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Monthly Archives: May 2008

Deliver us from (NY Times sanctioned) Experts

Sunday, May 4, 2008

Today the New York Times celebrates the anniversary of Mission Accomplished by asking nine “experts” how we should proceed in Iraq. Among those experts: Frederick Kagan, L. Paul Bremer, Kenneth M. Pollack and Richard Perle, each of whom has been consistently and disastrously wrong about Iraq from the very start. They are joined by Anne […]

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Friday Night Music, Fats Domino

Friday, May 2, 2008

Okay, so I was looking for Sam Cooke, but there’s slim pickings at youtube for one of the greatest rock/soul pioneers. I try to avoid the videos that just consist of music and still pictures, but that’s pretty much all there is on Sam. At least on that Sam. I also discovered that there is […]

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In case you missed it

Friday, May 2, 2008

Yesterday the Longshoreman’s Union closed the ports of the West Coast to protest the Iraq war. If you’re a Times reader you’d know all about this, if you made your way to page A12. West Coast ports were shut down on Thursday as thousands of longshoremen failed to report for work, part of what their […]

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It’s a holiday!

Thursday, May 1, 2008

For most of the world, it’s May Day. For George Bush, it’s Mission Accomplished Day. For us lawyers, it’s Law Day, a reaction to May Day, no doubt. Herewith, (via Lawyers, Guns and Money) in honor of Law Day, a liberal lawyer’s wet dream, at least the first half of it is: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GG7sj2APpc[/youtube] Being a […]

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