tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33549432011-07-28T22:46:26.395-05:00keeping an eye on the spins and weirdness of media, crime and everyday lifesusanna in alabamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12776620968673501198noreply@blogger.comBlogger8171100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354943.post-5159525243957946862009-12-29T00:00:00.002-06:002009-12-29T00:30:38.140-06:00

I have a love/hate relationship with math and science. I love what they can do, and some elements of them perform very elegantly. But generally my brain does not move in math/science paths, so I struggle to grasp the details. What I do is read books written for people like me: those who want to know some concepts and latest updates, but don't want to have to know any mathematical equations before

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Squirrel is quite the thing in Great Britain:Mr. Henderson, who cooks with both poetry and passion, sometimes prepares his squirrels “to recreate the bosky woods they come from,” braising them with bacon, “pig’s trotter, porcini and whole peeled shallots to recreate the forest floor.” He serves it with wilted watercress “to evoke the treetops.” Other chefs may be less lyrical, but they are no

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President-elect Obama met with the current and surviving past presidents today, at a luncheon hosted at the White House by President Bush. The group met with reporters in the Oval Office before the meal, and President Bush welcomed Obama with these words:"We want you to succeed."I think that's exactly right and what should be in the hearts of every American. Now, what we each think "success"

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Do you write in your Bible? Do you underline passages, make little notations, draw arrows? Does having a heavily-written in, scruffy Bible mean you study it more than someone who doesn't?That's a question posed in this post. The comments raise more questions.I generally think that someone with a well-marked Bible probably has done a lot of studying, but I don't assume that someone who doesn't

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Are atheists persecuted in US society for their anti-god views? Or are the very religiously devout the ones facing more public disdain?This article says "Yes".Atheists constantly remind us that they cannot be elected president. But what about the deeply, openly religious, those who express their religious devotion through anything more than anodyne ceremony? Yes president Bush can ask the country

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I really need to stop reading articles by Elite Writers who make Anthropological Junkets into Middle America. They are always unkind, in a "let me tell you, girlfriend!" after-work-gossip kind of way. The superiority just oozes off the page until you want to pull on gloves. It doesn't make it better when the writer admits to succumbing to the low-brow behavior he's writing about, with

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There is so much about this article that makes me fume that I nearly set my leather couch on fire. A small sample:HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — As a portly woman plodded ahead of him on the sidewalk, the obese mayor of America's fattest and unhealthiest city explained why health is not a big local issue...Culture and history are at least part of the problem, health officials say.This city on the Ohio

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A book blog on Amazon.com, OMNIVORACIOUS, is listing their vote for best books written by authors from or in each state. Naturally Kentucky was a challenge. There are as many books chosen as the state has electoral college votes, so that is eight from Kentucky.I confess to not having read any of them except Hunter S. Thompson's. I will set myself the task to do so. Although... I'm not sure I need

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I just found a "new to me" blog that you need to read. In fact, there's one post that a lot of folks where I grew up should read and apply to themselves. And when anyone talks to you about racism, send them here. I just started at the top and read down. All good. Well, except for the Gears of War2 stuff. I've stayed away from online games because I know they'd suck my life right down a black hole

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I love grits about any way you want to make 'em. There's classic grits, a bowl of creamy goodness with just salt and butter. There's breakfast-cereal grits, with butter, sugar, and a little stream of milk. There's fried grits, cooked, chilled overnight in a loaf pan, cut in slices and browned in a skillet. And then there's the pinnacle of grit cookery: cheese grits casserole, made with processed

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I grew up in Clay County, in eastern Kentucky, in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains. My ancestors have lived in those hills for more than 200 years, since William Cornett was given a land grant in what was then western Virginia. The land grant was a reward for William's service in the Revolutionary War. Kentucky still has more Cornett citizens than any other state in the US, although

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A California/Kentucky/Illinois/Texas* friend of mine has set himself the task of keeping an eye on Obama. A monumental task! But he does it with thoughtfulness and style. Check it out at RightSidePolitics.com. And tell him I said hello.*His wife and I are very close friends, so I know he's lived in all those places. Actually, I've visited them in all those places. I must say Kentucky was the best

