Doggone vs. dog-gone
Apropos of nothing, the number of Google results for doggone vs. dog-gone are surprisingly similar (2,100,000 vs. 2,040,000).
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Peter Schiff Was Right 2006 - 2007 (2nd Edition)
This is amazing to watch. Peter Schiff on various TV shows throughout 2006 & 2007 warning about the impending financial crisis. He’s then ridiculed and laughed at repeatedly. Amazing.
Even the usually-awesome Ben Stein joins in the mocking. =/
This is amazing. It’s not that no one could see the problem coming. It’s that most people didn’t want to see it coming. Whoever Peter Schiff works for, he’s not getting paid enough. And it is painful to watch Ben Stein be so wrong.
I love when my “parenting” and “politics” tags collide.
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Stir Fried Sweet Potatoes recipe.
I think the NYT is really missing out by not making their videos available to embed—it’s missing out in ways too numerous to list here, but that’s beside the point—but the video on this page, I think, captures the essence of what I like so much about Mark Bitten.
I stopped using the Gmail Tree theme a while after I posted this because it was too, I don’t know, bright. But I like it even more when it’s raining.

And look at the way the rain spashes off the top! Now I wish it would snow.
Apropos of nothing, the number of Google results for doggone vs. dog-gone are surprisingly similar (2,100,000 vs. 2,040,000).
From Slate, a unexpectedly interesting history of the drink that—if you believe the article—nobody ever liked.