Steve S.

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Videological hilarity courtesy of The Onion

Steve S. posted an article on - Dec 3, 2009, 3:16 pm
The recap of Group Five of the Wrestling Legends Invitational won’t be up until tomorrow, because it’s taking a long time to write and I don’t feel like fucking with it any more righ...
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"A Public Big-Ass War"

Steve S. posted an article on - Dec 2, 2009, 5:13 pm

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For no better reason than it is just fun to be really, really mean to young children

Steve S. posted an article on - Dec 1, 2009, 1:09 pm
Let it never be said that I am the least bit above going for the cheapest laugh possible.
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Chaplin or Keaton?

Steve S. posted an article on - Nov 30, 2009, 2:05 pm
Ten days ago the following question was posed to Richard Brody, who writes about movies for the New Yorker: “Chaplin or Keaton? Gun to your head GO!” Brody’s one-word answer: “...
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Chambersburg takes its crèche and goes home

Steve S. posted an article on - Nov 28, 2009, 10:05 pm
It’s nice every now and then to be reminded that the town where I was born isn’t the only place around here where crazy has, if not a permanent residence, at least a room and an open invit...
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Lazy Bastard Black Friday: The Gobbledy Gooker

Steve S. posted an article on - Nov 27, 2009, 10:51 am
Ashley and I had a good laugh watching the Macy’s parade when Santa Claus showed up at the end and totally blew his lip-synched “Happy Thanksgiving to one and all!” Then I ate so muc...
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The Wrestling Legends Invitational: Group Four

Steve S. posted an article on - Nov 26, 2009, 8:17 am
Group Four: The Shohei Baba Bracket Happy Thanksgiving, wrestling fans. In lieu of watching the fucking Detroit Lions, or an all-day marathon of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (may Turkey Day rest in ...
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Hey, Sarah Palin: Fuck Hannity and Beck — take the Imus pledge

Steve S. posted an article on - Nov 25, 2009, 6:16 pm
For way over a year, Sean Hannity has been touting a list of “Top 10 Items for Victory” at his website, a series of policies and bits of glib philosophy that he claims is the Republican Pa...
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Listening to Dennis Miller can feel like a near-death experience

Steve S. posted an article on - Nov 24, 2009, 12:28 pm
This morning I was listening to the radio on the drive home from dropping Ashley at work. Dennis Miller’s show was on, and even though he irritates me like few people this side of Glenn Beck any...
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Kangaroo Jack attacks man, tries to drown dog

Steve S. posted an article on - Nov 23, 2009, 12:42 pm
... Rickard of Melbourne. Rickard was out walking his dog yesterday when they startled a sleeping kangaroo. The dog chased ... dog, holding it under the water. When Rickard ran up to help, the kang...
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Two Voices: The Eternal Questions

Steve S. posted an article on - Nov 22, 2009, 12:36 pm
—. . . —What? —What is this you’re watching? —History Channel. About plate tectonics. —How’s that history? —Plate tectonics are what shaped th...
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A Message to Anglicans, From the Pope

Steve S. posted an article on - Nov 21, 2009, 10:28 pm

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The Wrestling Legends Invitational: Group Three

Steve S. posted an article on - Nov 20, 2009, 5:30 pm
Group Three: The Salvador Lutteroth Bracket Mere hours ago the following was LIVE at the Arena Mexico in Mexico City, Mexico! If you missed the first two weeks, a brief recap: Group One action was h...
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In lieu of Group Three, please enjoy Lazy Bastard Thursday

Steve S. posted an article on - Nov 19, 2009, 3:05 pm
So last night was supposed to be the Group Three card in the Wrestling Legends Invitational. Unfortunately, the folks in charge at the Arena Mexico double booked the joint, and we had to relinquish ou...
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Star Trek Easter eggs you might have missed

Steve S. posted an article on - Nov 18, 2009, 2:55 pm
Yesterday the new Star Trek film came out on DVD and, like a good consumer, I raced out to Target and bought a copy. The film itself was every bit as fun and entertaining as I remembered from seeing i...
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By now you must be asking "What does Christopher Hitchens have to say about the Fort Hood massacre?"

