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Sports

Cardinals win

Mitch Albom sums the World Series and the Tiger’s 2006 season up far better than I ever could.

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Humor

Learn Yiddish with George and Laura

With the Tigers losing the World Series last night, I think I need something light and funny to pick me up. Here’s just the thing: Believe it or not, you don’t have to be Jewish to learn Yiddish with George and Laura. (The part mentioning evolution at the end is particularly timely, given a couple […]

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Sports

I know I said that I wanted a repeat of the 1968 World Series, but this is ridiculous

This is getting depressing. Last night, the Tigers lost a particularly heartbreaking game 5-4. It’s heartbreaking because it’s a game that they really should have won. Unfortunately errors and the two unearned runs that they allowed killed them. Now the 2006 World Series is at the same point that the 1968 World Series was, with […]

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Music

Friday Random Ten

It’s Friday, and I haven’t done this for a long time; so here we go. I fired up iTunes, set it to Shuffle Play, and awaited with baited breath for what came out. See how this stuff compares to Mark’s list today: 1. My Chemical Romance, Welcome to the Black Parade (from The Black Parade). […]

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Blogging Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

QuackSafe™ Google searching

Tired of doing Google searches for evidence-based discussions of dubious-sounding medical treatments and finding that the first 100 sites (or, if you’re unlucky, the first 1,000 sites) that pop up are nothing more than altie woo, shills selling alternative medicine and supplements, and CureZone or Whale.to wannabes? Here’s a useful tool. Le Canard Noir has […]