tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63787262012-01-30T16:21:40.840-08:00Jumping around all nimbly bimbly across the liberal blogosphereStephen Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07508942802266658906noreply@blogger.comBlogger5351100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378726.post-23859391281784486792012-01-30T16:15:00.001-08:002012-01-30T16:21:40.863-08:00

For those, like Ron Paul, who believe that the Civil War could and should have been avoided by means of compensated emancipation, I ask, how much should this slave’s owner have been compensated for being deprived of the ability to further inflict this kind of punishment on a human being? What would be a just amount?If the cost in human lives that it took to end slavery in America was too great,

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I just sent the following email to the White House:"I see in the news today that 'President Obama’s advisers are nearing a recommendation that Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, be prosecuted in a military tribunal.'I can't begin to tell you how disappointing this is to me. I knew from your cave-in on telecom immunity during the campaign that

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Ronald Reagan's 99th Birthday is coming up, so I thought this was as good a chance as any to reprint my "tribute" to him from 2004.I was going to try to lay off this one, but I can resist no longer. I had largely resisted reading about Reagan for the last week, primarily because I was there in the eighties, I have my memories about what his presidency meant to me, and I had no desire to revisit

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It's been awhile since I've written anything here, particularly anything of any length. I don't wish for my absence to imply that I now believe that with Bush out of the White House all is right with the world. In fact, quite the opposite is true. My worst fears about Obama have actually been surpassed, as he has largely adopted some of Bush's worst practices when it comes to preventive

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Between "pentagon sources" and the press trumpeting Obama's proposed 8% increase in defense spending as a 10% decrease and Gates mutely standing by while Petraeus launches a PR blitz to override the sixteen month Iraq withdrawal timetable that Obama ran on, I've got to wonder about the supposed advantages of keeping Gates on as Secretary of Defense. Surely the PR hit Obama would take for sacking

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Riding the people mover through the SFO terminal on my way to baggage claim after returning from a week in Kauai, I was in kind of a post vacation funk when something caught my eye that completely lifted my spirits. When I got off the people mover I called my girl friend to come back with me to look at this!That's just one part of one of the most fantastic toys I had as a child, the Fireball XL5

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Betcha can't wait to get your kids and grandkids Playmobil's Security Check Point toy.The Amazon customer reviews for this are priceless.Via The Washington Monthly.

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On the Armstrong and Getty radio show this morning, one of the interchangeable asshats commenting after an audio clip in which Barack Obama noted that his intelligence team would not continue Bush administration policies that had tarnished the agency, said, "I don't know what he's talking about. I wish I did, but I don't."Really, now. Here's a man who for a number of years has co-hosted a

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Joe Starkey, the execrable long time play-by-play announcer for the Forty-Niners, is being replaced by Ted Robinson. In recent years I've found that I can't stand more than a minute or so of Starkey per week, so this means that I will once again be able to listen to the game broadcasts. A typical Starkey play call would include the mention that a pass had been thrown downfield, but would usually

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I never see celebrities, of any kind, anywhere, but...Last Saturday night my girlfriend and I were having dinner at Carmen's Burger Bar in Santa Rosa when she mentioned that a guy who had just come in and was joining the party at the table over my right shoulder looked like a professional musician. Not any particular professional musician that she recognized, but he just had that look. At first

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In an essay in this week's Newsweek, Stuart Taylor, Jr., argues that Obama shouldn't act too hastily upon calls for him to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center, where 250 people are still being held without charges or any semblance of due process after up to 7 years for some of them, or to heed calls from individuals and human rights organizations here and abroad to ban "moderately coercive

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I'm not sure what this signifies, really, but according to GenderAnalyzer, this blog is likely written by a woman.

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Too cool for words

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Saxby Chambliss, the man who will go down in history for running in 2002 one of the vilest campaigns for senator ever, didn't register the domain name Saxby-Chambliss.com, so Neil Sinhababu did it for him. It's a nice place to visit if you want to know what Chambliss really stands for.

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Everything you need to know about John McCain is contained in the last seconds of this ad..."I'm John McCain, and I approve this message."

