tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61894362011-04-21T20:43:13.306-04:00Everything the others don't getKylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08777017665948941475noreply@blogger.comBlogger4801100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6189436.post-1163262304366476902006-11-11T11:24:00.000-05:002006-11-11T11:25:04.386-05:00

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

Kylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08777017665948941475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6189436.post-1121876079991212942005-07-20T12:08:00.000-04:002005-07-20T12:14:39.996-04:00

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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What the fuck? (part 2)Alicublog found this on the Free Republic's cartoon page. It's the sort of cartoon that relies almost solely on heightened expression and barely at all on humor. By which I mean that no part seems meant as a joke. Certainly not the 9-11 part.It will freak your head. Click here.

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New York Times PoetryA front-page caption/blurb:At its elite level, twirling is an enterprise that is both aestheticallyexpressive and indisputably athletic. Prose that says, "Slap me. Suh-lapp me!"

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What the fuck?I was reading down thru PBD (Progressive Blog Digest) and I saw my own blog's name. They've got me on their blog roll! What the . . . ? It's a strange event, unexpected, a freak.Well, I'm happy for it. I visit PBD a lot and we're the only blogs with the same pawky, powder-blue layout from off the rack at Blogspot. God knows how the PBD man fell for it. I thought it would be

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Hopeful signsChecking in on my honest man of the right, I find Mr. Cole linking freely and unprejudicially to Mahablog for the anti-Bush perspective on Rove, et al. Mr. Cole is a present or former military man and a conservative Republican. Mahablog (Mr. Cole cheerfully calls it "Maha") bills itself as "Home Blog of the American Resistance!", features headlines like "Bush Betrays Brits," and is

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Poll: Bush rating at 56!Except that's disapproval. (AP by way of Atrios)Oddly, 56% disapproval is the result for almost all of the survey's questions. Exceptions include Iraq (61% dis.), Social Security (61% dis.), and foreign policy/terror war (48% dis., 51% app., I guess because of a helpful bump from the failure of Bush's policies in London).A month ago, Gallup/USA Today found Bush at 45% app.

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A good right-wing bloggerHis name is John Cole and he seems like an honest man.

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Robots, rubber cement deemed unnecessaryVie Mahablog, a snapshot of the thinking conservative in action. A rightie named Vodkapundit fretfully struggles toward the conclusion (more like struggles toward an inkling) that maybe there might have been something amiss in Karl Rove slipping the word about Joe Wilson's undercover spy wife to the press. He thinks it might have hurt morale among the good

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Here's to you, Will RogersEric Alterman notes that Rove's defenders are grasping at straws. Mahablog responds:They are grasping at straws, but at the moment that's enough. Mostof the righties seem to be buying it, Stephen Green excepted, andif the Right can keep enough disinformation in circulation, thosecitizens paying little close attention (which is most of 'em) will absorbthe meme that Rove

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Bastille Day, man!That's today, man.

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I have to find this out from the InternetNow and then I wander past the Etienne Cartier monument on a Sunday afternoon to watch dancing hippie chicks and the hairy guys thumping each other with imitation swords and (I believe) pikes. Now I find out that the latter group was physically set upon by a third faction, this one dressed up as zombies.Fucking Montreal, man! I'm told it's an exciting

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It was ReaganThe New Yorker lets slip a factual error. Writing "Notes and Comments," Louis Menand says Anthony Kennedy was appointed by the first Bush. Hah, no! (See above.)Does this matter? Not as much as I'd like. But still, a fact-checking department is definitely slipping if it can't handle the who-what-when of a top-level presidential appointment. That stuff is in almanacs.

