Archive for September, 2007
Red Sky at Morning
Wednesday, September 26 – Sailors, take warning. Granted, our little Canon may have over-emphasized the red end of the spectrum when old Sol peered over the Atlantic about 6:34 a.m., but that doesn’t mean the forces of greed and stupidity aren’t out to take away our freedom.
Aside from the photograph above, about all we have [...]
Posted: September 26th, 2007 under Uncategorized.
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A Parade We Can Really Get Behind
Tuesday, September 25 – We’ll skip right over the excuses for not posting recently, and offer these images of Sunday’s Peace and Labor Parade. Yes, Peace and Labor, commingled in a single parade on a perfect late summer day. Here’s proof that irony is non-toxic, no matter how large the dose. Congratulations for a splendid [...]
Posted: September 25th, 2007 under Uncategorized.
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Nil Desperandum, Part 252
Friday, September 21 – Yes, this thing looks all disheveled. It is all disheveled. But before too long (note the indefinite term) it will be back in shape and rolling along nicely again.
Meanwhile, note the spiffy new banner up there, signifying that where it counts the most – out there in meatworld – we have [...]
Posted: September 21st, 2007 under Uncategorized.
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Cheerful Thought For a Gray Day
Tuesday, September 11 – Well, here it is, September 11, 2007. It’s raining like stink, and thunder and lightning are expected. It’s a far cry from the exquisite weather of six years ago.
The daily papers are doing nothing to lighten the mood. The Boston Globe’s obligatory piece on today’s anniversary looks at people coping with [...]
Posted: September 11th, 2007 under Uncategorized.
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Another Fortnight, Another 32 Acres
Friday, September 7 – The new date on the masthead above is your tipoff that we have put out another paper. By our calculations, since each issue contains about 16 square feet of printed surface, that adds up to somewhere on the order of 32 acres of text, photos, &c., all of it given away [...]
Posted: September 7th, 2007 under Uncategorized.
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On the Propagation of Myths
Monday, September 3 – In the penultimate frame of yesterday’s Doonesbury, after rattling off a short but appalling set of facts about the U.S. national debt, radio talk show host Mark Slackmeyer asks his guest, “Where did the myth of GOP financial responsibility come from?”
While we can’t verify or refute Trudeau’s notion that the Easter [...]
Posted: September 3rd, 2007 under Uncategorized.
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