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Of course not.Though Thomas Friedman is widely and appropriately known as a self-important bag of douche, this still took me by surprise.I picked up a Time magazine in my doctor's office the other day and came across this interview with Friedman in which he discusses his latest book, "Hot, Flat, and Crowded," and I was astounded by the first thing out of his mouth. He was prompted to write this

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So, the Oakland Raiders have fired Lane Kiffin, who apparently isn't enough of a company man, and high on the list of possible replacements is Rob Ryan, the defensive coordinator whose unit's collapses the last two weeks have a lot to do with the team's 1-3 record. Al Davis clearly values loyalty more than competence. Who knew he was a Republican?Update: I didn't mean to imply above that Kiffin

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What Hilzoy said. I have no faith in any fix to the current financial crisis that is conceived by members of the Bush Administration. I also have no faith that the Democratic Congress will do anything to protect homeowners and taxpayers in whatever fix they eventually approve. There is nothing in the behavior of this Congress since taking over the majority in 2007 (check out their vote on FISA

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In case there's any question as to what might have compelled so many Democrats to support this month's FISA bill, granting telecoms immunity from prosecution for having broken the law, this graphic may help you out...via Greenwald

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About six years ago, I was doing a presentation at work with another manager when she said something along the lines of , "we're trying to keep this simple; we know none of you are rocket scientists." One guy out in the audience, Phil Plait, spoke up to say, "I am." I've often wondered how often he gets to say that. Anyway, after a couple of years I lost track of him, then today I ran across

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Has anybody ever had, could anybody ever have, a more useful tool for achieving his goals than Osama bin-Laden has had in George W. Bush?

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Here's an article about the Supreme Court case (capital punishment for the death of a child) that a recent Boston Legal episode was based on. Allowing the death penalty in the case of rape of a child would highlight the disparity of capital punishment imposition as well as or better than any existing exercise of the punishment. It's pretty easy to picture any number of perpetrators being

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I could relate my thoughts on last night's debate, but Senator Obama has pretty well expressed my thoughts already:The one thing I worry about is the effect of the Washington Village banding together in response to this. Remember how unfunny they viewed Colbert after the correspondents' dinner a couple of years ago and how those who didn't try to ignore him tried to bury him? Obviously, there's

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Last night, as we settled down to watch the Democratic debate, my girlfriend asked me if I really thought John McCain could win the election in November. A few minutes later, a woman named Nash McCabe, given the opportunity to ask Obama or Clinton any question she wanted for them to answer in this debate, said, "Senator Obama, I have a question, and I want to know if you believe in the American

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I've written here before about the many pleasant hours I've spent browsing in Records Stores and my dismay as such stores, both chain stores like Tower and independents like Santa Rosa's Clove Records, are increasingly falling by the wayside in a time of digital downloads. This Saturday you get a chance to show a little love, as record stores nationwide have banded together for a "Record Store

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Last night I caught the Danny Armstrong Quintet, featuring the incomparable, and incomparably cool, Khalil Shaheed on trumpet, at the Palette Art Cafe in Healdsburg. One of the songs performed went a little something like this...

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There are some people who have to overcome enormous difficulties in their lives to achieve a level of comfort or achievement that many of us take for granted with so much less suffering or effort. There are others who overcome those difficulties and soar above the rest of us. It seems we've lost another of them.

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In a post from a few years ago, I suggested that British singer Paul Carrack, on the strength of the songs "How Long," recorded with Ace, "Tempted," recorded with Squeeze, and "Don't Shed a Tear," recorded under his own name, might be the king of one-hit wonders. I may have been a bit hasty in awarding that title. I've since become acquainted with the career of Tony Burrows, a British session

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Republicans in the California Legislature have blocked legislation to eliminate the sales tax exemption on yacht purchases. You can call them to thank them for this.For more context, check out Hullabaloo (aka "Digby's Blog").

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As if I didn't already have enough reasons to avoid shopping at Home Depot, here comes word that it routinely engage lawyers to sue its customers for shoplifting, for amounts far in excess of the amount of the theft, and sometimes in the absence of any theft.

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Suppose the United States proceeds with the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and he is found guilty and sentenced to death; if carrying out his execution would increase the likelihood of terrorists attacks against the United States, shouldn't that, in the logic of Bush fans everywhere, be sufficient cause not to execute him? According to Bush and his disciples, there is virtually nothing we

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Okay, so this is hardly earthshattering, or even in any way important, but at the Grammies last night, George Lopez told the worst constructed joke I've ever heard. The set up went like this, "in what other country could a woman and a black man be running for President of the United States?" The stupidity of that left me so busy looking for my chin on the floor that I missed the punch line.

