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Over at the Well, Ed Ward ( of Creem magazine fame) had this nice memory of Sterling Morrison:I remember being in some stupid symposium at UT with the weirdo musicprof who had the rock and roll course there, and Sterling was on thepanel. He contributed nothing, just sat there kind of pissed off he'dbeen asked to do it. Then some student asked him a question aboutDylan. "I don't know anything

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....But, in the wake of the tragic Tiller killing, it seems like a good time to quote Larison's formulation of why I don't believe in abortion.As I understand it, abortion is wrong because it violates the dignity of the human person, desecrates the image of God and ignores the obligations we have to the weak and defenseless. It also sunders in the most violent way the obligations of parents to

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What's worse than being a nerd? Being a nerd that has gone completely insane, put on a costume and decided to become a crimefighter. I presume his secret power lies in disabling his opponent through inducing paralyzing mirth.It is well worth one's time, particularly if contemplating suicide, to pay a visit to the World Superhero Registry. Some of these guys seem to be directly inspired by the

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Do we have to pay some kind of ransom to get this guy out of there?

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....It's time for the video that got Lawrence Lessig in so much trouble.

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“In America there is no anti-status quo media,”says Smith. “It’s all the same four big companies, and they’re all afraid of losing Budweiser so it’s just like, there’s no voice. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart is the most watched ‘news’ program by people under thirty-five and it’s a spoof comedy show. There is a huge market out there of disenfranchised kids, and we do these political things which

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She takes a somewhat unsympathetic view of the travails of Alexandra Penney, the over-celebrated Madoff victim. Unfortunately, she strays off into literary criticism:To put Penny’s posts in perspective, imagine Frodo Baggins, the hobbit hero in The Lord of the Rings, reacting similarly. Imagine him railing in the woods about how unfair it was that he had to go return this stupid ring to fix a

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Since I usually mock and deride NRO....I believe that so doing gets souls out of Purgatory....I feel I should note when someone gets it exactly right over there.Second, the reason Lee Casey and I have been critical of the U.S. Navy is that there are time-tested and cost-effective solutions to piracy problems, and the Navy has not employed them. It’s not a matter of escorting ships; it is a matter

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Oh, wait, he is the factchecker. Uh-Oh.In the midst of a remarkably silly and wrongheaded "analysis" piece concerning the Somali Pirates, the AP's Hurst drops in this little gem of misinformation:Short of flooding the waters with fighting ships, the only course of attack would seem to be special operations assaults on the ground in Somalia. But Obama is sure to remember the outcome—Black Hawk

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First Dub sound I ever heard, and still probably the best.

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Imagine Ed Henry. Now imagine him at Jack In The Box. Repeat as necessary.

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.....without it what would little boys do?"Cities Deal With Surge In Shantytowns" shrieks the NY Times headline.Guess they don't get out that much on the Upper West Side these days, or wherever Times reporters live until they lose their jobs. Tulsa, of course, has had a, um, thriving "Tent City" for about 15 years now, and we ain't even ground zero. That's some timely journalism there, boys.Hey!

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A little sanctimonious gibberish from Andrew Sullivan.

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Blood and horror at SXSW.

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h/t xkcdUpdate: Michel Lewis addresses this very issue.

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Daniel Goure of the Lexington Institute has quite an amusing post which speaks body bags about the blinkered world-view and unfounded assumptions which define the thinking of the Israeli Lobby and their fellow travelers. Actually, Goure appears to doubt the existence of an Israeli Lobby in something of the same way that J. Edgar Hoover once claimed to doubt the existence of the Mafia.At any rate,

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Once upon a time, when we all lived in the forest, a man we will call Arlen Specter worked as a DA.Since that time he has traded in this morsel of history, much as Jake Spoon in Lonesome Dove , to establish a wholly undeserved reputation as a legal thinker worthy of some deference. For those who don't recall the inglorious facts, this tendency reached it's apogee when, during the Clinton

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The shrieking of fools like James Glassman and Larry Kudlow temporarily made the whole idea of zero-sum economic games rather unfashionable. Here is a very good article explaining it's continung relevance and why, in reality, it ends up being a little worse than zero-sum. Oh, by the way, this guy actually makes his clients some do-re-mi. Talk about unfashionable.