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Again, my favorite bloggerMoral clarity, after all, is pretty easy to come by. Murdering people in theLondon Underground: bad. Kidnapping diplomats in Iraq: bad. Beheading people:bad. It's all very bad and we're all very morally clear about it. Factualclarity -- actually understanding what's going on and why -- is pretty hard. Butby the same token, it's much more important.That's Matthew Yglesias

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My favorite bloggerAfter all, if invading and occupying medium-sized countries riven by ethnic and sectarian divisions and turning them into prosperous, pro-American liberal democracies was easy to do, we'd be doing it all the time. That a handful of liberal intellectuals decided at some point in 2002 that it was, in fact, an easy thing to do says a great deal about the intellectuals and very

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Best wishesI think the country would be better off if Dick Cheney dropped dead. He's done too much harm and in the next three years he can do a lot more. The safest, happiest outcome available is for nature to take him.My brother reproved me for these views. "He was elected," he said gently. "In three years someone else will be elected." That's true. But I can't see how a Cheney heart attack

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Revisiting Bush's bulge in the second debateThe back of the president's jacket showed a telltale ridge during the second '04 debate. But what did the ridge tell? Partisans speculated that a wire and earpiece were feeding Bush mid-debate ammunition, no doubt including the name of Italy's premier (which is Silvio Berlusconi, though the president called him Sergio). Relayed by James Wolcott, a new

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RespectLast Friday my friend Michel parked himself in the window of his favorite bar to razz the girls passing by. The occasion was the heat wave, which had women wearing even less than they usually do during a Montreal summer.Michel is 50, small, dresses in Salvation Army jeans and t-shirts, and is both bald and hairy -- his crown is bare, but he has a steel-wire beard and a tenacious ponytail.

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Sidewalk funA ratty-looking guy and girl were huddled outside the bank with their belongings, which looked burnable. A section of cardboard was propped up next to their panhandling hat and bore the words (magic-markered): $2 SHORT OF TAKING OVER THE WORLDMe (handing over a $2 coin): I hope this does it.Girl: Thanks, man. We're going to make it peaceful, man.Me: I'd appreciate that.

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ImperturbableTold no investigation had ever found evidence to link Saddam and 9/11, Hayesresponded, "I'm sorry, but you must have looked in the wrong places."That's Rep. Robin Hayes (R, of course), as quoted by Joe Gandelman on The Moderate Voice.

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Useful informationAccording to an internal analysis by Paramount, each DVD, which retails forabout $15 wholesale, costs the company only $4.10 to manufacture, distribute,and market. Another 45 cents goes for residuals payments to the guilds, unions,and pension plans, leaving the studio with slightly over $10. That's according to Edward Jay Epstein in Slate. The piece details Tom Cruise's

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Cheney as klutzMy father and I were just discussing Cheney's tendency to put his foot in it. Now the Los Angeles Times (via Kevin Drum) says:. . . last month Vice President Dick Cheney broke from the administration's "message discipline" and declared that the insurgency was in its "last throes." The White House has been paying a price ever sinceThe line for the non-Cheney part of the

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Right behind the troopsVia Atrios, a Knight Ridder scoop: teen Republicans like the war, don't like enlisting so much. "We don't have to be there physically to fight it," says Tiffanee Hokel, 18. Which reminds me of a joke from Andy Warhol's diaries. He knew some young heiress who was determined to make it in the world and struggle to the top of publishing, fashion, or whatever. But, as he put it

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The best bad regime in the worldJudging by the conservatives in the Durbin flap, that's the status our country is now supposed to be shooting for.

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Heartland voices"The White House is completely disconnected from reality. It's like they're justmaking it up as they go along."That's Sen. Charles Hagel, R-Neb. The topic is how the war's going in Iraq (US News and World Report via Atrios). And yet you could apply the statement to such much else.The US News article also says that in the House the guy who gave us Freedom Fries is now sponsoring a

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Cleaning the floorRight, the classic Shatnerism. Like, he'll say the first two words of a sentenceand then there's an incredibly long pause and then he'll say the rest of thesentence, all in a really big blur. It's as if he read the script and realismwas just not his main interest. It's about taking the script and performing it in an almost musical way, regrouping and changing the rhythm of it,

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Does this mean anything at all?The former ombudsman of the New York Times discusses his role:But I laid off for so long because I also believe that columnists are entitledby their mandate to engage in the unfair use of statistics, the misleadingrepresentation of opposing positions, and the conscious withholding of contrarydata. But because they’re entitled doesn’t mean I or you have to like it,

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What was that about swatting flies?"There's been a perception, a sense of drift in overall terrorism policy. Peoplehave not figured out what we do next, so we just continue to pick 'em off one ata time," said Roger W. Cressey, who served as a counterterrorism official at theNational Security Council under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. "Wehaven't gone to a new level to figure out how

