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Friday, Jan 25, 2002

stroke me, stroke me

hillary clinton gets one/two stroke pieces in the major dailies this week. coincidence?

white out

"What's it like to change your race? Here, Daniel de Gannes, a black hairdresser, reflects on swapping his skin colour - and marching with the National Front as a white man - for a BBC documentary on how race affects our feelings and attitudes."

krug errant

"You might think that the shock of the Enron scandal � and it is shocking, even to us hardened cynics � would make some conservatives reconsider their beliefs. But the die- hards prefer to sling muck at liberals, hoping it will stick.
Sorry, guys; I'm clean. The muck stops here."

Thursday, Jan 24, 2002

also known as

"Following in 71 Clinton�s Footsteps, Aka is A-O.K."

a taxing situation

"If the politics of the issue no longer crudely favors Republicans, it may be for a straightforward reason: Democrats have changed. Well into the 1980s, it was not a grotesque distortion to accuse the party of wanting to "tax and spend." Many Democrats frankly advocated higher taxes to pay for a substantially larger federal government than most Republicans wanted. But during the Clinton years, Democrats shifted to become the party of fiscal responsibility. Today, the essential difference between Democrats and Republicans on fiscal matters lies not in how big the federal government should be�the 2002 budget bills Bush signed increased spending 13 percent and early indications are that his 2003 budget will ask for more huge increases. The main difference is that Democrats want to pay for all the government they want, while Republicans don't."

you spin me round

"The political equivalent of Ken Lay would be a politician who insisted he was going to win the election even though all the polls showed him heading for near-certain defeat. In the political world, though, spin is not merely tolerated: It is required. It is regarded as a basic test of competence."

now its my turn

no speeka da langwidge

splitter

"A fresh outbreak of fighting between Northern Alliance factions highlights the continued ineffectiveness of Afghanistan's central government. Warlords who have a stake in the government are only behaving long enough to receive international aid while those outside the government are motivated to cause its collapse."

moana lisa

"American soldiers in the Philippines will be encouraged to go on tours of museums instead of touring local brothels."

Wednesday, Jan 23, 2002

no kidding

"The Langley Schools Music Project is a 60-voice chorus of rural school children from western Canada, untrained but captivated by melodic magic, singing tunes by the Beach Boys, Paul McCartney, David Bowie, The Bay City Rollers, and others (in 1976). The students accompany themselves with the shimmering gamelan chimes of Orff percussion, and elemental rock trimmings arranged by their itinerant music teacher, Hans.Fenger."

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