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24 April 2007
Self Censorship in Modern Merka
I was reading a (quite humorous) email from my uncle that went something like this:
Whatever you two are smoking, please send me two tons as a sales starter package. I think that there is a lot more profit potential in whatever you are smoking than in converting ‘58 Chevies into tri5s. I think [...]
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7 November 2006
Popozao - I voted for Britney Spears
Another voting day has come and gone — the polls closed at 8. I am too uninterested to see what’s winning since I have little faith in my fellow Californians (no, not you!). So much stuff on this ballot was utter crap.
The ballot here was heavy with a long list of judges for whom we [...]
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30 October 2006
“What that makes me is politically irrelevant and something of a borderline nihilist. Also a fairly complete sell out”
From the consistently brilliant Billmon:
I’m more of an ex-Marxist, ex-socialist, ex-revolutionary who eventually came to understand that Marx got his economics wrong, that socialism doesn’t work and that Peter Townsend was essentially right about the new boss being the same as the old boss. When I was in Russia, I even got to see the [...]
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16 September 2006
Stuck in the belly of the beast
A self-perpetuating nightmare.
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13 September 2006
The real ‘Path to 9/11′
From the thoughtful minds at In These Times, an unusual analyasis of how 9/11 impacted us. An exerpt:
Whatever the natural similarities between December 7, 1941, and September 11, 2001, the association of the two has led us to convert—first in rhetoric, later in fact—a battle against a small band of clever, murderous fundamentalists into a [...]
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31 July 2006
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“A border is an invitation to Cross.”
-Guillermo Gomez Peña
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31 July 2006
Don’t ask, don’t tell: Is Alberto Gonzales an Alien?
GONZALES: I understand why they come. I think all Americans would understand why someone would come to this country, which is the greatest country in the world, is because they want a better life for themselves and a better future for their children.
So obviously, yes, I understand why they want to come to the United [...]
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28 July 2006
Bush is aware that he is President, spokesman confirms
From the eagle-eyed reporters at USA Today, Tony Snow ensures us that while Bush is “not stilted and overly formal” he is also “the head of the most powerful nation on Earth, and he’s aware of that.”