March 18, 2004
Getting back at your ex-boss

The Donald is looking to trademark the phrase "You're Fired." So, in the future if you are let go by your boss with the famous phrase, you can report your boss to Trump who can take legal action.

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March 13, 2004
Bwahahahahahaha

The New York Times' lone conservative columnist, David Brooks, has an excellent column today on "The Boston Fog Machine." A taste: [T]he 1990's were a confusing decade. The certainties of the cold war were gone and new threats appeared. It fell to one man, John Kerry, the Human Nebula, to bring fog out of the […]

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March 8, 2004
Government censors

As I mentioned before, I've been reading Rick Atkinson's "An Army at Dawn." One anecdote that Atkinson relates is how government censors edited letters home from the troops. Journalists and other liberal conspiracy theorists who regularly decry government limitations on media reporting from the battlefield during Operation Iraqi Freedom should look at just how far […]

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March 5, 2004
Suckering Abby

You won't see it on March 15, but the original Dear Abby column sent over the wires for that date contained this letter: WIFE MEETS PERFECT MATCH AFTER HUSBAND STRIKES OUT DEAR ABBY: I am 34 and have three children. My husband, "Gene," and I have been married for 10 years. He is greedy, selfish, […]

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February 27, 2004
Joke of the day

Though I don't work as a copy editor now, I have in the past, so I look forward to getting my wings. A reporter dies and goes to journalist heaven, where St. Peter issues him a harp and a set of moderate-sized wings. "These seem kind of small," the reporter complains. "Well," says St. Peter, […]

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February 16, 2004
SNL's Weekend Update

I'm sure many of you are familiar with Brazil's decision to photograph and fingerprint American visitors to that nation as a lame rebuke to the fact that we do something similar to their citizens (and most other nations') when they visit the United States. We do it to try to track terrorists and others who […]

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February 9, 2004
Storytime

I didn't mention it earlier, but David Brooks Saturday column is a hoot. I can just imagine him leaning over and, in a singsong voice, reading it to a small child.

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February 3, 2004
Compliments

I must confess that I'm not that good at accepting compliments. They make me feel uncomfortable and I try to dismiss them. But, I'm a whole lot better than Texas Tech coach Bobby Knight. One eyewitness told the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal that Knight raised his voice to (Texas Tech Chancellor David) Smith after the chancellor approached […]

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January 22, 2004
Bush lectures reporters on economics

When I saw this I just pictured President Bush doing it and started laughing out loud. Remarks by the President to the Press Pool Nothin' Fancy Cafe Roswell, New Mexico 11:25 A.M. MST THE PRESIDENT: I need some ribs. Q Mr. President, how are you? THE PRESIDENT: I'm hungry and I'm going to order some […]

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January 16, 2004
Hmmmm...

On Wednesday evening, one of the building maintenance guys at my place of employ, The San Diego Union-Tribune was taking a good, old-fashioned hand saw to a wall in the newsroom that leads to a room that allegedly contains "Air Handling Equipment." How do I know this? Well, that's what it says on the nearby […]

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