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A Time of Rebirth for Church – The PostRyan Church says he is grown up and mentally tough going into 2007. I have a feeling that the organization will still find a way to mess with him.
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Farmer dies after being attacked by cow – AP/Coshocton TribuneIt turns out that my brother’s 11th grade essay, “The Bovine Menace” was prophetic. Back then he warned the world of the coming Holstein threat. If I recall correctly, he got an A on the paper. I’ll post it if it can be found.
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From the “if it’s not one thing, it’s another” department, yesterday evening all the lights in my apartment faded to about half power. I thought to myself, “oh no, I’m having a stroke!” Then after a little while I realized I was not having a stroke, but the power in building was low. Shortly thereafter [...]

One of the more controversial parts of my recent interview with Gene Weingarten was the following exchange:
WFY: Speaking of Liz, how is she holding up now that she does not have to moderate the weekly discussion? Is she relieved, or will we be seeing a column called “Why washingtonpost.com doesn’t need Weingarten” any day now?
GW: [...]

I may be up and running again, but I have no explanation as to why.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last night Erica and watched the Capitals take revenge on the Hurricanes in splendid fashion, 7-3 (The Post). I was beginning to wonder if they were ever going to win again. Has Alex Ovechkin been held scoreless yet this year?
Some notes from the evening:
Verizon Center was as full as I have seen [...]

BloggerTM has finally given me the keys to Blogger BetaTM. So far, I am quite pleased. I have been adding Labels to lots of posts, hence the RSS carpet bombing going on right now. Sorry about that, no way around it. Hopefully, you’ll find something that you missed or will enjoy again.
This has been a [...]

Erica and I will heading to the Phone Booth for tonight’s game. We don’t know what section we will be in since I bough the tickets yesterday. Hopefully, the Capitals will fair better against Carolina than they did last night. After watching that bloodbath, I think this guy had a more productive evening.
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Last November the popular washingtonpost.com live discussion Chatological Humor* went dark. The decision by host Gene Weingarten was controversial even though he said he would return in April. Recently, I had the opportunity to ask Mr. Weingarten some questions about his sabbatical.
WFY: You said you were simply too busy to keep doing the chat. Specifically, [...]

THOMAS BOSWELL – An Embarrassment Of Pitches – The PostBoswell is distressed by the Nats’ current pitching situation. Who outside of the suits at 2400 East Capitol Street isn’t concerned?
I have been saying for a while that I need to compile a list of all the interviews and special features the Natmosphere has been doing [...]