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Another fine piece from Josh Marshall today:
All this talk about civilization, totalitarianism, fascism and terror is just preventing us from looking at what’s happening and recognizing what our own interests are. They also make it possible for some people to convince themselves that it’s not a screw-up that we’ve turned Iraq into a terrorist magnet. [...]

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Did anyone catch the Warren Zevon special on VH1 last night? It was very moving.
I’ve always liked Warren; he played here a lot when he lived in Philadelphia. I still have the shot I took of him at the Chestnut Cabaret - he’s playing the banjo and singing “What’s New, Pussycat?”
Anyway, check out the [...]

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Charlie Crystle, the politically-progressive software millionaire who’s running for the Democratic senatorial nomination against Joe Hoeffel here in Pennsylvania, now has a blog. Here ’tis. They’re trying to organize Meetups - check it out.
Or read this profile from Wired:
Crystle said the reason he’s running for office is simple: He can’t sleep watching people around him [...]

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This, from the Washingtonian (scroll all the way down):
If President Bush suffers because it turns out he took the country to war on false pretenses, he might look back on stories by Walter Pincus for drawing first blood.
On March 16, the eve of war, Pincus wrote in the Post that “U.S. intelligence agencies have been [...]

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Imagine: 37,000 civilians dead in Iraq since we went in. Why isn’t the corporate media talking about it?

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The stain is spreading to Ohio and of course I see Rove’s fine hand. Their congressional districts are only eight months old.

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It’s official: Most people want anybody but Bush. Would I be a cynic to wonder if that greatly increases the likelihood of a terrorist attack here in the U.S.?

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Yet another reason to hate the French: They’re thin because they get smaller portions.
Coronary heart disease is the biggest killer in the US, but not in France. Yet the French smoke Gitanes, breakfast on buttery brioche, lunch and dine off confit of duck, sausage, fat goose livers and camembert. They drink wine, round off their [...]

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TOP 10 LINES FROM ANIMAL HOUSE
In honor of the 25th anniversary of “Animal House,” the leading light in the American comedy canon, we present the following:
1) “You fucked up. You trusted me.”2) “Eric Stratton, rush chairman. Damned glad to meet you.”3) “Mine’s bigger. My cucumber, I mean.”4) “That’s funny. I have a husband named Dean [...]

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Scott Ritter points out if we were that concerned about Iraqi weapons programs, we would have paid more attention to their records archive.
Yet these eyewitnesses have provided me with a troubling tale. On April 8, they say, the buildings were occupied by soldiers from the Army’s Third Infantry Division. For two weeks, the Iraqi scientists [...]

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MY MOM HATES BUSH MORE THAN YOUR MOM
I sent the story about Sally Baron to my 80-year-old mother, who thought it was pretty cool. Now, Sally called Bush a “whistle ass,” but I can go that one better.
My mother calls him “It.”

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Wouldn’t this be loverly - Gary Hart back in the Senate?

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BLOGGERS, START YOUR ENGINES
This one from Digby is just so, so ripe and ready for the meme machine:
Bill Simon Jr., one of the best-known Republicans in the recall election for California governor, dropped out of the race today, saying that the defeat of Gov. Gray Davis was more important than his personal ambitions.
Mr. Simon had [...]

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NYC officials are calling for an investigation into the EPA coverup of post-9/11 air quality. Jimmy Breslin writes about it, too:
I was a few hundred yards up on Liberty Street when the Two Tower of the World Trade Center blew. I put my nose inside my shirt and ran through smoke that turned day into [...]

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A personal favorite theme: American workers’ stingy vacations.
Well, welcome to the cuckoo’s nest, mate, otherwise known as the United States. In this country, vacations are not only microscopic; they’re also shrinking faster than revenues on a corporate restatement. A survey by Internet travel company Expedia.com has found that Americans will be taking 10 percent less [...]

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Can you say “cognitive dissonance”? The same people who cheered the tax cut are now bitching about the deficit.
“It’s already time to think beyond this year and next about how to take down long-term deficits that could become disastrous,” said Allen Sinai, president of Decision Economics Inc., who has strongly supported the president’s tax cuts. [...]

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Come on, it’s the weekend. You have the time to read this entire piece:
Soon enough, a senior Pentagon official joins the round. I cherish the opportunity to ask him a couple of — admittedly critical and inquisitive — questions.
Puzzled, he replies: “Why are you asking all these questions? Aren’t journalists just supposed to report the [...]

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Vets are fighting for the healthcare funds promised to them by the GOP. When will they realize “supporting our troops” is only a photo op?

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Moveon.org has raised $1M to help the 11 Democratic Texas legislators. Yee haw!

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A Democratic programmer has made a bet with Georgia officials:
Roxanne Jekot, a 51-year-old computer program developer from Cumming, said she and a few expert friends could crack Georgia’s $54 million touch-screen voting system in a matter of minutes.
Bring it on, said state election officials.
“If something can beat the machine, we need to know that,” said [...]

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This Gender Genie is pretty funny, and only confirms what I’ve suspected for a long time: I talk/write like a man, and it make people uncomfortable. (Ever read about gender semiotics? Pretty darned interesting stuff.)
I remember in 1977 when “Slapshot” came out. The author was a woman whose name escapes me; the critics were all [...]

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From Facts and Opinions, this moving anecdote:
Calmly, I asked the officer what the nature of my crime was. First, he looked surprised: this person wearing a baseball cap was female (I nearly always do, and that damn hat is notorious for getting me called “Sir”) and respectful in tone. His posture relaxed, and he politely [...]

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Great post over at SmartRemarks by Gil Smart on a complex subject:
I am not really a Christian. I was baptised Episcopalian, but haven’t been to church in years. Since the little boy came along I have started to think more about spiritual matters, have started to feel as if the time is coming to explore [...]

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “All these years, and he finally decides to be an overachiever?” - PrometheusSpeaks, on the damage done by Bush to the environment.

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Kerry is going to announce against the backdrop of an aircraft carrier. Sound familiar? Read what Daily Kos has to say about it:
In a vacuum, that strategy might actually work. But Kerry spent a great deal of time (properly) criticizing Bush for that PR stunt. This move now has the appearance of hypocrisy.
Then again, [...]

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For a good laugh, check out this picture. Via Atrios.

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Great Busybusybusy today:
Shorter David Ignatius: Time to Unite
Those who counseled against the disastrous invasion of Iraq should forgo assigning blame for the debacle in favor of rallying to the support of those who caused it.

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Leave it to a Buzzflash reader to point out the obvious on the U.N. bombing in Baghdad:
Wow! The FBI has improved immeasurably in the past few… days?… weeks? Within hours of the terrorist bombing in Iraq, they have already been able to determine…
The reader goes on to say despite the truck that delivered the bomb [...]

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It’s kind of funny, Microsoft using Linux to protect its web site.

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