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Daily Archives: May 19th, 2007

Russert shows respect

Saturday, May 19, 2007

Thursday I wrote about my fear that I could not reliably recognize irony. Today I learn that I can’t recognize satire, or, even worse, that I confuse sincerity for satire. When I read this post at Hullabaloo I figured that the letter allegedly written by Tim Russert must be satire. Could anyone seriously write a […]

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Getting ready for 2008

Saturday, May 19, 2007

My wife attended a meeting with the Joe Courtney campaign today. It’s an unfortunate fact of life that the next campaign starts the day after election day. Here’s Joe with John Hollay, who works in his Norwich office. John doesn’t know how lucky he is. My wife and I have known him since he was […]

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More Republican hypocrisy

Saturday, May 19, 2007

A few days ago I wrote about Republican hypocrisy, that if you wanted to know what a Republican was doing, just listen to what he condemns. Here’s more proof of a particularly slimy variety. I should add, by the way, that I have stolen all of this from the linked stories, but I think it’s […]

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