January 29, 2009
Well, well! Today, the Daily News‘ Dick Jerardi reminds us today is a national holiday: It’s the second anniversary of the day Barbaro died! (If you’ve forgotten what a wonderful time that was in terms of Internet hilarity, please read the Field Guide to Barbaro Messageboard Factio...
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Well, well! Today, the Daily News‘ Dick Jerardi reminds us today is a national holiday: It’s the second anniversary of the day Barbaro died! (If you’ve forgotten what a wonderful time that was in terms of Internet hilarity, please read the Field Guide to Barbaro Messageboard Factio...
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December 12, 2008
They say 'history repeats itself!' How would 'they' know? Anyone old enough to have experienced this vicious cycle should be dead by now. However, it is true. Or at least by reading and studying history, we can determine 'what goes around, comes around.' During the period about 500 years ago, the su...
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December 10, 2008
This post was inspired by Ardent's latest blog entry on 'Ottoman Proverbs.' There have been a few grand admirals in the Ottoman era. But none as great as Barbarossa ("Redbeard") who helped stretch Ottoman dominance from beyond the Strait of Gibraltar all the way to Indonesia. Please read all about i...
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May 12, 2008
Many of us have wondered why prolific message board poet Dee Mirich has remained silent on the tragic Eight Belles Kentucky Derby accident. After all, when Barbaro fell, you couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting one of her offerings. But now all is clear: Ms. Mirich had been working feverishly o...
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April 30, 2008
Zombie Barbaro must be pissed! The Philadelphia Park Liberty Carousel in Franklin Square -- that carousel is everything our founding fathers hoped and dreamed of -- recently added replicas of two racehorses: Smarty Jones, who blew the Triple Crown on the backstretch, and Afleet Alex, who won the sec...
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May 23, 2006
there are things i want to write about, like being Baby, highways, intimations on immortality from a recollection of early childhood, sonny's blues, my back pages, the resistance, barbaro shattering his leg, the irony of the name barbaro and shattered dreams, the fluidity of a horse, the fluidity of...
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