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Tuesday, Jan 20, 2004
registering imperceptions
anybody have any thoughts on iowa? im wondering why kucinichs people threw their support to edwards. i think dean and gephardt had "gone negative" in ads against the either so gephardts people going to edwards or kerry makes sense. but one would think that kucinich and dean would have more in common. the link heads to billmons latest. he still has a ready supply of kool aid.
...and ill set you free
the final list of nominees for the 2004 bloggies are up. looks uninteresting as usual. maybe dmtree needs to create its own awards so other people can say our taste in blogs is shit. (add category listings in comments) anybody have a name for the awards? The Golden Bough? Bow? The Bow Wows?
keepin' it surreal
the iowa caucus results might seem surreal but for the real fake deal one must turn on the tv and watch the wbs The Surreal Life. i wouldnt bother to even mention the show except for the presence of pornstar ron jeremy. how is it again that pornstars have almost crept up the ladder of legitimacy in the eyes of corporate america. obviously the answer is money as the companies that control the info pipelines make fat bank from porn-per-view. and as a result we now see pornstar exploits inching into the mainstream, into realm of sanctified celebrity culture.
oh yeah. it turns out ron jeremy is the most articulate person on the show. im not sure of what that is an indictment but someone assuredly should be put away for it.
Monday, Jan 19, 2004
workingmens blues
“The refuse of the rich man's kitchen is carefully stored by the cook, and sold to dealers in ‘second-hand’ food, who in turn retail it to the poor.” Excerpted. Originally from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol. 74, iss. 442, April, 1887. By Lee Meriwether.
diamond mind
clever stunt. clark is auctioning off his infamous argyle sweater for charity. the bidding on ebay is up above $5000.
remember me?
"The Guardian reports that Britain's Katherine Gunn may face two years in prison for whistleblowing on American dirty tricks at the United Nations. She made public a memo that reveals US intentions to spy on the UN delegations of the six "swing vote" nations in the run-up to a vote on the Iraq war."
Sunday, Jan 18, 2004
shed his grace
"(AP) The federal government is planning to overhaul its employee drug testing program to include scrutiny of workers' hair, saliva and sweat, a shift that could spur more businesses to revise screening for millions of their own workers."
swingers
"There is a widespread misperception that the course of a presidential campaign flows directly from the candidate's persona. Naturally, a Howard Dean campaign would differ in style and atmospherics from one featuring Wesley Clark or John Kerry or Richard Gephardt. But with so little room to maneuver, the Democratic formula for victory will depend less than ever on the identity of the nominee. Instead it will be dictated by geographic and demographic necessity—how best to cobble together the necessary 270 electoral votes. The candidate must carry a sufficient number of swing states, and success in each one will depend on highly specific combinations of constituencies and issues—many of which can already be identified. In other words, just as the genetic blueprint for human beings and chimpanzees is 95 percent identical, the campaign blueprint for the Democratic candidates will be nearly the same, regardless of which becomes the party's nominee."
ken e bunksport
another article by ken pollack. this time for his peeps at the council on foreign relations.
Friday, Jan 16, 2004
mcgruff
"Jan. 16, 2004 | LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Howard Dean received significantly more criticism on network newscasts than the other Democratic presidential contenders, who were the subjects of more favorable coverage, according to a study released Thursday"via campaigndesk