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"Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong and 100,000 people paid with their lives."Galloway's statement is here. It's as if Margaret Tharcher came back as a male socialist and told certain parties what they have long been in need of hearing:I gave my heart and soul to stop you committing the disaster that you did

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Brave wordsOn the one hand this is good news. On the other I no longer recognize the world.Publishers Weekly daily e-mail bulletin has a short interview with "DC's Paul Levitz," that is the president/publishers of DC Comics. Nowadays PW can assume its readers know what DC is. The interview also gets decently high billing. And Levitz says:You know, it wasn’t so long ago that science fiction moved

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A keeperBy way of Tom Tomorrow, I came to the spiffy site Downingstreetmemo.com, which contains the prize document itself:SECRET AND STRICTLY PERSONAL - UK EYES ONLYDAVID MANNINGFrom: Matthew RycroftDate: 23 July 2002S 195 /02cc:Defence Secretary, Foreign Secretary, Attorney-General, Sir Richard Wilson, JohnScarlett, Francis Richards, CDS, C, Jonathan Powell, Sally Morgan, AlastairCampbellIRAQ:

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Bad HemingwayThat Sunday afternoon we sat with the Swedish girl in the big cafe in Valencia.As I understand these things, the above is a specimen of imitation Hemingway at its purest. It's also the first sentence to "Soldiers of the Republic" by Dorothy Parker. She was writing about the Spanish Civil War and perhaps trying to sound serious.Bad Hemingway was still a standing joke when I was young.

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Don't they feel silly?Leadoff lines in some rightwing blogs regarding the death-by-missile of an al-Qaeda operative:Chalk another one up for the good guys . . . Another bad guy down . . . Got one in PakistanI guess that either bothers you or it doesn't. The jauntiness is such a pain, these guys hitching a ride on our military's toughness (or the missile's toughness), when the only appropriate

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This is kind of funnyBy way of The Comics Reporter . . . Movement conservatives can't see an inch past their nose. So to celebrate the capture of the latest al-Qaeda big, the Washington Times's editorial cartoonist drew the captive as a swarthy, bearded lump of humanity hanging from the mouth of a noble-looking hunting dog. A U.S. soldier pets the dog's head and says, "Good boy . . . now let's go

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Never marry a RepublicanShocking accusations -- well, extraordinary and distasteful accusations -- are leveled at a Bush nominee by the man's ex-wife. Women, never marry a Republican:[For seven years] Hager sodomized Davis without her consent while she slept roughly once a month until their divorce in 2002, she claims. "My sense is that he saw [my narcolepsy] as an opportunity," Davis

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Molly Bingham, good-looking woman, has a lot to say about her time covering the Iraqi resistance and about America's blind spots (in her view) regarding the war.Bingham's tone is high church, at times a bit daffy. She says the other side's fighters shouldn't be called terrorists , and that's not because she considerss them innocent ("some are indeed using terrorist tactics") but because she

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AnalysisAt the gym this morning CNN had a highlights clip from last night's "American Idol." A lot of applause for Paula Abdul, who lifted her chin. A black girl sang something woeful and then broke down when Simon Cowell was telling her she was emotional. Then, the announcer said, the girl came back later and "rocked the judges" (something like that) with the song "Don't Leave Me This Way."

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Today's pictureTwo large black armored SUVs often used by House and Senate leaders sped awayfrom the Capitol. That's from MSNBC on the Capitol's evacuation.

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The quandary of the modern intellectualIf you don't know any physics or any taoism, does it makes sense to read The Tao of Physics?

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Meanwhile, 37 years ago His brother-in-law, he noticed, was talking earnestly with Lieutenant Ned Ordway, the efficient, amiable Negro who commanded the airport police department.That's from Airport by Arthur Hailey, published in 1968. I grew up hearing about the crappiness of Arthur Hailey but never experienced his work until now. He writes in a special, even artificial manner, the manner of bad

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Imaginary titlesCat Without a Tail --- late '60s/early '70s international-chase thrillerOdds Are --- early '80s comedy about Las Vegas casino, with Al Pacino and Diane Keaton; a resonating flopBlindfold --- mid-'60s Hitchcock ripoffFish in the Sea --- single girl in mini-skirt among other singles in '60s London; based on surprise best-seller, first novel by girl who graduated from

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A liberal principleMatthew Yglesias set this exercise: come up with a statement that anyone could agree with except a conservative. And that will be one of your liberal principles.So here's mine: Having more money should not give someone more of a say over what the rest of us do.

