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Thursday, Dec 16, 2004
webb of despair
gary webb has died from an apparent suicide. we can only hope it was not a result of "knowing too much."
Wednesday, Dec 15, 2004
george c gilliard
i am so indifferent to awards that im going to write a post to tell you how indifferent i am. so, whatever you do, make no effort to single me out for distinction. i just buy the soap. thats all i do.
blog collective
why is michael kinsley, editor of the la times op-ed page, guest posting on weblogs? doesnt anyone read your newspaper?
Tuesday, Dec 14, 2004
no loss for words v. googlibrary
""Within two decades, most of the world's knowledge will be digitized and available, one hopes for free reading on the Internet, just as there is free reading in libraries today," said Michael A. Keller, Stanford University's head librarian.
The Google effort and others like it that are already under way, including projects by the Library of Congress to put selections of its best holdings online, are part of a trend to potentially democratize access to information that has long been available to only small, select groups of students and scholars."
will blog for food
"Blogger-Jobs.com has been launched. A colaboration between Jeremy Wright and www.recruiting.com, the site provides a recruitment service that matches employers with bloggers. Blogger-Jobs.com capitalizes on the exponential growth of blogs to place candidates in jobs that are suited to bloggers or are posted by bloggers."
Monday, Dec 13, 2004
say hello to my little friend
other rumored deals have fallen through this baseball offseason but...."WEEI says Pedro has verbally committed to NY METS for 4 Years at $56 mil."
Saturday, Dec 11, 2004
back of the hand
" What we've got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach, so you get what we had here last week which is the way he wants it. Well, he gets it. And I don't like it any more than you men."
it only hurts when i gaffe
ouch.
Friday, Dec 10, 2004
weak need
im glad to see that the new york times has such high standards for their intrepid reporters. i saw bullmillers name on a list of reporters that lynne cheney invited to the vice presidents residence after the 2000 election, at which point i regarded anything she wrote as tainted. little did i know the extent of her whoredom.
"BUMILLER: I think we were very deferential because in the East Room press conference it’s live. It’s very intense. It’s frightening to stand up there. Think about it. You’re standing up on prime-time live TV asking the president of the United States a question when the country’s about to go to war. There was a very serious, somber tone that evening, and no one wanted to get into an argument with the president at this very serious time."
Thursday, Dec 09, 2004
its ok, jesus luvs you
"The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism to mask the cries of the wounded, the senseless killing, war profiteering, and chest-pounding grief. They know the lies the victors often do not acknowledge, the lies covered up in stately war memorials and mythic war narratives, filled with stories of courage and comradeship. They know the lies that permeate the thick, self-important memoirs by amoral statesmen who make wars but do not know war. The vanquished know the essence of war—death. They grasp that war is necrophilia. They see that war is a state of almost pure sin with its goals of hatred and destruction. They know how war fosters alienation, leads inevitably to nihilism, and is a turning away from the sanctity and preservation of life. All other narratives about war too easily fall prey to the allure and seductiveness of violence, as well as the attraction of the godlike power that comes with the license to kill with impunity."
Wednesday, Dec 08, 2004
latke gravitas
"This drove the religiously faithful--the “fundamentalists,” as the Hellenizers would have called them if they had spoken modern American English--to revolt. Pitting Jew against Jew, the resulting civil war was led by the Maccabee brothers, who whupped the forces of “liberal polytheism,” as Green puts it. The conservatives, he continues, “were stronger, and more numerous, and the more passionate in their beliefs: they stood firm in the face of odds, and were prepared to make sacrifices, indeed to die, for what they held most dear.” Shades of the 2004 presidential election? Maybe so. And this conservative victory is what Jews for 2000 years have celebrated at Hanukkah."
Tuesday, Dec 07, 2004
flank stake
anybody keeping up with the leftwing blog smackdown? i knew i needed to be purged, just not ideologically.