The Associated Press: Carlin, Dies 71, Mourned as Counterculture hHro. Carlin, 71, whose staunch defense of free speech in his most famous routine “Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television” led to a key Supreme Court ruling on obscenity, died Sunday June 22, 2008.
George Carlin was my favorite entertainer; personally speaking, the world is [...]
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This dream is over: The Associated Press: Home Foreclosures Set Record in First Quarter. More than 1 million homes are now in foreclosure. This, as we watch economic recession claim all equity of responsible mortgage borrowers, while the government attempts to save the irresponsible with a lender rodeo. The association says it expects foreclosures and [...]
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mikull.com message board :: “Artistic” Death of an Innocent Animal :: This one hit me a little hard.
In 2007, the ‘artist’ Guillermo Vargas Habacuc, took a dog from the street, tied him to a rope in an art gallery and began starving him to death. For several days, the ‘artist’ and the visitors of the [...]
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ASPCA: Ways to Go Orange for Animals. mikull.com celebrates the ASPCA’s efforts this April and encourages animal cruelty awareness all year long. Show your support - and post a comment to this entry. We’re giving away 10 ASPCA bracelets randomly to anyone who submits a reply!*
Every year on April 10, the anniversary date of the [...]
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The mikull.com message board. Good times. The boards have been great, there’s no doubt about it - we’ve been having fun for years — but like everything else on the web, change is inevitable.
In maintaining a blog as well an antiquidated forum, I often find my hands a little tied… so although I’m bringing [...]
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Statistics say that over 70% of smokers want to quit. So what’s stopping them? For many, the thought of going through lengthy withdrawal symptoms is enough to make one light up. They say that in reality, the cravings are far less worse than people fear. I’m not entirely sure. I read the magic day arrives [...]
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Mass Hysteria: 5 Marketing Tricks That Unleash Shopping Frenzies, from Consumerist.com, isn’t all that special of an article. It’s barely related to Black Friday, yet aside from the lovely advice “Don’t give your kid a hunk of plastic -Give him a cup of imagination“, it grabs my opener here because of 2 things: the picture [...]
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Talk Like A Pirate Day
Today was the now internationally recognized Talk Like a Pirate Day; here’s to hoping you’ve used it to your advantage in an inappropriate situation. My wife and I have both been mumbling some arrgh’s of our own, sadly for a different reason- we’re both under the weather. It only makes sense, [...]
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