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Plymouth and Cape Cod photos Hope everybody had a good Thanksgiving. Giselle and I went back to Plymouth, MA. I noted a couple of things on the trip. 1. Gas was below $1.89/gallon! 2. Watching ads for President Elect commemorative tchochkes are a lot less annoying than 9-11 tchochkes. Obama Plates http://www.headostate.com/ 3. The parking…

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So the car companies are asking for some of that $700B because they need short term loans to make payroll. And to pay the guys they’ve laid off $20-$26 an hour to watch TV and sit around? http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5185887 They warn that if they don’t get the loans, they may have to declare bankruptcy and people…

Change has come to America. Namely that the nearly two year long news coverage of the 2008 election is finally at an end. It’s hard to know what to do with ourselves. The credit crisis isn’t solved, more layoffs are coming, and we’re still involved in two undeclared wars in foreign countries. Cheer up, we…

Take the Anchor or Porn Star Test Don’t forget to vote. Everybody bellyaches about how crappy the two parties are. So they don’t vote as a form of protest or because they think their vote won’t matter because they live in a solid blue or red state. In States where it’s overwhelmingly going to one…

Halloween’s here though I was bit disturbed with the rather nasty effigies of Palin and Obama getting hanged that I’ve seen in the news. It’s just mean for no good reason. Common, they haven’t really screwed up anything yet. Here’s a candidate match up test. It was built before the primaries so it includes the…

I watched all the debates and was underwhelmed. Except for the third one, all they did was repeat the same sound bites and talking points they’ve been giving at their rallies. To his credit McCain did drop the bomb that he was going to call for a spending ‘freeze’ which to me is a good…