Okay, I’m just testing the RSS feed again, but I thought I’d try to make it more interesting. Besides, check out the mirrors on that Tele! Syd Barrett had more mirrors than Jimmy Page here; maybe there was a mirror arms race among 60′s British musicians. The man with the most mirrors wins! Anyhoo, the [...]

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Atrios doesn’t get the controversy over the iPad — which one of the comments likens to the rivalry between aficionados of Gibson Les Paul guitars and those of Fender Stratocasters. Something about technology invites people (mostly men, it seems) to go deep tribal, grab their crotches and bellow insults at their rivals. “Some people might [...]

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Perhaps you caught Jon Stewart’s ridicule of Red State blogger Erick Erickson, CNN’s latest pundit hire. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c CNN Hires Erick Erickson www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Reform And perhaps you thought that was funny (I did), but otherwise irrelevant to [...]

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There are typos. And then there are intelligence failures in more ways that one. A Defense Intelligence Agency publication available as recently as yesterday on its Web site noted “an Israeli F-16 raid to destroy an Iranian nuclear reactor” in 1981. Just one problem: publicly-known history includes no Israeli raid on an Iranian nuclear reactor [...]

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From the NYT: Although there is no reliable estimate as to how many dogs have had their vocal cords cut, veterinarians and other animal experts say that dogs with no bark can readily be found — but not necessarily heard — in private homes, on the show-dog circuit, and even on the turf of drug [...]

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