2013-12-17

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2013-12-17 02:26 pm

Another day, another forced apology from Toronto's Crack Using Mayor Rob Ford



From left to right, Canada's Scandal Plagued Prime Minster Stephen Harper, Toronto's Crack Using Mayor Rob Ford and Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, a personal friend of Ford, a close associate of the Prime Minister and a close pal with tax avoidage expert and Mint Chairman Jim Love. There is no reason to think Flaherty is uttering threats to the photographer.


Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has apologized to Toronto Star reporter Daniel Dale for suggesting he was a pedophile and accusing the reporter of spying on his children.
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2013-12-17 03:33 pm

Harold Camping dies at 92


OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- The California preacher who used his evangelical radio network and thousands of billboards to broadcast the end of the world has died at age 92.
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2013-12-17 04:22 pm

A new game

Factual statements beginning with 'I've read enough Sci-Fi to know [...]'.

My suggestions were:

"that long series whose plot threads are diverging instead of converging are unlikely to go anywhere interesting."

"that many Golden Age writers behaved as if women were something they'd only heard of 3rd hand via malicious intermediaries."

and

"that turning to SF for the science is like turning to Carl Barks for the ornithology."
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2013-12-17 04:59 pm

sixty seconds to go

Will Fedex deliver my box by five as promised?