Steve S. posted an article on - Nov 17, 2009, 9:06 pm
I checked out Christopher Hitchens’s weekly column on Slate.com this evening hoping to catch a reaction to the Obama administration’s decision to (all together now!) try Khalid Sheik Moham...
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Riffing on Mail Call: What About Veterans Day? Edition

Steve S. posted an article on - Nov 16, 2009, 7:52 pm
I had hoped to be able to do a Mail Call article today responding to local nuts voicing their carefully cultivated outrage over Attorney General Holder’s announcement on Friday that Khalid Sheik...
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And another thing (about trying terrorists in civilian court) . . .

Steve S. posted an article on - Nov 15, 2009, 1:23 pm
Critics of the decision to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other accused masterminds of the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks have spent the last two days going on television and radio and the internet, ...
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Why Trying the Men Who Planned 9/11 in New York is the Right — the Only Right — Thing to Do

Steve S. posted an article on - Nov 14, 2009, 11:11 pm
This week U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other men accused of helping to mastermind the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 will be tried for their...
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Crow makes fun of Gregory Peck, and the world laughs along

Steve S. posted an article on - Nov 13, 2009, 8:27 am
The very best part about the Marooned episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000: The garbled bass profundo Trace Beaulieu uses to impersonate Gregory Peck. The second-best part: You can watch the enti...
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The Wrestling Legends Invitational: Group Two

Steve S. posted an article on - Nov 12, 2009, 6:03 pm
... and the Muscle Buster finishing maneuver, Jake with the most dreaded DDT in all of wrestling. Bell rings and they crouch in their respective corners for a bit, eyeing each other across the ......
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Two ways to celebrate Veterans Day

Steve S. posted an article on - Nov 11, 2009, 1:34 pm
I have mixed feelings about Veterans Day. On the one hand, Dad and Pap both served in the U.S. Navy, and I know of at least one ancestor who fought in the American Civil War. The military history of m...
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Music Review: A Family Album by The Verve Pipe

Steve S. posted an article on - Nov 4, 2009, 4:18 pm
Music Review A Family Album by The Verve Pipe   Back in the days when I was in the grip of adolescent angst (a period which strangely coincided with my actual adolescence) there was no better ban...
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How to cope with a possible Yankees World Series victory

Steve S. posted an article on - Nov 3, 2009, 2:26 pm
I’m not giving up on the Phillies yet. I’m not. But they’re down in the series three games to two and headed back to the Bronx, and . . . well, I just think we need to be r...
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Justice Friends #2

Steve S. posted an article on - Nov 2, 2009, 2:42 pm

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Fun With the Church Sign Generator

Steve S. posted an article on - Nov 1, 2009, 11:50 am

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Random thoughts while watching Game Three

Steve S. posted an article on - Oct 31, 2009, 10:50 pm
—Bottom of the sixth, Yankees up 6-3. Not looking good for the Phillies.   —I think when Derek Jeter is inevitably elected to the Hall of Fame, his plaque should simply read &ldq...
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It's the laughter of children that I truly hate

Steve S. posted an article on - Oct 30, 2009, 4:02 pm
Last night was the government-sanctioned, real official-like trick-or-treat night here in Sharpsburg. There was a good turnout as usual, and the kids seemed to have a good time, the shameless little b...
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Dear huntin'

Steve S. posted an article on - Oct 29, 2009, 4:59 pm
Driving around yesterday I saw two things typical of this area this time of year: white-tailed deer, and people trying to kill them. The deer I saw were in no immediate danger from hunters, since...
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Ah, the World Series

Steve S. posted an article on - Oct 28, 2009, 5:28 pm
Tonight is the first game of the 105th World Series. The New York Yankees host the Philadelphia Phillies. It’s only the second time these two franchises have ever faced each other in t...
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Ain't no God long as Christopher Hitchens is walkin' the Earth

Steve S. posted an article on - Oct 27, 2009, 4:58 pm
There’s a documentary just out on DVD that I’m anxious to see. It’s Collision, a film about the debate tour conducted last year by Douglas Wilson, a Christian pastor, author, an...
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And it ain't even my birthday . . .

