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Date: January 27th, 2008

Just don’t show it

27 January, 2008 (13:51) | Movies, Rants | 1 comment

Censors wagging the dog
OK, for the Nth time in recent memory, there was a movie on cable, with which they just shouldn’t have bothered. If you’re going to show Blazing Saddles but are going to blip out every instance of words like “nigger” and “faggot,” just don’t bother. It’s a satire about bigotry. [...]

No Sweat

27 January, 2008 (11:43) | Body, Physics | No comments

Or, the myth of “working up a good sweat”
On occasion my “private” workouts get interrupted by someone with the audacity to want to use the exercise room at the same time I do. That’s no biggie. But what bugs me is when the offendor will turn on the heat, or turn off the [...]

 

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