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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Race is a different thing down South.  For as much as a Californian or Utahn may love to throw the word around, racism just isn’t the same there as in the South.  So I think we have a peculiar perspective on Obama’s [...]

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Lorenzo Lamas was in Grease… then another 45 movies I haven’t seen. Ironically, one of those movies was named Succubus, which is basically what today’s article is about. Because Lamas’ daughter is doing well on The Bachelor, showing she will do whatever is necessary to sling the kind of man whose relationship skills don’t see [...]

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Image from WikipediaThere are those who identify with nooses, and personify them as the dark history of America.  I’m from an ethnicity that sees tarring and feathering as the ultimate symbol of savagery in the new world.  The idea that someone would cover another in boiling tar and then cover him with feathers is way [...]

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Okay, as I am one of the last remaining licensed Latin teachers (I really am), I therefore must explain again the concept of the Ides of March:  The Roman Calendar was really technologically amazing for its time, no less so perhaps than the Aztec Calendar (I also have a Spanish Teaching license, and it is [...]

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Today is Pi Day. First off, before I get started, in Greek it’s pronounced “pee.” So show that to your math teacher. So now, I present ? to 1,000 places:
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862
089986280348253421170679821480865132823066470938446095505822317253594081284811
174502841027019385211055596446229489549303819644288109756659334461284756482337
867831652712019091456485669234603486104543266482133936072602491412737245870066
063155881748815209209628292540917153643678925903600113305305488204665213841469
519415116094330572703657595919530921861173819326117931051185480744623799627495
673518857527248912279381830119491298336733624406566430860213949463952247371907
021798609437027705392171762931767523846748184676694051320005681271452635608277
857713427577896091736371787214684409012249534301465495853710507922796892589235
420199561121290219608640344181598136297747713099605187072113499999983729780499
510597317328160963185950244594553469083026425223082533446850352619311881710100
031378387528865875332083814206171776691473035982534904287554687311595628638823
5378759375195778185778053217122680661300192787661119590921642019
Math teachers, if you can’t sing the above you may want to review Weird Al Yankovic’s White & Nerdy (”My MySpace page is all totally pimped [...]

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I guess it was on American Idol last night, because everyone’s asking about the lyrics for Dancing in the Streets, which I best know as a David Bowie / Mick Jagger duet, but has been sung by Martha and the Vandellas, Van Halen, Atomic Kitten, The Grateful Dead, Myra, Michael Bolton, Nikki Webster, and a [...]

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Today is the 5 year anniversary of the return of Elizabeth Smart, and she is interviewed below on the news. She is a sophomore at BYU and looks happy and healthy. She’s obviously developed a lot of catharsis and coping mechanism from her music and from being a righteous member of her faith.
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