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I have a recurring Tivo problem that is actually a cable problem: sometimes my cable box shuts off when I'm not around, and I don't know why. When this happens, TiVo dutifully begins recording at the appointed hour, but, since there is no cable, all that lurks behind the shiny green button is Stygian darkness. Does this ever happen to you? Why does ( Read more... )

Big peace marches this weekend:

( Saturday in NYC- out of Iraq )

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency is an old news service, sort of like AP only smaller and more Jewish. For reasons related to my job, I was given a sample of their bulletins from 1945, about both Europe and Palestine. I found this in the latter ( Read more... )

about what kind of people we're dealing with here:

“And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them." - Barbara Bush after touring the refugee camp at the Houston Astrodome.

On npr.

The stench of racism hanging over all this is so thick I feel like I'm choking on it.

Like everyone else, I am feeling overwhelmed by grief, rage, shock, and sheer contempt, and having a hard time tearing myself away from the coverage.

One of the most effective things, for me, has been this small set of reporters' blogs from the BBC; you should ( Read more... )

Fats Domino is missing ( Read more... )

About the politics of BSG (civil liberties in a time of war, specifically), from Ron Moore's blog:

( BSG and torture etc )

A very happy birthday to musesfool, half-blood princess of the New York fandom!  I hope you get something good! ;)  (I actually had a crack at writing something for you, but it was both depressing and bad.  Not the right thing for wibble TODAY.)
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I'll take a leaf from clever dragonscholar and say that my alert level has been raised to condition Weasley.
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Sandra Day O'Connor is retiring.

Bye bye Roe. Etc.