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Month: March 2011

Why I Feel Fat When I’m In Europe

March 31, 2011Burt Likko 1 Comment

Well, it’s really because I am fat, but the fact that gravity is stronger there than here at home can’t possibly help. And to my great displeasure, I learn that indeed, my being overweight will result in the Euros sneering… Continue Reading →

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And This Year’s Ten Thousand Spoons Award Goes To…

March 31, 2011Burt Likko

…President Barack Obama, for accepting an award for transparency in government in an unannounced, behind-closed-doors meeting. By now, pointing to Candidate Obama’s promises to implement a transparent government have become are a well-worn joke that I need not belabor; most… Continue Reading →

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Five To One, Baby, One In Five

March 31, 2011Burt Likko

I was going to provide a handy-dandy spreadsheet, going point by point through the President’s remarks on the “kinetic military action” in Libya to offer guidance about when we can and cannot fight against another nation, however despicable its leader… Continue Reading →

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But You Don’t Understand

March 30, 2011Burt Likko 1 Comment

Seems to me that the President’s speech justifying war in Libya boils down to: “Gadaffi is a really bad guy.” “But see, we knew that already, Mr. President.” “No, you don’t get it. He’s a really, really bad guy!” “Oh!… Continue Reading →

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Monday Trivia VIII

March 28, 2011Burt Likko 5 Comments

What do all these men have in common? Bill Clinton Jackie Coogan Kevin Garnett Jeff Gordon Benjamin Harrison Willy Mays Robert Redford Christopher Reid Donnie Wahlberg Ted Williams …And I note that for three weeks in a row, there is… Continue Reading →

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Gimme The Water

March 25, 2011Burt Likko 13 Comments

Longtime readers will be aware that I sometimes try my hand at writing fiction. I spare all of you my efforts in that regard because the bulk of it is simply awful. So awful that upon finishing some work and… Continue Reading →

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Pseudointellectualism Parody Win

March 24, 2011Burt Likko 6 Comments

No one who has been to a four-year liberal arts university could possibly have failed to have come across an essay purporting to deconstruct some element of pop culture from an allegedly radical point of view, arguing earnestly and for… Continue Reading →

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Trenchant Nonbelief

March 23, 2011Burt Likko 3 Comments

If you prowl the nonbeliever blogs as I do, you often come across people who are either new to the world of non-theistic life and looking for ways to express themselves to their faithful friends and family, or who are… Continue Reading →

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Today’s Over The Top Sports Metaphor

March 22, 2011Burt Likko

Recalling the close Packers-Dolphins game of last season, John Morgan likens the game to “… Varinia leaving for Gaul, showing their newborn son to Spartacus, saying ‘Please die, my love… die, die now my darling!’”. It was a good game,… Continue Reading →

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How Local Government Waste Is Justified

March 22, 2011Burt Likko 1 Comment

I live in an inland desert city of California. Its politics are dominated, as a practical matter, by an alliance between a group of land developers and four large more or less evangelical Christian churches. Mostly, those civic leaders have… Continue Reading →

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