics. Only a couple hours over gasping at the 500 Billion we’ve spent on the Iraq war, I go pick up a copy of USA Today (for the

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500 Billion Dollars!

 500 Billion Dollars! That’s what the Iraq war has cost us so far. So next time someone tells you that we have done good things over there, ask them to ponder whether it was

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Flomax

Where is the FCC when I need them? Can we stop worrying about people’s kids seeing a stray nipple and start protecting me from these creepy commercials where guys camp, swim, golf, and cookout,

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The Patriot

The Patriot is a very “American” movie in that not only does America win the war, but it has to all be done by one guy (Mel Gibson – not very American). There’s nothing

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Bill James on Ty Cobb

Bill James is mostly known as a numbers man, but I really admire his historical writing more. He wrote a very long and fascinating piece on Ernie Lombardi and other profiles that I loved,

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