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For those of you who haven't followed the blogosphere for years, Steven Den Beste is a very smart and thorough commenter on... whatever he chooses to comment on. He ran a blog for years before it took more time than he had to give it. Now he occasionally gifts us with his analysis, and it's always worth your time to read it.The latest Den Beste commentary is on the Obama presidency.I very much

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I really really really didn't want Obama to win. He is scary liberal, radical even. I think he is both cynical and naive about government. I worry about our country under his leadership.However. He will be our elected president, with such a margin (most likely) that no one can realistically claim that fraud was the source of his victory. Given the level of misbehavior by ACORN, and news stories

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When I arrived to vote at my local polling place, the New Life Church on Hwy 280 outside Birmingham, AL, the parking lot was full, about 20 people were voting and about a dozen were in line. It was 4:30 in the afternoon, so it wasn't a prime voting time - people who would vote on the way home hadn't hit yet.The polling staff said 1200 of the 2100 people registered to vote in my district had

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Word on the street is that global warming is accelerating. This post says it isn't.I'm very skeptical about global warming as a primarily human-caused phenomenon, and even more skeptical that the governments of the world can be effective in lessening the human element that does exist. I do think that we as individuals must be stewards of the earth and everything in it, as God gave Adam and Eve

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Interesting graph looking at the differences in viewpoints between Americans and Brits.Here's the article it comes from, in The Economist (a British publication).One thing I found particularly intriguing is that apparently even conservative Brits are more liberal on many things than US Democrats. A bit scary.But then, I'm a bitter gun-loving Bible reading redneck. What else would you expect?

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Apparently the British are not learning/teaching the foundations of their own language in schools. With amusing (in a sad kind of way) results.Although I confess I didn't remember "complete thought". Oops.

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Please take a moment out of your day to say a prayer for the Obama family. He's lost his grandmother - she died today.My personal preference is that Obama not win tomorrow. However, it's very sad that if he does win, his grandmother, who helped raise him, will not be there to see it. Bittersweet indeed.

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You really really really need to watch this. And send the link to everyone you know.Part of the reason is because it's a black man who is a conservative and a follower of Christ who is speaking out against Obama with eloquence.But the main reason is because he makes the clearest case in the shortest amount of time in the most entertaining way about why Obama is a horrible choice for everyone in

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Over the years, I've written more blog posts than any sane person, and that has included starting more blogs than reason should have dictated. I'm not likely to post on the others with any regularity, if at all, but I've resurrected several in case some of my five regular readers would like to check them out. I'll put them on the link list to the right when I'm in the mood to mess with HTML.The

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Edwin Leap is the blog of a emergency room physician who also writes columns for his hometown newspaper. He's a conservative who with his wife homeschools his kids. This column gives his views on the current election, including his belief that Christians were the original liberals.I agree.Mostly.There are several possible posts I could write in response to his post and the comments left under it.

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During the 2000 election, I asked a friend of mine at church who she was voting for. She said "Al Gore". I was shocked. She is a godly woman, faithful in her attendance but also in her life in general. She and her husband are the equivalent of a load-bearing wall for that congregation. Although we didn't discuss details I'm quite confident she holds the same views on moral issues as other

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Here's the latest example of a really bizarre condition: A cleric of some sort who denies God. In this instance, it's a Catholic priest denying that Jesus was God and human at the same time on earth. And that Mary was a virgin when Jesus was conceived. And that the resurrection actually happened.So why would you claim Christianity and become a leader in your denomination if you don't believe the

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A slim, neat woman cleans her sliding glass door. Her scruffy dazed husband wakes up from a nap (taken while his wife is cleaning house), runs into the door and is roundly mocked by two birds perched in a tree outside.Hahaha!Oh, wait. Not funny. Not at all. Not even a little bit.I like physical humor as well as the average woman, which is to say no where near as much as the average man (cf. The

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I enjoy being around people. Most everyone has interesting stories, and perspectives I've not had or even thought of. Conversation can be great.But then, sometimes, not so much.Confession time: I'm an introvert. Very introverted. Bordering on hermit introverted at times. Two things save me from terminal introversion: an intense curiosity about people and the world, and moderately manic moods.If I

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My friend Elizabeth, a grad student at Auburn who is an excellent writer, has started her own blog, shelizabeth. If you need a pick-me-up (or just a chuckle!), go read her latest post. It involves parents, a cat, dishes and a furious drive-off. Don't worry - it's not the cat that drives off.