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There is little to say about the public flogging of Jim Cramer at the capable hands of Jon Stewart that has not been said already. But Marty Peretz's defense of Cramer represents such a perfect apex of hackery that it merits some notice. I guess if you have spent a few years as the lapdog for Likud, shilling for a buddy and former business partner presents no problem at all....particularly if,

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Shocking. MUSKOGEE — A 44-year-old Muskogee man is being given probation after pleading guilty to raping a 6-year-old girl.Vincent Martin LeCompte was given a 20-year suspended sentence Thursday as part of a plea deal on the first-degree rape charge.Assistant District Attorney Shannon Otteson says prosecutors agreed to the deal because the victim already has testified three times. Clearly a great

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Purty writing can never be lauded too highly. Here is a very nice, tender and compassionate piece by James Matthew Wilson. Sample:We marched in support of the foundation of charity at the root of any Christian society; we marched in declaring the liberty of the Catholic Church to feed its flock no matter where that flock might be, and no matter what its circumstances. We did not march in

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1. Leo Tolstoy2. Richard Nixon3. Carol Lynley4. Ron Paul5. RuPaul6. Pope Benedict7. Sammy Davis Jr.8. Ursula LeGuin9. W.M. Thackeray10. Jane AustenWouldn't it be fascinating and revealing to play Boswell to them? To ask "What do you think of Britney Spears last disc?" and "Oh, really, why is that".

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Speaking of penises:"Before it's all over, it'll be called the Ted Kennedy memorial health care bill"

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Is he hung? Listen punk, He's got radioactive spunkPhoebe Connelly points out that the furor over Dr. Manhattan's Olympic-sized indigo dong is indicative of our culture's discomfort with the penis. She is right. I'm even uncomfortable in the presence of my own penis, never mind someone else's blue and radioactive one.I used to go out with a lady who worked at the nuthouse in Concord,

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Well, I predicted something like this:he fight over President Barack Obama’s economic recovery plan shined a light on the growing gap between Big Business and the GOP. While House Republicans voted unanimously against the legislation — twice — the vast majority of major business groups lobbied hard for it.

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As if to emphasize the appropriate nature of the group's name, as well as demonstrating his uncertain grasp of First Amendment jurisprudence in the defamation area, City Councilor Eric Gomez initially threatened to sue community organizer Julie Hall and the organization Who Owns Tulsa for this allegedly defamatory statement: "And, that has been a pattern that we've seen with him and his voting,

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Great movie. Great tune. Good, sensitive performance. Notice the dynamics.

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(h/t Ronald Bailey)Gov. Mark Sanford: Well I think that it’s just, and science is more and more documenting this, is that there are real “chinks” in the armor of evolution being the only way we came about. The idea of there being a, you know, a little mud hole and two mosquitoes get together and the next thing you know you have a human being... is completely at odds with, you know, one of the

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Bob Herbert sez:The U.S. economy cannot work if ordinary men and women cannot find work. Let’s forget for a moment all the ritualized lingo about tax cuts, all the easy but uninformed talk about entitlement reform and all the empty rhetoric about balancing budgets that will never be truly balanced in our lifetimes.I very much wish Mr. Herbert is right but I fear that he is the one indulging in "

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Here's a very entertaining article by right-wing curmudgeon John Derbyshire, "How Radio Wrecks The Right" in which he outlines the manifold ways in which the Dittoheads contribute to the petrification of the GOP.He's right, of course, but fortunately the process of ossification is too far advanced for his counsel to be heard. This is probably why the article is published in The American

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Just in case you aren't already a Ta-Nehisi Coates fan, here is one reason you should be:Keyes, a product of the Ivy Leagues, has long been held aloft as some sort of intellectual of the far right. But anyone who's ever seen the wannabe Malcolms coming out of the prison talking "knowledge of self," anyone who's read Soul On Ice, knows exactly what Alan Keyes is--a highly articulate thug.Couldn't

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Gee, did I say something about a public impulse toward gibbets and guillotines? I go over the top sometimes. don't I? Except that it is a matter of real concern in London. From the Guardian:Britain's most senior police officer with responsibility for public order raised the spectre of a return of the riots of the 1980s, with people who have lost their jobs, homes or savings becoming "

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Another business model bites the dust (warning: link opens in .pdf format).

