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Tuesday, Sep 28, 2004

guarding the line

quite a week for mr moulitsas. first fluff then kerfuffle, now a byline in the guardian. the road to flame wars and fortune hunters is paved with blogs.

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sail or moon

well, my friend who once claimed he was the worlds second best driver has driven his family off a cliff, figuratively speaking. actually it was his soon to be ex-wife that cut the brakeline. had he been buckled in im sure everything would be fine, but he had to go think his marriage was indestructable and got reckless. sorry mostly for the kids, theyre the ones that will suffer the worst of the whiplash. those headrests dont give much support.

but theres a happy ending to this brief tale, at least for me. in exchange for the wife and two kids, my friend has put a down payment on a 46' sailboat to be moored in saint johns. so it wont be long now before i have harrowing tales of the coast guard fishing us out of the drink (im so nautical) somewhere between virgin gorda and dominica. my timbers are already ashiver.

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Monday, Sep 27, 2004

one small leap for blogkind

kos and mydd launch blogpac.

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mark your star charts

finally some important news - conan to succeed leno in 2009.

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piece out

naomi klein piece about the politicization of coalition provisional authority.

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whine and deign

billmon frets about the commercialization of blogs on the la times op-ed page. what a short strange trip its been.

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Saturday, Sep 25, 2004

blog on the run

fear and laptops on the campaign trail

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face down

two-faced meme is top down from the dnc. does that make certain members of the blogosphere officially sanctioned propagandists, or was there a confluence of interests and attitudes that encouraged its rapid proliferation?

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Friday, Sep 24, 2004

may contain sports-like substance

for my legions of sports-challenged readers, heres one of many stories about seattle mariners rightfielder ichiro suzukis efforts to break the single season hit record set by george sisler in 1920. he needs ten to tie with ten games to play.

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have you seen my hoodie?

"What we know as "the Abu Ghraib scandal" has in fact become an increasingly complex story about how Americans in Afghanistan and Cuba and Iraq came to commit acts, with the apparent approval of the highest officials, that clearly constitute torture. The images themselves, however, having helped force open the door to broader questions of how the Bush administration has treated prisoners in the War on Terror, are now helping as well to block that door; for the images, by virtue of their inherent grotesque power, strongly encourage the view that "acts of brutality and purposeless sadism," which clearly did occur, lay at the heart of Abu Ghraib. Even public officials charged with investigating the scandal—these are the fourth and fifth full reports on the matter, with at least four more to come—at the same time seek to contain it by promoting the view that Abu Ghraib in its essence was about individual misbehavior and sadism: "Animal House on the night shift," as former secretary of defense James Schlesinger characterized it, even as his own report showed in detail that it was a great deal more."

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