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It’s been a while since I’ve written some Hai-Goo.  What is Hai-Goo?  Well, it’s the mash-up of Haiku and actual Google search terms that have led folks right here to Shlog.com of course.  Enjoy.

Jeff+Gordon+is+gay

Brian+Seay+sex Chick-fil-A

how+to+melt+starbursts

in-laws+took+my+wife

prove+eavesdropping+neighbor’s+door

Kentucky+courtroom

no+more+underwear

The Williamson County GOP's animosity toward ethnic communities had been advertised on the party website since July, but the City Paper is just now wading in with a so bold scolding, given it's "healthy readership" in Williamson County:

In The Deal's post about MySpace Music's search for a CEO, the important part was near the bottom:

Terry Frank praises Lamar Alexander for showing a bit of fight:

Did you hear Alexander?  The diplomat on the political battlefield, Alexander actually tells the Dems they are attacking the energy/gas problem with all the “urgency” of naming a post office.  Their solution he says, is to talk, talk, talk.

Foreign policy lessons from The Godfather:

Interesting strategy of fusing fashion and philanthropy that might raise ethical questions for some, but seems to ultimately be a good thing. The Washington Post reports:

The man you all know and love, Fmr. Governor of Mississippi, Ray Mabus, has been invited to Vanderbilt to give his pitch as to why Sen. Obama is the best to lead this nation.

Friday, February 1st, the former Ambassador to Saudi Arabia under the
Clinton Administration and former Governor of Mississippi is coming to
Vanderbilt's Featheringill Hall to discuss why he supports Senator
Barack Obama in the upcomin

I’ve never met a pimp who liked his dad.  Or a prostitute.  Or a thief.  And I’ve met a few.

I over-prepared for my first turn teaching at the children’s home.  I was twenty-one and terrified.  I read over my stack of index cards, pacing around the grounds as 250 kids trickled into the small white chapel in their Sunday best. 

I’ve never met a pimp who liked his dad.  Or a prostitute.  Or a thief.  And I’ve met a few.

I over-prepared for my first turn teaching at the children’s home.  I was twenty-one and terrified.  I outlined my message, plotted it out on index cards, color coded them even.  I rehearsed one last time pacing around the grounds as 250 kids trickled into the small white chapel in their Sunday best. 

Bill Richardson is set to announce he'll drop out of the campaign for President, according to a friend of mine in El Paso who is working closely with Gov. Richardson.

Richardson brought a significant amount of foreign affairs experience to the table, and made the bold suggestion that America stop dealing with Pakistan's dictator Musharraf after Bhutto was murdered.

Richardson was a very popular Governor of New Mexico, and by extension, in El Paso, which is 70 percent Hispanic.