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Jonah Goldberg, at the Corner, writes, "As someone who subscribes to the view that liberalism is a secular religion, it is very frustrating that liberal politicians do not offer up a paper trail for people to scrutinize the way conservatives do."Poor boy. He's decided that liberalism is a "secular religion," then is frustrated that this "religion" that he's conjured up in his imagination lacks

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Are you a California Democrat who would like to see the California Democratic Party censure Dianne Feinstein for, well, for being a Republican? Then check out this moveon.org petition.

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God damn Diane Feinstein to hell.And, as offensive as Feinstein is, what happened, as Glenn Greenwald asks, to the need for 60 votes to pass anything in the Senate? What good has it done us to have a Democratic majority in the Senate? What have they done to keep Bush from getting anything he wants? And what are the Democrats going to do to earn my vote in 2008 and when are they going to start

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Via Bob Somerby's incomparable Daily Howler, I bring you this Q&A from the New York Times...The Horse RaceQ: I am deeply disturbed by what I believe is true — the press, liberal and conservative — pays far more attention to the horse race aspects ofthe 2008 primary campaign than it does to the specifics of what each candidate is proposing and how this fits with past actions and statements. Why is

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I find myself feeling strangely proud of something that I really had little to do with. UC Santa Cruz has been labeled by David Horowitz "the worst school in America." If that's not a tremendous endorsement, coming from him, I don't know what is. And I'm the proud father of a freshman Banana Slug.I had nothing to do with her school selection. I just wound her up for 18 years, let her go, and

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The latest, in a long and growing line, piece of evidence that Diane Feinstein is a worthless piece of shit.Please, some California Democrat out there tell me, why have you ever voted for this woman, and why would you continue to do so?

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Until reading Ben McGrath's profile of Scott Boras in the October 29 New Yorker, I had always thought of Saul Steinberg's cartoon map of the world as merely whimsical. Apparently, though, New Yorkers really do have distorted views of the geography of the rest of the world. How else to account for McGrath's descriptions of Stockton, CA, 83 miles away from San Francisco, with Oakland and Mount

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For terrorism to be effective, the terrorist needs a victim willing to be terrorized. Introducing, Fox News and its audience. All it takes to set these people off is a four year old suggestion that terrorists could set forest fires.

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You know I love this kind of story; a brain eating amoeba that lives in warm lakes and enters the body through the nose. What's not to like?

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There's nothing in this passage that hasn't been said on the internet and in the alternative press, or in a thousand ball parks and bars in the last six years. I just like the way Gibson says it so colloquially and succinctly here.From Spook Country, by William Gibson (GP Putnam's Sons, 2007)"A nation," he heard himself say, "consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a

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One of the reasons I've taken to writing so less frequently here is because I find that others, with a larger audience, have often already said what I hoped to say. People like Digby, at Hullabaloo, Dave and Sara, at Orcinus, and Glenn Greenwald, at Unclaimed Territory.Yesterday, Greenwald wrote at length about a pet subject of mine, the dedication to preserving and expanding the existing power

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From an AP article about Blackwater personnel firing upon Iraqis..."It is doubtful that foreign security contractors could be prosecuted under Iraqi law. A directive issued by U.S. occupation authorities in 2004 granted contractors, U.S. troops and many other foreign officials immunity from prosecution under Iraqi law."Imagine that, one country, in this case the US, establishing for another

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Go here to create a map of states you have been to. I don't know how I can pick up North Dakota, or why I would want to.Here are the states I've driven in.Here are the states I have slept in. You can work on your own variations of states you've, whatevered, in.create your own visited states map

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With one drug enhanced freak all over the news today, we might as well revisit an "accomplishment" of baseball's previous steroid poster child. I should note that when Thomas Boswell wrote in the Washington Post in 1987 or 1988 that Canseco was juiced he was pretty widely reviled by everyone, press, fans, and those in baseball, myself included. I hope he feels vindicated.

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It's a little old now, but I think this is the funniest and most disgusting headline I've ever seen.

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A Colorado man has maggots under his scalp.

