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The Christmas Bone

A while back, our notorious Jack Russell, Rudy (http://twitter.com/Rudythejack), was injured and laid up in bad shape for several weeks. Here he is, back to his snarly self on Christmas Eve, with one of the many gifts from his friends. … Continue reading

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The Christmas Goose Comes Early

Saturday shoppers strut through Tyson’s Corner mall. Christmas is in two weeks. You can see the building stress in their faces. The line for Santa is long and coughing and features a juggling elf amid a gauntlet of snotty sleeves … Continue reading

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Suits and Ties Are Killing Us

I do not own a suit, having left my last one in a restroom outside a Washington Post conference room. Long story. Bottom line: suits suck. That’s my point here. And I’ll prove it. No man wears a suit because … Continue reading

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The Curse Of Southern Football

One of the worst things about being from the South – especially Alabama – (besides dying from fried food) is our ignorant passion for football. I say ignorant because that’s what it is. Tweet This Post

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The Never-Ending Yard Sale

Our neighbors have a yard sale every month. On the same Saturday every thirty days, at ass-crack dawn, the guy next door opens his garage and pulls out the old chairs, a rack of odd clothes, boxes of mismatched what-nots … Continue reading

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Mascots Gone Wild! Ohio Mascot Ambushes Ohio State Buckeye.

This is what happens when your mascot is a vegetable (or a fruit, or whatever a Buckeye really is):   Tweet This Post

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One Small Dog Takes On One Giant Company: Verizon

So what happens when a Jack Russell takes on a giant like Verizon? This: http://rudydog.posterous.com http://twitter.com/Rudythejack Tweet This Post

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Flunking Health 101

If you recall, there was a time when schools taught home ec and there was this odd activity called physical education, or at least recess where somebody threw a dodge ball at your head and you had to run and … Continue reading

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Escape From Jet Blue and Reality

I’m not going to write about this Steven Slater character, the flight attendant who lost his shit last week and bolted a Jet Blue plane on the tarmac by grabbing a couple of beers and sliding down the inflatable exit. … Continue reading

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Death and Entertainment

A story this week in the Wall Street Journal (thank you Jan Crable for finding this) tells of cemeteries across America hosting concerts, barbecues, dances and cookouts to attract new customers in tough times. Here is the link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704388504575419263519517820.html After … Continue reading

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The Age Myth

A couple of years ago The New Yorker wrote a piece asking why genius is so inextricably tied up with precocity, citing many examples, among them Mozart, T.S. Elliot and Orson Welles. There are many more, and we know most … Continue reading

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The Cost of War Versus the Cost of Health

It is hard to find anyone who agrees on what health care reform will cost, but the best estimate I’ve seen is $940 billion over ten years. Remember that number while I go to war. World War II cost the … Continue reading

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I Write Like

Jeff Johnson sent me a website I have not seen before. He is like a Google bot when it comes to rooting around the Web. It was featured on Holy Kow, Guy Kawasaki’s content aggregation site. The site purports to … Continue reading

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Click, Click. Goodbye.

With every click online, we’re giving a piece of ourselves away. This sentence just cost me a little chunk of my humanity. The next few will bleed me further. It is happening to you too. Soon we’ll only be measured … Continue reading

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My Friend Is Dying

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