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Wednesday, Jan 07, 2004

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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Tuesday, Jan 06, 2004

post pattern

i usually dont bother with this type of toxic thinking but i couldnt pass this one up. its nice to see the pro-dean algorithmically challenged "sponsored" links subverting the text of the op-ed.

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auletta time

"The New Yorker's media writer comes out with a new book and talks to mb about the business, his articles, and learning to talk to the bosses."

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signal corps

finalists in moveons ad contest.

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commie as you are

commie rag commie symp commie nest

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traded winded

(un)fortunately im not smart enough not to overrate myself or come up with game theory conundrums.

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