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Our correspondentsMy mom got an e-mail from a business associate who is British and lives in Britain. He had some things to tell her about the election campaign there, which gives this blog an international caste.The election campaign was a great deal shorter and less glitzy and a bitless vitriolic than yours, although there have been many loud complaints thatour politics is becoming too "

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No, it isn'tAbout America's last rock star, it's either Pentecostal enthusiasm or total disdain.That's a guy in Slate talking about Bruce Springsteen. Does this happen to you a lot? I mean, that somebody says people either love such-and-such or people hate it, and yet you don't do either? It happens to me a lot.You'd have to work pretty hard to convince me that Springsteen is not a good guy

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OddI did a needed update on the Wright post (he was having her turn around to show off the Chinese-hostess reminiscent costume -- duh) and posted a big clip-n-save from Kevin Drum and his thoughts on liberal principles.And neither is here. They're available to me in storage for editing, along with all the other posts. But they're not up on the blog itself. I have no idea why.

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I want to hold on to thisThe blog seems as good a place as any for storage. From Kevin Drum's blog today, a discussion of liberal principles. I don't think he recognizes that principles are things people believe, as opposed to things that they reason out in extrapolation from detailed, picayune, small-bore beliefs that need an attractive brand identity. But maybe he's not saying that; I'll read

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Disturbing news from EuropeEvidence indicates this policy was being tested on a pilot basis seven years ago, when I was lucky enough to pay an extended visit to Italy and Greece.

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What a retardThe previous post raises yet another question. Can people say "retard"? They do, but are they allowed? God knows it's a satisfying word, unless you have a friend or relative who is retarded, or else a sense that the afflicted should not be made fun of. By which I mean an active and robust sense able to get in the way of cheap pleasure. And I don't, but I am sensitive to looking bad

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Thank you, Mr. WrightUPDATE: On reflection I see that the mystery discussed below isn't much of a mystery. Having the woman turn around (if done) would have been to display her outfit, with the obvious extra intentions of making her show off her body and play Simon Says.So a lot of the post below does not have much point. Yet I had a good time writing it; and like (quite possibly) Mr. Wright, I

Kylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08777017665948941475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6189436.post-1114638101340753372005-04-27T17:34:00.000-04:002005-04-27T17:41:41.340-04:00

Sweaty thumbsA straightforward person will react to a stupid idea by saying "Give me a break." A sweaty, ham-thumbed scoutmaster-type will herald his straightforwardness with a grand preparatory windup:The White House claims it needs the pugnacious Mr. Bolton at the U.N. to whip itinto shape and oversee real reform there. I have only one thing to say inresponse to that pablum: Give me a break.

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Learning curveI just started a volunteer job where I work in the office of a nonprofit.Now that I think about it, on my first day I asked the boss if she knew anyone who sells software, meaning bootleg software. That's not as bad as asking if you know anybody who sells drugs, but it's a bit worse than keeping your mouth shut.

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Leave it to the religious typesSoulful Jeanne d'Arc has come up with a perfect name for the Catholics' new chief: the German Shepherd.Of course, I wonder how anyone could call herself "Jeanne d'Arc" in a post-Annie Hall environment. If we can project trends outward from my adolescence, swaths of the public have now memorized even the measly, dumbass jokes AH gives to the hack comic who appalls

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I want to live in his worldRepublicans, weak and disorganized, were ground down by the Democraticjuggernaut. That's Bob Novak in mid-description of the troubles faced by John Bolton. By the way, it turns out George Voinovich is "notoriously quirky."

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Local paper hits the big timeThe paper I grew up with, the humble Journal-News of Rockland and Westchester, has a link from Matthew Yglesias. Reason: a tough editorial on malfeasance and pork in the energy and Iraq/Afghanistan bills.

