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digitaldiscipline3 Jan 06 - So, I cracked into the random book my folks shot me as something to unwrap from under the tree yesterday. "The Jester," by James Patterson and Andrew Gross. Don't, whatever you do, buy this book. It's awful.
1 Feb 06 - First, because not only are they unfounded optimists in the face of some depressing econimic truths, but because Americans are being arrested for exercising their First Amendment rights peacefully. [mainstream coverage of same is here.]
2 Mar 06 - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060302/ap_
2 Apr 06 - http://rockstarramblings.blogspot.com/2
1 May 06 - http://www.editorandpublisher.com/e
1 Jun 06 - .... doesn't work in Iraq, and it doesn't work in anywhere else. When you're engaging an adversary, putting yourself at a chivalrous disadvantage to please the court of public opinion makes you less effective on the ground, where effectiveness is the only metric that matters.
3 Jul 06 - .... no, wait, not me. But someone almost is.
1 Aug 06 - FFF, Chris Edition
1 Sep 06 - Off to D*C. Back Monday.
1 Oct 06 - [First paragraph of the Declaration of Independence] Every incumbent who voted for this [pro-torture] legislation, every bureaucrat and politician who advocated or allowed it, and every military man who endorsed it, should be removed from office, bodily and by use of force if necessary, and subjected to the treatment they have thus authorized, during which time, it will be repealed, and all such persons mentioned above will be barred from public office unto the end of their days.
1 Nov 06 - ETA:xn's comments here, and gruamach's own, right here, because they're veterans who have some interesting things to say on the subject. Kerry's actual "joke": "I can't overstress the importance of a great education. Do you know where you end up if you don't study, if you aren't smart, if you're intellectually lazy? You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq."
1 Dec 06 - There's been some bemused angst wafted around lately at the discovery that Billy Idol has a holiday album out there. While trying to find something I learned about on NPR's Morning Edition this morning (music composed for, and performed on, bicycle parts), my eyes were opened to the existence of a Twisted Sister Christmas CD.
1 Feb 06 - First, because not only are they unfounded optimists in the face of some depressing econimic truths, but because Americans are being arrested for exercising their First Amendment rights peacefully. [mainstream coverage of same is here.]
2 Mar 06 - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060302/ap_
2 Apr 06 - http://rockstarramblings.blogspot.com/2
1 May 06 - http://www.editorandpublisher.com/e
cavalorn.] One of my colleagues' grandchildren is in the office. I think he's in the 2-3 year old range. And I forgot my headphones.1 Jun 06 - .... doesn't work in Iraq, and it doesn't work in anywhere else. When you're engaging an adversary, putting yourself at a chivalrous disadvantage to please the court of public opinion makes you less effective on the ground, where effectiveness is the only metric that matters.
3 Jul 06 - .... no, wait, not me. But someone almost is.
1 Aug 06 - FFF, Chris Edition
1 Sep 06 - Off to D*C. Back Monday.
1 Oct 06 - [First paragraph of the Declaration of Independence] Every incumbent who voted for this [pro-torture] legislation, every bureaucrat and politician who advocated or allowed it, and every military man who endorsed it, should be removed from office, bodily and by use of force if necessary, and subjected to the treatment they have thus authorized, during which time, it will be repealed, and all such persons mentioned above will be barred from public office unto the end of their days.
1 Nov 06 - ETA:
xn's comments here, and gruamach's own, right here, because they're veterans who have some interesting things to say on the subject. Kerry's actual "joke": "I can't overstress the importance of a great education. Do you know where you end up if you don't study, if you aren't smart, if you're intellectually lazy? You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq."1 Dec 06 - There's been some bemused angst wafted around lately at the discovery that Billy Idol has a holiday album out there. While trying to find something I learned about on NPR's Morning Edition this morning (music composed for, and performed on, bicycle parts), my eyes were opened to the existence of a Twisted Sister Christmas CD.