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I still think there is a solid chance that McCain will win. In fact, if I had to lay money on it, I'd take McCain. How much of that is wishful thinking? I don't know. But I don't think even most of it is.However, there is also a good possibility that Obama will win. He's got a lot of people buffaloed. I think an Obama presidency would be a very bad thing for this country. I think he thinks he's a

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... on so many levels.But I love it.

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The presidential race has again brought prejudice into the forefront of public discussion. I know there are people who are prejudiced. In fact, I suspect that the only person who isn't prejudiced is a dead person. People who vote for Obama because he's black, regardless of his political views, are prejudiced. People who vote against Obama because he's black, regardless of his political views, are

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I didn't watch the debate tonight. I know I will vote for McCain, and I couldn't bear to look at Obama. He is so liberal, and would be so terrible for our country. But if he wins... will it be God's will?As always that's a difficult call. It's not for me to say that God chose a specific outcome in any context, although I often feel His hand in things. I do know that He's keeping an eye on things,

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Science and religion continue to have an uneasy relationship in our society. Many people of faith feel as though scientists are working hard to undermine belief in God. Many scientists believe people of faith are hanging on to outmoded beliefs in the face of clear scientific evidence that those beliefs are at best misguided and at worst bizarre and dangerous fantasies.They're both right - kind

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Catfish scare me.I like to eat them. I like to catch them. But they scare me.I think it's the big mouths. When you catch a bass or a bluegill, their mouths don't seem large enough to nip more than your finger. A catfish looks like he could chomp your arm and like it. Also, catfish tend to be one of the larger fishes commonly caught by amateurs like me, so an arm-chomping big fish is, well,

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A photographer crept behind Sarah Palin at a rally yesterday and took a photo of the audience. The photo shows Palin's legs from just below the knees down, and as much of the audience as you can see around and between her legs. It doesn't look particularly startling to me; if Fox News hadn't asked if it were sexist, I wouldn't have thought about it. I might have wondered if the guy in the front

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Yes, it appears that I am blogging again. I don't know how much or what about, but at least occasionally about all manner of things. It's good to be back.

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This post is a response I wrote to this blog post.I'm a southern woman with a graduate degree, no husband and no children. My world is very different from Sarah Palin's. But I think she's great. She's smart, she's got a sense of humor, she loves being both a wife and mother, and she isn't afraid of being both very feminine and very competent in her work. She is a well-rounded woman who hasn't

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(I've removed this old post because it was incorrect and more than a bit snippy. I thought the person hosting my previous blog had erased it without informing me. He hadn't. But I didn't email him first, I just got snippy. So, I behaved badly. Mea culpa, mea culpa. Eventually he did take it offline but by that time I had not posted on it in more than a year. He had hosted it free all those years,

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Cut on the bias has moved. Please change your bookmarks, links, etc., to this: bias.blogfodder.net And thanks for stopping by.

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I'VE BEEN DISCOVERED: I just got this email from Fred First: Do you have an alias? Is there REALLY a bizarro-world? Are you http://bias.blogfodder.net/ too? Will one blog live while the other is left on an iceberg with the Polar bears? The answer is "yes". A few weeks ago, Dodd Harris of Ipse Dixit asked me if I'd like to move off Blogger and onto a server in his part of the world, Louisville,

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NOTE TO SELF: Do not depend on driving directions from two passengers who do not drive, speak with strong Caribbean accents and tend to get excitable in New Jersey traffic. In this way lies madness.

