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Saturday, Jan 10, 2004

garbage in, garbage out

"Waste Management of Arizona's Painted Desert Landfill, near Holbrook, was transformed into Mars for a NASA test site in 2002, says Vince Murphy, a company official."

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and theyre off

this war wasnt about wmds, it was about the freedom to gamble. but dont we call it "gaming" in america, now? those iraqis, when will they every learn. such a backwards people, not even one reputable pr firm in the whole country. and remember, you dont have to eat the losing horses anymore, thats what the mcdonalds are for.

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chill out

pretty chilly on this side of my apartment. last time i checked the thermometer said 56. once it gets below 20 outside, my windows basically stop trying. and the radiator is only marginally better. currently 7 degrees for those of you keeping score at home.

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fools on the hill

ethel passes along a very potent "what liberal media" anecdote.

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Friday, Jan 09, 2004

dean is to truman as...

"Doing without historical analogy would be like trying to do without metaphor--and in some ways, it would also be like doing without the empirical substance of informed policy making. We can only predict what might happen by thinking about what has happened: it is the only data we have."

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dear penthouse nation forum,

"Over the years I have read with avidity various intellectual disputes in The New York Review of Books and other literary journals. But I have never imagined myself being a part of one of them. However, I found Eric Alterman's December 15 "Stop the Presses" column on my recent film, The Fog of War, so devoid of historical scholarship (despite his claim of having worked on his PhD for eleven years) that I feel compelled to respond."

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moon unit zapper

"In the days to come, any administration official who says that a Moon base could support a Mars mission is revealing himself or herself to be a total science illiterate. When you hear, "A Moon base could support a Mars mission," substitute the words, "I have absolutely no idea what I am talking about."

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the ultimate aphrodisiac

ill have to agree with low culture. this picture of dick cheney is creepy. im sure its just the type of gaze that gives lynne a woody before she rummages around under the bed for her "toys." or maybe its just a result of the viagra dispensers bob dole had installed in the senate chambers. if only they had a pill to stiffen spines as well.

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immaterial girl

"Our greatest risk is a lack of leadership, a lack of honesty and a complete lack of consciousness."

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dinner for two

bloggies v. koufax nominations.

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free acid paper

"These 9 drawings were done by an artist under the influence of LSD -- part of a test conducted by the US government during it's dalliance with psychotomimetic drugs in the late 1950's."

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