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Monday, May 12, 2003

unsettlements

"Settlers know they could be caught in the diplomatic crossfire if post-war America loses its patience with Mideast squabbling. In fact, never before have settlers and their rightist allies worked harder to put their case at center stage in a bid to cement past and present gains and keep from becoming what they fear most: the price that America and the Palestinians will exact for progress toward a return to a viable peace process."

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peacrock

"NEW YORK, May 12 (UPI) -- NBC announced a fall 2003 line-up in New York Monday that includes new shows starring Whoopi Goldberg, Alicia Silverstone and John Larroquette.

The new lineup -- announced at the Metropolitan Opera House -- will also feature such stars as Christine Baranski, James Caan, Rob Lowe and Ryan O'Neal. The network revealed its plans for the upcoming prime time season at the "upfronts" -- the annual meetings with advertisers at which the major networks announce their programming schedules and pre-sell as much advertising time as they can."

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drugdeal

OTTAWA— The federal government has backed off plans to make pot possession a mere ticketing offence, the Star has learned.

Instead, sources say the Liberal government will keep simple possession of marijuana on the books as a criminal offence under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.

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matchmaker

heres a couple new blogs ive found through that blasted matcher machine.

incoming signals
dj martian

and one more trolling about -- doublethink.

also, the sixth rectangle on the left (not including the purple square at the top but i didnt need to tell you that) has all new links, although ive linked to many before. you all can read shorthand, non?


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our daily dread

in the land of reciprocity, i shine a light on thee.

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Saturday, May 10, 2003

babbling brook

brookings review: spring 2003

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throw down

"NBC plans to air an entire installment of its "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" in stop-motion clay animation for next Thursday's broadcast of the show, the network said on Friday."

via technorati's breaking news


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neo's matrix

"Strauss also emphasized that one of the great errors of modernity was the faith that human beings could, through an assertion of will, overcome nature and fortune; Strauss, while far from existentialism in most ways, shared in its insistence on human limitation. Strauss might therefore believe that the war on Iraq was morally justified – and I doubt he’d have had that much patience for talk of the legal authority of the UN – and the term ‘regime change’ might have been music to his ears, with it’s invocation of classical theories concerning the nature of regimes. However, I think Strauss would’ve been rather more cautious than some contemporary neo-con publicists. But this is, perhaps, the difference between a philosopher, and intellectuals or would-be statesmen."

via matt yglesias


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Friday, May 09, 2003

bloogle call

"Google is to create a search tool specifically for weblogs, most likely giving material generated by the self-publishing tools its own tab."

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getting defensive

may have linked to this carlyle group page before but i just saw this book about them so........

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