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Last Sunday being a beautiful summer day, clear, hot, and sunny, I decided to relax with a book and a drink. I couldn't do this in my back yard, though. Although it's as sunny, warm, and comfortable as any other place, and in fact more so than most, is also contains reminders of lawns needing mowing, rose bushes wanting to be pruned, and, indirectly, of the short circuit in the kitchen wiring

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Okay, here's the scam: Young man or woman enlists in the military and gets sent to Iraq. While there, signs of a personality disorder manifests itself, for which the person is discharged from the service and also denied veteran's mental health benefits because an after the fact screening determines that the condition pre-existed the person's having enlisted. Ya gotta love the way these people

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Why I hate the National League; Part I.Bottom of the second, A's at Giants, bases loaded, two outs, and Matt Cain comes to the plate with his .045 batting average. Did he come through with a hit? Get real.Why I hate the National League; Part II.Same game. Lenny Dinardo has pitched 6 shutout innings, on fewer than 80 pitches, for the A's. He's on a roll and he's still strong, but he's due up

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I turn this page over today to my friend, Dale Jones, a school principal in Cupertino, CA.Every year at this time I commit what I consider to be professional malpractice. As a school principal, I like to think that my bottom line is what's good for kids, but each year as I oversee the annual ritual of STAR testing, I become further convinced that it's not only harmful to kids, but it's damaging

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I gotta start watching Boston Public

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These are strange days indeed, when a post in a lefty blog speaking approvingly of a socially conservative former Republican governor is linked to by Andrew Sullivan.

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How's this for a decade of excellence-Oscar Nominations (*denotes win)1971 Best Screenplay - Patton*1973 Best Screenplay - The Godfather* Best Director - The Godfather1974 Best Picture - American Graffiti1975 Best Picture - The Conversation Best Screenplay - The Conversation Best Director - The Godfather, Part II* Best Picture - The Godfather, Part II* Best Screenplay - The

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I don't know if there are some messages I was predisposed to get or if it was what I recall being an emphasis on the New Testament, but it seems to me that when I was going to Sunday School back in the sixties and early seventies the predominant theme was that we were to love our brother and spread peace and goodwill.That's why I'm perplexed that regular church goers in this country or more

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Clemson University is reviewing its admissions process because two highly prized football recruits were denied admission, opening up the University to abuse from fans on the local sports talk shows.I don't wish to suggest that there's anything untoward about changing your schools admissions policies because some mesomorph couldn't get in, but I don't recall ever reading anywhere about any

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I was already pretty fond of the current arrangement, but here's one more reason not to have a vasectomy.

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According to Nancy Pelosi, when she asked President Bush why a surge in troops would succeed this time when it has twice before failed, he replied, "Because I told them it had to."For the good of the nation, to say nothing of the planet, this man has to be impeached.

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Dick Cheney, being interviewed by Wolf Blitzer,"Oh, I think in terms of mistakes, I think we underestimated the extent to which 30 years of Saddam's rule had really hammered the population, especially the Shia population, into submissiveness."Yeah, I think that's pretty clearly the problem here; those Iraqis are just too damned submissive.

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This AP story on the failure to pass a minimum wage bill in the Senate with no strings attached is pretty good, except there is one important word missing. The first paragraph should have readDemocrats' promise of a quick increase in the minimum wage ran aground Wednesday in the Senate, where Republican lawmakers are insisting it include new tax breaks for restaurants and other businesses that

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Last week a US Senator speaking to the Secretary of State about the war in Iraq said this,"Who pays the price? I'm not going to pay a personal price. My kids are too old, and my grandchild is too young. You're not going to pay a price, as I understand it, within immediate family. So who pays the price? The American military and their families."Yesterday, on PBS, a newsman said this to the

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I see I'm a little late picking up on this, but this could be the concert that would test just how much I'd be willing to pay for concert tix.Update: For those of you looking for Police tickets who somehow ended up here, why don't you try this instead?

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There's a bay area blogger going by the screen name of Spocko who about a year ago, disturbed by the hatemongering of Lee Rogers, Melanie Morgan, Brian Sussman, and "Officer Vic" of the KSFO morning radio show, started alerting advertisers on their program of the content of the show. Sending very politely worded emails, accompanied by audio clips of the program, he asked the advertisers if they

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In his speech to the nation tonight, George Bush donned the cloak of courage and proclaimed, "Where mistakes have been made, the responsibility rests with me."How bloody noble of him to so unequivocally accept the responsibility that everybody else has been aware for some time lies with him. What a little toad. Any decent human being would have used this occasion to proclaim that the job is far

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At Andrew Sullivan's "The Daily Dish" I came across this test to show where you show up on a political/ideological grid (Sullivan came up as a libertarian).My result:No surprise there.

