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Monthly Archives: January 2006
Because, verily, I am a dork. Jumping into a discussion on a friend’s LiveJournal, I present my top 10 Weird Al songs: 1. Hardware Store – The rest of the list is in no particular order, but this one’s at number one because it’s number one. Incredible, pedal-to-the-floor production values… on a song about a [...]
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Last night, the trifecta. Lea woke up at 2:00 a.m. These days, she starts each night in her bed, but at some point demands to be moved to the living room sofa. This requires the transport of the following: Her Teletubbies pillow and blanket (not that she has watched that show in close to a [...]
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“When Chafee votes for cloture, he is voting to silence those who want to bring Alito’s anti-privacy, anti-choice record to light.” That’s DailyKos writer georgia10, writing about liberal Republican Lincoln Chafee. Chafee is going to vote against Alito, but he’s also voting against a filibuster, so the Kosians are ticked. But the above quote strikes [...]
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Right Wingers and Presidential Power. Some of them may be coming around on the idea that Presidential authority has been abused. Jonathan Adler, writing in The Corner: The latest issue of Newsweek has a story on the internal debates within the Bush Administration’s Justice Department about the legality and propriety of various Administration policies related [...]
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Stuck In The Middle. Just a little aimless political rant. Don’t mind me. I’ve supported the war in Iraq, and I think that some of Bush’s maneuvers against American citizens — the ability to imprison them without explaining the charges, the use of wiretaps without any legal oversight — are dead wrong. I am a [...]
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Reefer Madness: Fans of movie musicals don’t have a lot to choose from these days, so I would have to be a grump indeed to not recommend the musical version of Reefer Madness, adapted from the off-Broadway show. So what if it’s a little draggy and overlong? The score is fun (if mostly forgettable), and [...]
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Compare and contrast. The word “Tiananmen” as an Image Search, first on American Google, and then on Chinese Google. (Via Jonah Goldberg.)
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For my second wish, I’d like a million dollars. Back in September, I scoffed at the idea that I might go to my college reunion. The problem, as I noted, was that I had no particular affinity with the Class of 1990, and would much prefer a multi-year reunion, specifically of the SUNY-Albany Theatre Department. [...]
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Psst. There’s good news coming out of Iraq. Don’t tell anybody. According to Trevor Snyder, a soldier in Iraq who works with the media, the following letter was read to the press corps during a weekly briefing. The letter is from the mayor of an Iraqi town, Tall Afar: [O]ur city was overrun by heartless [...]
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At least they proved they can make stuff up. Aren’t writers supposed to be good at that? Two writers, Ronnie Niederman and Judith Shangold, sued the Walt Disney Company, saying a treatment they had submitted to the company had re-emerged in the form of Michael Chabon’s novel Summerland, which was published by Disney’s Miramax Books [...]
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