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Rufus | Friday, 5th of March 2010 at 01:52:01 PM
Buzz on this documentary has been heating up in the blogosphere lately and, as www.threedonia.com’s resident evil industrialist I figure I ought to comment on it. I am awaiting this movie the same way Porvaznik and JohnFN await the first pitch on opening day! I hope to see it in a theater. If not, I’ll buy [...]
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Floyd | Wednesday, 3rd of March 2010 at 06:19:44 PM
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Floyd | Thursday, 25th of February 2010 at 04:33:00 PM
This will boost our traffic to be sure. A woman was apparently saved from a gunshot to the wound to the chest by her D-Cup silicon breast implants. Well OK, a plastic surgeon is making the claim, but he’s got the evidence — or so he says:
Lydia Carranza was working at the Simi [...]
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Rufus | Thursday, 18th of February 2010 at 01:02:53 PM
I just wrote the following comment. If any of you need proof that I am correct, see if you can get through the below audio clip. I apologize in advance for subjecting you to this, but sometimes knowledge requires pain.
They are angry because the world is not perfect. We do not all own [...]
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Floyd | Sunday, 7th of February 2010 at 07:40:47 AM
First… kudos to Marvel for setting the upcoming Captain America movie back in the 1940s so they could make him more patriotic. Jeers for thinking that only the 1940s would support a flag-waving (and wearing) patriot without any risk of eye-rolling. I’ve always thought Cap would be difficult to film — I mean [...]
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Rufus | Wednesday, 3rd of February 2010 at 01:01:11 PM
“It’s a dessert topping. No, it’s a floor wax…”
Has a man with less ability ever made so much selling so little? In my opinion Steve Jobs has been selling more sizzle than steak, a lot more, and charging a premium mark-up for that sizzle for years. The iPad is a perfect [...]
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Floyd | Monday, 1st of February 2010 at 06:11:58 AM
Here’s an interesting essay by German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk from The City Journal on The Grasping Hand of the modern democratic state and what it might mean. Here’s a bit go read the whole thing:
The modern democratic state pillages its productive citizens.
To assess the unprecedented scale that the modern democratic state has attained in [...]
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Floyd | Saturday, 23rd of January 2010 at 07:56:53 PM
We didn’t say much this year about the 37th anniversary of Roe v. Wade last Friday. Reader Kenn Christenson linked in the comments to this fantastic and sobering article from The Weekly Standard about how experience and ultrasound force many abortionists into a crisis of conscience and ultimately, of course, a choice.
I’m always reminded [...]
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Rufus | Wednesday, 20th of January 2010 at 02:11:22 PM
Screenplay by Roger Ebert, He’s an artiste!
A few weeks ago Outlaw posted a very nice article by Roger Ebert. I took the occasion to speak my mind about Roger in the comments. I also received a lot of heat at John Nolte’s old place for stating a negative opinion of Mr. Ebert.
Why? About ten years [...]
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Floyd | Friday, 8th of January 2010 at 09:24:38 PM
Matt Helm made a great suggestion in Friday’s Open Thread where I used a still from His Girl Friday with Rosalind Russell (grrrowl) and Cary Grant (go ahead and purr ladies). Why not steal resurrect Dirty Harry’s “Pick O’ the Day” posts? Well… why not? I love old and classic films and [...]
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Floyd | Thursday, 7th of January 2010 at 05:48:57 PM
Nice job “privacy advocates”. Because we want to respect the privacy of a few Muslims we all get to undergo this. On the upside? Someone at TSA is gonna get to look at your wimmins Abdullah. Chew on that. Thank Gaia that wasn’t a picture of John Napolitano. I [...]
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trzupr | Monday, 4th of January 2010 at 08:45:39 AM
Any resemblance to actual Trzuprs is strictly coincidental
This weekend a similarly-aged buddy of mine visited Casa Trzupr for dinner and, in short order, we ended up sharing stories of our childhood in the presence of my eldest step-son. We all have these stories. I am certain that everyone, throughout history, has told these [...]
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Floyd | Saturday, 2nd of January 2010 at 05:48:26 PM
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Albrecht Durer
Are we in for a Zimbabwe-like hyper-inflationary Great Depression? This guy from a website called Shadow Stats named John Williams thinks so. Tyler Durden has the breakdown.
Durden quotes Williams (his site is subscription only):
Williams does not mince his words:
The U.S. economic and systemic solvency [...]
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trzupr | Tuesday, 29th of December 2009 at 01:22:21 PM
A principal of military science says that artillery trumps fortifications. Ancient peoples built crude wooden palisades to defend themselves against the spear and ax wielding invaders. Those defensive structures would fall to siege engines. Moving forward, masonry fortifications were constructed, only to crumble when confronted by catapults. Medieval castle builders would strengthen those walls, which [...]
