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Test

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Biden: Get me alone in a room with himFrom the NY Times:Mr. Biden also called on Mr. Bush to sit down with members of Congress to find a consensus on how to proceed.“I hope there is enough Republican as well as Democratic support,” he said, “for a bipartisan effort to press the president very hard to sit with us, anywhere from the White House to Camp David — without our staffs and cellphones — to

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And I was worriedJesus Christ, I'm such a nell.

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28 seats now, not badAccording to the DCCC site. Montana and Va listed by CNN as too close to call.Forget the bloggers' preidcitions but think 28 was toward the high side. Most were looking toward a majority with just a few seats.Now Atrios et al are talking of a late wave that brought in unexpected liberal victories. They say Emanuel wasted time and money cultivating conservative candidates who

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Election Night as of 1:18 amBack from the student bar at the Shatner Building, McGill's big cement building full of student rec rooms and newspaper offices. Asked at the McG Dailly around 1 today and was told the bar, Gert's and just down the hall, would probably show returns on its tv. Lovely, wiry young woman in charge at Gert's confirmed this (nose a little like Olive Oyl's, sitting on a

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The Sunday before the midterm electionsA Kerry state of mind. The news stories make it sound like the Republicans keep the Senate, that it looked like the Dems might get the Senate, but then Kerry had to blow things with his stupid "education" remark. Seems plausible enough. The poor cluck just doesn't know how to function in a "Note"/Fox political envronment. He's there to make guys like

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"When I was in Vienna, Austria"What I overhear my landlord, who’s kind of a boob, saying to a buddy in the café. They’re about twenty feet off, I think.Where I’m coming fromI had to beg off from speaking at Westmount Library on the graphic novel. "I’ve never read Chris Ware," I said, figuring that killed dead any idea of me keeping up with modern comics. Reading Chris Ware and the rest of the

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"Tragically, I was an only twin", or, A British StoryThis is weird. A friend just gave me a story he wrote around the German legend of the doppelganger, the shadow-man who begins as his original’s servitor and finally robs him of his soul. Thinking about themes from legend is not something I do, but somehow this particular theme has also wound up in Larry Thompson’s Peter Cook, a biography I’m

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"I was just made by the Presbyterian Church"Also: "Giving first aid the already disheveled hair projection." And: "Pregnancy? Pregnancy."Context: Someone has figured out what to do with George Lucas's dialogue. (By way of Mahablog from Matthew Yglesias.)

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Echo campaignMark Kleiman debates across the aisle about Rove and says this:I think that Rove was running a disinformation operation designed todiscredit Wilson, and that whoever talked to Novak had coordinated with Rove inadvance. Likely Libby talked to Novak, who called Rove for confirmation.Right-wingers have been saying Rove wasn't behind the Plame leak because (allegedly) all he did was say

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Of all the damn thingsLindsay Berenstein is Majikthise, a young blogger who is getting a lot of attention ("Analytic philosophy and liberal politics" runs her blog's subtitle). She may also have been a previous occupant of my apartment here in Montreal. Today junk mail from the New Democratic Party arrived bearing an address label with her name. Unless it was a different L. Beyerstein. I

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The Rove approach and Barack ObamaTo Rove-up Obama, you'd say he was a racist against dark-skinned blacks. His two calling cards with most voters is that he's nice and he's black, with the second element meaning that support for him is an antidote against racism. Take those away and it's easy for whites to think of him as vain and fraudulent and maybe a bit uppity. The best thing is that it'sa

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Salut, Marie-Eve!My language buddy, the lovely and gracious Marie-Eve, say she will take a look at my blog. Bienvenue!("Language buddy" means we get together and practie French for an hour and English for an hour.)

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Hammer of the BlogsThis site is getting some attention, so I will throw my weight behind it. Hammer raises a useful possibility by means of metaphor:The low-key damage control coming out of the White House is a thing tobehold. Clearly they are hoping to chain this puppy out in the back yard and notfeed it, and hope that it'll starve to death on its own. Knowing this gang,there probably is an

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Light-rock bloggingOn Q92 just now: "'Mercy, Mercy Me' from the late, great . . . Robert Palmer." Not Marvin Gaye. I didn't even know Palmer was dead.

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Fighting Truth With PowerSlogans for the New America.

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The most hopeful words I've heard so farBut as the story hurtles toward a conclusion sometime this year . . .From the Wash. Post on Rove-Plame. The article offers a big round-up of the case to date.

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Mfb 3At the same time, arguing that Rove should be fired or stripped of hissecurity clearance or what have you strikes me as clearly futile. Bush likesRove. Rove is good at smearing Bush's political opponents. Anything Rove mayhave done wrong was undertaken in an effort to shield Bush from politicallydamaging information. Bush wants people working for him who are willing toviolate the law, or

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Me and InstapunditReynolds will put anyone on his blogroll who links to him. Or is it if you put him on your blogroll, assuming you have one? Probably, but let's see.

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Cold nose, slippery slopeThe sex columnist in the Montreal Mirror follows the road that "Man-on-Dog" Santorum warned us against. Sasha tries to figure out what's wrong with having sex with your dog, aside from the fact that it's disgusting and messed-up --- a fact that Sasha frets may really be an opinion, given that people do have sex with dogs and that the dogs not only appear unbothered but

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Changing timesA comics/gaming/sf/etc. convention is set for February at the Javits Center in NYC. I went to sf and comic cons as a kid in the 70s, so the passage below (from Publishers Weekly) gave me a kick, or a twinge. Geek entertainment swims in the ocean of big money these days.. . . the show will focus on graphic novels, manga, anime, TV and Film,toys, computer games and licensing rights

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You know you're not big league when . . . I've been back to PBD three times just to click on my link in the blog roll.

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'Malignant industry and persevering falsehoods'George Washington's phrase for what he put up with from the Aurora, a partisan rag of some sort run by Ben Franklin's grandson. (The Washington Post calls it a "paleo-blog," for what that's worth. The article, via Kevin Drum, is mainly about the bloggers Barbara O'Brien and Betsy Newmark.)Washington hit something on the head, identified a minor point

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Mike McCurry doesn't get it and I do?That's one possibility, because here's what the man says:Rove was making a late week heads up call to the White House news magazinereporter and, believe me, that is not the time or place to dish major strategy.A two-minute call such as the one now reported is basically to get the signalsstraight -- green, yellow, red. Rove seems to have been telling Cooper

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I thought that was the pointLikewise, the great British Press, the envy of the world, contains a mass ofhalf-truths, deliberate omissions, undeclared interests, and regurgitated pressreleases.An earnest young Englishman looks on the press back home from the vantage point of New York. Andrew Sullivan linked to the essay, quite possibly because he likes the fellow's conclusions (Europe kind of

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