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Except that it isn't. If you mean sponsored links, yeah, that's kind of how Google (and capitalism) works -- people pay Google to put sponsored links first, in a clearly marked box saying "sponsored links."So your Google conspiracy is either incorrect or based on, shockingly, the usual functioning of Google according to a business plan they've used for years. Whoever pissed in your cereal, it wasn't me. You used to reserve all the personal maliciousness for Crow. You must miss him. But by all means feel free to pass this viewpoint along to Sarah Palin.

Apropos of not much, but interesting trivia: Vermont is also the home of the nation's most generous concealed-carry law and also home to more people in the Witness Protection Program than any other state in the union. The two are related: people in the program often go armed.

Thank you for that. I'm definitely linking my blog to it. My favorite was the faux Charmin slogan: the only way you can be more safe from poo is to wipe with a pillow.

I, too, want to know how she's doing, especially for your daughter's sake.

I saw a Hokusai exhibit, of much newer works, that was conducted in near-dark because of fears light would damage the materials. It's possible that very few were allowed to be subjected to the physical dangers of display. Also, the decades-long soap opera over who owned which scrolls has gone on so long and been so convoluted that I have no clear idea what percentage is now in private hands versus in the hands of universities, religious orders, and museums that do not display them, so I don't know what percentage might have been available for display in the first place.

You just get more and more intriguing to me.Speaking of baksheesh, a widely-traveled friend passed on a valuable tip: wherever you go, learn to pronounce one phrase quickly and convincingly in the native language, and you'll be fine. Here it is in Hindi:मैं कैसे दिखते हैं, एक कमबख्त पर्यटक?Maiṁ kaisē dikhatē haiṁ, ēka kamabakhta paryaṭaka?It means: "What do I look like, a fucking tourist?"

Yayz.

Maybe Bush should have given back Henry Paulson, Goldman CEO and Bush Treasury Secretary.Or Richard Shelby (R-AL) should give back the money that makes him the Senate's #1 recipient of Goldman money. What do they think they're buying with a Republican from Alabama?He's on the Senate Banking Committee? Oh. Well, I'm sure they just like his family values.

Chill, everyone. I was just replying to BG's nonsense assertion with another one. You all got extremely defensive about that but seem to have accepted his that there is some Google conspiracy. Methinks the Republicans doth protest too much.

That goes amazingly well with your sig quote.

Whoa. I am totally jealous. I have no personal experience, but I do have a friend who was raised in New Delhi. I could ask her.Obvious suggestions for spiritual healing would be the Buddhist pilgrimage trail -- Bodh Gaya, where he attained enlightenment, Kushinagara, Sarnath, Mt. Kailish. Most of those are in NE India, though, near the Nepal and Bhutan borders.From comments I've seen, it appears that to someone coming from America, all of India seems deeply spiritual and head-cleansing. I know there are yoga retreats and Ayurvedic healings all over the place. Talk to an Ayurvedic healer

I wonder if Enron being one of Bush's top donors had anything to do with the lack of federal oversight while they robbed employees and investors blind?

I'm in if he'll let me be the Secretary of Health and Human Services and Other Mushy Liberal Crap.Gotta throw in here that those allegedly non-racist freedom-loving Republicans are the same ones who demand that Obama carry his original birth certificate at all times, because they can't quite wrap their minds around the idea that a non-white person could possibly be a "real American."

It's not looking good for Bret Michaels. Shame -- he came across as cooler and smarter than expected on Rock of Love (although most of the girls left me feeling, as one friend put it, like I'd catch a disease through the television).

Hell, yes, exactly. If you worry about every little dollar of equity with your friends, how close to your heart are they? One of my best friends from college also acquired and defaulted on a lot of casual debt, but for every time we've ever picked up the tab for him, he gets a hotel in the city and invites us to spend the weekend with him, no cost. Whether or not it works out in dollars and cents, it works out in shared good times and friendship.Buying one ticket at a time for five people is not just being cheap. Maybe it's not even fundamentally about being cheap. It's about being self-a

I thought the same thing about 1940s German inspiration ... uh, you were inspired by Nazis? I wouldn't admit that if I were Seth Aaron. The Pacific Northwest already has too many white supremacists and kooks running around. Why not say World War II and leave it at that?Faith Hill? Why? She added absolutely nothing to the discussion and was so often captured on camera looking confused that it seemed she didn't even know how to judge. Meryl freaking Streep was dressed by a Project Runway alumnus. Surely they could have gotten a bigger, more fashion-savvy star.I don't have nearly as much f

I won't spoil the finale since I'm not sure LG has had a chance to see it yet. I will say that Mila's collection was not at all surprising, but it was far more appealing than I expected. It was really very nice. She had some serious misfires during the competition, but she got her groove back for the finale.

And you know what song was playing? One of my all-time favorites, "Strokin'" by Clarence Carter! Easily one of the greatest songs ever.

So two of them confused people, one refused to pay taxes, and one ordered the painting of the Sistine Chapel?

I lol'd. Not so much offensive as just something I'd rather not think about while I'm watching TV. But, having typed that, I now see why you guys have no problem with it.Thanks to a college skinny-dipping party (does drinking beer while dancing naked in the shallow end of a pool constitute "skinny-dipping" properly? Well, it constitutes "party" anyway), I was known by at least one group of guys as "that redhead with the really red bush."

Don't know if this will inspire or kill any slow faps...my least favorite ad ever just aired: this one with bushes representing women's -- well, bushes, forming into trimmed shapes as women pass, presumably into the shapes the women groom. Just horrible on so many levels.

Pbbbbthththpppt.

This may have been one of the "insane" articles Henry referenced, from the New York Times:

I've said it before ... when one party establishes a secretive, imperial presidency, they had better be perfectly clear that the other party will hold on to that same power when the pendulum swings.Anyone who was applauding when W stonewalled, appointed whoever he pleased, and ignored subpeonas should STFU now.The executive branch has much too much power now, but Obama's not dumb enough to throw away a gift that landed in his lap. He's going to solidify that power, and when the pendulum swings again, Democrats are certainly going to regret it. I wasn't applauding for W, and I'm not applaudin