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ANOTHER "NICE GUY" KILLS BECAUSE OF BULLYING: Providence, RI, newspaper production worker Carlos Pacheco killed two coworkers and then himself yesterday; his family claims he was endlessly "chided" and "taunted", and co-workers claim the management of the company causes such stress that not only did it cause Pacheco to kill three people including himself, but also caused another employee to

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MARSHMALLOW TRAP: Todd Hardwick, a licensed alligator trapper and the owner of the Pesky Critters nuisance wildlife control company, has a permit from the state to trap and kill "nuisance alligators" like these. He has come armed with several big, shiny hooks of the kind normally used to catch sharks, hundreds of yards of the parachute cord he uses as fishing line, a bang stick loaded with a

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IN THE "EXAMPLES OF WHAT WE SHOULD BE" DEPARTMENT, I give you the French, those perennial critics of America: Minorities Struggling to Join The Political Elite in France Equality Still Only an Idea as Voters Choose Members of Parliament I vote we send Rep. Cynthia McKinney over there to help them integrate. They should work well together, don't you think? [Link from reader Dave Menke.]

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I'LL HAVE THOSE POTATOES FRIED, PLEASE: Jacob Sullum at Reason Online comments with appropriate disgust and amazement on the current efforts to chase after obesity in this country with the same lawyers who went after Big Tobacco. Summarizing his amused horror will not do the piece justice, so I won't. I do want to comment on this: The Independent added that many Americans can't get healthy food

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YOURISH TRULY: A bloggish milestone - I spent a lovely afternoon and early evening with Meryl Yourish in marginally-suburban New Jersey, the first time I've met a fellow blogger. If it weren't for the fact that she beat me to the only copy of Shirley Jackson's Raising Demons in the used book store, I would call it an unmitigated pleasure. She's as articulate and straightforward in person as she

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ARE WE SURPRISED? Chas Rich at Sardonic Views identifies the credulous use of a press release from an environmentalist group by CNN, and notes that other groups wouldn't get such an easy pass into their news cycle. Link via the Prof, who thinks it's not unusual. I concur, and point out that this is another way that media bias manifests itself.

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IF YOU HAVEN'T READ IT YET, make the time for Will Warren's latest Unremitting Verse.

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BUSTED: Tony Woodlief nails people who insist on all lower case for their names or use only one name: Bell Hooks. Bell Hooks. That's capital B, capital H. What's that, Bell? You want to be called "bell hooks," sans capitals? Too bad. I'm a capitalist, this is English, and you are Bell by God Hooks. So get over yourself. It's hilarious. (We won't discuss that, as you can see by my tagline,

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RONALD REAGAN - A HERO IN HISTORY.

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TANGLED DEFINITIONS: This week an Ohio man was given two life sentences for beating to death his wife, who was five months pregnant at the time. One of the sentences was for his wife, the other for their unborn child. Yet the unborn child would have been about 20 weeks along, which is in terms of viability a gray area for doctors: Viability is presumed to exist after 27 weeks of gestation (

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ALL YOU NEED IS PAUL? Victorino Matus at The Weekly Standard reveals himself to be a Beatles purist. Kind of. Well, mostly.

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EMBLEMATIC WORDS: Stephen Hayes at The Weekly Standard says what I think about Triple Crown contender War Emblem and his Saudi owner.

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THE BIRMINGHAM NEWS PROTECTS ITS READERS - I'm not saying I agree (or disagree) with their choice, but interesting that they made it in this day and age. ...we said we would take the ads if they made them a little more conservative, or more informative and less promotional. At that time, they were not interested in revising their ads and that's understandable. Should a newspaper make this kind

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NY TIMES DOES A DEWEY: Producers of the 2002 Tony-winning best play [The Goat] were upset by a color ad mistakenly running in the paper's June 9 "Arts and Leisure" section proclaiming that "Metamorphoses" had won the top drama prize last Sunday... "We are still looking into the matter," said Times spokesman Toby Usnik, while producers for "Metamorphoses" declined comment until they got a

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NOTHING BUT THUGS: Martin Burnham is dead after a year in captivity with the Abu Sayyaf, a terrorist group in the Philippines showing their thuggish ways. Filipino nurse Ediborah Yap, also a captive, died in the apparent effort to rescue the hostages. Gracia Burnham was shot while escaping, but remains alive. The NY Times article says: Abu Sayyaf began as a radical Islamic group more than a

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SO YOU THINK YOU'RE COOL? Meryl Yourish has advice for bloggish web design.

