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Also, Salon.com is currently featuring a cartoon starring thesadpanda.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/02/world/middleeast/02cnd-israel.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

So Israel's prime minister led the country into a senseless failure of a war, and his constituents and his second-in-command care! As in ( Read more... )

Lookee lookee! The U.S. Supreme Court actually acting as a check or balance, in the interest of an overwhelming majority of Americans! Wacky ( Read more... )

CJ had mentionned that this existing, but I didn't realize the full cast:

The next movie I have to look forward to...

"Et peut-être plus tard, quand avec le tango, la maxixe, la furlana, la guerre et ses 'bombes funèbres' seront oubliées, dira-t-on de l'époque pacifique de l'an 1914, comme dans la célèbre lithographie de Gavarni: 'Il lui sera beaucoup pardonné parce qu'elle a beaucoup dansé.'"

-Guillaume Apollinaire, La femme assise, 1920 ( Read more... )

I saw this on the front page of today's newspaper and stopped in my tracks in surprised glee. Score one point for medicine over fundamentalism.

And the NY Times version

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A week since the DSL we've been pirating in my apartment suddenly stopped working, I finally caved in and called SBC to set up a new DSL line. Well, first I did a search to find ANYONE ELSE IN NORTH CHICAGO who offers DSL. (Is there anyone? Anyone?) But obviously if SBC didn't have a firm monopoly, they wouldn't get away with being evil. What ( Read more... )