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A well-written steroids piece in ESPN the Magazine: A look back at the 1980 made-for-TV “Strongest Man in Football” competition. Four of the eight competitors died an early death, likely due to ‘roids.

Oops! Time Magazine retracts its earlier story accusing Bush of neo-Confederate tendencies.
“The article “Look Away, Dixieland” [Jan. 27] stated that President George W. Bush ‘quietly reinstated’ a tradition of having the White House deliver a floral wreath to the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery

If I haven’t before, please allow me to recommend my friend James’ Poor Clio blog for your bloggish needs.
“I’m thinking of proposing a new reality show: Joe Puts-The-Lid-Down. Or how about Joe Really Actually Very Nice and Considerate. Or Joe Who Likes Chick Flicks. All with the same punch line, of course: We Lied.”

From: comments@braums.com
To: me
Subject: Re: Your Comments to Braum’s
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:21:53 -0600
Dear Josh,
Thank you for your email requesting information on Braum’s menu items. At the present time we do not have the calorie specifications available on menu items, including the Double Dip Hot Caramel Sundae you asked about. They have never been analyzed. Once again thank you for your interest in Braum’s Ice Cream and Dairy Stores.
Sincerely,
[name withheld]
Customer Service

Just mistyped the URL for Guidelive.com, the Dallas-area entertainment site. Strangely, there’s no web site at www.guidelice.com. Shouldn’t there be? Wouldn’t we all like a few guide lice in our lives, showing us the way, helping us navigate through life’s difficult moments? They could have tiny little leashes. It would be so cute.
There is a headlice.org, though, should you need the latest lice information.

Want to get depressed? Try reading and/or editing the writing of principals and teachers. You should see the emails I get. If I had a nickel for every misplaced apostrophe, every use of “quotation marks” for emphasis, and every they’re/their/there error, I’d…have many nickels.

An earnest welcome to all the naked, horny prep school students arriving here from the Abercrombie and Fitch site. The powers that be at A&F have deemed crabwalk.com a “Cool Site.” I’ll take all the validation I can get, even from, well, Abercrombie and Fitch.
I own a grand total of one Abercrombie clothing item, a six-year-old pea coat. Fortunately, I’m a smaller person now than I was then, so it no longer fits. But a good, solid pea coat.

Byron Mouton, my hero, is now playing for the Idaho Stampede. Byron is from my hometown, grew up a few blocks from me, and was the starting small forward on last year’s NCAA champion Maryland Terrapins. Now he plays next door to a cheese- and sugar-processing factory. He’ll be rocking the NBA soon enough.

Totally and unacceptably lame-ass: The Dismemberment Plan breaks up. Bah humbug.

Whether you’re a libertarian or a unreformed Trotskyite, there’s now an excellent reason to be reading Reason.com, the web site of libertarian micromag Reason. The web site is now being run by Tim Cavanaugh, genius ex-editor of genius ex-web site Suck.com.
Cavanaugh’s brought along some of his fellow ex-Sucksters, many of them certainly desparate for freelance work: Joey Anuff, Chris Bray, Ana Marie Cox, etc. Cavanaugh sums up the Suck philosophy as “a rallying call that says, ‘This is the end of rallying calls.'” Well put.
The web site’s something of a contrast to the magazine, which can be a bit dry. (I used to subscribe, probably 10-12 years ago.) Not dry in a bad way, really — just dry in the same way The New Republic, National Review, and other wonk mags are dry. They’re all about Social Security reform, for heaven’s sake! Just try to make that sexy!
(Note: Dallas blogger Virginia Postrel is Reason’s former editor.)