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Heal the sick,Raise the deadMake the little girls go outta their head.From the TED conference (I'm an addict), Juan Enriquez on "the ultimate reboot".

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Michael O'Hara laments the shackling of women by means of their handbags.

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Just when you thought you had already seen the absolute worst in mendacity, venality and shameless greed that Modern Times have to offer -well, then along comes Donald Luskin to remind us all that the bottomless depths of Man's fallen nature are known only to God.Brad De Long has long referred to Luskin as "the stupidest man alive", or at least until Luskin's awesome consistency disqualified him

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And a particularly disgusting one at that.At a Lincoln Day Dinner speech over the weekend, Bunning predicted that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would likely be dead from pancreatic cancer in nine months, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal.The paper reports that Bunning reiterated his support of conservative judges, saying “that’s going to be in place very shortly because Ruth

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....because it's gotta be some pretty good shit.Yet the election of Bell puts Tulsa Republicans increasingly out of step with the public, even with Republican voters. Bell, after all, is a proud John Birch Society member and its a safe bet that few GOP voters under 40 have ever heard of John Birch.Bell's Ron Paul connection is equally problematic since the deservedly obscure Rep. Paul proved to

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If there were a Darwin Award for politics, this would surely be a nominee:Sunday, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour announced he would join his neighbor, Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, in turning down federal incentives to expand unemployment insurance coverage; both are Republicans."It would require us in the future to raise the unemployment tax," Gov. Barbour said in an interview at the meeting

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OK, I confess, I enjoy Joss Wheadon. Or at least I liked Firefly. And Mad Men and Breaking Bad aren't around so I gave this show a try. The pilot was more or less a huge disappointment, mostly due to the rigorous "stand-alone" episode format which Wheadon has said was imposed on him from above.But I persevered and gave the thing another try and sho' nuff, the second episode showed a modest

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He digs MSG.

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One telling anecdote from a great talk.One of the saddest days of my life was when my grandson – and he’s a particularly brilliant grandson – went to college. He was good at mathematics. And after he had been at college for a year or two I asked him what he wanted to do when he grew up. He said, “I want to be a financial engineer.” My heart sank. Why was he going to waste his life on this

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This is actually a pretty articulate takedown of the mortgage bailout plan....lots better than most of what one sees coming out of the Republican caucus. The passion doesn't hurt.The more I see of the bailout stuff the more I fall back to my original position.....let everyone fail. Expand the safety net,if need be. But don't attempt to resuscitate the corpse of the real estate bubble. Recessions

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Courtesy of the comments section at Balloon Juice, we are reminded in the wake of the Judd Gregg debacleof Atrios's definition of "High Broderism":We normally think of "High Broderism" as the worship of bipartisanship for its own sake, combined with a fake "pox on both their houses" attitude. But in reality this is just the cover Broder uses for his real agenda, the defense of what he perceives

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Mr. Door Tree, who blogs at Golden Age Comic Book Stories, actually covers a hell of a lot more ground than just comics. It's really one of the best spots on the web for just about all forms of twentieth-century illustration. For example, here is a very Lynd Ward-like expressionist series by Zhenya Gay illustrating De Quincey's Confessions Of An Opium Eater.His blog is like Chocks Multi-Vitamins.

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Is there anything more pleasant than watching a CNN anchor come completely unglued on air? I don't think so. While it lacks the sheer entertainment value of seeing Anderson Cooper perform while dead drunk, viewing Tony Harris wax indignant over the moderately clever "Read A Book, Nigga" video probably was more valuable, at least in terms of demonstrating the utterly conventional and humorless

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I hadn't realized he was quite that old, to be honest. How time flies (or Flys, in this case). I was a fairly early adopter, being hooked on their Gravest Hits EP. Sex and drugs were always a little bit better with The Cramps on the stereo. Great live show,too.

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I don't usually do this kind of thing, but this commercial actually choked me up a bit.

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.....We have DABA, or Dating A Banker Anonymous. Please tell me this is a clever hoax. Or shoot me.

