Exceedingly miscellaneous

Both alcohol-related

"You govern like Billy Joel drives."-- Bill Maher on George W. Bush
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Just as I had suspected

Researchers announced that many people begin to go crazy by age fourteen, and that people's bladders generally do not get smaller as they grow old. Brain shrinkage, a study found, has no effect on cognition. -- Harpers August 2005
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Rebranding ID as the new white meat

"Intelligent Design: The Scientific Alternative to Evolution," by William S. Harris and John H. Calvert

Published in The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly
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The drink-sodden former Trotskyist popinjay knockabout tour rolls into NYC

A debate between Scottish MP George Galloway and Christopher Hitchens on Iraq and U.S. and British foreign policy is scheduled for September 14, 2005, in Manhattan.

A little background: In May 2005, the strongly anti-Iraq War Galloway got into an argument with the strongly pro-Iraq War Hitchens right before Galloway was to give evidence to the US Senate. Galloway called Hitchens a "drink-sodden former Trotskyist popinjay." "Some of which," Hitchens subsequently complained, "was unfair."