Reductio ad Extremis

The show opened like so many I’ve seen before. “This is the face of Muslim extremism, a man who grew up right here in Britain just as the Tube Bombers had.” I was only watching the show on CNN to see if it covered any new ground, but it didn’t. It was the same old crap and I switched it off.

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Lotsa Vacation

I just learned that President Bush has taken a total of 506 days of vacation in the 7.5 years he’s been the big cheese. That’s a bit over 67 days a year, or about 10 weeks.

Now, you may not get 10 weeks of vacation a year at your place of employment. If you’re like a growing number of Americans, you may not even get health insurance. But is this really something to whine about?

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Happy as a Pig. Just a Pig.

Cliches
Good ways
To say what you mean
Mean what you say

– Jimmy Buffett

Anyone who’s written a book has heard it from someone: “You need to get rid of a few clichés”. What? I can’t have any of those, I avoid them like a very contagious disease!

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