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Such a marvelous day in the history of our nation that it can only be slightly marred (or, if one's tastes are sufficiently perverse, enhanced) by the semi-literate pretensions and ravings of Jonah Goldberg. Here, in attempting to critique the literary merit of President Obama's inauguration speech, he plays to his strong suite and explains a basic point of human rights to those of us who are too

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I've been trying not to panic about the recession but this really makes me nervous: Beer Sales Falling With Economy.Beer usually holds up better than other categories during tough economic times, said Benj Steinman, editor of trade publication Beer Marketer's Insights, and that trend had been holding true during this recession for some segments of the industry. But the latest figures show the

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From Anti-War News:Israel Bans Arab Parties From ElectionBalad Chairman Asks Why Lieberman is so Afraid of DemocracyBy a margin of 26-3, the Israeli Central Elections Committee decided to ban the Balad Party from running in next month’s election. By a margin of 21-8, they also banned the United Arab List-Ta’al (UAL-T). The two bans will prevent more than half of the current Arab members of Israel

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Looks like a big win for copyright progressives:Some digital rights advocates cheered the appointment of longtime copyright-reform champion Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) as chair of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.Boucher is taking over for Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), who will now head the Energy and the Environment subcommittee, the lawmakers announced

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....but I dig the shit out of this. Gotta be viral hit in a minute.

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Here is a very good article,"Audience Atomization Overcome: Why the Internet Weakens the Authority of the Press" by Jay Rosen. Essentially, Rosen describes why the journalist class sound so unbelievably out-of-touch when dealing with any topic. As seen on the graph above, the pundits and reporters view themselves as the gatekeepers for the coveted positions within the "sphere of consensus" which

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The last straw for me was having to wait two minutes for every page at the NY Times website to load. Thanks to Firefox's NoScript add-on, this kind of bullshit is now a thing of the past. This is the bestest add-on ever. In fact, it is indispensable. Turn it on or off, as needed. No more worries about whatever blumpkin backfire some Madison Avenue web hack has decided to inflict upon your browser

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I always love the apocalyptic visions of James H. Kunstler. Especially when they are as on the money as this one is:It is hugely ironic that the US automobile industry is collapsing at this very moment, and the ongoing debate about whether to "rescue" it or not is an obvious kabuki theater exercise because this industry is hopeless. It is headed into bankruptcy with one hundred percent certainty.

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This is a few days late, but for some reason it hasn't been as widely disseminated among the "toony" blogs as it should be. A strange oversight for someone whose work Howard Nostrand described as "tight as a tick", saying further that it looked as if he drew with a protractor. Though his work doing illustrtions and interior cuts for The Shadow Magazine were just fine, I grew to know and love him

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Kenneth Rexroth on the Cotton Club:One of the most ridiculous things I ever read was a description, by some French aesthete, of the old Sunset, made immortal by Armstrong, as though it was some sort of musical tempestuous Unit Meeting of the “exploited Negroes of Chicago’s stockyards and steel mills.” I have read similar things about the Cotton Club. Now I almost never went to the Sunset because,

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I don't much care for New Year's Eve.Partly because it's always been an excuse for me to drink too much and act the fool. But partly because at its core it seems sort of a sad holiday. Its themes are aging, loss and saying goodbye as much as they are hope and Great Expectations.In honor of the day, here is A Blast From The Past, the Del Fuegos. I went to college with their sister. They were a

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Let's end it with a little poetry, shall we?Tigers are perfectThe epitomeOf good looks and graceAnd quiet dignity - Calvin

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This is a very good film. Kate Winslet 's performance is probably the best of her career, which in my opinion is really saying something. Di Caprio is fine, but the real surprise is the rather new Zoe Kazan who is nothing less than compelling in a very small part.....watching her, I experienced the same sensation as I did seeing the young MIckey Rourke effortlessly steal scenes in Body Heat.As

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I am not an Elizabeth Alexander fan. I do not think she is a particularly good poet, though far from an utter fraud such as Maya Angelou. If we must have an "inaugural poet", I would prefer that it be another.Having said that, the criticism of her poem "The Venus Hottentot" from NRO's Candace de Russy is simply pathetic.Alexander's best-known poem, "The Venus Hottentot," contains the following

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Some helpful suggestions for how to handle that fruitcake.

