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Archive for August 17th, 2007

Friday, August 17th, 2007

Digging up the dead horse, completely flogging the tattered remains

By Thoreau
I have more thoughts on the Clinton impeachment:
1) I’ve gone back and forth on the Clinton impeachment, but looking at everything going on now, I realize that some precedents should have been set. I still maintain that it never should have gotten to the point where Clinton was under oath facing questions [...]

Friday, August 17th, 2007

Glory Hound

Celebrating the repair of the family desktop PC, Mrs. Offering hits upon a strategy of trying to increase blog traffic by . . . blogging. No new Kate pictures yet, perhaps because it’s hard to fit her into the frame now. Either back leg is now the size of the pup we brought home in [...]

Friday, August 17th, 2007

Campaign 2008 – I Mean 7! 2007! Notes

At this rate, the Iowa caucuses will be tomorrow. We’ll wake up to an announcement that all Iowans and New Hampshirites are to head to the polls immediately. Maybe there will be sirens.
Mrs. Offering, who knows things, says that the rush to the head of the line will play havoc with various races at the [...]

Friday, August 17th, 2007

“Is your f**k buddy also your friend?”

By Thoreau
In my continuing effort to blog good writing by a good friend of the blog (translation:  I’m tired of blogging about war and terrorism and I don’t have any good science stuff to blog right now), Jennifer has a hilarious article about Connecticut’s gambling laws.  Basically, it’s illegal to play poker for money unless [...]

Friday, August 17th, 2007

Taking a shot at gun control

By Thoreau
Jennifer, a good friend of this blog, has written an interesting article on Connecticut gun laws.  So, for those who were looking to shoot their mouths off in a gun control thread, fire away!

Friday, August 17th, 2007

No More Mister Nice Gal

If I needed to describe the Laura Rozen Style in two words, they would be “quietly devastating.” Rozen prefers a level tone, sparse verbiage and the assembly of relevant quotes. So it tells you where we are that she writes something like the following:
There’s a solution no one has thought of here. Congress needs to [...]