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Daily Archives: March 1st, 2013

Friday Night Music, Twin Bill

Friday, March 1, 2013

Okay, these videos have almost nothing in common, except that they’re both from the dim and distant past, and there’s a bit of religion in both of them. I had to pass this along because it blew me away when I saw it on the Washington Monthly’s “Political Animal” blog. This is sister Rosetta Tharpe, […]

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I want in

Friday, March 1, 2013

Looks like I picked the wrong line of blogging: A range of mainstream American publications printed paid propaganda for the government of Malaysia, much of it focused on the campaign against a pro-democracy figure there. The payments to conservative American opinion writers — whose work appeared in outlets from the Huffington Post and San Francisco […]

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Modern Times

Friday, March 1, 2013

I confess I haven’t followed the Bradley Manning story as perhaps I should. But I was struck by his account of his attempts to get the dirt he had on the government into the mainstream: At my aunt’s house I debated what I should do with the SigActs [war logs]– in particular whether I should […]

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Mixed emotions

Friday, March 1, 2013

Today is a landmark day for me, and not because the nation has started the process of slow motion economic suicide. No, this is personal to me, for today I have lost a bet, something about which I have mixed emotions. Many months ago I bet a friend who shall remain nameless (but not totally […]

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