FINALLY, THE FLASHBACKS THEY PROMISED ME
I was at the theater tonight, where I had a deja vu experience. My friend had box seats that were actually in a private room, and I realized right away this was the former control room for the lights and sound.
The reason I know is, once upon a time, I […]

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USEFUL
Matt Yglesias:
In case you were wondering whether the Prevention First Amendment gambit is a good political strategy, you really ought to take a look at the other Democracy Corps polling analysis (pdf), which sort of buries the lede on this one. It’s all about white Catholic public opinion and it reveals, inter alia, that if […]

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THE USUAL SUSPECTS
Go read this excellent Media Matters piece about the players and the money behind the whole “Pharmacists for Life” media barrage.

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AFTERNOON CHUCKLE
Oh, the trials of the privileged… you have to listen to this 911 call.

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THINKING AHEAD
Duncan notes how quickly Moveon.org raised mucho bucks for Sen. Robert Byrd:
Early Tuesday afternoon, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., sent an appeal over the Internet urging people to contribute to the re-election campaign of Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va.
In less than 24 hours, more than 15,000 contributors gave $634,000 to Byrd’s campaign, according to the […]

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R.I.P.
Terri Schiavo, 41, is dead.

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See what I mean about conservatives being, well, stupid? Jay Nordlinger:
But before I quit altogether, I ask a question (not an original one): What would it hurt? Who would be hurt by Mrs. Schiavo’s continuing to be fed ? by her not being starved to death? I mean, it’s no skin off the New York […]

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REMEMBER WHEN EVEN HOOKERS HAD MORALS?
Billmon responds to his critics:
If I seem overly sensitive about all this — actually I KNOW I’m being oversensitive about this — it’s probably because of the NPC panel’s alleged topic: journalism and blogging. I used to believe in journalism. I used to believe in blogging. I used to believe […]

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WHY WE’RE DIFFERENT
Mithras has an interesting post this morning, and I wish you’d go read the whole thing. He concludes:
Conservatives love authority and love to give and take orders. That makes them perfect for the pyramidal structure, because once the funders decide which ideas they like, there is no dissent in the ranks, only […]

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REAL LIFE
Blondesense gets it:
I wrote here not long ago that my students can’t discuss a Supreme Court decision in class without discussing the protective orders that exist because of their actions against former girlfriends or the protective orders they have sought against former boyfriends.
Today one of my most promising students discussed the violence in her […]

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AND A LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD US
Oh damn, I missed South Park last night. Apparently they did Kenny as Terri Schiavo.

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PEER PRESSURE
Ho hum, just another day at BushCo:
Belgium (AP) - The European Union said Thursday it will impose sanctions on U.S. products to punish Washington for failing to repeal an antidumping law ruled illegal by the World Trade Organization. The EU head office said its action would be joined soon by seven other nations, including […]

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CHEAPER AND BETTER?
And yet, I’m sure this news may be inducing heart attacks at certain pharmaceutical companies:
The patients suffering from a stroke or mini-stroke as a result of intracranial arterial stenosis were scrutinized in the study. The Patients were randomly taking either warfarin or high-dose aspirin. The daily dosages of aspirin were 1,300 milligrams, a […]

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WIPEOUT
This is bad news on so many levels - not the least of, it pushes North Korea further into the nuclear arms business:
SEOUL — In recent years, North Korea’s Kim Jong Il ordered his army to build chicken farms to fight the country’s chronic food shortage and sell poultry abroad for hard currency. Just this […]

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OY
Figures:
AMARILLO, Texas — The Roman Catholic Church plans to establish its first religious society devoted exclusively to fighting euthanasia and abortion, church leaders said this week.
The male-only Missionaries of the Gospel of Life — founded by Father Frank A. Pavone, an outspoken opponent of abortion rights — will be housed in a vacant Catholic high […]

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THE LIGHT DAWNS
It’s now occurred to some conservatives that BushCo is a dangerous lot:
Birch authored opinions upholding Alabama’s right to ban the sale of sex toys and Florida’s ability to prohibit adoptions by gay couples. Both rulings drew the ire of liberal activists and the elation of traditional and social conservatives.
Yet, in Wednesday’s 11th Circuit […]

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RIPPLE EFFECT
TV “news” kept insisting there was no tsunami from that recent major quake, but they were wrong:
A tsunami estimated at nearly half the size of the one that hit Thailand on Dec. 26 was produced in some areas along the northwestern coast of Indonesia following Monday’s 8.7-magnitude earthquake, according to a team of scientists […]

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BONDAGE AND DISCIPLINE
They do like to keep on top of things:
President Bush is requiring Cabinet members to spend several hours a week at the White House compound, a move top aides say eases coordination with government agencies but one seen by some analysts as fresh evidence of the White House’s tightening grip over administration policy. […]

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WAY TO GO
Democrats, united. Who’d a thunk it?
WASHINGTON - Democrats are likely to vote unanimously against John Bolton when his nomination to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations comes before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee next week, according to Democratic and Republican lawmakers and aides.
It would mark the first time committee Democrats have unanimously […]

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KNOW YOUR ENEMY
Salon has a piece on how Merck may have designed its own studies to avoid showing the serious heart risks from Vioxx:
I was initially reluctant to write another piece on the Vioxx scandal. The mainstream press has more than adequately pointed the finger of blame at Merck for knowing the cardiovascular risks of […]

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PERJURER
From Insomnia:
The ACLU today released a memo signed by Lieutenant General Ricardo A. Sanchez authorizing 29 interrogation techniques, including 12 which far exceeded limits established by the Army’s own Field Manual. More specifically, it points out that Gen. Sanchez committed perjury when testifying before Congress.
From Sanchez’ testimony of May 19, 2004:
U.S. SENATOR JACK REED (D-RI): […]

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WHINGING AND WHINING
Nice catch from Kevin:
Conservative City Journal editor Heather Mac Donald writing in the conservative National Review:
Diversity grievances follow the usual logic: Victim-group X is not proportionally represented in some field; therefore the field’s gatekeepers are discriminating against X’s members. The argument presumes that there are large numbers of qualified Xs out there who, […]

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MISTRESS OF MY OWN DOMAIN
Okay, I’m checking out names and suburbanguerrilla.com is already taken. I thought of just using my name but that seems kind of boring.
So here’s a group project: help me pick a new domain name. Go to godaddy.com and see what you can come up with that’s not too complicated.

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DUMBOS
Once again, here’s one of those stories that could use a little context:
WASHINGTON — College faculties, long assumed to be a liberal bastion, lean further to the left than even the most conspiracy-minded conservatives might have imagined, a new study says.
By their own description, 72 percent of those teaching at U.S. universities and colleges […]

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GOD’S ARMY
Predictable:
Norm Olson, senior adviser to the Michigan militia and pastor of a strong right-to-life church in Wolverine, said Tuesday he had put together an unarmed coalition of state militias that were prepared to storm the Florida hospice where Terri Schiavo has been left to die, and take her to a safe house.
Olson said he […]

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