Archive for August, 2005
Tuesday, August 30th, 2005
President Bush commemorated the sixtieth anniversary of the end of World War II today at a naval base in Coronado, California. Partially in an attempt to fight back falling approval ratings regarding his handling of the situation in Iraq, he drew comparisons between the Iraq conflict and World War II, ...
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Sunday, August 28th, 2005
Ariele and I were doing some shopping at the Santa Anita Mall on Saturday, and for lunch, I decided to take a quick spin through Sbarro for lunch. Sbarro is a fast food Italian place, and they are somewhat well known for their huge slices of pizza. I purchased a ...
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Thursday, August 25th, 2005
On the evening news last night, one of the local network affiliates ran a story about how residents of one of Los Angeles' many, many neighborhoods were protesting over plans to build a new school in the area. The most prominent plan being pushed at the moment involved a city ...
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2005
You have probably already heard the hubbub about Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson's call to assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on his show, The 700 Club, yesterday. Specifically, Mr. Robertson said
If he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think we really ought to go ahead and do it...We have the ...
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Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005
This past weekend I traveled to Las Vegas with six of my close friends, guys I met in junior high school and have hung out with ever since. We were having a joint bachelor party for Bobby (who got married in early July) and Michael (who will get married in ...
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Thursday, August 18th, 2005
Stop the presses! Sean Combs, formerly known as "Puff Daddy", "Puff", and "Puffy", and currently known as "P. Diddy", has decided to drop the "P." and become just "Diddy". The reason? I'll let Puffy explain in his own words.
We had to move the P. We had to simplify it. Diddy ...
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