Swanky Conservative

To all my shipmates at sea, at home, or in the dirt somewhere, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and come home safe.

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How can you not dig an animated film about a lonely robot named Wall*e, when the teaser has Barroso’s Brazil playing as the accompaniment?

Teaser trailers available at Apple’s movie trailers. The movie season of 2008 is shaping up to be an amazing one. Indiana Jones, Wall*e, Dark Knight, the Hulk’s second flick, Iron Man, Speed [...]

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“When those who tell me the environment’s a crisis start acting like it, I’ll listen.” –Glenn Reynolds
Another example of those true words was the recent ClimateStock ‘07 in Bali. Jetloads of concerned environmentalists descended on the Pacific playground and began wringing their hands over how bad things are for Mother Earth. Now why should I [...]

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Not in the spirit of the holidays? Maybe you just need some motivation, haka style:

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Governor Huckabee seems to be hiding his sermons from his time as pastor at two Southern Baptist churches, according to Mother Jones.

When asked for copies of the sermons Huckabee delivered at Immanuel Church, an employee there claimed none could be found. A Beech Street Church pastor’s assistant maintained that much of the archival material from [...]

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So reads the description at slashfilm about “The Machine Girl,” an upcoming Japanese film that is seemingly destined for the Cult Film Hall of Fame. There’s an embedded Flash Video of the trailer on the slashfilm page. Lots and lots of blood is present, for those who might care.

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Wow. Austin ranks #94 of the nation’s “Drunkest Cities”. How’s that bad, you ask? Well the list goes from 100 to 1, with 100 being the drunkest. (How non-usable is that convention?) Preachy bastards…
We looked at annual death rates due to alcoholic liver disease, as well as who’s headed there by regularly downing five or [...]

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Bad. Ass.

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Here’s a video tribute to the 1970s Steelers:

I long for another Cowboys - Steelers Super Bowl showdown. With the Cowboys pulling off a nail-biter in Detroit this afternoon, they are still on track for an amazing season, one that harks back to the early 90s when they were coached by Jimmy Johnson, and before that, [...]

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What the hell have they been teaching in journalism school? We have Dan Rather and Mary Mapes “fake but accurate” excuse for running a hit piece on a sitting president in the final months of a reelection campaign. We have The New Republic running an unverified piece on the supposed horrors of war containing events [...]

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Sean Penn, Cindy Sheehan, Danny Glover, and Jimmy Carter were unavailable for comment after Venezuelan thug-in-chief, Hugo Chavez, had his “reforms” rejected by Venezuelan voters. The so-called reforms would have given “Chavez control over the Central Bank, the right to suspend civil liberties and freedom of the press and the right to take over private [...]

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