Steve S. posted an article on - Oct 26, 2009, 5:20 pm
For the last week or so Ashley has been dropping cryptic hints about a “project” she’d been working on for me. Yesterday she finally finished it and revealed it to me. And man, ...
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A second try at a good George Washington joke

Steve S. posted an article on - Oct 25, 2009, 12:19 pm
Hey, remember that joke I told last night? Well, whatever.   After I typed it in and posted it, I got to thinking . . . it could very easily have been a joke about George Washington, not jus...
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No good George Washington jokes? What gives?

Steve S. posted an article on - Oct 24, 2009, 11:02 pm
You would not believe how hard it is to find a good George Washington joke these days. I bet back ‘round the 1790s you would have found tons of them, just pamphlet after pamphlet of incredi...
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Vintage Cactus Jack, just because

Steve S. posted an article on - Oct 23, 2009, 4:14 pm
As you may have noticed, and as the past six straight days of shitty comics has demonstrated, I haven’t felt much like writing this week. I’m not sure why exactly, but I have a theory. It ...
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Hall of Presidents Comics #2

Steve S. posted an article on - Oct 22, 2009, 6:56 pm

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Me and Toby Benson and Stuffy

Steve S. posted an article on - Oct 20, 2009, 3:22 pm

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Me and Jack MacPherson

Steve S. posted an article on - Oct 19, 2009, 3:04 pm
 
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Fun With the Church Sign Generator

Steve S. posted an article on - Oct 18, 2009, 12:02 pm
 
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The facts on how Obama's doing so far

Steve S. posted an article on - Oct 17, 2009, 10:26 pm
Liberals are impatient over the continued operation of the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, and the failure to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; conservatives are losing their shit over the prop...
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Obama's HRC Speech: The Good and the Bad

Steve S. posted an article on - Oct 12, 2009, 4:37 pm
Saturday night President Barack Obama addressed the annual National Dinner of the Human Rights Campaign, one of the largest and most visible gay rights organizations in the world. In a speech int...
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Random screengrabs reveal my secret shame

Steve S. posted an article on - Oct 11, 2009, 11:59 am
My deep, dark secrets . . . the parts of myself that must remain hidden at all costs . . . Here are a few of them, shockingly revealed by random screengrabs taken from my web surfing over the last f...
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Shocking secrets of wrestling revealed

Steve S. posted an article on - Oct 10, 2009, 10:38 pm
One of the hallmarks of a big-time pro wrestling match, like Wrestlemania main event big time, is the staredown of the opponents. The two guys walk to the middle of the ring, stand toe-to-toe, and usu...
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Barack Obama deserves the Peace Prize — Alfred Nobel says so

Steve S. posted an article on - Oct 9, 2009, 2:03 pm
As I’m sure you’ve heard by now, the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 has been awarded to our very own President of the United States, Barack Obama. It was a surprise to pretty much everyon...
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My career designing PSA posters is still a complete and utter failure

Steve S. posted an article on - Oct 8, 2009, 10:30 am
A few months ago I told you all about my failed career in advertising. I designed a few posters to raise awareness of multiple sclerosis, which were rejected by my design professor and resulted in my ...
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The Right-Wing's Bigoted Obsession with Kevin Jennings

Steve S. posted an article on - Oct 7, 2009, 4:17 pm
... Jennings has been a lifelong advocate for the rights of gays, and has especially focused on how homosexuality is treated in education. After growing up surrounded by racial and sexual ... ...
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More conservatives are finally growing some balls

Steve S. posted an article on - Oct 6, 2009, 2:29 pm
These past few weeks it’s finally seemed to dawn on a few conservatives other than David Frum that maybe they ought to start standing up to the large-mouthed extremists on their own side before ...
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