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Today from David Brooks’ column in the NYT.
“Tim Russert is a great journalist, but he made a mistake last weekend. He included Jerry Falwell and Al Sharpton in a discussion on religion and public life.
Inviting these two bozos onto “Meet the Press” to discuss that issue is like inviting Britney Spears and Larry Flynt to [...]

Mister E. wrote about Paul Crouch’s recent homo crises and wondered why it doesn’t get more press.
I’m not really sure. I have always wondered why the Christian community does not rag on Benny Hinn, the white-suited, faith healer, and expose his pathetically erroneous theology. I am always surprised that there’s not a big, [...]

I just watched the trailer for Oliver Stone’s Alexander. What a shame…Stone is just completely lost it. Colin Farrell looks like Christopher Atkins resurrected and Angelina Jolie puts in her first bad performance as a Russian Cossak. What the frick?
Looks like the movie season is pretty horrendous. I find it incredible [...]

While I haven’t fretted much over the post-Waters Floyd debate since high school, I do have to chime in to defend one of my favorite Waters’ Floyd albums, The Final Cut. That album is totally sweet. It’s The Wall, but more concise. It’s brutal but theatrical. It rocks. Oh, and it’s totally pretentious, as is [...]

Long live the Floyds! I’m one of the few people that will admit that I like the post-Roger Waters Pink Floyd as much as the old Floyd. Today on Amazon.com I found a reviewer who agreed.
“Alas, how I tire of the Pre-Roger Waters Floyd Vs. Post-Roger Waters Floyd debate. When Waters and Dave [...]

Yuchenko….I’m not following the situation in the Ukraine that closely, but I get that he’s the candidate that probably won that election and that he’s pro-West.
But more important than democracy…what on Earth happened to his face? It looks like a bad Hollywood make-up job. Bizarre.

Countries are starting to openly considering dumping their U.S. dollar reserves. Russia is already doing this and its seriously destabilizing the markets right now. It’s the nightmare scenario. People often say this can’t happen because the U.S. is too pivotal to the world’s economies..but this article suggests that it is possible and [...]

http://www.audioscrobbler.com/
I found a link to this site tonight, and figured it would be of interest to the music Byrons here. You sign up (free) and download a plug-in for whatever program you use to listen to music on your computer. As each song is loaded, it will send the name of the song to the [...]

Well Master E opened up a can of whupping ass on Matt and I as if he were the NBA’s Artest and we were a fat middle-aged basketbal, for talking about U2 sequencing without mentioning the lyrical content. Good point.
Here’s a review of the album written by another U2 fan and ordained cleric. [...]

Well I saw the basketball brawl and Alan sent me a vivid description of what happened. I was thoroughly and completely disgusted. The sight of an NBA player cocking up his arm and placing a shot right in the face of a fan made me nauseous. Can we imagine Bird and Johnson [...]

What happens to lottery winners after making their millions? Sometimes it’s not so good.

It’s time for this year’s crop of “serious” movies to hit theaters. Here’s what John Podhoretz had to say about Oliver Stone’s new Alexander:

Oliver Stone’s Alexander, which opens today, isn’t just bad. It’s Springtime for Hitler bad. I haven’t guffawed this hard since I saw Airplane for the first time 24 years ago. This is [...]

So, I’m pretty much settled into my new home in Bend and I thought I should check in with the Byrons. Please send me a personal e-mail if you’d like my new address and phone #.
Last night, I was bored and playing with Google. I entered the words “Trinity Broadcasting” and “Illuminati” and [...]

I’m back online. Our computer is fixed but I’m behind on emails so sorry. I’ll try to catch up soon, but still got my sister here (they love Hong Kong) and work is in absolute chaos right now so…
In the meantime, here’s a great account of the Battle for Fallujah….two heroes stories [...]

Unlike fixing a keyboard on a desktop computer, which can be cheap and easy, fixing one on a laptop is far more precarious, depending on how the laptop is put together.
Maggie recently popped a key off of my laptop, so I looked around online and found mostly stories of dread about how to repair or [...]

Well Matt…most.of.that.letter.sounds.legit. The part that sounds legit is really the whole way it was written. There are a lot of Indonesian kids who are really very into Western music. They have their own MTV now and their middle and upper classes are just as plugged-in to our media world as we are. I mean….they [...]

A few things would make me suspicious about this inquiriy from Indonesia.

I just know about Pangs when i’m browsing on the internet, and i thought, wow your site is very cool and i love it!!!. Unfortunetely, i haven’t heard any songs from your releases…

He hasn’t heard your songs but likes your web site so he [...]

I’m not sure about white slavery, but I did find some postage rates for you. (I’m really bored today).
A 1 lb envelope would cost $4.95 to send surface mail (4-6 weeks). Airmail (4-7 days) would be $9.25
I just used a random address in Indonesia I got from doing a Google search and put it [...]

TJ (who I hope is lamenting, like I am, the addition of another TJ to the cast of Gilmore Girls) asked what I thought about Franz Ferdinand. While I haven’t heard the record yet (but just ordered it via Amazon’s superb used CD shopping), I listened to a bunch of singles this morning and it [...]

I just got this email imploring me to send some free Pangs discs over to Indonesia. So, I was wondering if any expatriated Byrons would have a ballpark cost for mailing a couple CDs, and what customs would entail. Is this a scam to lure me into some kind of white slave trade? Please advise.
“Hi [...]