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Rufus | Tuesday, 22nd of December 2009 at 03:02:40 PM
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trzupr | Tuesday, 22nd of December 2009 at 01:41:40 PM
…and raise you this guy:
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Mike | Tuesday, 15th of December 2009 at 03:30:27 PM
Jay Nordlinger noted a passage in President Obama’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech that I’d missed:
“War, in one form or another, appeared with the first man. At the dawn of history, its morality was not questioned; it was simply a fact, like drought or disease.” How do we know that? How do we know that, at [...]
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Floyd | Tuesday, 8th of December 2009 at 02:32:55 PM
From Canada, yet another reason to look forward to nationalized government-run health care:
An elderly woman with a cane and a heart condition was told to bring her husband into a Nova Scotia hospital on her own or call 911 after he suffered a heart attack 10 metres from the facility’s front door, the couple’s son [...]
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Floyd | Tuesday, 1st of December 2009 at 12:38:29 PM
The world used to be so much fun….
h/t: BoingBoing
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trzupr | Wednesday, 25th of November 2009 at 09:58:09 AM
Note to visiting jihadists:
Graphic selected by R.T. Firefly, over the STRONG objections of trzupr
You’re minding your own business, quietly trying to preserve western civilization and culture in the 21st Century, then this happens:
“Islamic nations are mounting a campaign for an international treaty to protect religious symbols and beliefs from mockery.”
Hmm. Whose [...]
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Rufus | Tuesday, 17th of November 2009 at 02:15:17 PM
Click here to read the article (h/t James Lileks)
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Rufus | Monday, 9th of November 2009 at 03:57:15 PM
Ireland’s Independent has an article on Phelim McAleer and his wife, Ann McIlhenny and the response they are getting to their documentary, “Not Evil, Just Wrong.” Their documentary highlights errors in Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth.”
Read the whole thing, but here are some highlights:
Reaction to the film, which was three years in the making, has been [...]
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Floyd | Monday, 9th of November 2009 at 03:28:19 PM
Eclectic Method Goes Phish from Eclectic Method on Vimeo.
This mashup was commissioned by Phish from an outfit called The Eclectic Method to introduce a concert they performed in Indio, CA on Halloween that was a cover of the entire Rolling Stone’s album Exile on Main Street. It is as advertised — a mashup from [...]
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Rufus | Monday, 2nd of November 2009 at 03:27:59 PM
May the force be with you and make sure you use some Purell if you need to bury another Jedi’s light-saber
James (don’t call him Jim!) Lileks also wrote the following on today’s post:
Put up some Christmas lights Sunday afternoon. In response to a tweet announcing that fact, someone responded “oh, you’re one of [...]
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Rufus | Monday, 2nd of November 2009 at 02:15:43 PM
Since Capitalism is evil I’m sure the studio will shun all fast food and merchandising tie-ins…
I have not seen the movie, “Red Dawn,” but I’ve heard you all talking about it many times in Threedonia. I went to James (don’t call him Jim!) Lileks’ place today, following the link Chuck had posted, and [...]
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trzupr | Friday, 30th of October 2009 at 12:05:41 PM
Veruckt asked for some hotforwords.com hubba-hubba and we are always happy to accomdate the V-Man – times 2. We also give you a question to accompany the above graphics. It will eventually be possible to imbed polls like the following directly into this here bloggy-thingy. For now, Floyd has set my level permissions [...]
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trzupr | Friday, 16th of October 2009 at 11:21:05 AM
There used to be a syndicated column called something like “Things I Found Out While Looking Up Other Things”. Twas a clever column, full of the kind of useless trivia that I – and I dare say most of my fellow Threedonians – seem to collect like Acorn does scandals. Googling would have put that [...]
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Floyd | Monday, 12th of October 2009 at 11:20:43 AM
Poor Roman Polanski… he’s depressed.
Director Roman Polanski is feeling depressed two weeks after his arrest in Switzerland to face U.S. extradition for a 1977 case involving the rape of a 13-year-old girl, his lawyer was quoted as saying on Sunday.
“I found him to be tired and depressed,” Herve Temime told the Sonntag newspaper, [...]
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Floyd | Sunday, 11th of October 2009 at 04:33:50 PM
This guy really doesn’t like Bono.
To encounter Bono at one party conference might be construed a misfortune.
To be subjected to a Save The Third World sermon by this runty rock squillionaire at both Labour and Conservative party conferences was enough to make a reasonable man come over all Pete Townsendish and want to snap Bono’s [...]
