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Tuesday, Sep 07, 2004

hotel chienne

hey there, barbie girl....ouch.

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go to the remote

always odd to see a name that is too familiar to go unnoticed. one of this weblogs proprietors lived on my floor one year in college. my only recollection of him is that he won a trip to jamaica on mtv's first gameshow, Remote Control -- think oversized chairs, college sweatshirts and Van Halen videos. the only reason i remember this, at all, is that i, too, was selected to be on the show, but was unable to because i had a final exam on the day they wanted me to be in new york for the taping. that i didnt think to ask if other days were available is surely one of my lesser failures of imagination. i can at least take solace in the knowledge that ive avoided years of acknowledging that i had actually met colin quinn. but sadly i cant deny that this cd was worn out while this had yet to breach the perimeters of my perceptions.

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clip job

"Whoa...so Roger Simon is also a liberal lefty academic writing sarcasm?

Any chance Instapundit and Little Green Footballs have been doing likewise?

Posted by: PZ Myers on Sep 07, 04 | 1:23 am

I think it's all up for grabs now, PZ. And if I can put in a plug for my day job, I just want to point out that this is one of the reasons deconstruction caught on among us literary types 25-30 years ago-- because the relationships among "originals," "imitations," and "parodies" really are this damn complicated.

Posted by: Michael on Sep 07, 04 | 1:25 am

I thought Roger Simon was the last honest Democrat?

Posted by: Atrios on Sep 07, 04 | 1:57 am"

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competency test

"The voting public long ago lost most of its faith in Bush; to reinforce that loss of faith it is necessary to tell a story about the Bush presidency, one that rings true, makes sense, and gives people an explanation for their personal and economic anxiety. The basic premise of that story must involve a failure of leadership, and that failure is a story of incompetence."

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Monday, Sep 06, 2004

moon lighting

"If House Speaker Dennis Hastert is really concerned about drug profits being laundered into the U.S. political process, he would not be sliming billionaire financier George Soros with that suspicion. Hastert would be looking at a principal conservative funder: South Korean theocrat Sun Myung Moon."

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for the love of god power

the ny times biases are showing yet again. michael ledeen, youve got to be kidding. why not just ask chalabi, i hear he's quite reputable.

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igypt

"ABC Australia - Legend has it that European Gypsies came from Egypt but a new genetic study has shown they came from a small population that emerged from ancestors in India around 1000 years ago."

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Sunday, Sep 05, 2004

fak chekka

"But ascertaining the truth is the responsibility of every journalist in every story. It's the first point in the Society of Professional Journalists' code of ethics: "Journalists should test the accuracy of information from all sources." It's the ubiquitous reports that analyze the aesthetics of oratory and speculate on the impact speeches will have on the horserace that ought to be the exception."

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stool sample

mydd on sampling errors from the newsweek poll.

also, electoral-vote.com has some other recent polling numbers which are less inflammatory.

and check out mydds presidential outlook numbers.


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power of positive thinking

looking forward to the upcoming book tours.

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