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archive for January 2009

1/30/09 “Life without Bush” (Morford)

I’ll take a sane president over an abundance of material for columnists any day. That said, I don’t want to read any more columnists complaining that they don’t have Dubya to kick around anymore. It strikes me that the basic message there is, “I’ve gotten used to being able to lazily phone it in, because [...]

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Filed under I Hate Politics, News, Picky, picky., Rants on January 30, 2009, '“Life without Bush” (Morford)' has comments numbering merely 0.
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1/28/09 We’re all so juvenile

The New York Times covers funny names of towns in the United Kingdom.

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Filed under Amusing (if only to me), Life on January 28, 2009, 'We’re all so juvenile' has comments numbering merely 0.
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1/24/09 5 more things President Obama can do right away

President Obama has been in office a good five days now, and he’s taken several important steps to signal his willingness to reverse some of the worst mistakes of prior administrations. Of course, followup is the most important part, but he has:

Pledged to close the illegal prison at Guantanamo Bay. Wretched legal reasoning from Alberto [...]

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Filed under I Hate Politics, President Barack Obama, Recommendations on January 24, 2009, '5 more things President Obama can do right away' has comments numbering merely 0.
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1/11/09 my view, in squigglevision

Four photos through distorted glass, animated. Hover over the image below to see the (silly) animation.

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Filed under Amusing (if only to me), Photography on January 11, 2009, 'my view, in squigglevision' has comments numbering merely 0.
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1/7/09 Missive from downtown Oakland

Well, I’m okay, after all the protests that turned into scattered rioting within a 10-block radius of my apartment.
Here are some pictures of what happened tonight; people protested and rioted in response to a BART police officer killing a 22-year-old BART rider in the early morning hours of January 1st, a week ago.
My recap based [...]

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