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Fun Factoid:

In July 1902 Theodore Roosevelt named Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. as his first appointee to the Supreme Court. Twenty months later Holmes voted against his president in the biggest railroad trust-busting case of the time, United States v. Northern Securities.

"I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that," Roosevelt declared.

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Is This A Sexist Image?

The above picture was taken from an entry in Taslima's blog titled Sexism Still Exists and I found the sexism claim to be trivial and silly (and said so in a below the blog 'comment'.) It's advertising, is all. It works. And for all I know it might even have been conceived by a female advertising agent.

Sexism? Good Grief!

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Things Dr. Oz Will Probably Not Tell You

What's so great about the pomegranate?

Pom Wonderful company says it's a miraculous health food.

What's so wonderful about Pom Wonderful?

What Pom Wonderful says about POM Wonderful:


AlterNet says Pom Wonderful is a SCAM.

What AlterNet says about POM Wonderful:

What the bible says about the pomegranate:

"I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate."
--Song of Solomon 8:2

(Hey! Is that some kind of poetic sex metaphor?)

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WORD OF THE DAY

semiotics or semiology
noun
The science that deals with signs or sign language.
The use of signs in signaling, as with a semaphore.

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BORN ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY


Wild Bill Hickok

 Born May 27, 1837
Died Aug, 02, 1876

James Butler Hickok, better known as Wild Bill Hickok, was a folk hero of the American Old West. His skills as a gunfighter and scout, along with his reputation as a lawman, provided the basis for his fame, although some of his exploits are fictionalized.

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Harlan Ellison

 

Born May 27, 1934

Harlan Jay Ellison is an American writer. His principal genre is speculative fiction.

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Vincent Price

 

Born May 27, 1911
Died Oct. 25, 1993

Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. was an American actor, well known for his distinctive voice and serio-comic performances in a series of horror films made in the latter part of his career.

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When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
--Ernest Hemingway