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Oooh, that Scott McClellan. He’s such a little trickster. White House spokesman for 3 years, sandwiched between the cool mendacity of Ari Fleischer and the dapper dodge of Tony Snow, he’s remembered for being the sweaty, pasty-faced guy refusing to answer any questions about what Bush, Cheney, Libby and Rove did or did [...]

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By this time Monday, every woman and New-York gay in America will have seen the movie Sex and The City. Seriously. This thing is going to make a bazillion dollars. It’s insane! And I’m going to see it too.
Because I am a tool to corporate America and its commercialized onscreen romances.
But I already [...]

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Did you do like George Bush wanted and use your stimulus check to recharge the US economy? No? Well, join the club.
My personal favorite is the bail and the whiskey.

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I have resisted mightly, strenuously even, from commenting or linking to or in any way acknowledging the article that every navel-gazing blog and meta-media commentator has been buzzing about for the last week. But I can’t resist anymore. it’s been Chinese water torture … drip, drip, drip … for seven days. [...]

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Everywhere you look, gas prices are climbing. Iowa, Michigan, Ohio. Air shows are being cancelled, summer road trips curtailed.
Why are gas prices so high? Andrew Leonard in Salon has the most concise and accessible explanation I’ve read yet. So when politicians and show hosts say “if we only do x”, don’t [...]

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As the never-ending campaign to determine the nominee who will take part in the never-ending campaign part deuce continues on its merry way, it’s easy to get bogged down in who’s got what votes and did or did not Montana already hold its primary and why is a Muslim talking in Spanish to New York’s [...]

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In honor of Memorial Day (a day late)

The Things They Carried: Tim O’Brien*
Catch-22: Joseph Heller
The Red Badge of Courage: Stephen Crane
The Regeneration Trilogy [Regeneration/The Eye in the Door/The Ghost Road]: Pat Barker
All Quiet on the Western Front: Erich Maria Remarque

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The end of the world is upon us: Lancaster Conference will ordain women.
Amish man claims his religious beliefs allow him to dump raw sewage in a field.  I’m not making this up.  I wish I were.
The Amish are on the move; hopefully no one is setting fire to their schoolhouses there.
Probably a good thing then [...]

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It’s not that The Mennonite is a particular must read of mine. Sure it’s useful as a church publication goes and there’s been the occasional interesting article. Plus, they do run poetry on occasion and some of it can be pretty decent. But all-in-all, it’s pretty mainstream, nothing too out there, nothing [...]

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Their graphs would look like this. Or sometimes like this.
And if Pete Seeger had been a software engineer, we’d have this:

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