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DIARY OF A FRIENDSHIP: The Saturday Ramble is up.

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GOTTA LOVE A GOOD SEGUE: Media Minded comes through again with 2002_06_02_mediaminded_archive.html#85152197">a nice evisceration of an email from the writer of an article MM dismembered previously, whom I suspect of masochism (the writer, not MM) given the fact that he came back for more abuse. The issue is Drudge's reporting of David Brock's mental collapse while writing his sad little screed

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KRUGMAN AND ELVIS: Tom Maguire has the details over at The Minute Man.

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WHAT, PRAY TELL, IS SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE? Newton's Kumquat (NK henceforth) is pretty annoyed: OK, this really ticks me off: CHATTANOOGA (AP) — The Ten Commandments have been removed from Hamilton County court buildings, ending an episode that may cost the government as much as $80,000... I wonder what the $80,000 spent on this travesty could have purchased if it were put toward

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SICK OF TELEMARKETERS? Here's a good script to follow in getting rid of them for a long long time, based on the provisions of the 1991 Telephone Consumers Protection Act. Found via Dive Into Mark.

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INCOMPETENCE PROMOTED: I can't believe Bush wants to make Homeland Security a cabinet position. The concept of Tom Ridge, and whomever succeeds him, needing more authority to accomplish the job is a logical one. But we've not seen anything out of Ridge's HS to give us confidence that this isn't just another layer of bureaucracy. The problem, as I see it, is that there is no way in the current

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WE'RE SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE, but the brains behind this site will be down today for maintenance and possible retooling, as an upgrade seems beyond the hope of the staff and the capabilities of the brain. We recommend the following alternative sources of enlightenment: JUNKYARDBLOG - One of my first links, and still one of my favorite bloggers, Bryan Preston has a very interesting view on

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Don't stop until every terrorist who targets innocents is surrounded by 72 virgins and may they all look like the backside of a diarrhetic camel.

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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, BABY, GOT YOU ON MY MIND: Sixteen people - 13 of them Israeli soldiers - were killed in northern Israel Wednesday morning as an Islamic Jihad homicide bomber blew up the car he was driving alongside a packed commuter bus... In Damascus, Syria, another Islamic Jihad leader, Ramadan Shalah, said the bombing was meant to coincide with the 35th anniversary of the 1967 Six-Day War

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BEAUTIFUL: The pasture grasses just beyond the maples are in full flower and their pollen smells like midnight bread baking; the creek sends wafts of spearmint, wet mud and turbulence. So familiar, almost painful, these olfactory memories of summers past, from calm childhood Alabama nights... The photo at the top of the page looks almost exactly like the field near my childhood home, complete

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BUT DOES SHE CLEAN UP WELL? Dan at Happy Fun Pundit thinks the US should seriously consider Mark Steyn's suggestion that we annex Alberta, that bastion of oil. However, the deal comes with strings. Well, dates. Or at least, an attempt to get dates.

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THE WASHINGTON CORNETT AND SACKBUTT ENSEMBLE: That was NOT a full-length photo! And I am NOT a member of this group. (However, it is intriguing to think of saying at a party, "I'm into sackbuts.")

