Mickey Kaus is running against Barbara Boxer in the primary. Somebody should, certainly. Fascinatingly, Firedoglake and the like are still after him for being, um, absolutely right about John Edwards, because it shows he doesn't put blind partisan hackery above not electing slimebuckets, or something.
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09:43:23 AM,
Tuesday 2 March 2010
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I had an idea today, but it's already been done.
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07:34:01 PM,
Monday 1 March 2010
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Back in high school, in order to get books that were beyond the reach of the interlibrary loan system, my mother would abuse the enormous powers of the librarian to order books for me through the library. I remember going through the giant ISBN index, Books In Print. (they still sell it!) As a result, I have several books with laminated covers. It's odd to think that these were perfectly in-print books, that could not be otherwise obtained. I also remember making pilgrimages to Harrisburg when Border's first opened. I always used to have a hunger for books, because there always books that I couldn't get. Now I am satiated. Even hopelessly out of print texts like William Cowper are obtainable as reproductions.
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09:57:39 AM,
Sunday 28 February 2010
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Yay! Seeing Apolo Ohno lose was my only actual rooting interest in these olympics. That he was a bad sport to boot is just gravy.
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09:53:28 AM,
Saturday 27 February 2010
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06:32:45 PM, Friday 26 February 2010
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A good boss is a vital component of a happy salaried life. I've had good bosses, I've had bad bosses. Good bosses are better.
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04:00:18 PM,
Friday 26 February 2010
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Is Wodehouse fundamentally uninteresting? I think so. I mean, there's nothing to grapple with, nothing to think about in a Wodehouse story. Attempts at chin-stroking Johnnie analysis run off them like water off a ducks back. This is actually fairly unusual. It isn't simply that they're farce. I could write an essay on HMS Pinafore without any real difficulty. But an essay on Blandings, I don't see how it couldn't turn into either a collection of nifty phrases, or a hopeless expedition into understanding humor. He's shut off all the normal avenues of chin-stroking. It's farce, so you can't pretend they're real people in any sens, but an utterly unbelligerent one, devoid of satire, uninterested in undermining anything. With most fantasies, you can pretend they're allegories, but I defy anyone to read an allegory into Wodehouse without straining themselves. They're simply nice stories about people stealing pigs.
What other books are immune to the St. Johns treatment?
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05:01:40 PM,
Thursday 25 February 2010
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This morning my favorite umbrella, blue, which I bought at a Boots in 1993, came down with a badly bent spoke. It's been a very good umbrella. I've also come to consider it something of a personal accomplishment, not having lost it for 17 years. But the hinges on the spokes have rusted, and today one of them twisted at a right angle instead of opening. It has still never once turned inside out, and the open button on the handle still works. It has been an excellent umbrella, the sort of compact umbrella I would not otherwise believe existed.
I do have my windproof Brookstone umbrella, but it's a bit too huge for happy pedestrianing. It's also heavy, and well, it's just a bit too geek.
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10:31:39 AM,
Thursday 25 February 2010
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Foster cat worries fish. Her target appears to have been a burmese loach, aka Snailsbane.
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10:23:23 AM,
Thursday 25 February 2010
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Some opponents of gays serving openly in the military have bizarrely overheated imaginations.
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07:44:17 PM,
Wednesday 24 February 2010
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We have discovered why the carpet on the stairs keeps coming up! The little tackless strip thingums were put on backwards!
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06:38:33 PM,
Wednesday 24 February 2010
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We were having a dry 2010. It appears to be making up for it. Really, liquid water is an unquestionably more convenient arrangement.
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04:30:20 PM,
Wednesday 24 February 2010
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