… because Wikipedia can’t seem to make up its own mind, but anyway, it was a decade ago today or yesterday that Matt Drudge posted on that Website of his that Newsweek was sitting on a story about then-President Clinton having an affair with one of his interns, Monica Lewinsky. Remember what we as a country went through in the following couple of years, and compare that to what congressional Democrats have done so far to hold the current administration accountable for what they did…

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Former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien was born. He was Prime Minister for most of the time I regularly caught those two great Canadian political satire shows, Royal Canadian Air Farce and This Hour Has 22 Minutes, and his willingness to appear on the latter show multiple times just reinforced in my mind how much better Canadian politics are than ours. Contrast that to Nancy Pelosi’s admonition to first-year Representatives not to appear on The Colbert Report‘s "Better Know a District" segment. Sigh. Anyway, let’s…

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This enables me to once again bemoan how chronically underappreciated Max Headroom continues to be to this day. In all seriousness, if there was ever one television series that proved itself to be more and more precient with each passing year, I’d like to know what it was. Okay, so maybe we all got hooked to our computer monitors instead of our television screens, but how many people are using the same screen for both now? Matt, you are missed as Max Headroom, and I…

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Seriously, what is with all the people who make the computer operating systems of our time remaining so freakishly young-looking well into middle age? Steve Jobs seems to be the only one who doesn’t seem to mind showing some beard stubble and a little grey in his hair. Dick Clark has nothing on these guys. Anyway, let’s play the friday5.org Friday Five! 1. What is an acronym specific to your workplace or profession?SCF: Students Come First. Okay, it’s not exactly canon, but I don’t have…

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The L, of course, stands for Motherfucking. On that note, let’s play the friday5.org Friday Five! 1. If money were no concern and LOOKS the only consideration, what car would you get yourself?If money were no concern I’d get a hybrid, thanks. If I really had the money to spend, and I couldn’t spend it on more worthwhile things, I’d probably get the hybrid painted black with dark purple and dark green accents. 2. If money were no concern and YOUR LIFESTYLE the only consideration,…

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