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Since 9/11 civil rights advocates have bemoaned the trampling of our Constitution and Bill of Rights that this administration has undertaken. Under George Bush, we’ve seen disdain for the First Amendment through censorship invoked by the FCC and limitations on the right of free assembly. The Fourth Amendment is desecrated by the Patriot Act, a [...]

Sunday, December 11th, 4:05 pm. Our beloved Iggles versus the much hated New York Giants. If Eli Manning is actually still alive after that hit that Darwin Walker put on him during last season’s opener (we’re all fairly convinced he actually died at that moment) then he’ll be there, ready to be embarrassed by Brian [...]

[ed. note - another guest poster, Matthew] Ok, this is my first post on the Skaroff.blogspot.hebrew.sosupple.blogspot.org and I felt compelled to do so because of a movie that I just saw. It’s called “Our Brand is Crisis” and it is essentially the “War Room” of 2005. The movie is about a group of American political [...]

Forgive me for the low volume of postings on the blog recently but June is a crazy month for me full of music, weddings, reunions, and lots of doctor appointments. While I’d prefer to fill the void with something positive and uplifting it seems to get harder and harder these days. Between the state of [...]

I don’t know when I’m gonna have the time to get caught up on posting (and the thousands of posts on my Bloglines I haven’t read) but I thought I’d take a moment to praise this year’s Bonnaroo event. Bonnaroo is an annual music festival that takes place on a 600 acre farm in Manchester, [...]

I’m currently in the car on my way to Bonnaroo. I may or may not try and post from my phone again over the course of the weekend so things will most likely be quiet here for a few days. Have a great weekend.

“The media. Lot of you out there probably never even ‘eard of the word.” – Ali G When I was a kid I used to often think about becoming a journalist. Besides being a chef, journalism was always the thing that appealed to me the most. Something about the honesty, the respect, and of course [...]

Sorry if you tried to reach the site (or the feed, or tried to email the skaroff.com domain for that matter) at some point today and couldn’t. I moved the dns hosting from MyDotNames which I had had nothing but problems with, to GoDaddy. Everything’s working now. GoDaddy for some silly reason does all navigation [...]

Via Blinq, another in the continuing saga of GoogleMaps mashups. Grabbing data from gasbuddy and superimposing it on a map, Ahding.com has the Cheap Gas finder. Cheapest gas right now in Philly is only $1.97 at the Hess on Lancaster Ave. I think I paid $2.11 at the Wawa on Aramingo Ave yesterday. In tech [...]

Scott reminded me that tonight is the season premiere of the final season of HBO’s Six Feet Under. As much of my demographic has done over the past few years, I get most of my original drama and comedy fare from HBO and other cable outlets these days. While I’m sure I’ve missed some quality [...]