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the doctor is out

The inconsistencies of Doctor Who have always amused me, but they came under the strongest light in one of his more-recent episodes, The Waters of Mars. In the episode, the Doctor initially treats the incident as a fixed point in time – something even he cannot change, because if …

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who is next?

So we Tennesseeans are electing a new governor this year, and the media went and asked them some quesions about guns. The Knoxville Gun Rights Examiner has a breakdown of the responses, and USAGI has some answers from Joe Kirkpatrick, another candidate, but the answers fell out …

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out in front

Win.

For the first time in 40 years, a Ford Motor Company product will be pacing the Daytona 500. Pacing the Great American Race will be the new 2011 Mustang GT Glass Roof Coupe with the all new 5.0L V-8.

40 years. ‘Bout damned time, neh?…

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might be good

So we received a counter-offer. The house was listed at X, we offered 0.89X, and they countered with 0.96X. Not quite as far down as we were hoping, but it is progress.…

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all of them. out.

Reason #867783 Why Our Country Is Screwed:

We met to discuss a series of recent pronouncements that will significantly impact my clients. Generally speaking, these are going to be selective regulations, that you will probably never know about, but will cost you somewhere in the range of $3-4 a

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programming change

It probably took more time and effort than it was worth, but my blogroll is now nothing more than an HTML list on my webpage, rather than the BlogRolling monstrosity it used to be. What does this mean to you? Well, the good news is that all of those links …

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quote of the day

Today’s particular quote originates at SouthernFemaleLawyer‘s weblog, but was not written by her… Instead, it was originally typed by a very well-known, and generally-reviled, anti-rights advocate who writes under the pseudonym of “Laci the Bitch Dog”, and as such, will remain generally linkless – I could link to the …

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i said i would

Rob Russell has apologized to Bob S. for his threats:

Bob –

Please accept my apology. I can’t tell you how sorry I am for making the comments I made and then defending them. I deeply regret this, and I honestly hope that you or family weren’t negatively affected by

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in the

Another webcomic for you to keep up with: DOGHOUSE.
Because we all need more humor in our lives, lest we turn into the depraved whackjobs anti-rights advocates already think we are.
And when I say “humor”, I mean humor.…

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against a brick wall

So Better Half and I put an offer on yet another house yesterday night – this makes number four. Also the first house that we have put an offer on that was not on a street that started with a “T”, so we figure we might have a chance. Or …

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the future generation

So apparently the coach of UT Knoxville’s football team, some schmuck named Lane Kiffin, decided to head on to greener pastures, or at least better-paying pastures, only a year after taking his contract at UT.
*twirls finger in the air*
In response, UTK students rioted, to the point that …

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simple questions

KnoxNews had an topical letter-to-the editor today, with a simple question:

First, I’d like to ask the question: Are guns necessary?

Yes.
… Oh, sorry, did you want something else:

Police and soldiers have to use them, for sure, but what do ordinary citizens use them for?

I have …

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Just trust us

Guns-in-bars law hurts tourism, cities say.

Now, the leaders of the Nashville and Memphis Convention and Visitors Bureaus are saying the law has hurt local tourism efforts, claiming that other cities are using the guns-in-bars measure to lure visitors away from Tennessee.
“It’s probably the single biggest issue people write

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“effective” is not dependent on “pretty”

Just yesterday, we discussed a Finnish man building a .22 machine gun in his garage out of a power drill and spare parts.
Today we have an American building a 9mm pistol in his garage. Granted, it is not “pretty”, and I would not want to shoot it …

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condensed version

Jeff wins the intertubes for today with this comment over at WizBang:

Why is it that you can never get liberals to debate in good faith ?

A typical attempt goes like this …

Conservative: Obama is spending too much, he needs to slow down his spending spree.

Liberal:

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never knew

Controlled, intentional, powered oversteer is fun!…

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historical elegance

What we have here is a Model 1873 Springfield Trapdoor Rifle, as passed on to me by my grandfather:







According to the gentleman in charge of Trapdoors.com, this particular rifle was first issued on 26 December 1876 to the Fifth Artillery, though how my grandfather (a World …

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do it yourself

Remember – if we were to simply ban and confiscate all firearms, crime would stop, violence would stop, and no one would ever be able to get firearms again. After all, it is not like you can just make a machine gun in your garage with a power drill and

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giving credit

It seems as though Everyday, No Days Off is going to start offering its full post data in its RSS feeds – given my previous stance on the issue (with bonus irony!), I guess I will resubscribe.…

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piling up the news

I am always intrigued by occasional confluence of news articles, and today’s example just reminds me why I am thankful that I do not use Facebook terribly much. On the one hand, Gizmodo pointed me towards this interesting interview with a nameless Facebook employee:

Rumpus: You’ve previously mentioned a master

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