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M.W. — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:14:50 GMT

I don't know how old you are, Will, but when I was in Jr. High, I knew kids who could pull down $20 a day betting on their Street Fighter II skills.

Also: Street Fighter's popularity cleared the way for Dragonball Z, which popularized Toonami, which begat Adult Swim, which gave us Aqua Teen Hunger Force, which eventually led to the Moonanite "Bomb" Scare.

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Norma, Los Angeles, CA — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:10:56 GMT

The Abercrombie and Fitch stunt was hilarious! I've always thought there marketing of shirtless men was ridiculous. Don't they sell clothes after all?! It would make more sense to have a model wearing their clothes then a shirtless one.

Reminds me of those MAD TV skits where all the employees are shirtless.

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PeaceOnYou — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:18:39 GMT

Will - I really enjoy Clicked. But -
Are you serious that you sort of figured the country would just move on? The Bush administration has sort of brought our country to its knees by sort of bankrupting us, sort of killing thousands of our young men and women in an illegal war, sort of destroying another country the he invaded and sort of killing countless number of Iraqi citizens, sort of throwing our Constitution on the trash heap, sort of abandoning underprivileged children with no health care, sort of torturing and reditioning mostly innocent people, and I could sort of go on.
I would hope that one day we will sort of charge Bush, Cheney, Rove, Gonzales, etc. with sort of war crimes. Then they can sort of rot in prison! Then we can maybe sort of move on to rebuild this nation into something we can again be proud of.

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Alex, Lenexa, KS — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:47:06 GMT

Tom Cruise got a hangover from marijuana burritos? I bet that was worse than when Paris Hilton Britney Spears Lindsay Lohan rehab jail pictures custody battle bebo myspace wiki david beckham.

There Will, your blog will blast upwards in popularity on google!

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Glenn, Des Moines, Iowa — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:11:22 GMT

Hey Will,

On the Tin Man site, the little nub sticking out of the menu in the uppoer left corner is a speed dial.

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KM — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:15:31 GMT

There is just no way you could convince me that if abortion was illegal, 3 million of them would still occur in this country today. That is physically impossible.

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Will Femia — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:29:49 GMT

PeaceOnYou, to be sure I expect there will be A LOT of undoing and repealing and rewriting in Bush's wake. I consider that part of moving on. What I still don't expect is that Democrats will spend a lot of energy prosecuting former officials. Unless we manage to find a whole new crop of politicians out there, I don't see enough people in D.C. with the will or outrage to go after Bush & Co. after they leave office. --That is, unless some political mover/shaker figures out a way to score easy political points doing so.

I understand your anger but I'm among the vast majority of Americans who feel utterly let down by Congress and I wouldn't count on them to do anything. If I'm proven wrong I will gladly suffer any gloating you want to post here.

Afterthought: I'm also not sure the American People have the stomach for the kind of justice you're looking for. I see 01/20/09 bumper stickers all over the place. That makes me think people want to be finished with Bush, not rehash the previous 8 years with Congressional hearings and investigations.

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Tom, Nashville, TN — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:23:57 GMT

Will,
Glad you discovered Missy Higgins. She is one of the most refreshing new voices in music, in my opinion. She has been the hottest thing going in Australia for a couple of years now and hopefully will break out over here as well.

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Michael T, Hollywood, CA — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:12:52 GMT

PeaceOnYou, the point of impeaching Bush after the fact is, in my mind at least, largely moot, since I have little doubt that Dubyah will pull a page from Bill Clinton's book and go on a pardoning spree some time in January of '09. I suspect the pardons will cover himself, Cheney, and most of the key players of both of his administrations. That way just about the only way anyone could touch him would be for the U.S. to join the World Court, which is almost certainly not going to happen in any of our lifetimes.

Loved the Onion BS story--spot on. George Carlin was absolutely right: "Every time you're exposed to advertising in America, you're reminded that this country's most profitable business is still the manufacture, packaging, distribution and marketing of BS. High quality, grade-A, prime-cut pure American BS." And our leaders have shown us repeatedly that politics is no different.

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Viv — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:51:37 GMT

Not only do I STILL have a turntable, I've been picking up Vinyl cheap from people who got rid of theirs - Goodwill, Half-Price books, garage sales got a HUGE collection via FreeCycle a few months back - all old favorites that I didn't have the $$ to get when I was younger - even have gotten the 15 year old nephew hooked on the Vinyl sound

I also have an LP to CD machine so I can move the warmth of the vinyl to digital. Okay, yeah there are sometimes pops and the occasional scratch but THAT makes it sound that much better.

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Alex — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:15:46 GMT

The tin man site isn't infinite, it's on a loop. Which could be infinite, I suppose, depending on your definition. I guess the proper definition is infinite, but not unrepeating. You can speed it up by moving the slider in the upper left all the way to the top of the page.

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Steve, Springfield, IL — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:22:46 GMT

Why don't we just legalize everything we don't want occurring? Instant Utopia!

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Clint, Chicago, Illinois — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:53:18 GMT

I expect Democrats in the post-Bush era to act much the way Republicans acted in the post-Clinton era. It was a long, long time after 2000 before Republicans stopped blaming Clinton for every little thing that went wrong with the nation, and many of them still do. Though I wish it were otherwise, I expect Bush to be the core of Democratic rationalization at least until 2012. And yeah, they might try convicting him of something.

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Dan T. — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 20:36:26 GMT

My $7000 per gallon wall paint is superior to average wall paint in that it reflects the color spectrum of your choice better.

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hyperpsyched, Berlin, Germany — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:48:16 GMT

I really love my LP's, but the reason has to do more with the entire ritual surrounding listening to a record. Vinyl is certainly inconvenient compared to throwing a couple of playlists into Winamp, or connecting your portable music player to your preamp. It requires quite a bit of time and effort in order to maintain a clean LP collection. Then there are the inevitable clicks and pops. The music, however, sounds awesome. Also, on my older jazz LPs the entire production chain was analog, so what else would you play it back with? It just seems wrong to hear this great music via a (badly) remastered cd. Did I mention that the size of an LP sleeve makes it a great medium for artwork? I could go on but I am afraid that you either get it, or you don't.

By the way, ripping music at 128 Kbps should be a crime punishable by being trapped in an elevator for an hour with only "My Humps" playing through the crappy little PA speaker.

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Craig — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:37:28 GMT

YES YES YES YES TO SHARON JONES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It is unfortunate that everyone is getting to know her through Amy Winehouse, but this woman is as good as it gets. If you have not seen this act, then you are missing something special. Forget how they record, talk about how they PLAY. They get that sound live folks!!! .....not just on vinyl or CD.

Sharon Jones deserves all the attention coming her way. She is a phenominal artist and Daptone Records is a brilliant organization!!!!!!!!!!!

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Leslie, NM — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:37:02 GMT

Y'know Will, that USB hub with a self destruct button looks vaguely...threatening. Maybe even bomb-like. Moreso even than those ATHF signs to the ultra-paranoid.

Naturally my friend and I are both buying one so we can see whose cubicle security winds up in first.

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Chris, Traverse City, MI — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:28:50 GMT

Great interactive map of the San Diego fires.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=114250687465160386813.00043d08ac31fe3357571&ie=UTF8&om=1&ll=33.052414,-116.575928&spn=1.132627,2.570801&z=9

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nuanced — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:03:19 GMT

This raises the larger question of how long after Bush's departure Democrats will try to score points with his unpopularity. I had sort of figured the country would just move on

-- When the Republicans finally move on from Bill Clinton (maybe 10 years from now), take that interval and double it would be my guess or about 25 years. The 4 or 5 million relatives of his victims may take longer.