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Via Doghouse Riley, I came across David Itzkoff's opening lines to a review in the New York Review of Books of Michael Crichton's new novel, "Next:"Though the moment may lack the inherent gravitas of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s encounter with Abraham Lincoln, or even Elvis Presley’s private audience with Richard Nixon, surely history should reserve a special place for the day in 2005 when Michael

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In the wake of the faulty Firestone tires that lead to up to 250 fatalities, most of them involving Ford Explorers, in 2000 the Congress passed and President Clinton signed the Transportation, Recall Enhancement, Accountability and Documentation Act, which was intended to require vehicle and parts manufacturers to report all consumer complaints, warranty payments, and dealer's field reports that

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Good morning. Today's reading is from Matthew 6.1: "Beware of practicing your piety before men in order to be seen by them; for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.2: "Thus, when you give alms, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by men. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.3:

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The wise and well-traveled Generik of the Generik Blog has tagged me with a book meme. Thanks pal. The rules of this meme, or so he claims, are:* Find the nearest book* Name the book* The author* Turn to page 123* Go to the fifth sentence on the page* Copy out the next three sentences and post to your blog.* Tag three more folks.When I first realized I'd been tagged I was in my office at work,

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I got an email this morning from the good (?) people at Stiffs.com telling me the site wasn't dead (news to me) and that it's time to submit your entries for celebrities you think will die in 2007.With the news that the site isn't dead I thought I'd look around a bit. I don't really see many signs that the site isn't moribund. The give away is The Viewer Hate List, which hasn't been updated

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There's a blog, Eye Level, that I've been meaning to write about and link to for about a year, but somehow the perfect moment just never came up. It's a blog about art, you see. Hence the scarcity of perfect linking moments. The cool thing about the blog, though, is that it talks about art in ways that aren't dry or sterile. Art sounds interesting and vital, as if it's something that should

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A couple of years ago, shortly before the 2004 election, I sold my pick up truck to a man who I was able to determine, after brief exposure, was clearly a Bush supporter. When he commented on the "Bush/Pinochet 2004" bumper sticker on the truck by saying he liked it, I was at first surprised, then concluded that maybe he just didn't know who Pinochet was. In my cloistered world I just assumed

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Gogol Bordello, opening for Primus, is in the Bay Area this weekend, appearing in Oakland on Saturday, Sacramento on Sunday, and San Jose on Tuesday. Unfortunately, they are in league with the forces of darkness, whom I've already enriched more than my conscience can bear, so I'll not be seeing them.I'll just have to be content with the video.

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From the AP article announcing that Silvestre Reyes will be the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee:"Known as "Silver" to friends, Reyes is a Purple Heart winner who was drafted into the Army and served during 1966-68 as a helicopter crew chief and gunner. His service included 13 months in Vietnam."Let the swiftboating begin.

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From the San Francisco Chronicle:The auto industry said Monday that lawsuits over vehicles' greenhouse gas emissions could eventually force manufacturers to eliminate big SUVs from the market in California, an assertion denied by environmental attorneys and the state air quality board. "If we lost (in court)," said Dave Barthmuss, General Motors' spokesman for environmental and energy affairs, "

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All you need to know about Mike Nolan as a play caller is that, on a drive on which his team had pushed the Rams around for about 70 yards rushing, he didn't think they could get one inch and opted for the field goal. And that, ladies and gentlemen, was the ball game.

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I have followed three links, to three diferent sites, to this AP story, which begins with this line, "A gun-wielding cartoonist dressed in camouflage entered The Miami Herald's building and demanded to speak with an editor Friday, prompting an evacuation of employees, police said." At none of these sites is there any further mention of the fact that the intruder is a cartoonish. He's not

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Damn. In the great debate about who was the greater coach, Woody Hayes or Bo Schembechler, you've got to give major props to Bo for the lengths he'll go to to motivate the boys prior to tomorrow's big game.Buut what's he gonna do next year?

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If CNN is to be taken as a credible news source, and that's far from a given, don't you think they should avoid saying things like this?Connecticut Democrats voted Lieberman out of the party in August, opting for vehement antiwar candidate Ned Lamont. Lieberman, running as an independent candidate, defeated Lamont in the general election.In no election in the history of this country, save one,

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You know the West Wing episode where lame duck Senator Marino, rejected by the voters but with 2 months left in office, won't agree to vote for the test ban treaty thea White House is pushing because that's one of the specific issues on which he was rejected by the voters?Don't expect to see anything like that out of the real life lame duck Republican Congress.

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Michael Steele, who as recently as election day apparently believed himself to be a Democrat, has been tapped to replace Ken Mehlman as the next Republican National Committee Chairman.

