Crap, is it hot today. We were up around 88 earlier, and we’re still at 83 now. Okay, maybe that isn’t so hot, but for some reason the whole family’s been loathe to use the air conditioning so far this year. It certainly works, but no one ever bothers to turn it on. And I mean, it is cooler inside the house right now (about 78), and with my window open and my fan on it’s hardly like I’m sweating or anything, but it still…

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New on Backwash: “Late Night Television is a Cesspool“. A quick look at the players on the late night scene today, and why they piss me off so much. Of course I made extra certain to really take it to Kilborn, like you had to ask. At the very least, this entry is a lot more focused than my last entry, which I really wrote in a sleep-deprived haze and wound up too disjointed. This time I’m fairly cognizent, but I’m having a hard time…

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Every local late night newscast had live feeds from outside bookstores to cover the release of the new Harry Potter book. I’ll admit to never having read the books, or seen the movie(s?), but I’m willing to accept that they’re good. But that good? Sometimes those parties have their advantages, though; when “Candle in the Wind ’97” came out, most people at the Media Play that evening were there to get that, and a few were there to get the new Boyz II Men CD…

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Well, the first summer course is in the books. Now I get the rest of this week and all of next week off, and the timing couldn’t be better. Next week the Senior PGA tour comes to town, and whenever there’s golf in town traffic is hell, especially around the University. I’ll be happy to stay at home that whole week, although I’ll have to contend with Jamie Farr Kroger Classic traffic in the last week of my second summer class, groan. By the way,…

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Yahoo! News – Bush Blasts ‘Revisionist Historians’ on Iraq — Let me just quote the relevant bit here: Bush said, “This is for certain, Saddam Hussein is no longer a threat to the United States and our friends and allies.” Bullshit, Dubya. Now, I’ve admitted that I thought Saddam had WMDs before the incursion, although it’s nice to see all of that “ready to strike and kill us all at any moment” hyperbole is being slowly but surely deflated. The thing is, Saddam’s still out…

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