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Thursday, Jan 08, 2004

mcgoverning expectations

"The Democrats see a hobgoblin under the bed, and his name is George McGovern. Low-grade panic is beginning to set in as pundits forecast a repeat of 1972: "As Massachusetts goes, so goes the District of Columbia." The prospect of "another McGovern" whets the appetite of Bush partisans while generating gloom and shame among Democrats. Howard Dean, for one, flees the association, while other candidates tar him with it."

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late night with dave

now be honest, if i got cable, how long do you think it would be before im twitching in front of the tv at 430 in the morning flipping back and forth between fantasy island and jabberjaw? extra credit - how many nearly empty poland spring bottles under the coffee table will i knock over on my way to bed that night?

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save yourself

dont be an asshole...

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Wednesday, Jan 07, 2004

bunny love

someone i know is getting paid three hundred dollars a day to dress up in a big yellow bunny suit costume. the job description said must be approximately six feet tall and not be afraid to jump around in bunny suit. no word yet on whether its for a childrens party or a harveyfetish film.

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gawd bless you

"window-pounding jew disrupts local wedding"

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decomissioned

"It's hard to say which Landis harmed more -- America's National Pastime, or its Common Decency. He was ghoulish even to look at, "a wasted man," wrote John Reed, "with untidy white hair and an emaciated face in which two burning eyes [were] set like jewels, [his] parchment skin split by a crack for a mouth -- the face of Andrew Jackson three years dead.""

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chattle

clark internet chat with bloggers tonight at 5 est. i guess you need this to see it.

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dem bums

new yorker profiles of dean and kerry. kerrys is from the summer of '02 while he was the annointed frontrunner.

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rising son

"If you’re so inclined, you can probably go ahead and tell people you’ve read William Vollmann’s latest, a spry, seven-volume, 3,298-page examination of the ethical justifications for violence. You’ll probably get away with it—unless, that is, you end up talking to someone who was willing to shell out $120 for this unbelievably ambitious work, the aim of which is to "create a simple and practical moral calculus which would make it clear when it was acceptable to kill, how many could be killed and so forth"—an aim Mr. Vollmann admits is "coldblooded enough … but life cannot evade death.""

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opinion urinal

and the brooks op-ed is the same type of shit as in the ny post just prettied up for the ny times. they really should be ashamed to print that.

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