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Archive for May 28th, 2008

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Post-Holiday Blogging II

Meanwhile, someone recently expressed the wish that I do some blogging here, on my actual blog, now and then. So, sure!

Now and then some defender of the Bush White House makes the argument that, "Gosh we’re all so safer now!" But measurement issues and correlation and causation problems aside, one keeps stumbling across the massive [...]

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Post-Holiday Posting

My life can start to get back to normal after a topsy-turvy couple of weeks, and "normal" of course means, with more blogging.
Here’s some recent stuff I wrote for Art of the Possible:

"Eyeball to Eyeball" wonders if Barack Obama made a mistake by ending debate season.
"Veep Veep" was my first entry into the topic du [...]

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

A Jewish Man Who Would Say Such Things!

By Mona
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Pimping my latest topic at AoTP: A Jewish radio pundit who finds it true that — as a Xian fundie minister says, Hitler was G-d’s righteous tool — is, to say the least, effing weird.

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Time for a diaper change: Somebody at LGF drank too much coffee

By Thoreau
I know that the insanity of America’s far-right hawks is not exactly news, but nonetheless I never thought that the bedwetter brigades would see imminent dhimmitude in a Dunkin’ Donuts ad.
Guys, it’s a striped scarf worn by Rachel Ray at the behest of some stylist for the ad agency.  Get over it.
To show my [...]