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Monthly Archives: April 2008

Pro se divorce in Yemen

Sunday, April 13, 2008

I thought I was done for the day, then I ran into this (via Pharyngula), and had to pass it on: SANA’A, April 9 – An eight-year-old girl decided last week to go the Sana’a West Court to prosecute her father, who forced her to marry a 30-year-old man. Nojoud Muhammed Nasser arrived at court […]

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I’m not writing about Hillary

Sunday, April 13, 2008

I am not a good enough writer to express the outrage I feel as Hillary Clinton attempts to insure a McCain victory in the fall. The Democrats are notoriously undisciplined, but no one has undermined a competitor in this fashion since Humphrey did a similar sort of number on McGovern in 1972. McGovern probably would […]

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Sullivan trashes Simmons (implicitly in any event)

Friday, April 11, 2008

wtfdnucsailor (who I assume is from Waterford) reports at Connecticut Local Politics that my friend Sean Sullivan has attacked Joe Courtney, who has been in Congress a little over a year, because we are not currently building two subs a year in Groton. As the sailor from Waterford points out: I am not sure what […]

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Friday Night Music-REM

Friday, April 11, 2008

I’m too impressionable. These guys were on Colbert last week, so I figured next chance I got, I’d put them up. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_XFMCgeI7c&feature=related[/youtube]

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What we’re up against, part 2 of …

Friday, April 11, 2008

This is the most absurd anti-Democrat spin I’ve heard of to date: Now they’re making up weird new rules as they go along. Here’s the money quote from the video: And it’s just one of those sort of weird things. You know, when the owner of the diner says, “Here, have some coffee,” you say, […]

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Good eating at my alma mater

Thursday, April 10, 2008

The New York Times published two articles recently about the quality of the cuisine at my Alma Mater, Bowdoin College in Bruswick, ME. We alums have always known that Bowdoin was the best school in the country, but it has not always had the best food. Now it is at the top of both heaps. […]

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Garry Wills on Lincoln and Obama

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Garry Wills is one of my favorite writers. In the most recent New York Review of Books he makes the case that the best comparison to Obama’s recent speech on race is to Lincoln’s Cooper Union Speech, not to JFK’s speech on religion or FDR’s First Inaugural. Wills points out that both men faced similar […]

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Jodi-out of the loop

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Only Jodi Rell, rumored to be the most popular governor in the nation, could get away with criticizing herself. Two days ago, the Democrats complained that they’d been kept in the dark about the rising cost of a railroad maintenance facility in New Haven. This seems fair on their part. It was, after all, officials […]

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New Moveon Video

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suNqiAgE1kw[/youtube]

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Revising and expanding my remarks

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Yesterday I mentioned that McCain might find it easier still to get away with the lies that he tells about Iraq if he could keep some basic stuff, like the difference between Shiite and Sunni straight. He put his ignorance on display when he confused Sunni and Shiite yet again in his questions to Bush’s […]

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