Introducing Sen. Estes Kefauver (TN-D), the reformist politician who defeated Truman in the NH primary in 1952, worked against the party machine, monopolies, organized crime, the pharmacautical industry and comic books, refused to sign the Southern Manifesto, and wore a coonskin cap with Buddy Holly glasses and a tie. Recent history is a strange place.
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03:23:26 PM,
Tuesday 22 April 2008
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Bah. A real estate agent costs about as much as a used car, but they aren't mass-produced, branded, or tested by consumer reports.
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03:34:11 PM,
Monday 21 April 2008
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Graham flour is just whole-wheat flour, seperated, ground, and put back together. You can substitute white flour, bran and wheat germ. This to say, I can make Brown Bread just fine with what I've got.
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09:59:50 AM,
Saturday 19 April 2008
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Laundry
Buy kayak
Budget
Backup computer
groceries
inbox
Tennis
Maple Pork n beans
aquarium
catsit
bookstore
oatmeal
dishes
Investigate Graham flour
catproof basement door
nose maintenence
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09:59:09 AM,
Saturday 19 April 2008
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Robert Reich, who had said repeatedly that he was keeping out of it, endorses Obama. I admire Reich, and agree with his case, but this is only news because of the soap opera aspects, and also a sign that the fabled party insider cascade may not be far off.
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01:41:37 PM,
Friday 18 April 2008
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12:46:40 PM, Friday 18 April 2008
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A sentence that amuses me for no reason that I can articulate: The ciabatta was mediocre. I was repeating this to myself and giggling earlier. I fear I may be getting soft-headed. While we're all here, I'd also like to point out that in Super Mario Bros., ghosts only hurt you if you run away from them, and that this is deep.
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10:29:26 PM,
Thursday 17 April 2008
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This is the right approach. Employer-based healthcare is the original sin of the US healthcare system, it's the thing that makes the incentives so wacky. It isn't just the job mobility limitations, and the bias against small business. It's also that employers don't care about the right stuff, and really tend not to care at all, yet they're the one with the financial stake. As a bonus, it'd either (a) put me out of a job, or (b) change my job to producing consumer-targeted information. It's an incremental change that makes sense, and would make further reforms more feasible. I don't see any way it could make things worse.
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10:25:11 AM,
Thursday 17 April 2008
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I was ready to walk out on Juno 15 minutes in, but halfway through it did something rather clever, it turned itself from a celebration of adolescence into a condemnation of it, in what for me was a thought provoking way. It's a clumsy, floppy movie, that tries to mask it's mawkishness with tone-deaf vulgarity. I can see why it bugs fans of Wes Anderson particularly. It apes his mannerisms while just missing, the soundtrack, the joggers, the dialog, the californianess of it all. But it faked me out, badly, when it turned against cred and sided so squarely with the squares. And I think that's part of the reason it was so bad at being hip, that it's sympathies were always elsewhere. One of those frustrating, badly flawed but basically sound movies.
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03:23:06 PM,
Wednesday 16 April 2008
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01:29:47 AM, Tuesday 15 April 2008
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12:39:16 AM, Tuesday 15 April 2008
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