St. Elizabeth, Mythmaker
It's your fault for wanting to know the truth.
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Road trip report:
Best business name: "Putz n Glo"--miniature golf course near Mt. Rushmore.
Best business concept: Wings, Pizza and Tanning (Cheyenne, Wyoming).
Best sign: On I-90, outside the small town of Murdo, South Dakota. Weathered, almost decaying. It says
"This is it! Murdo!"
I wish I had taken a picture.**
Musical highpoint: Sir Victor Uwaifo on the BBC.
Recommended cafes for blogging: Pier 347 in Pierre, S.D.. Coal Creek Coffee Company in Laramie, Wyoming.
All college radio is now better than all non-college radio.
The state of mainstream, altless country music is even worse than the state of presidential nominnee acceptance speeches. I didn't hear one recent song that wasn't phony.
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--If anyone has a photo, I will post it. The sign may say "Here it is! Murdo!" ...
Update: Ad for Putz'n Glo. ... 2:43 A.M. link
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Looking into a crowd for your friends: Matt Lewis agrees that McCain is much more likely to enact "comprehensive immigration reform" than Obama. ... Have all the conservatives who plan to "get drunk and vote for McCain" thought hard about this? .... 1:52 A.M. link
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Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Serotonin-killer: Nobody plunges into fevered speculation when I don't post for a day. ... 9:55 P.M.
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Photograph of John McCain on the Slate home page by Alex Wong/Getty Images.