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Daily Archives: January 22nd, 2008

The choice

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Having trouble making up your mind between Obama and Clinton? Good reading at the New Yorker. Lot’s of arguments, pro and con for each. Food for thought, etc. I’ve decided to vote for Edwards, but I’m still wrestling with the Obama/Clinton choice because it does look like they’ll be the finalists. This article helps, though […]

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Who could ever have predicted?

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

We were cleaning up here at home recently, and I came across an old printout of an article from the Onion, to which I’ve referred before. It brought to mind a recent post about all those folks who keep telling us that nobody could have predicted this or that catastrophe. This article, entitled Bush: ‘Our […]

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Serious news aversion

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

From this morning’s Times: The ousted editor of The Los Angeles Times on Monday offered a scathing critique of the newspaper industry and specifically his longtime employer, the Tribune Company, arguing that cost cuts, a lack of investment and an aversion to serious news was damaging the business. (Emphasis added) Could this be? Could the […]

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