Thursday, October 11, 2007

The Last Word on the Unswept Floor

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Time Magazine : "My son Graeme has helped put on a human face, that of a young boy, representing the needs of children and families acr...
Wednesday, October 10, 2007

The Unswept Floor

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Well, that stirred things up a bit. I return to the topic one last time only to underline that I meant no disrespect nor disagreement with...
Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Blogistan's Controversy du jour

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Atrios has covered the controversy three times in two days . He got it from Whiskey Fire , where Thers is still debating those who would...
Friday, October 05, 2007

My Vacation at the Reichenbach Falls

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Which makes more sense if you know that one of Dom Crossan's early books on parables was Cliffs of Fall . But even then, it's not m...
Thursday, October 04, 2007

Jon Stewart made me do it

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I was going to quit. I really, really was. But then a lot of things happened, and I started to reconsider. The truth is, your comments ma...
Wednesday, September 26, 2007

HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME!

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I started this blog as an outlet, a way to say a few things I could no longer say because I no longer had a pulpit to say anything from. Whi...
Tuesday, September 25, 2007

The Demise of Public Discourse-Part II

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(edited since first posting; in case you noticed and/or were wondering) I'd almost forgotten about this : The Internal Revenue Service h...
Monday, September 24, 2007

The Demise of Public Discourse

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I know I'm picking other people's bones this morning, but Ezra Klein neatly selects the relevant portion of the "60 Minutes...

Just for the record

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This is not due process; this is merely the appearance of due process: “Each individual so arrested was brought immediately before a federa...

Check the Kerning! or, The Irony: It burns, it burns!

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Marty Kaplan is right; almost. Yes, I fully appreciate the corrective power of the netroots, and the imperative to challenge propaganda, an...
Friday, September 21, 2007

The View from Canada

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Or what might as well be another world : But watching Gen. Petraeus, I was struck by how familiar his words sounded. The general talked lik...
Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Aarggh! Shiver me timbers!

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This blog be taken over today, and ye'll all be keel-hauled afore the sun sets over the yardarm! My pirate name is: Mad ...
Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Just pointing out....

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When law school graduates naively think juries and clients and seasoned practitioners will be impressed with their law school grades, realit...

Harry Potter and the Gift of Death

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A rough draft. I have other things I need to be doing this morning. I love, of course, the big, swirly stuff, so I latched onto this recent...
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Saturday, September 15, 2007

Shock the Monkey

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Naomi Klein, via Jane Smiley , makes some interesting points about 20th century history in the Americas. This kind of thing has been docume...
Thursday, September 13, 2007

Being and Nothingness and Time and the Gift of Death and Quidditch

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While you are waiting for me to finish my magnum opus , the post on Harry Potter and Jacques Derrida and why the Golden Snitch is a symbol o...
Tuesday, September 11, 2007

"It's the government of nothing."

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One of my pet peeves is the idea that there is a "government" in Iraq, because there were elections, and because the US has offici...
Monday, September 10, 2007

Freedom for Me, but not for Thee

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NPR this morning noted that, in the case of the "Lackawana 6," Dick Cheney personally prevailed upon Louis Freeh to make arrests ...
Thursday, September 06, 2007

In God We Doubt

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Well, after I thank Grandmere Mimi for the link, I'm going to have to look around for a copy of this , John Humphrys new book In God We ...