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Lots of relativism, but where are the relatavists?"We are moving towards a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognizeanything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego andone's own desires."That's the new pope, as you figured out. So where are all the hard-and-true relatavists? Everyone I ever met has denied moral wiggle room on some issue or other, most often

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Red state honorFor the first time in my life I've been reading (or skimming) Tom Clancy, the reason being a work-for-hire editing job. And he's got his points. Anyway, I gather Clancy was against Iran-contra because his '89 novel Clear and Present Danger is about abuse of the law in the name of national security. (UPDATE: originally I said "use of the law," out of carelessness.) Clancy was also

Kylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08777017665948941475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6189436.post-1113596377059099062005-04-15T15:30:00.000-04:002005-04-27T11:29:32.473-04:00

Open up a hot dog, what do you see?By way of Atrios, we get this look by NPR at the rat-hair-and-feces side of news.If I follow right, companies can pay for video press releases to be distributed by a branch of CNN. The branch passes off the press releases as news stories to small-time TV operations. The small-timers pay for the "news" clips, so CNN collects at both ends. (The branch also sells

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Something good about Tom DelayTom DeLay, interestingly enough, used to be the voice of reason and caution onthe Social Security front within the GOP elite.That's Matthew Yglesias at Tapped. Similarly, Chuck Hagel, who voted against the war resolution, was the senator elected under the same e-voting system he had sold his state.Life throws you these little complications. For instance, I'm told

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Thank you, NewtBORGER: He's said that this is the liberal media going after him.Mr. GINGRICH: Sure.BORGER: You agree with that?Mr. GINGRICH: Well, that's the famous Hillary Clinton defense, This is thevast left-wing cor--you know, conspiracy as opposed to her description of a vastright-wing conspiracy.BORGER: So he's using...Mr. GINGRICH: I'm saying when you're being attacked, the first thing

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Inside the OnionThe place has a woman editor; I didn't know that. Here's the article.

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Why I like Kevin DrumWhen he links to an article about proof that cops lie on the stand, he calls it "fascinating," and not outrageous, etc. I like the calm, pipe-smoking approach. For me the piece's highlight is that prosecutors had to drop a case because their videotape was shown up as doctored. It's a sign of fakery going well past line officers.The article's in the NYT, so I'll cut/paste

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The greatest pope everIn June, Reagan destroyed communism. Now it's April, and John Paul did. That's not because TV news wants to butter up the pope's followers; it's because this way you have a story. The same last June, when the TV was saying Reagan finished his term with the highest poll ratings of any president. Atrios and the others pointed out that Clinton broke the record. But a good story

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Card's fallacyI name this for Orson Scott Card, whom I've been reading a bit of lately. Lately he asserted on his web site that Keanu Reeves is a good actor and that those who disagree have deceived themselves as to what good acting is. The statement brought to a high pitch a tendency I've spotted in Card and other admirers of President Bush. Thinking a bit, I summed up Card's point of view this

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TraditionA time that falls within my youth is now the source of a tradition practiced by the young people of today. From the New York Post's Page Six:April 7, 2005 -- VIDEOTAPE of Jenna Bush in very high spirits at a bacheloretteparty is being sold and could end up on national TV by the end of the week.Luckily for Jenna, the cameraman missed "the high point . . . Jenna onall fours doing 'the butt

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Explaining to MatthewMy favorite blogger puts forefinger to chin and wonders why innocent commentators can't get away with saying the Pope isn't such great shakes:Normally, religious leaders who take stances on controversial political or moralissues -- from Pat Robertson to Jesse Jackson to Michael Lerner to whomever elseyou please -- are considered fair game for criticism and derision from those

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"What are we protecting you from, a wrong cheeseburger?"A lady in southern California calls 911 because a local fast-food franchise hasn't prepared her cheeseburger the way she wants it. In the course of a very long exchange the 911 operator comes out with the above question, one of the best I've ever heard.Kevin Drum found a link to the transcript on Body and Soul, which found the transcript

