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Monthly Archives: February 2009

Indulge Me

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

I mentioned a few days ago that Mr. Infallible (that’s the Pope, for you non-believers) has been playing to his base by rehabilitating Nazi loving clerics, among other things. Well now we learn that he’s bringing back some old traditions, namely, Indulgences. I can still remember trolling through my Missal during Mass, looking at the […]

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Obama Press Conference

Monday, February 9, 2009

How low our expectations have fallen. I thought Obama did great. Nonetheless, I was struck by the number of comments at Americablog about how refreshing it was to see a president speak in well formed sentences, strung together to form coherent thoughts. Don’t get me wrong. It was refreshing. But how sad is it for […]

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Waterboarding the least of it?

Monday, February 9, 2009

This is one of those stories that you have to hope isn’t true, while more or less assuming that it is. Via Firedoglake from the London Daily Telegraph, writing about evidence that the British government has attempted to suppress: A British official, who is regularly briefed on intelligence operations, said: “The concern was that the […]

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Misunderstood

Sunday, February 8, 2009

Those who read the New York Times electronically missed something in today’s print edition: A full page ad “signed” by Wells Fargo President John Stumpf (what a perfect name for the head of a failing bank) bemoaning the mean-spirited public outcry about the Las Vegas junket Wells Fargo was forced to cancel after the aforesaid […]

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First as tragedy, then as farce

Saturday, February 7, 2009

In 1633 the Catholic Church put Galileo Galilei on trial for heresy, for the crime of believing that the earth moved around the sun. Somehow, it had become an article of faith to believe that the earth stood still in the heavens, while the sun and the stars swirled around it. Legend has it that […]

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Friday Night Music-Buddy Holly

Friday, February 6, 2009

A few days ago, February 3rd, was the 50th anniversary of the day the music died, so it seems only fitting that we feature the folks who died that day. Buddy Holly on, of all things, the Arthur Murray Dance Party. The Big Bopper: Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a single video of Richie Valens, (one […]

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What’s an Economy For, Anyway?

Friday, February 6, 2009

Periodically my friend Bob Roth contributes a piece of writing. As they are normally much longer than a typical post, I have usually placed them on a separate page, to be forever enshrined as a link on the upper right hand side of the blog. Recently Bob sent me another, in which I think he […]

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Lieberman again

Friday, February 6, 2009

Joe Lieberman is becoming a parody of himself. The full story is here at the Washington Monthly. Here’s the synopsis. Every time Congress passes a law providing funds for school construction (including universities and colleges) it includes language that is probably constitutionally required: that none of the funds go toward constructing anything that is primarily […]

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Joe being Joe

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Remember how Joe Lieberman told us all that he wanted to help Barack Obama succeed? Take a look at how “our” Senator has been voting on the stimulus amendments. (from Nate Silver): It’s probably best to click on the image and see it full size in another window. A silver lining: Nate says that the […]

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Random notes from Drinking Liberally

Thursday, February 5, 2009

It was cold out tonight, and it was cold at our Drinking Liberally haunt, but we few, we happy few, we band of brothers (and sisters) had a great time. We got a first hand account from one of our brothers about the inauguration. Here he is, a proud bearer of a purple ticket. He […]

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