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Archive for August 8th, 2006

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

Trifecta Week!

La Familia Offering hits the road for a sojourn in Wisconsin. It’s a state where I’ve never been, so my excitement at finally getting to see the Commonwealth O’ Cow Products can barely be described.
For your reading pleasure, I offer you not one, not two, but three! of my favorite habitués of Hit and Run. [...]

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

Abstinence? Convincicance? CONSPIRACY????

Anyone else suggested the possibility that Joe Lieberman’s people hacked their own website to provide an excuse for the defeat their internal polls must have told them is coming? In addition to saving face, it would provide an excuse for a spoiler run in the general election despite what looks to be a very lame [...]

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

Down with the sickness

Since this is my first post, I’ll start by saying hello.
Oops! I was just playing with the editor, I didn’t realize it would post. I will leave it on the main page anyway.

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

Looks Like Another Threat to World Peace

Those pesky Lebanese are gumming up the diplomatic works.
Meanwhile the Bush Administration will do anything to support the “Cedar Revolution” except – anything at all, really.
This is going to go on a long time, I suspect. The USA-France resolution may reach a vote this week and pass, but it defers all the hard stuff for [...]

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

Rumors of Rumors of War

Eli Lake of the New York Sun reports that the Iraqi government foiled an ayyrmpyrf military coup in July. This is a potentially interesting story, except for the fact that it’s based largely on a single source, it’s written by Eli Lake and it appears in the New York Sun. Lake did such a job [...]