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Dogs playing poker paintings fetch $590,000 A pair of paintings from the famed series depicting dogs playing poker fetched nearly $600,000 at auction Tuesday. Or you can get a calendar for $11.95. (And the cover picture shown is “A Bold Bluff,” one of the pair that sold for $590,000.) Or pre-order the book Poker Dogs: […]

I ran across this piece called Republican Responsibility by J.D. Crouch from 1994 and was struck by the similarities to the 2004 election… 1994 was not just a simplistic vote for “change”–the word the White House spin doctors have tried to apply to the Democrat’s disaster–but a vote for change in a certain direction. The […]

Marginal Revolution explores a survey on the reasons people gave for attending protests during the 2004 Republican National Convention. Not surprisingly, the attitudes were far more anti-Bush than pro-Kerry, but what is surprising or at least amusing is that wanting to pick up chicks seems to also have been more important than supporting the Democratic […]

In a piece of “news” that I’d file in the “so what” category, Reuters, along with several people in the right wing anti-Saudi blogosphere, is surprised that St. Valentine’s Day isn’t celebrated in Saudi Arabia. Hmmm…if there were a Catholic theocracy, would we expect it to celebrate Ramadan? Apparently these folks at Reuters are so […]

Okay, no great news there, since most conservatives and any nonconservative who knows who he is have known it for years. But the latest installment pretty much takes him to a new height. Dean’s World – Alan Keyes Strikes Again Maya, 19, says her parents cut her off because of who she is — “a […]

Google fired an employee over his blog’s content: Google was not impressed, especially when he compared the Microsoft and Google pay and benefits packages and found Google coming up short. Google fired Jen 11 days into his new job. My comments: 1. This is not a free speech issue. Freedom of speech can only be […]