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• Mona: Le Pen's surprise second place finish in the first round of the French presidential elections - May 30, 2002
• Jason: I am a bad American - March 6, 2006
  Lazy and easily distracted by the propaganda of the easy life.
• Janet: Beef Du Jour: Dogism - January 15, 2002
• Dan: Eight Days and Seven Nights - November 7, 2005
  If you even think about getting DSL instead of cable broadband, I will end you.

• Mona: Chicks Rock, Chicks Vote! - July 29, 2003
  The Dixie Chicks launch "Chicks Rock, Chicks Vote!" campaign to encourage young women to vote in the United States.
• Jason: Crash - March 6, 2006
  The Oscar are dead to me. "Crash" is like the most racially charged scene in every movie ever made cut together. In all these other movies, however, the story was allowed to develop, the characters' hatred a slowly boiling vat of acid ready to explode and disintegrate society. In "Crash", it had already exploded and you're like "huh?" and "what?"! It was a pathetic attempt at a "message-movie". It was lazy, with too many story-lines and the stereotypes it was attempting to expose were stereotypes themselves. The drama was forced, the outrage unrealistic, and the coincidences too contrived. I disliked this movie and dislike the self-important Academy even more for failing to recognize a decent movie when they see it. Sheesh, I even prefer "Gladiator" to this movie! And the fact they are both in the same "Best film" category as "Schindler's List" and "Godfather" is depressing.
• Janet: Bangoos Broadcasted - July 30, 2003
• Dan: The Pro-Life Continuum - December 19, 2005
  Very interesting discussion of the various pro-choice, pro-life positions. An attempt to better define the stages and terms.

• Mona: Europa, The European Union On-Line - July 29, 2003
  The mother of all websites on the European Union.
• Jason: How to make it in NY on $15 a Day - August 25, 2005
  My friend Tim's new movie on iFilm
• Janet: she bang, she bang - July 30, 2003
  do not deny yourself of the phenomenon that is william hung.
• Dan: Flying Spaghetti Monsterism - August 25, 2005
  "Let us remember that there are multiple theories of Intelligent Design. I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster. It was He who created all that we see and all that we feel. We feel strongly that the overwhelming scientific evidence pointing towards evolutionary processes is nothing but a coincidence, put in place by Him."

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