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Zimbabwe asks Bush to leave office quietly. (h/t: NRO's Corner)

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Now this is some impressive comix spelunking. Notice the creators' names? Clayton and Chick? Now look at the art again. Could it be.....No way, but...YES! It is! It's world-class lunatic Jack Chick back in the good ol' days before he let us all know that Catholics were on the express way to Hell. Follow the link to Stripper's Guide for more art and the whole skinny.

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From "Is Tex Cobb The Real Contender?", one of the truly great quotes of my lifetime:“Don King is one of the great humanitarians of our time. He has risen above that great term prejudice. He has screwed everybody he has ever been around. Hog, dog or frog, it don’t matter to Don. If you got a quarter, he wants the first twenty-six cents.”

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For an old Dashiell Hammett fan - or, indeed, any literate person - there can be few things so perversely enjoyable as rehashing the petty series of gestures that formed the odious accompaniment to Lillian Hellman's career. Bookslut points us to a really, really worthwhile case in point: the sad, exploitative relationship between Hellman and Dorothy Parker. Here is one memorable moment from the

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(h/t Sullivan)

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Sounds more like a minor shift in tactics, bu t we'll see.After years of suing thousands of people for allegedly stealing music via the Internet, the recording industry is set to drop its legal assault as it searches for more effective ways to combat online music piracy.The decision represents an abrupt shift of strategy for the industry, which has opened legal proceedings against about 35,000

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As any lawyer or, hopefully, any judge can tell you, the DSM is a a complete and utter fraud:It helps doctors make a diagnosis and provides insurance companies with diagnostic codes without which the insurers will not reimburse patients’ claims for treatment. That is the entire rationale behind the continuing vitality of the DSM. Any other use of the DSM as authority is completely inoperative.Is

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This idiot has a point:What have the lefty blogs done? Ask Sen. Ned Lamont.They haven’t stopped the war. They haven’t gotten one piece of legislation worth a spit signed into law. A $7.25 an hour minimum wage? McDonald’s pays $8 to start in West Virginia.They take credit for getting a Democratic Congress. Mark Foley may disagree. But they have become prima donnas. It is comical to watch Reid and

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it is a painful situation.OKLAHOMA CITY — A Tulsa lawmaker said Tuesday he will file legislation to repeal the sales tax on the purchase of guns or ammunition in Oklahoma."As Americans, we should not have to pay a tax to exercise our constitutional rights — especially our Second Amendment rights," said Rep. Eric Proctor, D-Tulsa.The measure, by Proctor and state Sen. Kenneth Corn, D-Howe,

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The WSJ story annoyed me so much that I broke a cardinal rule and vented about it on C-Span's Washington Journal (humiliating, I know). Lessig has been spluttering about it for two days now, which is understandable as he was quoted as one of the "sources" for the article. Fred Benenson wraps up the problem with the article pretty tersely: WSJ’s technology writers are either vastly under-skilled

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Pretty good bloggingheads discussion on the topic of eliminating the status of marriage that I mentioned a few posts back.

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I don't like too many of George Will's columns but on one occasion he go it just right when he discussed what an aging pitcher brings to the mound when their arm is going. He said when the pitcher has nothing left to throw, they "throw their heart".Typical sentimental baseball bullshit. But consider The Aging Fleetwoods singing perhaps the most beautiful song in the long history of Rock:

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It works off keywords, y' unnerstan'. So if I write about my opposition to gay marriage, I get bridal ads.I guess the Archie/Sex-Fiend angle coupled with the constant posts about home-brewing broke the bank, though, 'cuz now I'm generating ad content geared toward drug rehab.Congratulations Google! I don't feel so alone now.

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McCain unsure if he'd support Palin for president.

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(lifted from Boing Boing)

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Apparantly constitutionally incapable of recommending an affordable item, The NY Times useless style writers recommend a Timex "J. Crew" watch for the low,low price of $150.00.Guys, it's a fucking Timex. While I am impressed that the Times was able to find a Timex watch that costs that much, it does seem a little out of step with our economic moment. Try the army surplus for a better watch and

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I would marry her in a second except that 1) the fact that I am a democrat might be a deal-breaker and 2) I think she would kill me. Plus, just as I don't eat dolphins, I never date women that I suspect might be smarter or cooler than I am (yes, that reduces the pool a bit). Oh, also I hate the term "post-modern" which she appears to dig.But, other than all of that, she is The Nazz. Just in the