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Rufus | Friday, 9th of October 2009 at 01:40:07 PM
“But I thought paper beat rock?!”
About a week ago Floyd wrote a post on the criminal justice system lamenting that too often prosecutors use the same technique when attempting to get a variety of results, or, as the adage goes, “When all you’ve got is a hammer everything starts to look like a [...]
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Eric | Sunday, 4th of October 2009 at 06:00:48 AM
Pearl Jam recently returning to the non-annoying and apolitical form they had in the 90s got me revisiting more of my favorites from the land before Bush Derangement Syndrome, a glorious time when bands/acts remembered they got into rock and roll less for changing the world and/or regurgitating the Democrat talking points, and more for [...]
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Floyd | Wednesday, 30th of September 2009 at 05:23:52 AM
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Rufus | Tuesday, 29th of September 2009 at 01:13:49 PM
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Floyd | Tuesday, 29th of September 2009 at 12:08:41 PM
This is Lucy Vodden… childhood friend of Julian Lennon and the “Lucy” of Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds fame. She passed away today in Britain at age 46 of lupus.
“I remember Julian and I both doing pictures on a double-sided easel, throwing paint at each other, much to the horror of the classroom [...]
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trzupr | Tuesday, 29th of September 2009 at 10:43:57 AM
Long story short: the a-hole’s at Al Qaeda are now using their a-holes for something other than storing the small amount of gray matter that Allah allocated to them. Specifically, at least one of them has used his colon as a shell casing, packing it full of explosives and then detonating himself in an attempt [...]
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Floyd | Sunday, 27th of September 2009 at 10:06:54 AM
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Outlaw13 | Saturday, 26th of September 2009 at 03:40:05 PM
I found out about this incident ( The report from the Dallas Observer newspaper )from my good friend ‘67 Cougar…not that he’s not a great guy, but why would I hear about this first by clicking on his website on the 26th of September and not from a major news outlet?
Yesterday, the 24th, Hosam Maher [...]
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Floyd | Saturday, 26th of September 2009 at 03:06:02 PM
Bill Clinton has changed his mind on gay marriage. “I think Naomi Watts should be allowed lifetime access to state-sanctioned girl-on-girl action on principle,” President Clinton told CNN’s Anderson Cooper.
In an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper Friday, Clinton explained that he still believes each state should decide whether to legalize gay marriage, but he [...]
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Floyd | Thursday, 24th of September 2009 at 06:36:52 AM
Mackenzie Phillips was on some showed called Oprah talking about her father John Phillips of The Mamas and the Papas. I refuse to show clips from that show, so here’s the London Daily Mail’s version…. He was not a nice man.
From being raped as a teenager by her father while she was [...]
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Floyd | Saturday, 19th of September 2009 at 11:27:34 AM
And pirate sellout (this clip — not generally — love The Wolfman… Jack.):
And pirate radio redux 21st century style….
Radio Caroline
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Floyd | Monday, 7th of September 2009 at 01:04:49 PM
Reader, commenter, Threedonian, and all around good egg J.J. has a post at his blog on Michael Moore’s latest defecation offering on capitalism. Check it out. I almost thought this was the source of man-boobs, but alas there’s no piercing and a telling lack of acne. Free lunch? I think I [...]
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Floyd | Wednesday, 2nd of September 2009 at 05:56:30 PM
A Florida man gagged on a dead frog in his Diet Pepsi can. The photo above was taken by his wife. I wonder if it was flown in fresh from Iraq?
DeNegri was grilling in his backyard tiki bar in Ormond Beach, Florida, when he popped open a can of Diet Pepsi, [...]
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Floyd | Tuesday, 1st of September 2009 at 01:11:29 PM
Movie Bob has an interesting video review of “Vicky Christina Barcelona.” (Unless you work for Penthouse or Playboy you may consider the link unsafe for work.) I haven’t seen this movie, as a matter of fact I haven’t seen any Woody Allen movie since he marred his girlfriend’s daughter, but I guess I’m [...]
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Floyd | Monday, 31st of August 2009 at 10:07:06 AM
UK police are going to re-examine the death of Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones who was found tits down in his pool in 1969. The story was always a typical late ’60s drug/alcohol accidental suicide, but apparently an investigative journalist — also a dying breed — has given information to the police that warrants [...]
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Mike | Tuesday, 25th of August 2009 at 07:40:19 AM
So much about this New York Times story about ice cream trucks irritates me.
Vicki Sell, mother of 3-year-old Katherine, tenses when the vendor starts ringing his little bell, over and over, hoping her daughter doesn’t have the typical Pavlovian response.
Ever since Katherine had an inconsolable meltdown about not being able to have a treat, Ms. [...]
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