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From Bill Turner comes this about this link I posted...

Back on Dec. 27 you posted a link to a blog posting arguing against any ban on using a cell phone while driving. The major point of that post was that it dismissed the case against it as based solely on anecdotes. To be fair, you might ( Read more... )

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Todd S. Purdum on the joys of flip-flopping. There's not a lot wrong with a politician changing his or her mind as long as they acknowledge it's a change, explain why and don't bounce back and forth too often.

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Number one hundred and six in a series...

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If you read this blog through an RSS reader or other syndication tool, you're probably going to have to reconfigure it tomorrow or whenever I get the new design up. If there's a way to get the new software to output the RSS feed to the same address, I don't know what it is and I have enough ( Read more... )

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Number one hundred and five in a series...

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Some time later today - I dunno when - this weblog will close for the year. By the time it returns - I dunno when - it will have had a makeover with a new design, new software and a few new features. Before you send me scathing e-mails telling me why the new look sucks, remember (a) what ( Read more... )

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You may be familiar with David Feldman, who does a very funny podcast that's also heard on some N.P.R. channels. If you're not familiar with him, here's a good time to start. His New Year's Eve program features Laraine Newman, June Foray, Paul F. Tompkins, Paul Dooley, Rick Overton, Frank ( Read more... )

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For an array of personal reasons, I haven't been back to New York since April of 2008 and it'll be a while before I get back there again. This means I'm missing a lot of great theater I'd like to see on and around Broadway. One show I'd really like to see is the new revival of Follies which ( Read more... )

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I don't care much about the Iowa Caucus and three or four days after it's over, no one else is likely to care much about it. But after I posted the previous message, I got this from my pal Vince Waldron...

On the other hand, I think Obama's surprising showing in Iowa in 2008 was the single ( Read more... )

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This runs a hair over an hour and forty minutes but you might want to watch a little to see two fascinating people. In November of 1982, Shel Dorf did this video interview with his hero (and then-employer) Milton Caniff. Caniff was, of course, the creator of the great comic strip Steve ( Read more... )