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A Fanboy’s Snickering Acknowledgement – Look who’s comics-blogging.

Weekly Fitness Blog Item – This was the week to finally start to suck less. The DC area’s nearly-annual False Spring arrived – temps were in the high forties when the week began and hit 68 today. To celebrate, I began to come out of my winter hibernation, and just, the scales assure me, in [...]

cited this article, one way or the other. They must be out there, eh? Otherwise, Glenn Reynolds would sort of have a point.

about them. But one part isn’t computing for me.
Observers are fitting the uniform change into the Marvel Shakeup Overstory, which goes like this: Avi Arad, head of Marvel’s film division, elbowed aside former Marvel Comics president Bill Jemas because he believed Jemas was damaging the value of Marvel’s licenses. Arad got sick of controversies over [...]

to make law. Legislators love delegation because it lets them dodge accountability. Gay marriage being a hot button issue, there are probably more than a few New York legislators happy to dodge the issue.
The minor problem is that delegation (at the national level) is an outrage against the Republic. (And I mean that in the [...]

department:
US senators’ personal stock portfolios outperformed the market by an average of 12 per cent a year in the five years to 1998, according to a new study.
“The results clearly support the notion that members of the Senate trade with a substantial informational advantage over ordinary investors,” says the author of the report, Professor Alan [...]

Ressentiment: It’s What’s for Breakfast – Glenn Reynolds observes the collapse of the prosecution’s case in the Milosevic trial, and all it occasions is a certain peevishness that
No doubt we’ll see handwringing, doubts about intelligence reliability, and charges that the Clinton Administration “sexed up” intelligence and misrepresented
Milosevic as a genocidal dictator in order to build [...]

Queer, Queer, Queer, with Bells Ringing and Banners Snapping in the Wind – Atrios is providing strong coverage of the graffiti on the Constitution proposal. Of several items, this one and this one and this one are especially good, and the recurring Atrios thesis that the Bush Administration is going to succeed in painting the [...]

Sing It With Me Now – Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday Neilalien’s incomparable comics blog
Happy birthday to you!
Four years old, people. There are older blogs, but not a ton of older blogs. Four more years! (Likely my only chance to use this cheer in 2004.)

That’s Just Wrong – Stone proprietor Marc strikes at the very foundations of our civilization. He must be stopped!
I didn’t know about the semi-colon aspect, though.
My own language problem is different: Figuring out which words in a title should not be capitalized in orthodox, library-style titling. It’s “the little words,” I know, but deciding just [...]