Day #366

OMT Countdown to Glory:   20 days until Bush is gone
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“I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart.”
   –Michael Corleone
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Fifty years ago tonight, an eyelash away from the stroke of midnight, and just moments after Michael gave Fredo that bacio sulla bocca, Castro’s troops moved into to the outskirts of Havana, [...]

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Cleaning Out the Drawers of 2008

OMT Countdown to Glory:   21 days until Bush is gone
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Even though we don’t always publish every day, we write nearly every day. Because of this, we’ve got a lot of stuff laying around the OMT suite, and after a while the mess becomes unbearable.
Here at OMT, we’re nothing if not fastidious. [...]

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Jesus, Mary, and … Aldolpho?

OMT Countdown to Glory:   22 days until Bush is gone
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2,008 years after the birth of Jesus in that stable in Bethlehem, history repeats itself, this time in Peru, according to the BBC. Actually it’s 2,012 years, if we are to believe the historians’ claims that Jesus was actually born in 4 BC, [...]

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We’ve Got Better Things to Do

OMT Countdown to Glory: 23 days until Bush is gone
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As regular OMT readers know, we often spend our evenings preparing the next day’s blog post. And ordinarily, that’s exactly what we would be doing right now, but for the Christmas present that our sister Joanne gave us this year.
Fierce Pajamas – An Anthology of [...]

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Farewell, My Lovely

OMT Countdown to Glory: 24 days until Bush is gone
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Come January 20th, as our CTG ticker won’t let anyone forget, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney will be forced to pack it in, handing over the reigns of power to Barack Obama and Joe Biden, and will head off to live out the [...]

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So. It Continues …

OMT Countdown to Glory:   25 days until Bush is gone
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One year ago today, we sat down at the keyboard for the first time, pounded out a meager essay and posted it to our brand-new blog, which, in a flourish of creativity that we hoped would be a signal of much more to come, [...]

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Adeste Fi, People …

OMT Countdown to Gloria in excelsis:   26 days until Bush is gone
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Here at OMT, we’ve decided to put our ordinarily curmudgeonly ways on hold today. It’s Christmas, after all, and we’ve even spruced up our CTG tagline for the day just to get in the spirit of things. Why not?
By now [...]

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A Mason Williams Christmas

OMT Countdown to Glory:   27 days until Bush is gone
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Mason Williams is best known, when he is known at all, as the composer and performer of the late ’60s instrumental hit Classical Gas. But he was also the head writer on the old Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.
To be the guy in charge [...]

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OMT/CTG Time Stamp

OMT Countdown to Glory:   28 days until Bush is gone
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OMT/CTG Time Stamp

OMT Countdown to Glory:   29 days until Bush is gone
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