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R. Emmett Tyrrell and Mark W. Davis love the Clintons. They love their egos, they love their escapades, and they love their sordid secrets. In Madame Hillary: the Dark Road to the White House, Tyrrell and Davis dispense their intimate knowledge about whom they consider the most dangerous liberal in the Senate.

Pardon my sarcasm: president George W. Bush did an amazing job campaigning this year. He pulled the Christian zealots across the country out of the woodwork and into the voting booths. His $270-million campaign—nearly three times what he spent in 2000—managed herculean feats never before seen.

During my weekend in Barcelona last year, I met an American on vacation from his home in Germany. During our short conversation he admitted that he had no desire to go back, and he would never live there again. I was shocked. Why would he have given up on his homeland? Sure, after two months overseas I could see some of the problems with our society, but I wasn't about to give it up—I wanted to make it change.

I've been saying it for weeks, and someone finally wrote a book about it. In contrast to the Republicans, democrats and others in the Left have underutilized the power of diction in representing their political motives. Wait, let me try it again: unlike Bush and his cronies, Liberals suck with words. Until now.

Lynne Truss wrote an amazing book. Eats, Shoots and Leaves does not just inspire gramatical sticklers to be proud of their neuroticisms. She describes each of the marks and their history as well as laments their misue. Not only does she describe their utility to the English language, but also makes a case that without them, our words would lose their meaning.

Hoodwinked. Hornswaggled. Flamboozled. They're the only words that could describe my action to The Girl Next Door. Elisha Cuthbert (Oldschool) plays a young adult-film actress trying to get out of the industry and enjoy the rest of her teenage life. Previews showed clips of Cuthbert's agonizingly slow changing scene, porn stars as prom dates, and the most tantalizing quote I've seen on a commercial: “;I'm all wet, can I come in?”

Through my random internet wanderings, I happened today upon Scott Timmreck's weblog and happily found my own site linked therein. This lead me to realize how part of the potential of RyanCannon.com has been wasted since its genesis—a problem I soon hope to alleviate.

Build an army; rally your forces; mount an assault; fend off scavenging enemies; Kings of Chaos has it all.

For months I have been trying to find a fitting digital tribute to my experience in May of 2004, hiking from the north rim of Grand Canyon national park, to the south rim. In this three-day trip, my dad and I became one of the elite: only 5% of the Canyon's 5,000,000 yearly visitors venture beneath the canyon rim, and only 1% make it to Phantom ranch at the bottom. And so I am proud to present,“Grand Canyon Fever.”