Just in case you were wondering…. that ICBM’s gonna have to stay outside, mister!

Taken in the Bahamas.
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NEW YORK—A popular romance novelist alleged to have lifted work from other texts acknowledged that she sometimes “takes” her material “from reference books,” but added that she didn’t know she was supposed to credit her sources.
“When you write historical romances, you’re not asked to do that,” Cassie Edwards told The Associated Press, speaking earlier this [...]

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Common Sense, the pamphlet by Thomas Paine, was published this day in that most weighty of American years, 1776.

IN the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense; and have no other preliminaries to settle with the reader, than that he will divest himself of prejudice and prepossession, and [...]

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Take that, bitches.
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Jared Diamond, he of Guns, Germs, and Steel fame, had quite the interesting opinion piece in today’s Times:

Real sacrifice wouldn’t be required, however, because living standards are not tightly coupled to consumption rates. Much American consumption is wasteful and contributes little or nothing to quality of life. For example, per capita oil consumption in Western [...]

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Daisy the Labradoodle: October 2004.
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Something new for 2008: I’m going to try and ask some trivia questions at least twice a week. No cheating or Googling, you either know it or you don’t. Respond in the comments. First correct answer for each gets the stated number of points (leave your name to get credit)
And away we go:

Q1: For 1 [...]

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I’m celebrating with one of my favorite movie scenes. Have I mentioned how much I love the Art Institute of Chicago? Or how much I love Ferris Bueller’s Day Off?
No?
Then here is the obvious (nay, obligatory) YouTube link.

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Ahh, the most unlikely place for a Ghostbusters mashup: Grand Theft Auto San Andreas.

As a fun challenge, see if you can make it through the first minute and twenty-seven seconds without getting annoyed by the “Ghostbuster Mobile Siren”. Tough as nails if you ask me.
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It totally freaks me out, and not just the whole idea of pouring water through one nostril and having it come out the other. Actually, I’m okay with that part, because my grandfather did the same thing once with a penny and my ears.

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