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Tuesday, Feb 04, 2003

the borges

"To talk closely to Jorge Luis Borges is to track him through a labyrinth of his pasts experiences and attitudes, and the walls that one encounters in the search might be painted in unexpected ways. These may furnish clues or merely diversions in the pursuit, but to understand Borges at least partially is to realize that these clues and diversions are the Borges. We must not expect to find Borges the same each time. There is not one Borges, but many."

"This is the Jorge Luis Borges whom the Artful Dodge encountered on April 25, 1980."

dean dome

howard dean supporters blog

Saturday, Feb 01, 2003

fag hags

"A once unthinkable change is coming to one of the social hubs of Ireland: The pub is going smoke free."

"Bowing to health concerns, the government said Thursday that it will ban smoking from all workplaces including pubs, where a pint and a cigarette have long gone hand in hand."

l ementary

"The agency is aggressively trying to shake that antique image. By 2005, after some delays, Mr. Reuter said, it expects to have the entire L line refitted so that its new trains can be operated automatically, by radio signals sent by a distant computer, much like the Meteor driverless subway line in Paris. (For the foreseeable future, a train operator will ride aboard the trains in case of problems. The L line will serve as a kind of pilot project for automating other lines, which are much more complicated.)"

Friday, Jan 31, 2003

break it down

nice state of the union recap at liberal oasis.

philerupt

"In December, I will travel to Iraq and stand with her people against the threat of a United States military attack. As a member of the Iraq Peace Team, I will work with Iraqi mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, students, writers, painters, unemployed government officials, the poor, the homeless, the sick, musicians, shopkeepers, hustlers, and poets to spread the word about the devastating effects the sanctions have brought to Iraq and the further turmoil a military campaign will bring to the Iraqi people."

blowhole

"Let�s take a hard look today at the actual nature of fascism, by way of understanding not just who really fits the description in today's world, but how much danger to the nation in the post-9/11 environment they actually represent."

cowpoke

i have so much to learn about art.

Thursday, Jan 30, 2003

bar none

as everyone knows, i am a social butterfly. or maybe thats sociopathic. but who could miss out on this event. well, me for one.

jim, how long has it been since you went bowling for bloggers?

rush to judgement

bloggers take another scalp as a drive to press advertisers away from rush limbaugh actually has some impact. nothing those corporations hate more than bad press. well, at least some of them.

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