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Monthly Archives: March 2008

Hillary and Obama on mercenaries

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Hillary Clinton recently announced that, if elected, she would “ask the Joint Chiefs for their help in reducing reliance on armed private military contractors with the goal of ultimately implementing a ban on such contractors,”. When this first came across my RSS reader I thought it was great and intended to give Hillary credit for […]

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Another round lost to the crazies

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Across the left side of the blogosphere, tempers are running high. Supporters of each candidate are damning the other, and threatening to withhold their votes should the other side prevail. In the heat of the moment we forget that the difference between them is slight, and that a McCain victory may seal the fate of […]

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Who would have thought it

Monday, March 17, 2008

From the LA Times: Freelance financial watchdogs who examined the paperwork on sub-prime home loans being sold to Wall Street had an inside view of the boom in easy-money lending this decade. The reviewers say they raised plenty of red flags about flaws so serious that mortgages should have been rejected outright — such as […]

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Reality intrudes, but who cares?

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Sometimes it seems that we inhabit parallel worlds, in one and the same time and place. There is the “real” world, in which actual things happen, and a virtual world, in which we all pretend to believe in various fantasies. The real world intrudes big time into the front page of the New York Times […]

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Just for fun

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Pictures made entirely from food. (As always, you can get bigger views by clicking on an image).

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The Cassandra Effect

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Paul Krugman has a blog, and today he takes note of a phenomenon that is, unfortunately, not confined to economic prognostication: Dean Baker is mad at Robert Rubin for suggesting that “few, if any” people saw the financial meltdown coming. I’d say that there are two levels to this. First, a lot of people — […]

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Free John Stewart!

Saturday, March 15, 2008

I have mentioned before that I watch very little TV. I tape the Daily Show and Colbert on my computer, edit out the commercials, and my wife and I watch it. That’s pretty much the extent of our TV viewing. Since I don’t watch the commercials I guess I have no standing to complain, but […]

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Thanking John Wheeler and Dee Harrell

Friday, March 14, 2008

I’ve added a link at the side to a page with a few pictures taken at the Appreciation Dinner we had tonight for Dee Harrell and John Wheeler. A good time was had by all, and there aren’t two people in the party who deserved the recognition more.

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Friday Night Music-Chuck Berry

Friday, March 14, 2008

Johnny B. Goode, introduced by Trini Lopez I believe. Check out those girls dancing in cages. Definitely a period piece. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0YUA3yTUss[/youtube]

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Joe Courtney does right on FISA

Friday, March 14, 2008

Joe Courtney has been sticking to his guns on the FISA bill, despite the Republican attempts to tar him with their scurrilous ads. This was posted on Kos, but since I know some of my readers don’t frequent many blogs, I’m reposting it here: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_nrZ8cg0bY[/youtube] It’s nice to be able to take pride in your […]

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