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Too damn funny.

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For years I've wondered if the right wing radio hacks such as Limbaugh and Hewitt believe the crazy ass things they say or if they just lie for the effect. Now they're clearing that up. The answer is not surprising.

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Listening to Lee Rodgers and Melanie Morgan fume and sputter this morning was particularly fun. They felt the election was lost because the Republicans veered too far left. Yeah, that was it. Rodgers at one point went off on an extended rant against President Bush for campaigning for Arlen Spector. That, presumably, would be the Arlen Spector who was reelected in 2004. Not really part of the

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I don't usually link to celebrity "news," but this is just too funny to pass up. And timely, too!Update: Damn, I see that T-bogg beat me to it.

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So, Saddam and associates are convicted and sentenced to die for crimes against humanity they commited in 1982. Which makes this notorious photo from 1983, and the meeting which produced it, all the more interesting. I guess Rumsfeld was for crimes against humanity before he was against them.

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Let me see if I have this straight...Following the invasion we had millions of Iraqi documents that we lacked the personnel to translate.It was believed that within those millions of documents would be some that would substantiate the Bush Administration's claims that Saddam had viable nuclear and WMD programs at the time of the invasion.To find out if such documents were within the trove, the

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Don't these guys ever watch films of themselves, don't they realize how silly they look? What's with Ronnie Belliard's tongue? Does he ever look around and realize that most other people keep their tongues in their mouths almost all the time? What's his problem, does his mouth taste bad?What's with Chris Duncan? Does he know he looks like a big dumb ruminant? He looks like he ought to be

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I ran across this in a blog entry by somebody named Tammy Bruce:“It certainly seems that women with an opinion (particularly myself, Peggy Noonan and The Anchoress) slightly irk the amusing and very opinionated Vanity Fair contributor. I thought today's so-called liberals loved and embraced the idea of dissent. Silly me.”Perhaps I’m being naïve in doing so, but I’ll assume that Ms. Bruce is being

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Despite the fact that I've never heard of most of the pitchers, I've got no complaint with the Cards-Mets series. It's one of those series where I like players on both teams and wouldn't be unhappy regardless of who won. There's one thing I have to get off my chest about last night's game, though, and it's more about the Fox nitwits than the players.With Reyes on first the batter hits the ball

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When I was a teenager and in my early twenties in the South Bay, there was a Record Factory and a Wherehouse Records on Bascom Avenue and a Rainbow Records on Stevens Creek Boulevard. The only place to go to buy your records and tapes, though, was at the Tower Records on Bascom, across from the Pruneyard in Campbell. The place was big, the selection was bigger, and the prices were usually the

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So, the As are now up 2-0 in the series and heading home. Typically in this century, this point, when they need to win just one game to wrap up a series, is when things start to go to hell. Man do I hope this year they try something new.Update: Mark Ellis, the As' starting second baseman, broke his right index finger swinging at a Joe Nathan pitch in the ninth inning today. His status will be

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Oy…!The asshats (Armstrong & Getty) were in rare form this morning. In a stunning display of virtuosity, in a brief five minutes they gave three examples of just how breathtakingly simpleminded they are. In a rant against multiculturalism and moral relativism, one of them somehow equated attempts to understand what could possibly motivate somebody to take over a school and kill little girls

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Woo Hoo!!!! Oakland's ahead 1-0 in the top of the second. With the As' playoff history in this century being what it is, I figured I'd better hurry up and gloat while I can.Update: Okay, they won, 3-2. Now I get a whole day to feel good.

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David Broder stirs from his deep sleep long enough to pen...Now, however, you can see the independence party forming -- on both sides of the aisle. They are mobilizing to resist not only Bush but also the extremist elements in American society -- the vituperative, foul-mouthed bloggers on the left and the doctrinaire religious extremists on the right who would convert their faith into a whipping

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Just a word for the idiot sports announcers (yes, I know, the redundancy...): every time the New York Mets win something, whether a division, a pennant, or a World Series, they are not the "Miracle Mets" and it's not a case of "Miracles Still Happen!" The Mets have the fifth highest payroll in baseball and the highest in the National League. They're supposed to win, okay! Geez, come up with

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Okay, I just gotta know this; how much do the Raiders pay their "fans" to attend their games?No, really? Those people are paying to watch that? Alright, that brings up another question; how dumb do you have to be to be a Raider fan? Oh yeah, obviously, dumb enough to pay to watch those guys play.

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