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Sarah Palin Flakes Out Again

I had spent a day floating down the Ichetucknee river with my extended family and was away from the news cycle.  As I was heading back down I-10 I get a call from TV’s Jolemite asking if I’d heard about Governor Hotness stepping down.  I had read in recent days that Sarah Palin had all [...]

Biggus Chat Room: Who Would Plato’s Ideal Running Back Be?

me: read this sentence
Foster is the platonic ideal of a boom-and-bust running back, who breaks one or two highlight runs a game and then spends the rest of the time leaving his unfortunate quarterback in second-and-9 after second-and-9.
“platonic ideal”?
Biggus: It’s a little, um, pretentious for a football column.
me: as Will [...]

Conservatives Forget Democracy To Spite Their Favorite Boogie Man

When are elections and Democracy good and when are they bad. Hard to tell these days when it comes to most conservatives. Most rallied around George W. Bush’s freedom agenda when he laid down the lives of American fighting men and women for the wonderful panacea of Democracy for the middle east and [...]

Sanford And Bush In Better Times


Two Year Blogversary

I know my posting here has become few and far between with my newfound addiction to Twitter, but I wanted to commemorate an anniversary today. It was two years ago that I purchased the domain name www.thesunshineempire.com. I wanted to write about my passions, which are politics and sports. I didn’t really [...]

Biggus Chat Room: Biggus Rickus Disproves Kobe Bryant’s Existance

me: I don’t know how much of a difference that makes
some
I listened to a bit of the US open on the radio on the way here
Biggus: Are you playing with the extender thing?
me: If you thought NASCAR was weird on the radio
no
Biggus: That would make it more challenging.
me: I figured I [...]

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Biggus Chatroom: Obama Speaks To The Muslim World

2:48 PM Biggus: Further to my brief reply to your twitter about complaints other than BS language, it doesn’t bother you that basically accepted the idea that we are essentially the cause of middle eastern problems?
2:49 PM …that Obama basically accepted…
me: Interesting that that was your perception. I don’t think we are, nor [...]