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Instant Blogwatch – Mr. Jimmy has posted the rare update to Objectionable Content, this one about David Kay, employed until recently by the US government. Traditionally, a new OC post is followed by six more weeks of winter.
Walter in Denver offers the Drug War Clock, where you can watch your tax dollars at work.
Gary Farber [...]

Weird Science – Matthew Barganier offers a history in quotes of John Ashcroft’s repeated expressions of concern over “evil chemistry and evil biology.”

Your Surprisingly Work-Safe Link of the Day – http://www.cummingfirst.com/organ.html.
Via the Agitator.

Failing to Report the GOOD News from Iraq – Today’s culprits, Knight-Ridder reporters Hannah Allam and Tom Lasseter:
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Whispers of “revolution” are growing louder in Baghdad this month at teahouses, public protests and tribal meetings as Iraqis point to the past as an omen for the future.
Iraqis remember 1920 as one of the [...]

Mission Accomplished Just removed a bunch of typos and a few solecisms from the week’s posts. God I suck sometimes. Somewhat better now. Tomorrow: more stuff about stuff.

regarding the much-discussed conservative disenchantment with George W. Bush’s presidency.
The upshot is going to be a really ugly campaign, grounded more in efforts to motivate Republicans by fear and loathing of the opposition than admiration for the GOP. You see this a lot already in the rightwing press where the ratio of Democrat-bashing to Bush-praising [...]

Who Watches the Watchmail? – It turns out that, after chili recipes and cover songs, Watchmen is one of the biggest mail-generatin’ topics out there. So here we go . . .
Justin Slotman writes
JIM!
I always thought the pirate comic was just an idea of what a comic book would look like in a world [...]

D’Jyou Watch the Watchmen? Get it? D’jou Watch? Jew? – With sincere apologies to Alvie Singer. Reader Rich Puchalsky quickly picked up the baton I passed when I wrote
Walter “Rorschach” Kovacs, devotee of bigoted right-wing publications, is clearly Jewish. (So, less clearly, is Dan “NiteOwl” Dreiberg.) Discuss.
And discuss he did, but first. At one point, [...]

Mailblog – Rather than update Unruled, Leonard Dickens spends his time e-mailing other bloggers. Hey, no biggie, I like Leonard and I like e-mail too. He writes about the weekend’s piece about the (possibly) Incredible Shrinking Terrorist Threat. First:
Actually I would say that both [sick Arab political culture and hatred of American foreign policy], along [...]

Truth Commission – Democracy Now tangles with Wesley Clark over Kosovo and other matters. My affinity is with Democracy Now here, but Clark gives nearly as well as he gets. Until he gets to the commuter train incident. After that it’s all downhill.