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Yin and yangMichael Kinsley describes president and opposition:He enjoys the stubborn conviction of the unreflective mind. Unfortunately -- orfortunately for the Democrats -- his principled convictions are often wrong andsometimes unpopular. This leaves an opening for rival principled convictions, ifonly the Democrats had some to spare. As so often, I wonder why pundits still have Yeats "

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Son and statesmanBoth stricken patients were severely brain-damaged. Both were incapable ofsurviving without medical assistance. Both were said to have expressed a desireto be spared from being kept alive by artificial means. And neither of them hada living will.That's from the Los Angles Times, via Atrios. One of the patients, as you know, is Terri Schiavo. The other was Tom DeLay's dad, back in

Kylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08777017665948941475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6189436.post-1111771793942093182005-03-25T12:01:00.000-05:002005-03-25T12:29:53.943-05:00

InimitableSometimes a polemicist will pile up the examples and have no idea none of them are connecting. For instance, Andrew Sullivan has this quote from a Weekly Standard writer he refers to as "the inimitable Harvey Mansfield." Something tells me Sulliven doesn't agree with it, since the views are socially non-raffinés. But Mansfield agrees with himself and he expects me too as well. Poor fool

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Self-righteous con menBeing right-wing isn't a matter of opinions; it's a matter of outlook and behavior, of the kind of person a right-winger too often turns out to be. They have no morals and a tremendous amount of self-righteousness. They think everything belongs to them; if something actually belongs to you, that means you're in the way. And all the while they'll be telling you how wrong you

Kylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08777017665948941475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6189436.post-1111168543757439782005-03-18T12:43:00.000-05:002005-03-18T12:55:43.760-05:00

New theoryAri Fleischer has no intellectual shame because he has no intellect. That is the theory advanced by Jon Chait, who has just struggled thru the "maddeningly dull" and "subideological" White House memoirs of the cunning devil who made monkeys of our press corps. "This is the mastermind I had held in such awe?" Chait asks.The point here is really this entertaining e-mail exchange between

Kylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08777017665948941475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6189436.post-1111065130652500912005-03-17T08:07:00.000-05:002005-03-17T08:16:23.280-05:00

"Like Mick Jagger. You have to keep at it."Light rock blogging. The Q92 morning team is talking about St. Patrick and how he became a saint. They agree it wasn't just for getting the snakes out of Ireland, not just for one feat. "Like Mick Jagger," says the lead man (Aaron). "You have to keep at it."

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Why does this bother me?. . . and Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), chair of the proceedings, was wearing -- and Icould not make this up -- what appeared to be an “Incredible Hulk" tie.Why does the tie get me? I used to wear t-shirts to the office every day, but reading about Sen. Stevens's Hulk tie makes me feel like we've all slipped a small gear somewhere. Right now I couldn't give you any reason.(

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Blue staters reach outMajikthise linked to this exercise in cultural sensitivity. (Warning: big graphic, could be a long download depending on your system.)

Kylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08777017665948941475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6189436.post-1109782804283162782005-03-02T11:09:00.000-05:002005-03-03T02:45:29.156-05:00

Like waiters in a bad restaurantBeing an American in Canada gives you a chance to appreciate Paul Cellucci, our ambassador here. If you think the Bush administration is overbearing at home, you should hear it talking to non-Americans, especially non-Americans in a not very large nation.During the Iraq run-up, Cellucci sounded like he was dealing with waiters in a bad restaurant. (To paraphrase:

Kylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08777017665948941475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6189436.post-1109705635620903572005-03-01T14:10:00.000-05:002005-03-01T14:33:55.623-05:00

When the good stuff gets in the wayWhat if G-G didn't sell himself but instead had a page showing off the luscious buds growing in his hydroponic marijuana garden? (I'm not saying he grows pot. This is hypothetical.) Same self-publicized breaking of the law and flouting of traditional values. Same questions as to why security waved the guy in, same chance for Bush lovers to stand on their heads

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A kindred spiritExcept I think he doesn't really mean it. From the blog that gave us "Poker with Dick Cheney," some spiritual self-wrestling at The Poor Man:I'm sorry. However hard this has been for Mr. Gannon, I assure you it has beentwice as hard for me. Every long moment of my life since the story broke, I havebeen at war with myself. It is as if, with this Gannon affair, I have been giventhe

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