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Daily Archives: May 23rd, 2008

Friday Night Music: Life in the Bush of Ghosts

Friday, May 23, 2008

Things have been a bit slow at work lately. As I cruised the net during some down time I came across David Byrne’s blog, from which I followed a few links and discovered that My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, an album he did paired with Brian Eno, is now available in a remastered […]

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Full disclosure, McCain style

Friday, May 23, 2008

John McCain released his health records to a selected group of reporters today. Well, he didn’t exactly release them. He gave them three hours to review 1,173 pages of medical records, which they weren’t allowed to copy. If you do the math, that means they had to review six and a half pages a minute, […]

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McCain to telecoms: Five Hail Mary’s and a sincere Act of Contrition

Friday, May 23, 2008

A McCain spokesman says his man is against giving the telecoms immunity, until, that is, they express “heartfelt repentance”. As president, presumptive Republican nominee John McCain would not support immunity for the telecoms that aided the Bush administration’s warrantless spying program, unless there were revealing Congressional hearings and heartfelt repentance from those telephone and internet […]

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