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DEBUNKING UPDATE: I mentioned below the Bush Is Awful list of "failures" from his first year; Ben has posted his second set of 10 debunkings, and I've received an email from David Sprintzen, to whom the list is often wrongly attributed, explaining the provenance. Summary: Someone sent it to him, he sent it to a bunch of people, the original author was on the original email but somewhere got lost

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CONTINUING THE OUTDOORS THEME, I am a lowly insect. UPDATE: In a move that will shock my evolutionarily-inclined compadres, I have shamelessly moved up the food chain to flappy bird. Meanwhile, on a slightly different scale, I apparently Will Link For Beer. Who knew a guy who doesn't even know where I live would uncover that Bud in the pantry behind the bag of onions? I'm a teetotaler, remember,

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THIS IS ONE OF THE FUNNIEST THINGS I've seen in quite a while, in a dark, dark kind of way. Maybe because I've been there, done that and been done to. Not for the married amongst us, unless you just have this nostalgia thing going about it. If you do, you're a bit sick, you know. And the site is old, so if you've seen it before, sorry. I am, as usual, late to the party, so move along with your

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RESEARCH NOTE - MEDIA FRAMING: I've got a pile of research materials to read for my core area proposal (the to-be-rewritten one, if you remember), and since that's going to be a big part of my reading for a while you're going to have the pleasure of quotes from and comments on what I'm reading. I'm going to preface each with the "Research Note" heading, though, so you'll know to move along if

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I WAS IN THE 2% - which isn't surprising. Take the test, see how you did, then go see what Den Beste had to say about it. And if you just can't stand it, you can write me to find out what my answer was. UPDATE: Well, wouldn't you know that Andrew Sullivan linked this test just hours after I did, so the poor blogger has now exceeded his bandwidth. Try again later if you get that deadly message.

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CONTINUING THE OUTDOORS THEME, I am a lowly insect.

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MORE EVOLUTION STUFF: Martin Devon and Max Power continue their exchange, with interesting results. Check it out. I'll be back in the fray likely this weekend.

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FOR TODAY ONLY, while voting is going on, I'm posting an old photo of your blogger, which shows her girl-next-door charm and outdoorsy nature. We won't discuss how old the photo is, and no one is allowed to ask my dad the hunter/gatherer type just what he thinks of my outdoorsy claims (hint: he thinks enjoying videos of The Smoky Mountains doesn't count.) UPDATE: Well, it's not today anymore,

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INCREASE LEGAL SMOKING AGE TO 21? The Dodd at Ipse Dixit finds out that California has proposed it, and isn't very happy. Don't miss the comments section, where he and his readers (including me) debate the points. Is it a question of health vs. rights? Is fairness an issue? Worth some of your time.

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TERRORIST SPEAKS AT LONDON UNIVERSITY - Theodore Dalrymple of City Journal reports: Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, so perhaps it is petty to complain that the presence of the Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled in Britain, to address a meeting of students at London University's prestigious School of Oriental and African Studies, undermines Britain's claim of iron commitment to the

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AND NOW, FROM YOUR FRIENDLY LOCAL MULTI-NATIONAL CORPORATION: The newest trend in marketing is big corporations posing as small companies in a bid to recast themselves as friendlier and more customer-caring.

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WATCHING THE WATCHERS II - It's a good (bad?) week for nailing media inaccuracy and spin. Nat Hentoff of The Village Voice has an excellent takedown of media inaccuracies in coverage of slavery in the Sudan. Hentoff begins by establishing his bona fides to fact-check other journalists: For more than five years, I have been writing on -- and interviewing witnesses to -- chattel slavery in Sudan…

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HINDSIGHT SPIN DETECTOR: Mark Levine dissects Cynthia Rowley's memo and unpacks his version of the FBI's pre-9/11 behavior, in NRO.

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OH, THIS SHOULD BE FUN: Nicholas Kristof, the columnist everyone loves to hate, has visited a gun show and isn't very impressed: ...the Michigan Gun & Knife Show, held here over the weekend, was the place to buy any kind of pistol and lots more: huge .50-caliber semiautomatic rifles, fuse wire, Confederate flags and 75-round clips for an AK-47 in case I wanted to pursue moose that lacked the

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EVEN INNOCENT PLEASURES TURN DARK - Because I like nifty interactive maps, I posted a link to a computer-generated, real-time tracking map of LAX's air traffic. Even though you can click on each plane to learn its altitude and a few other things, to my untrained eye it seemed like nothing more than a really cool online stop. Reader John Simutis keyed off it to make all sorts of connections, sent

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THIS IS MIGHTY COOL. I wonder which if any have guns on board? Link from DaleyNews.

