Eric Florack on December 24th, 2012

Edtor’s note:

Once again as in years past, I’ve found my inbox filled with messages from longtime readers who wonder if I’m going to be re-posting “A Bithead’s Christmas”, and begging me to do so.

As I believe I’ve told

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Eric Florack on December 24th, 2010

Editor’s note:
We’ve been reposting this at BitsBlog for over a decade, now, each Christmas.  It’s among the most popular and requested posts we’ve ever had. It’s become a site tradition.

A Bithead’s Christmas

I find myself wanting to take

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Eric Florack on December 23rd, 2007

[sticky till 12/26]

Editor’s Note: This is a time of year when I don’t envy the position of members of the cloth.


Such men and women find themselves in the position of having to write a sermon on essentially the

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davidl on December 16th, 2007

Rochester, NY 12/16/2007

The good news is that we did not get either the twenty-one inches projected on Friday or the eighteen as of yesterday.   The bad news is that the storm advisory runs through Seven tommorow morning.

At breakfast this morning the

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Eric Florack on December 7th, 2007

It’s cold up here in the great lakes region.  We’ve been down into the teens most nights, lately.  We caught perhaps 8in. of snow total, so far.  Most of that has retreated.  It’s still a driving issue, if your vehicle

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Eric Florack on November 18th, 2007

LOL…. This is going to go over huge in Orange County… especially this first para, from the Orange County Register, we see Mark Steyn, this morning…

I don’t believe the U.S. Constitution includes a right to abortion or gay marriage

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Eric Florack on November 13th, 2007

Since when has that phrase ever, in reality, had anything to do with age?

We all know 70 year olds who are younger than a fair handful of 20-somethings we know…

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Eric Florack on November 9th, 2007

James Joyner at OTB:

Der Spiegel’s Gabor Steingart has written “The Comeback of a War President,” the first positive piece on President Bush I’ve seen (outside the usual suspects) since roughly since maybe the spring of 2005.

He

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Eric Florack on October 22nd, 2007

Captain Ed, yesterday:

Twenty-two months have passed since Canadians gave Liberals the heave-ho after Adscam, and apparently, Conservative government suits them well. Before the Sponsorship Programme corruption scandal brought down Paul Martin and his administration, the Liberals painted Stephen

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Eric Florack on September 24th, 2007

Reynolds:

HOW TO SABOTAGE AHMADINEJAD: Have some scantily-clad coed run up and give him a kiss. Make sure photos are distributed in Iran.

Simply brilliant.

 ANOTHER UPDATE: Okay, this would be better: Dan Riehl suggests a Jewish Lesbian Kos diarist.

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Eric Florack on September 20th, 2007

I’ve taken Megan McArdle to task on several occasions in these spaces in the recent past.  This isn’t going to be one of those days.  Our topic, this time, is a bounce off from rabid foamer Cass Sunstein, who

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Eric Florack on September 11th, 2007

Making the rounds this morning, I see Billy putting video together for the show last weekend…

 Man, this is hard. This was the first time we’d gotten the band together in about six weeks, and we just walked up and

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Eric Florack on September 7th, 2007

I don’t know what to say, Billy, except that if you’re going to go, it may as well be with family and friends, a few beers, and a few smiles. Too often, it goes the other way.. suddenly, painfully,

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Eric Florack on September 6th, 2007

I’m getting really tired of opening my mailbox, and coming up with the massive load of cow feces, that is commonly referred to as leftist thought.  I had three different messages, supposedly from different people, today ; interestingly enough my

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Eric Florack on September 6th, 2007

Will someone please explain to me of what use the Federal election commission is?

As an example; The Norman Hsu matter… the likelihood is that the commission will not make any rulings or Levy any fines against any one of

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