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May 11, 2009

• 2:38 PM Jerry Anders on FDA may ban electronic cigarettes

  I got the blucigs.com brand and I haven't smoked a traditional cig since. Well... I had about 8 the first week... I found that using a low dose patch along with the blu is a great way to kick the old coffin nails

  
  

  May 11, 2009

• 12:55 AM Sheila Lennon on Video: Obama tackles comedy at Saturday's White House Correspondents Dinner

  Many felt the same way you do about George W. Bush's appearance at the Correspondents Dinner in 2004. Here's David Corn (MIA WMDs--For Bush, It's a Joke):

  But at one point, Bush showed a photo of himself looking for something out a window in the Oval Office, and he said, "Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere." The audience laughed. I grimaced. But that wasn't the end of it. After a few more slides, there was a shot of Bush looking under furniture in the Oval Office. "Nope," he said. "No weapons over there." More laughter. Then another picture of Bush searching in his office: "Maybe under here." Laughter again. Disapproval must have registered upon my face, for one of my tablemates said, "Come on, David, this is funny." I wanted to reply, Over 500 Americans and literally countless Iraqis are dead because of a war that was supposedly fought to find weapons of mass destruction, and Bush is joking about it.

  Politicians can be such mirrors...
  
  

  May 11, 2009

• 12:19 AM Alfred Masciarelli on Video: Obama tackles comedy at Saturday's White House Correspondents Dinner

  This man is a fool. Jokeing about a flyover over Manhattan. A lot of people still have horrible memories of 911 and this jerk jokes about it. I can;t believe that so many people even listen to him.

  
  

  May 9, 2009

• 12:44 PM pete on Weather scrubs east-coast rocket launch again; rescheduled for next week

  I'd like to see one, glad they're waiting. Hope by then there'll be a clear night for the whole Eastern seaboard.

  
  

  May 9, 2009

• 7:27 AM Omar on Times reporter called it in December: Egypt to host Obama's address to the Muslim world

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  May 8, 2009

• 6:12 PM Beth on Homemade Jamz Blues Band didn't win a Blues Music Award last night, but their stars are rising

  Hard to believe that cute little girl is a hot drummer. Whew!

  
  

  May 8, 2009

• 1:44 PM Peggy on Homemade Jamz Blues Band didn't win a Blues Music Award last night, but their stars are rising

  Those kids are awesome!

  
  

  May 8, 2009

• 11:15 AM Neptune on These Mother's Day cards are just... wrong

  Uh. . . Middletowner you shouldn't be such a stiff; it's a joke. I feel sorry for your kids. I'm sure you're a republican.

  
  

  May 6, 2009

• 11:42 AM Sheila Lennon on 2-minute game to rattle your brain

  Absolutely solvable! I did it on my third try, then forgot how I did it and whacked away for 5 or 6 more, got it, and promptly forgot how again. I think it's a groove rather than a game. Pay attention to where the empty stone is. Frogs can both step and leapfrog over each other.

  
  

  May 6, 2009

• 11:35 AM mcap on 2-minute game to rattle your brain

  is it solve-able?

  
  

  May 5, 2009

• 5:02 AM Ryan Carlson on FDA may ban electronic cigarettes

  I didn't know we had switched to communism! I thought we were only starting to become socialist. This is ridiculous! The FDA has no jurisdiction in this matter. I suggest all electronic cigarette users who are now non-smokers file a class action lawsuit against the FDA for damages with the published known death-rates for smokers as evidence to support our claim.

  
  

  April 29, 2009

• 4:16 AM Sheila Lennon on Hot or hype? Wolfram Alpha promises answers, not search results

  I think I remember a Star Trek episode in which a computer, after being asked, "Why?," whirred itself to death.

  
  

  April 28, 2009

• 3:20 PM Andrea on Hot or hype? Wolfram Alpha promises answers, not search results

  Remember what happened in the 1957 Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy movie, Desk Set, when EMERAC was asked a question it couldn't answer. It went haywire. Spencer, the computer's creator, then fixed it with a hairpin borrowed from Katherine, the librarian and human brain. Who already knew the answer.

  
  

  April 28, 2009

• 2:38 PM Sheila Lennon on Hope High School farmers' market is moving to Pawtucket line

  Jim, the perimeter of the driveway at Hope High limited the number of vendors, and the width of that driveway made for jostling crowds. I think this is a good move. As for the rest of the city, there are other farmers' markets at this link: At the Cranston Armory, downtown, Broadway, RIC, Wickenden Street, Capitol Hill... 313 in all throughout the state.

  
  

  April 28, 2009

• 12:46 PM Jim on Hope High School farmers' market is moving to Pawtucket line

  I can understand the space and shade issue, but it's practically not Providence anymore. I would think having it at Hope High would attract more people. Between this and the Open Market (formerly of the Grant's Block location on Westminster), things are moving to Lippitt Park. Great for the park, but what about the rest of the city?

  
  

  April 27, 2009

• 11:30 AM Sheila Lennon on Try your hand at baseball haiku

  Hi, Jack, welcome. Multiple stanzas are also welcome here: Whatever it takes to tell it. A quick search shows that collaborative haikus are often multiple-stanza; there's a related form called renga that alternates 5-7-5 with 7-7. The modern term for it is renku, and "The Haiku Society of America sponsors the annual Einbond award for renku of 36, 20, or 12 stanzas." Found: Basho and his disciples usually wrote renku of 36 stanzas (called a "kasen"), and this length remains popular today. In English, renku usually alternate stanzas of three and two lines each, and a completed renku ranges from twelve to fifty or one hundred such stanzas. Goferit!

  
  

  April 27, 2009

• 10:25 AM Jack Zerby on Try your hand at baseball haiku

  I just discovered this blog--glad it's still open. I've just posted two of my single-stanza "baseball haiku." But I'm interested in baseball history, and it takes multiple stanzas (each in the 5-7-5 format) to present it. For example, I've done an eight-stanza "haiku" on Babe Ruth's three-homer game for the Boston Braves a week before he retired in 1935. What's the thinking on the acceptability of multiple-stanza work in this genre? Thanks for any comments.

  
  

  April 27, 2009

• 10:05 AM Jack Zerby on Try your hand at baseball haiku

  I. Forgotten White Sox, Chicago's "other" team; Now "In," "cool." Thanks, Barack! II. Tough to accept that Old number twenty-nine, Smoltz, Is now with Red Sox.

  
  

  April 16, 2009

• 7:20 PM Sheila Lennon on Susan Boyle: A must-watch TV clip

  John, I did the same thing as you -- resisted it at first -- and when I watched I was surprised to find myself so moved. I showed it to my husband, who spontaneously said, "I teared up." We were both surprised by the depth of feeling it stirred up. It's better than "Rocky." Much better.

  
  

  April 16, 2009

• 4:11 PM John Gall on Susan Boyle: A must-watch TV clip

  I've been dragging my feet over watching Miss Boyle - all the hype put me off. Well I got my comeuppance all right. And you were right, too. You needs a hanky to watch. Now I want more.