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MORE ON PILOTS WITH GUNS: Alley Writer Yack says, don't do it.

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NOT THAT BUSH DOESN'T DESERVE A GOOD SMACK: Below I hammered a supposed "media watch" editor and writer for her high moral anti-Bush tone alongside an apparently "lifted", certainly unoriginal and unattributed, list of Bush sins. While I think her lifted list is bunk, this article shows that Bush has plenty of sins to repent for without the left going gaga searching for them. I'm getting

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IN HIS OWN INIMITABLE BLUESY FASHION, Dodd at Ipse Dixit introduces his new design today. I love the logo. Very cool.

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IN FINE NEW GEARS, but with sand still in his craw, Tony Woodlief unveils his inspired, updated blog design. Check it out - as fine as the new design is, the content is better still.

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WHO WATCHES THE WATCHERS? Ben "Yin" Thornton is debunking, point by point, a list which has been going around since last summer that purportedly lists many "accomplishments" of G W Bush's presidency, all of them considered negative by those who do not like his presidency. I'm sure some other bloggers dealt with it before, as it's been around a while and was also prominent in Michael Moore's book,

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OH, YEAH, THIS MAKES ME HAPPY. What's next, SCUD missiles on Half.com?

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I'VE BEEN TRYING TO POST this morning, but Blogger is being difficult and I have to leave for work. Will post later as I can.

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MAKING THE CUT: Thanks to CG Hill, I've been included on a rather...interesting list. Competitive as I am, my instinct is to campaign, but I think I'll adopt the cool, aloof mode, the "you wish you knew" attitude. I have my advocates, and could possibly post testimonials, but why take away all the mystery? At any rate, it appears to me that the fix is in. (And, CG, I think the latter group is

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MUSIC IS A PHYSICAL THING, sometimes, the best times, when you hear it. The instruments weave their chords through your mind, your heart expands to hold it until it seems your chest can't contain it. Most of my favorite music also include vocals, and close harmonies rising through instrumentals or ringing clearly through an a cappella void often move me to tears even when the song is not meant

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FISHY, YET TOOTHSOME AND GOOD FOR YOU: Stefan Sharkansky, he of the Lake Tahoe trip from... well... Alaska, maybe, and other interesting and funny essays, has stepped into the blogging arena with his new Shark Blog. Welcome and have fun, Stefan! And we don't mind if you talk about your kids sometimes.

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IN MY HOMETOWN - The NY Times yet again visits where I grew up: MANCHESTER, Ky., May 30 - In one of the bloodiest election seasons in more than 50 years in these fabled Kentucky hills, Sheriff Edd Jordan of Clay County is watching his back. "When you're a sheriff in eastern Kentucky, you watch your back every day," Mr. Jordan said... Kentuckians who thought they had lived down the old feudin'-

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AND THE BEAT GOES ON: Max Power says Martin Devon is wrong in his essay about evolution. Actually, he says I'm wrong too, but he starts with Martin and moves on to me. As a bonus, hang around and look at Max's discussion of the theory of gravity. UPDATE: Ian the Dancing Bear piles on too. Hey, it's a free for all!

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CAN YOU RESIST A BOOKSLUT? I can't. I just spent 30 min reading this really cool blog. Check it out.

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WHAT HE SAID. And take their money away too.

susanna in alabamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12776620968673501198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3354943.post-851355922002-06-01T20:11:00.000-05:002002-06-01T20:15:58.000-05:00

JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE, here’s another entry in the evolution discussion. Actually, it was written way before today's exchange, and is a lovely essay that basically concludes that there's a lot we just don't know, and that's okay to say. It's by my favorite Patio Pundit, which probably was all that needed saying anyway. And I agree with a lot of what he says. Meanwhile, if you have no

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