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How a $10 Enterprise rental car became $40, but not more.

How a $10 Enterprise rental car became $40, but not more.

For me, a car is a means of getting me from A to B.   I just don’t “get” the idea of spending money for a “luxury” car.  But many people aren’t like me, and rental car companies know this.
Two days ago, I rented a car through Expedia.  I reserved the cheapest car available at Enterprise.  It [...]

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No Halloween Masks!

No Halloween Masks!

This sign is posted on the door of a local grocery store.  Could it be that they are afraid of . . . shoplifting?
       

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We’re running out of water and oil . . . (yawn).

Today, the following Associated Press article was run on page-19 of my local newspaper (the St. Louis Post-Dispatch):
An epic drought in Georgia threatens the water supply for millions. Florida doesn’t have nearly enough water for its expected population boom. The Great Lakes are shrinking. Upstate New York’s reservoirs have dropped to record lows. And in [...]

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Don’t stare at dead things or animals having sex.

Don’t stare at dead things or animals having sex.

I bristled yesterday as I read yet another faux-controversy concocting article in my misguided home town paper, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.  You see, Body Worlds is coming to my town and the morality “experts” are getting restless. The “concern” is that maybe we shouldn’t be staring at dead bodies.  The morality experts quoted by the article are suggesting that the [...]

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In 1994, Dick Cheney got it right about Iraq

In this startling video, Cheney concludes that getting Saddam Hussein wouldn’t have been worth many American lives.
He is speaking fluidly and confidently, like an unpatriotic liberal, throughout the video.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YENbElb5-xY[/youtube]