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While researching a particular candidate's positions I found these sites: www.opensecrets.org and www.followthemoney.org Anyone else out there as horrified and dismayed as I am by the amount of dollars raised and spent to buy political office? I mean, why bother using the verb "win" when...

Last Saturday I was chatting with someone about comedy in film. I'm usually in the foreign film or drama section at the video store, due to the fact that Hollywood has forgotten how to make a good comedy imho. Nevertheless, I do enjoy a good comedy, so here's a list of a few of my favorites...

from here: http://world.std.com/~mhuben/onelesson.html (I've italicized my personal favorites ;) ) Introduction One of the most attractive features of libertarianism is that it is basically a very simple ideology. Maybe even simpler than Marxism, since you don't have to learn foreign...

just in case.... here ya go, bro' and a premature congratulations! (let's hope that's all that's premature) :winkkiss:

You're nearly there, man.... pretty soon it'll be all over... 10K POSTS! Congratulations, buddy! *party*

Are you protected? Apparently our beloved Squiggy isn't.... :rofl: Squiggy

I try to read or listen to both of these every year. NPR usually broadcasts Truman Capote's story, and I have a badly worn cassette tape of Dylan Thomas's piece. click here for: A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote click here for: A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas Hope...

I will remember. :crying4:

On December 1, 1955, seamstress Rosa Parks changed America forever when she was arrested for refusing to yield her seat to a white patron on a Montgomery, Alabama city bus. Mrs. Parks was found guilty of disorderly conduct and that lead directly to the famous Montgomery Bus Boycott. for...

hey there, big guy! heard a rumour that you might join the liberated DeMooted here -- I think you'll like this place and I know I like the fact that you're here... :winkkiss: the downtrodden female formerly known as Hasty Ent

welcome buddy! looking forward to your eloquent, thought provoking, insightful and poignant posts... :D :banana:

you, me, Oz and AlphaTroll need to have a party celebrating our emancipation!!! Welcome BofP!

Love him or hate him? A brilliant director -- he won an Oscar for "On the Waterfront" -- he also testified against friends and colleagues before the House Committee on Un-American Activities during the McCarthy era. I try to separate the man from the work. Respect his achievements, and...