101. The Elegant Variation C MON guys, NOW YOU HAVE TO LEARN TO SAY ZEITCHIK ANKLES PW From regularreaders to folks I ve never heard from before, people have been generous with http://marksarvas.blogs.com/elegvar/

The Elegant Variation A Literary Weblog. TEV DEFINED The Elegant Variation is "Fowler’s (1926, 1965) term for the inept writer’s overstrained efforts at freshness or vividness of expression. Prose guilty of elegant variation calls attention to itself and doesn’t permit its ideas to seem naturally clear. It typically seeks fancy new words for familiar things, and it scrambles for synonyms in order to avoid at all costs repeating a word, even though repetition might be the natural, normal thing to do: The audience had a certain bovine placidity, instead of The audience was as placid as cows. Elegant variation is often the rock, and a stereotype, a clich©, or a tired metaphor the hard place between which inexperienced or foolish writers come to grief. The familiar middle ground in treating these homely topics is almost always the safest. In untrained or unrestrained hands, a thesaurus can be dangerous." About Barking at the Moon ** Recently Updated Subscribe to this blog's feed SEARCH ME Search this site powered by FreeFind Other Stuff var site="s20elegvar" Visit the store.

102. MJ FEATURE: The 25 Toughest Guys In America The 25 Toughest guys in America. What makes a tough guy? EYEWITNESS The lastsix guys he s fought have all been killers, with very good credentials, http://www.mensjournal.com/feature/0403/toughguys.html

WIN THIS POWER TOOL SET Disagree with our rankings, tough guy? Think we left someone out, or shouldn't have included someone? Click here and register to win The 25 Toughest Guys in America What makes a tough guy? How about perseverance, fearlessness, a high threshold for pain? And how about a little modesty, too? we asked more than 100 experts in more than a dozen fields. Here's who made the final cut. 1 BRETT FAVRE Quarterback Green Bay, Wisconsin that brett favre has become one of the most universally liked guys in public life has a lot to do with the passion he brings to every game he plays, every play he makes. This fact is lost on him; in his world that's just what athletes are supposed to do. As he puts it: "I go through life saying, What can I do on the football field to make people say, 'Now, that guy's good. Not just because he can throw touchdown passes but because he's a great leader, he busted his ass, he was always there, you could always depend on him, he was tough'?" In 12 seasons with the Green Bay Packers, Favre has known as much pain and glory as any athlete of his generation. So when he found himself living out a personal tragedy in front of the entire nation in December his father, Big Irv, had died unexpectedly of a heart attack a little more than 24 hours before Green Bay was to play a critical Monday night game in Oakland's notorious "Black Hole" was anybody surprised that he decided that not playing wasn't an option? Was it any surprise that he ended up putting on the single best performance of the year, a game that would pass immediately into legend? In a word, no.

103. The Conversation, Making Sense Of These Times I ll put our exchange in the next Update I send to the very good people who ve (Earned Income Tax Credit was a MASSIVE tax cut for regular folks, etc. http://www.theconversation.org/archive/c-onsite.html

/* Static Top Menu Script By Constantin Kuznetsov Jr. (GoldenFox@bigfoot.com) Featured on Dynamicdrive.com For full source code and installation instructions to this script, visit Dynamicdrive.com */ The Conversation: Making Sense of These Times A Mighty Companions Project "WHAT DO WE MAKE OF OURSELVES AFTER SEPTEMBER 11, 2001?" CONVERSATION ABOUT WHAT'S ON OUR SITE Most Recent Entry: Maireid Sullivan responds to our June 6 Update Holley Rauen, holleyd@sbcglobal.net [an old friend, the ex wife of the man who lost his legs sitting on a train track making a social protest] She emailed me, urging me to join in the Iraq protest organized by the Not in My Name project [ http://www.theconversation.org/wontdeny.html Suzanne responds: The Not in My Name statement says, "We believe that questioning, criticism, and dissent must be valued and protected. We understand that such rights and values are always contested and must be fought for." That's endorsing endless war, just like they're trying to prevent. I've emailed them to try to get that last sentence off. Holley responds: I had to think about your response for a few days before writing back. At first I was a little miffed and was thinking that you put yourself too much above the rest of us and judge me for being a political activist. I do not believe that speaking out when there is injustice and saying NO to war perpetuates more "endless war."

