My Aunt Kathy died yesterday after a long battle with emphysema. Kathy was one of the most hilariously sarcastic people I’ve known, and — for better or for worse — probably had something to do with my own sarcasm and resulting cynicism. She used to call me the little prick, from the time I was […]

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Excuse me while I completely rip into someone who’s likely going through a tough time, but I’m guessing any native English-speaker living abroad or doing international business travelling, that has had to rely on the shoddy, elitist, CNN International for any semblance of TV news in English – is familiar with this smarmy twerp:

I’ve disliked Richard Quest for […]

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Klesko retiring from majors after 16-year career, agent says

Sunday, July 14, 1996
Klesko and Blauser Form a Tag Team Against the Giants — June 2, 1997
Image by Ted

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Fukudome himself sounds offended.
”I don’t know what the creator of the shirt meant this to be, but they should make it right,” Fukudome said through his interpreter after being shown one of the shirts Thursday. ”Maybe the creator created it because he thought it was funny, or maybe he made it to condescend the race. […]

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More great stuff from PT:
Kage-e (”shadow pictures”) — a popular form of Edo-period woodblock print — were appreciated by children and adults and commonly used as party gags. These pictures consist of two parts: a “shadow” image and a “real” image. The shadow image, which typically bears the shape of a common, easily identifiable object, […]

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I recently came across Nine Bo Jacksons, a good fantasy baseball site with one of the better names I’ve ever come across.
Apparently he’s just finishing up school, and won’t begin a teaching job until the fall. As he puts it, “What would any normal person do if they had 2 and a half months off […]

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Sorry folks, but I’ve got to do a link dump. I’ve been pretty busy the past few days, and as a result I’ve got a backlog of things I wanted to get out there.
Bugs and Cranks’ writer, and occasional EWC contributor, David Chalk penned something on Yahoo! about the G-POPE, and why the Rays should […]

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