| Thunderwolves team up with prostate cancer cause
The Lakehead Thunderwolves are teaming up with local health officials to promote men's health during one of their biggest games this season.. The team will be promoting prostate cancer awareness as they face off against the Windsor Lancers coached by T-wolves ex-coach Pete Beliveau at the Gardens on both Friday and Saturday nights. During the game Saturday, the Thunderwolves will be wearing unique jerseys that will be auctioned off at the end of the night. Those people taking home a jersey will also have their picture taken with the player and all of the proceeds go to Regional Cancer Care in support of prostate cancer research and patient care at the Regional hospital. Thunderwolves defenceman Matt Jacques says he pitched the idea because he has lost family members to cancer.
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Update (Jan. 7 | 14:30): This was mentioned earlier in the comments thread. You can see Maher's offensive comments beginning about 1:35 into the video posted on YouTube here. Appearing on the Friday "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," comedian Bill Maher took repeated swipes at the Republican Party and conservatives as idiotic, bigoted, homophobic, you know, all the usual epithets. Although his material was registering mostly nervous laughter from the audience, Maher plunged further into his assault on traditional values, attacking Christians, particularly Catholics, by insisting that one has to be "schizophrenic" to go about life normally for six days a week only to, on the seventh go to church and believe that when drinking communion wine one is drinking "the blood of a 2,000-year old space god." .
McCain's Cheap Dates?
Update: Reader K.S.Z. emails: The obvious counter-example to your post on Hillary and Iowa: John Kerry. "Endless hours of speechifying, hand-shaking, and town hall meetings" should have sunk him, if they sank anyone. They didn't. Good point. True, the tryout period promises to be much longer this time--but Chait does seem to have forgotten one crucial factor: the Iowa Dem caucusers are fools! Who knows whom they'll decide is "electable" this time? Still, that only makes their choice seem more random and less inevitable, no? ... P.S.: The larger issue is that we--the Dems, the press--are on the verge of making Iowa seem all-important again, even though the kind, earnest, liberal Iowans have not picked a winning non-incumbent Democratic candidate in the thirty years since Jimmy Carter and David Broder put the caucuses on the map.
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