A Good Year for the Outlaw

Between seeing “$3.12″ per gallon of unleaded and seeing heating bills this past winter, it’s obvious that “gas” of any kind is not cheap anymore. This, of course, despite record profits for the greedy friends-of-Bush in the oil industry.
So one of my employees had an idea this morning…from now on, every time he’s in a [...]

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Don’t you just love it when you come up behind someone dutifully rolling along right at the speed limit (”good for them”, you think, “but I gotta go”), and then speed up the moment you try to slip past them?
I just love that.
Then, when you get by and set your cruise at 63 or 64 [...]

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So I get on I74 at Knoxville this morning, just like every morning, and I set the cruise at 45, just like every morning, and 231 cars pass me before I get to the new Sterling exit, just like every morning, and I don’t see a patrol car the entire time, just like every morning.
After [...]

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Some of you may know I’ve been the Public Address voice of the Peoria Rivermen ever since I arrived in town just before the 1996-97 season. Then-GM Greg Griffith hired me, since then Scott Schuetz, John Butler and Bart Rogers kept welcoming me back to do this fun gig 35-50 nights every winter.
I called Bart [...]

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For the first time in many, many years, I almost had a car accident early this week. I have had a few close-calls (but no “near misses”, nothing that serious) in the last decade, but they’ve all been caused by someone else (idiot running stop sign, idiot not using turn signal, idiot not paying attention [...]

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While visiting with Jon Stewart last night, John Dean said, “I’m still very much a Goldwater Republican…which today makes me left of center apparently.”
How true. I’ve got this little graph I draw for people that shows how the “Center” has been manipulated to the right BY the right in the last 30 years, and it’s [...]

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Anyone who’s ever read this knows what I think about A.J. Pierzynski. But that doesn’t make his All-Star selection any less of a joke. A.J. over Francisco Liriano? Puh-leeze. Seven White Sox and two Tigers? Whatever. Seven White Sox and two Twins? Um, no.
I say from now on the manager of the team with the [...]

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Yet another tragic loss in Tazewell County, and yet another report by law enforcement that it was a “speed related” accident. First, that’s a copout (pardon the pun). For two vehicles to collide, at least one must be moving, therefore, traveling at a “speed”…2 MPH is technically a “speed”. So, all accidents could be called [...]

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I was listening to WSCR on the way home from work Thursday night, as the Cubs-White Sox was the exclusive topic instead of boring football for a change.
The host was wondering if or how the “White Sox were going to get revenge” for Michael Barrett’s cheap shot on A.J. Pierzynski this weekend at Overrated, er, [...]

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