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I hope this means war.

Tom Toles on GOP redundancy...

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Tip of the hat to JudiPhilly.

UniWatch confirms that the Buffalo News confirms that the rumors are true that the Buffalo Sabres will have new uniforms this coming season, but not the super-lovely ones we had hoped, but some illegitimate-child-like ones...

Image: Checking Line

I liked this idea. (Checking Line agrees.)

Images: Celsius Design

An update on the missing mathematical therefore symbol. I guess there is one since I just found it: ∴

(To take advantage, place "there4" in between "&" and ";")

A brief word on the silly craziness that is the Barbara Walters / Star Jones feud... Rita Cosby has the worst voice on television.

Image: MSNBC.com

It just doesn't make any sense to me this woman is on televison.

Update: Rita Cobsy has lost her show on MSNBC. What timing.

An "archaelogy" team searching for the "lost ark" of "Noah" may have apparently "found" the "vessel" in Iran. "Throughout history, people have been searching for the Ark to help prove God's existence. 'There's this idea, if we can prove that the ark existed then we can prove that the story existed, and more importantly, we can prove that God existed.'" Good luck with that. Blind faith, my man; blind faith. (Great band.)

Jake Tapper, back in the blogging act, has asked his readers (read: me) to comment on the SWIFT (so-called) controversy. I partook...

Way to stay on the subject, Jake. Do you find it interesting parsing words with a former (or, I guess, current) television personality [White House Press Secretary Tony Snow]? What is the press' thoughts on Snow after a month or so on the job?

In my neck of the woods, the paper once wrote of how the police were "looking for suspects in the theft of neighborhood swings" in the park nearby. Oh boy, did the Chief of Police ever give that paper's editor a dirty look the next day at the farmer's market. All of us in attendance were like, "No, he didn't just do that. How are the cops supposed to catch these hooligans now?"

While the Sopranos is on a mid-season (?) hiatus, I feel I should lend my expertise on the award-winning, critically-acclaimed television show by ranking the first six seasons. Alas, I am no expert, and the show is too darn good, in my humble opinion, to rank in order from 1 to 6. Instead, I will place the six seasons in three categories...

The best of the best.
Season 2 - Big Pussy returns from hiding and it is revealed that he has been a longtime rat to the Feds (goodbye Bug Pussy); Christopher is almost fatally shot; and the best character of alltime, Richie Aprile, says hello and goodbye in this season.

Season 5 - Feech La Manna causes problems in the neighborhood; Tony Blundetto leaves too soon; and Adriana's run-in with the Feds finally catches up with her.

How young does Tony Soprano look here? (Image: HBO)

The best show on televison. Period.
Season 1 - The season that started it all; the final three episodes cap off a terrific storyline (the first time Tony is shot); and my second favorite character of alltime, Mikey Palmice, is shown the door.

Season 3 - The more I watch this season, the less I like it, but that is because of the genius of seasons 1, 2 and 5; Richie Aprile, Jr.; Ralphie Cifaretto; and "Pine Barrens."

Still better than anything else.
Season 6 - Apparently this is only half-way (thank goodness); Tony gets shot (again) by Uncle Junior (again); Christopher's drug problems continue; the Vito Spitafore storyline lingers forever; and this is all after, quite possibly, the best three-episode start of a season.

Season 4 - Ralphie bids farewell; Furio becomes a problem; Janice rises; and "Whitecaps" ended the season with a whimper.

- Yea, scratch that flag burning idea. It is unAmerican, I tell you. (No, it's not.) But, seriously, please stop with all of these "amend the Constitution" ideas -- it is getting old.

- Another capable businessman will be confirmed as Secretary of the Treasury, and then will be forced to resign in a year or so.

- And enough with the poor reviews of the new Superman movie. These are the same critics that enjoyed The Accidental Tourist and shunned Jim Carrey at the Oscars for his portrayal of Lloyd Christmas, clearly one of the most complex characters in cinematic history.

This weekend, I will be sure to burn those two flags (the ones that new real estate agent in the neighborhood planted in my front yard for Memorial Day) before the U.S. Constitution is amended. I will, for the first and last time, take advantage of an American freedom, for it will soon be gone.

"'I think it's important to focus on the basic fact that the text of the First Amendment, the text of the Constitution, the text of the Bill of Rights is not involved,' [Senator Arlen] Specter argued. The Judiciary Committee chairman did not explain how he could add 17 words to the Constitution without altering its text.

"The chamber has scheduled up to four days of debate on the flag-burning amendment this week. If that formula -- one day of Senate debate for each incident of flag burning this year -- were to be applied to other matters, the Senate would need to schedule 12 days of debate to contemplate the number of years before Medicare goes broke, 335 days of debate for each service member killed in Iraq this year and 11 million days of debate on the estimated number of illegal immigrants in the country."

I have never taken a sip of a Budweiser or a Bud Light or a Bud Dry (does that even still exist?), nor will I ever. "Simply put, Germans hate Budweiser. Weeks before the inaugural games kicked off the Cup, Germans were furious at the prospect of having to drink what they refer to as 'dishwater' at stadiums." Amen. (Does this make me some sort of an elitist? It does? Good.)