UNC brings home another one

Okay Chad, I'm gonna do what I said I was gonna do if your alma mater won it all tonight. And you KNOW this pains me, being the Duke/NC State loyalist and all, but...I must admit though: the Tarheels earned this one for sure. That was one of the best basketball championships I've ever seen played. UNC and Illinois both poured their hearts into this one.You did good tonight,...

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Episode III Midnight Madness After-Action Report

Stop me before I do this again.Oh yeah, that's right: there's no way this can be done again, 'cuz this is the last movie.Well then, might as well go out in a blaze of glory...MIDNIGHTMADNESSSaturday April 2nd 200512:01 AM on April 2nd was the earliest that the REAL loot from Star Wars Episode III went on sale. There'd been the standard "teaser" stuff over the past few months...

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My bet with Chad: if UNC wins tonight...

...I told my best friend that if they beat Illinois tonight I'll stick the biggest, baddest Tarheels graphic I can squeeze into this space on the blog.Just wanted to let everyone know that well in advance, to prove that I'm a man of my word.(BTW, I'm one of those "ABC fans": "Anybody But Carolina" ...

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Some thoughts on John Paul II's passing

Have never been Catholic, but the departure from this world of Pope John Paul II has left a much bigger absence in my mind than I ever expected.Maybe it's because I was only four years old when Karol Wojtyla became "the pope" in 1978, which I didn't know what exactly the "pope" was but I remember it came very soon after this other guy had been named pope before he died. Anyway,...

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Eerie scheduling

Just finished a bit of The Matrix Online (HUGE article I wanna write up about this soon) and happened to turn on the TV.It's now 1:47 AM EST on April 1st, 2005. The time and date should be taken into account for the next thing I'd like to make note of......that right now, HBO East is showing The Godfather Part III.Knowing that these TV schedules are pretty much established several weeks ahead, if you've seen the movie you'll already know why that's...

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I'm tired of this. It's why I don't fit into this world anymore...

...I'm talking about the factionalism.It occurred to me during my extended absence that nobody "matters" in this world unless they belong to a faction of some kind or another. A person isn't supposed to be their own unique individual being anymore. In fact, "individualism" is a vastly scorned and ridiculed concept: you are either "with US" or "with THEM"... or you don't exist at all.I said in my last post that it hit me that there are three kinds...

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"Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated"

It was brought to my attention this morning that people on some websites are saying that I'm dead.One place is even saying that I committed suicide. Didn't know I was the kind of guy whose extended absence elicited that kind of concern.I'm still here. Had to leave for awhile and look into some things that warranted an extended departure from any online activity. Didn't intend on spending forty days in the wilderness... but there you have it.I...

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Apocalypse Soon? Theorizing method to the madness of pre-trib politics

This is only a notion that entered my mind. But it's one that all too greatly suggested itself.Just reading where the United States is recalling its ambassador to Syria. This comes in the wake of the bomb assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minster Rafik Hariri yesterday.And more people than you might want to know are right now cackling and grinning and rubbing their hands with anticipation over this news.I've already written on a few occassions...

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Watch the ball and behold the future

Two bits of news that caught my eye. The title of one immediately brought all kinds of cultural references to mind and the other was just plain weird enough to pique my curiosity.From the London Daily Mail via RedNova.com:Posted on: Friday, 11 February 2005, 00:00 CSTCan This Black Box See Into the Future?DEEP in the basement of a dusty university library in Edinburgh lies...

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About "that website story"...

For the record, 'cuz plenty of mail has been coming in about this, given my earlier relationship with the subject matter:- Yes, I've heard about what's gone down the past 48 hours or so.- Yes, I've read the open letter.- No, I haven't read the message thread.- No, I haven't read any comments about it anywhere.- Yes, I'm aware some things I've written here have been posted to another website.- No, I do not post to that other website.- No, I do not...

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Screamin' Dean has no meanin': Why Democrat and Republican loyalists are fools

Did a quick look through all the major news sites and #1 story today is Howard Dean getting elected to be chairman of the Democratic Party.Why should we care?This'll be a big deal to a lot of people. The Dems will praise their new leader and the Pubs will hate him more. That's all.This "news" has no intrinsic value whatsoever. But it has the intended effect: trick a lot of people into thinking that this "really matters" so they can be even more...

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Theological wunderkind Kyle Williams is at it again

This time he's talking about what happens "When Christians worship man". Go read it. N...

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The cradle will rock when the stars are right...

So a little while ago my wife and I are talking about how things will be if/when we start having children, and how I've always dreamed of being the kind of Daddy who reads bedtime stories to the kids before they go to sleep for the night."But I don't wanna read 'em stuff like 'The Little Red Hen' a zillion times over and over," I told her. "That got old fast. By the time they're five or six I'm thinking something like tucking them into bed and...

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More qualified than Gannon: I'm a blogger, a REAL journalist... and now a PORN STAR!

The funniest thing about this Jeff Gannon story, for me at least, is that someone with two days of journalism training during a weekend seminar becomes a credentialed reporter from a website - that was maybe a week-old at the time - and then given regular access to the White House press briefing room. Despite having an obvious agenda to promote a political party, his meteoric...

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"Most of all, you've got to hide it from the kids"

Dustin Hoffman admits that he thinks about sex every seven seconds. Hey Dustin, "We'd like to know a little bit about you for our files", but that's waaay too much info, buddy! ...

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For all those fans of the Tar Heels after last night's game...

...one of the most renowned among you is "feeling blue" too. But he's got some sage words of wisdom that'll surely pick you right up!!(P.S.: And Chad, as much as I've always rooted for Duke or N.C. State or whoever over UNC, I must say this with all sincerest conviction: despite this one loss it is a most wonderful thing to behold than I ever thought possible to see the Tar Heels back on top of their - and I mean THEIR - game again :-)(P.P.S.: Yeah...

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Was Jeff Gannon a "PsyOps" by the Bush Admin?

It's not "major league" news in most of the press right now: in fact it wouldn't be surprising if you haven't heard about this at all. But it's gotten pretty big among a lot of bloggers so Lord only knows where this thing is gonna end up.The Boston Globe broke the story last week that Jeff Gannon, a reporter with a website called TalonNews.com, was enjoying regular access to the White House press briefings and even getting to ask questions to President...

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