104. WHATREALLYHAPPENED.COM Tell the boss we found some really good patsies for the frameup. You thencall in the mass media muscle guys to dump the remains some place where the http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

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105. Marc Perkel Rantz: It's The Same Chair !!!! OMFG !! Even though exposing this is bad for America what is really bad for America isif we do So - I believe he was actually killed by the guys on the tape. http://marc.perkel.com/archives/000233.html

Marc Perkel Rantz Marc Perkel is the most dangerous mind on the internet. Main May 13, 2004 It's the same chair !!!! OMFG !! Here's where you really need the tin foil hat. Look at this pic that was released today of the latest prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib prison. Notice the white chair in the lower left corner. Now - look at the chair Nicholas Berg is sitting in!! It's the same fucking chair!! I have some more pics but the walls are the same yellow color and the baseboard is the same color as Abu Ghraib prison. Then - as I've said before - what is Nicholas Berg doing in an orange prison jump suit? The orange jump suit is the same color as the ones used at the prison!!! Terrorists don't put the people they kidnap in orange prison jump suits! Now - put that together with the fact that these "terrorists" are WHITE and FAT and they are wearing BULLET PROOF VESTS!! So who goes around wearing bullet proof vests all the time? People like CIA - Prison guards! This is enough to scare the shit out of you but - Nicholas Berg was murdered by AMERICANS at Abu Ghraib prison. They staged it so as to make it look like terrorists murdered Berg. If you have a different opinion then you tell me why they have the same plastic furniture - the same walls - the same floorboard color - and the same orange jump suit. You tell me why these terrorists are fat white guys wearing bullet proof vests. You tell me why they speak bad Arabic. You tell me why they yell like Americans when they kill Berg. I suppose the terrorist picked up those chairs at the local WalMart!

106. The J-Walk Blog: Hoo-ah! (Comments) Okay, folks, everybody settle down. Its true that America does not have a perfect C mon guys, let s leave the intense debating to the talking heads. http://j-walkblog.com/index.php?/weblog/comments/hoo_ah/

107. Fraters Libertas Keep up the great work, I enjoy your Blogs and love it when you guys Generations The history of America s Future, 1584 to 2069 by Strauss and Howe. http://www.fraterslibertas.com/2005_06_01_archive.html

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108. Mudville Gazette These guys knew me with a different haircut. In premilitary days yours trulywas a lead guitar That s good, a unified America is pretty unbeatable. http://www.mudvillegazette.com/archives/000297.html

FROM THE ARCHIVES OF The reader will kindly forgive any tendency to rough language or behavior on the part of the site owner. "Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." Advertise Here Shop Contact MilBlog's Home ... Hero Greetings! You are reading an archive page from The Mudville Gazette. To reach the front page, with all the latest news and views, click the logo above or "main" below. Thanks for stopping by! Main August 23, 2003 DEMOCRACY, WHISKEY, SEXY? Greyhawk V TUESDAY MORNING IN SEPTEMBER, BARKSDALE AFB, LOUISIANA A small projector on a platform suspended from the ceiling shines images from a computer onto a large screen on a wall; near real time data from state-of-the-art Doppler radars, high resolution geostationary satellite imagery, and output from complex computer-generated models of the atmosphere. A far cry from hand-applied ink on cardboard using 2-3 hour old data that was "high tech" just a few years before, this same information is available in the most remote tent city in the world. The briefing concludes and the commander addresses the room.

109. News Hounds: The Lies Of Roger Ailes No matter what you are taught in american history classes, We are the goodguys here. If this war was waged properly, it would be over and Bush and http://www.newshounds.us/2004/12/20/the_lies_of_roger_ailes.php

News Hounds We watch FOX so you don't have to. December 20, 2004 The Lies of Roger Ailes As previously reported by Melanie , during his interview on C-Span last night, Roger Ailes, FOX News Chairman and CEO, presented a different version of FOX News than the one we know all too well. According to Ailes, he requires his reporters to "present the news, if there is more than one side, make sure you have it. If you think there's something else you don't agree with make sure it's in the story." Comment: If Ailes isn't lying, then he is unaware that his reporters are failing miserably at that assignment. See, for example, my posts Prison Abuse a la FOX: The Military Perspective Only Major Garrett Promotes Bush's National Sales Tax , and FOX Acquits the US Marine in Fallujah Again "We haven't retracted a story in eight years." Comment: Off the top of my head, I can think of two: The Kerry is a Metrosexual "joke" played by reporter Carl Cameron and the phony Communists for Kerry story by Jane Roh. "(The Oil for Food scandal) is "the largest financial scandal in history." Comment: What about BCCI? Off the FOX radar screen, apparently, along with Halliburton. On the topic of Bill O'Reilly's sex scandal: "I'm not going to say a lot. I believe in innocent until proven guilty." Comment: Unless you're Kofi Annan or a

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