Nate B. posted an article on Stabbone and McGraw - Nov 3, 2009, 11:25 pm
McBone is proud of its Akron roots, but today the disappointment we feel in our hometown is profound, as incumbent Akron Municipal Court Judge Stephen Fallis, who has been like a second father to me f...
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Nate B. posted an article on Stabbone and McGraw - Nov 1, 2009, 11:11 pm
Trees can be serious a-holes sometimes.  Yes, I know how important they are with this business of inhaling carbon dioxide and exhaling oxygen.  Obviously you gotta love how they breathe in w...
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Nate B. posted an article on Stabbone and McGraw - Oct 29, 2009, 8:45 pm
Boring.  That's the criticism I keep hearing and reading about Where the Wild Things Are, Spike Jonze's brilliant, haunting adaptation of Maurice Sendak's seminal tale of Max and his ...
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Nate B. posted an article on Stabbone and McGraw - Oct 24, 2009, 11:41 pm
When my beloved sister told me on Facebook the other day how delicious she thought homemade mayonnaise was, and when she said how much she loved making her own mayonnaise and serving it to her husband...
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Nate B. posted an article on Stabbone and McGraw - Oct 23, 2009, 11:05 pm
Ever get the urge to just up and blow something away?  Sure, we all do.  And about the only thing more satisfying than a violent impulse is a shared violent impulse.  That's why whe...
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Nate B. posted an article on Stabbone and McGraw - Oct 20, 2009, 7:47 pm
... the Celtics lost their best bench player.  Last year it was James Posey.  This year, Leon Powe.  ... three players left from the team that went to the finals in '07--James, Il...
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Nate B. posted an article on Stabbone and McGraw - Oct 15, 2009, 11:22 pm
Ah, beef jerky, Leathery meat... Strips of heaven, What a treat! Zesty, salty, Dried-out cow, Don't want it later, I want it now! So many flavors, Oh, how they mock me! Pepper, garlic, Teriyaki...
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Nate B. posted an article on Stabbone and McGraw - Oct 13, 2009, 11:44 pm
Hey, opponents of same-sex marriage, do you know why you will lose your futile battle with equality?  Because you have no argument!  While we may be a nation of Christians, we are not a Chri...
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Nate B. posted an article on Stabbone and McGraw - Oct 11, 2009, 11:33 pm
You need proof that the world is a dirty, rotten, filthy, stinking, godforsaken, rat-infested place with worms and maggots crawling all over it?  Look no further than this display of Food Club Ma...
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Nate B. posted an article on Stabbone and McGraw - Oct 10, 2009, 3:42 pm
In what is bound to be the most controversial handing out of a coveted prize since Zoilo Versalles was named the American League MVP in 1965, President Obama, the man at the helm of two wars that few ...
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Nate B. posted an article on Stabbone and McGraw - Oct 9, 2009, 12:41 am
Somewhere out there, blogging his (or her!) brains out, is my diametric opposite, my antithesis, my arch nemesis.  I don't know if he is aware of me, but I am aware of him and I have a fairly...
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Nate B. posted an article on Stabbone and McGraw - Oct 6, 2009, 10:59 pm
Hey Indiana, I have a confession to make.  When I first learned that we would be moving to Ohio's next door neighbor, I was a little nervous.  Well, I underestimated you, and it was unfa...
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Nate B. posted an article on Stabbone and McGraw - Oct 3, 2009, 1:10 pm
Behold the twitching, dying form of a cedar waxwing, one of nature's most glorious winged specimens and one of my very favorites.  Annually the waxwings come to feast on the berries from vari...
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Nate B. posted an article on Stabbone and McGraw - Sep 30, 2009, 9:35 pm
The microbrew movement is what transformed the United States from an intergalactic laughingstock to a world-class producer of fine lagers, ales, stouts and porters, but that don't mean that all mi...
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Nate B. posted an article on Stabbone and McGraw - Sep 27, 2009, 11:56 pm
As a one-time Webelos, I know the value of being prepared.  As a Webelos whose scoutmaster bailed out two months after I signed up, I also know that things can end suddenly.  That's why ...
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Nate B. posted an article on Stabbone and McGraw - Sep 24, 2009, 9:39 pm
While we at McBone aren't really into the objectification of women, sometimes we just can't help ourselves.  I saw the horror classic Black Christmas the other day, and now I'm just g...
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Nate B. posted an article on Stabbone and McGraw - Sep 24, 2009, 12:55 am
When Alex and I were living in that socialized Heart of Darkness (and cheese and wine) known as France, I couldn't help but notice a few differences between French and American health care.  ...
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Nate B. posted an article on Stabbone and McGraw - Sep 22, 2009, 12:14 am
Mad scientists, Dracula, Dr. Octopus, Hitler, the Boogeyman--add them up and you don't even get a fraction of one percent of the total evil that is Satan.  The scariest part?  He's e...
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Nate B. posted an article on Stabbone and McGraw - Sep 20, 2009, 10:08 pm
One of the McBoners recently wrote a post about a her celebrity crush, Zachary Quinto.  Nice choice, and it reminds me of how Alex and I often talk about who our "free pass" would be.  You k...
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Nate B. posted an article on Stabbone and McGraw - Sep 15, 2009, 10:54 pm
Breasts.  What can I say about them?  As an almost completely* heterosexual male, I like them.  I like them a lot.  And if they're large, I'm not going to complain. Except...
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Nate B. posted an article on Stabbone and McGraw - Sep 13, 2009, 7:05 pm
I will say this for the Browns and their first game of the 2009-10 season: they played a pretty darned good half of football.  Crisp tackling, effective running game, great pass rush, a nifty 65 ...
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Nate B. posted an article on Stabbone and McGraw - Sep 10, 2009, 12:25 am
Hey, Martin Scorsese!  Do you remember when you used to make great movies?  I mean really great movies that were changing the course of cinema?  You know the ones I mean, the awesome on...
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Nate B. posted an article on Stabbone and McGraw - Sep 8, 2009, 6:56 pm
You know what? Screw it. I'm having second thoughts about this baseball thing. The Tribe has its formula, which is to trade high priced veterans for promising minor leaguers, mix in a few wily vet...
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Nate B. posted an article on Stabbone and McGraw - Sep 5, 2009, 3:00 pm
Though few know it, and even fewer will accept it, former presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are gay lovers in heaven, as this portrait proves. Notice the starry eyes of Washington as h...
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Nate B. posted an article on Stabbone and McGraw - Sep 2, 2009, 5:07 pm
Some avid McBoners may remember when, back in dying, gasping, twitching last days of the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Rice regime, I threw McBone's weight behind the Mike Gravel presidential campaign. We...
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