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A stray comment over at Batesline has put me in the mood to listen to a bunch of the old Texas Playboy recordings from their heyday (1935-1945, say). And, since I live right next door to the old transmitter tower, I had to ruminate a bit about the impact of KV00, the "Voice of Oklahoma". Between cable TV and the intertubes, it is probably easy for us to forget that how profoundly local the

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John Dunning puts things in perspective:John got a GED certificate from the state of South Carolina in the early 1960s. "Historically, it's an interesting document---not because it's mine but because it states that I am the equivalent of the average white high school grad in the state. Now if that's not an official admission that those old 'separate-but-equal' doctrines never worked, what is?"

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In re the little dustup between Andrew Sullivan and Camille Paglia on the topic of gay marriage I must say that I find that Paglia has far the better argument when she says "....government should get out of the marriage business. Marriage is a religious concept that should be defined and administered only by churches." By way of replying, Sullivan says:his is a very strange reading of Catholic

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Psst! Anyone wanna see Terry Teachout humiliate Patrick Appel?Thought so.

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As just about anyone will have noticed, I am a stone-cold freak when it comes to the pulp magazines of the first half of the 20th century. So I was quite pleased to see that the Triad toy company has announced a licensing agreement with Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. in order to produce a line of toys around his wonderful Mars novels. If it weren't for those books I would never have read War And

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Very entertaining article in the New Statesman on the ominous handwriting on the wall for the lowly session musician. Every classical snob....or pop music snob, for that matter....ought to be beaten over the head with information like this:The public knew what it liked - and that was easy listening in the shape of plenty of variety, good tunes, regular rhythms, and pieces that were not too long

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Thatcherite Pop Icon says:Barack Obama Is In – Yippee, now we have got hope in the World. I’ve just turned 60, Obama is the new president of the USA and I think its going to be a fantastic yeah. Love Lu XWho knew? No Sidney Poitier jokes, please.

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RIP 4e.The Ackermonster is dead. It leaves me with the same sensation of grief I experienced when, as a little kid, I found of the deaths of Walt Disney and Boris Karloff.My Father introduced him to me once,back when I was 15. I couldn't have been more surprised or delighted had Dad introduced me to Spider-man or Santa Claus.God Bless FJA, and God Bless my whole extended Famous Monsters family.

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While I neglected to mention the Feast of St. Nicholas the other day, I certainly can't fail to celebrate the Feast Day Of The Repeal Of Prohibition. Cheers!

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This time, it's personal.As you may or may not know, Sullivan and I used to be friends. We sparred over various issues online and joined forces on others. And then we would occassionally have drinks and compare notes. I think your points are all valid, but they ignore the simple fact that Sullivan's tactics of debate have often been, and have become steadily more, dishonorable ("nearest weapon to

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Odd how unexpectedly one can be reminded. From X-Men #189(1985):

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K-Lo gets terrifying:Tonight I was over at the vice president's house for one of their holiday parties. It was like a gathering of old friends — friends who likely won't see the inside of the naval observatory for a bit. Cheney aides like David Addington. Conservative Hill aides. Bill Bennett ... Karl Rove.And that's the picture I want for my Facebook page: Karl Rove with Dick Cheney; Karl was

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I was a dreadfully mediocre law student so perhaps it was just one of the many things that I neglected but I don't recall ever hearing the word "emoluments" However, it would seem that the "emoluments clause" of Article I of the Constitution has suddenly, like the zombie from an old George Romero flick, sprung to ugly life.Amazingly, Professor Volokh has found one of the happy few - JAG Corps

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Mark Kleiman at RBC:Hank Paulson seems to have decided that the right response to a situation in which cheap credit pushed housing prices way too high compared to either rents or incomes, leading to over-investment in housing and then a fall in housing prices which then put lots of homeowners under water and threatened the solvency of the financial system is ... wait for it ... to offer cheap

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Holiday dining takes a rather disturbing turn over at PHDiva.The most important thing is to put the piece of lamb on a firm counter and 'christen' it - for example I might have called mine Edward. Take a sharp knife, holding it firmly vertically with the tip down. Raise your hand and stab Edward repeatedly, whilst pretending the meat is the lyin' cheatin' bastard in question. Think: shower scene

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