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The brother Douglas Adams never talks about.
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For the car buffs
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There was a car show in town today; some classics, some unusual, all
old and beautifully restored. Here is a sampling of some of the cars:
[link]
It should be easy to identify most of them, but Old 3 and Old 5 will
probably stump the experts.
Les
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Man of Steel
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I'd really, really like to pan this movie, but it wouldn't be fair, because I slept though at least a half hour of it, and it's possible there was some great stuff happening during that period which made up for the rest of it.
I can say, though, that 90% of what I saw when I stayed awake was just... more »
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If arrested,
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never waive your Miranda Rights, even if you are innocent.
"Because detailed confessions represent such powerful evidence, when defense attorneys tried to challenge the confession evidence they all failed. This was true even when there were some clear signs that these were confessions proffered by vulnerable people who may have been subject to highly coercive... more »
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rape and murder
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it is really just a shot away? What is the "shot"-- whiskey, heroin, a gun,
sex, ...?
Merry Clayton was on NPR the other day. She didn't mention about having a
miscarriage (below). Just said she went to the studio around midnight
because Jack Nitchze had called and she was in bed with her husband getting... more »
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Could _Gil Thorp_ happen in real life?
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Of course it couldn't; it's a ``story'' comic strip about teenage athletes, so nothing that happens in it resembles real-life behavior of anybody. But to specifics:
The current storyline is about two of the team baseball players, one of whom is a lawyer fanboy who just will not shut *up* about how... more »
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Help with WORD 2000
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None of the Microsoft Word newsgroups seem to have any recent activity on them.
Any AFCANS know of newsgroups which can help me correct a silly problem which started happening with my trusty (for years now) Word 2000?
What's changed is that If I want to replace a word in a line of text... more »
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Men behind the curtain revealed.
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by Robert Reich
There are two great centers of unaccountable power in the American political-economic system today ‹ places where decisions that significantly affect large numbers of Americans are made in secret, and are unchecked either by effective democratic oversight or by market competition.... more »
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Memory is a curse
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Not only that, apparently it's a real drawback to a Washington media career.
In 2010, Cheeto-stained wingnut bloggers and talk-radio gasbags seized on a Indian news agency report that a planned Obama trip to India would cost $200 million a day. The report was erroneous, but that didn't stop... more »
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