Daily Archives: November 7, 2006

The Best Use for the Flag

By Frank Paynter | Published: November 7, 2006

Flag marks the polling place… Election day, 11/7/2006, Town of Dunn Town Hall, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA.

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Billy Frist – Cat Killer

By Frank Paynter | Published: November 7, 2006

From the Wikipedia… While he was a medical school student in the 1970′s, Bill Frist (now a Republican U.S. Senator from Tennessee and Senate Majority Leader) performed medical experiments on shelter cats while researching the use of drugs on the mitral valve. By his own account, Frist improperly obtained these cats from Boston animal shelters, [...]

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Happy Birthday…

By Frank Paynter | Published: November 7, 2006

Happy Birthday Ben! Happy Birthday Matt! Happy Birthday Stephen Greenblatt? What a coincidence! Last night I was maundering on about needing somebody to stand up (to have stood up) for an alternative to arid, involutional postmodern theory… somebody to do (to have done) what I’m both too lazy and intellectually timid to do, when this [...]

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