Category: long story short
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Fact-checking Frist’s ass
Billmon, whose list of WMD-related quotations posted to his Whiskey Bar blog rocketed around the political web a month or so ago has tracked down a series of quotations from Senate leader Bill Frist that seem to contradict his more recent take on the reason we went to war with Iraq.
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Will Ferrell’s class day speech
Those Harvard schmucks, they get the best graduation speakers. This year Will Ferrell serenaded them as “shiny little very smart pieces of dust.”
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Give ’em hell, Johnny!
John Edwards takes the incumbent administration to task for its oligarchic, anticapitalistic policies (On Rewarding Work And Creating Opportunity).
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DeLaygate gathering steam
Joshua Marshall is doing his usual bang-up job of covering every angle of the ongoing Tom DeLay scandal dealing with misuse of Homeland Security resources in the Texas redistricting conflict, and subsequent attempts to cover tracks.
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Who lost the WMDs
Instead of accusing the U.S. and U.K. executive administrations of misleading, exaggerating, or even lying to the public about Saddam’s weapons of mass distruction, I’d rather stipulate to their existence, especially the chem and bio weapons that western countries helped him develop. I have another question entirely: where are they? Have me indeed made it…
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On shutting up
Men are encouraged to dominate conversation without even thinking about it, says Dan Spalding, who has another suggestion: shut up already. Elizabeth Lane Lawley makes a similar point, and asks women with strong voices, “What do you think women should be doing to start getting their voices heard?”
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Credit where Credit is due
Orcinus finds something to praise the Bush administration for: tamping down anti-Muslim rhetoric and avoiding the “clash of civilizations” interpretation of terror and middle-east politics.
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Rusty Shackleford bites back
Is evil Tom DeLay the inspiration for Hank Hill’s neighbor Dale Gribble on King of the Hill?
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Social Software
Jabber and Decentralization
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Workbench: Saturday, June 07, 2003
Workbench: Saturday, June 07, 2003
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DaveNet : New York Times Archive and Weblogs
DaveNet : New York Times Archive and Weblogs
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Doing stuff
… experience guilt over dental checkup, no coverage for proposed $454 mouthguard for grinding – would valium be cheaper? … sort out remaining sections of chapter 5 to write … talk to b about friday plans, about ladies who happy hour, about seeing grey pawn trio at cato’s later tonight … blog kat’s monkey cat…
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When did the Nation get weblogs?
Someone on the Well just pointed me to Katrina vanden Heuvel’s blog. They’ve got RSS feeds too.
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Some days I feel like moving back to New York
When I realize that I’ll probably miss my 25th grade school reunion in June and I miss my mother on mother’s day and I wish I had been at my brother’s birthday sendoff before his next trip to Greece, I sometimes think about moving back to New York. Other times I don’t: Sure, you passed…
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File not found
This 404 error file makes good use of Comical Ali.
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Raise the personal exemption!
Mark A.R. Kleiman points to a “fun fact” that reminds me of my idea for a liberal tax-cut initiative that I think would call the bluff of the plutocrats running the show these days. Let’s stipulate that it’s important to cut taxes by $350 billion, or $550 billion or whatever fakey number the shills on…
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Bruised my esophagus
If life were supposed to be fair I suppose I could complain the arbiter or ombudsmand that it’s completely unfair for me to have contracted yet another nasty flu within one month’s time. Then again, the answer might come back that I was just too happy in New Orleans and this is my punishment now.…
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Brought home the good weather
Everyone says it’s rained pretty hard the whole time we were out of town, but it was only partly cloudy (thick, fat clouds, though, with gray areas) last night and today I’m seeing the same windswept crystal blue sky we had in New Orleans, decorated by the local variety of cloudfluff, so maybe the same…
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The feeling of vacation
“Are you going to do any blogging when you’re here?” my friend S asked me. I told him probably not. Maybe I’ll upload some digital pix from around town or from the crowds (or stage shots) at Fest. But I did have to get online to send a file I had been unable to send…
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Selective demagoguery update
I see lots of kvetching over at Instapundit today about details of the looting, convoluted meta-arguments about WMD, and the strange idea that Tim Robbins and Michael Moore have claimed that they’ve been repressed “by the system” while straw-liberals the world around have ignored Castro’s crimes. (Has anyone compared Hollywood union techs and baseball hagiography…
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Toward participatory online democracy
Paul Ford thinks the Senate should have an RSS feed, and the House, and the Supreme Court, and the White House. I think he’s right, and I like his approach to raising the subject.