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Being Grumpy
I’ve been grumpy for the past few weeks, and not posting in protest to my grumpiness. That doesn’t mean I haven’t been writing, I just haven’t been sharing. I don’t know if there’s something up with the moon phase or something altering my precious bodily fluids, but apparently it’s spreading. Stoller over at Open Left…
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We Admitted We Had a Problem…
Considering President Bush’s history, this shouldn’t have been so hard… White House admits fault on ‘Mission Accomplished’ banner 1. We admitted we were powerless over reality—that our lives had become unmanageable due to our media message and really bad policy. From the twelve steps of policy screw ups.
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Frustration, and a Lack of Motivation
I haven’t written much lately. In fact, I haven’t been following much since Super Tuesday. I still do my normal rss read through, and visit the places I always did, but lately, nothing has moved me to write much. There are a lot of reasons for this. I’ve been chalking it up to my work/travel…
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Free Ride
The filing deadline in Tennessee has come and gone, and now we know who’s running, and in some cases, who’s not. The Tennessee Bush Dogs are on their way to re-election, some with less opposition than others. Lincoln Davis has drawn a Democratic Primary opponent. I’ll be keeping an eye on that race. Jim Cooper…
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Trouble on Ford Mountain
No, no one else got indicted…yet. It seems that someone didn’t get the new family hymnal and now there is some dissent in the Ford family. Let’s start from the beginning. As reported in the Commercial Appeal on Friday, Jake Ford, independent candidate for TN-09, laid out some racially divisive words on the eve of…
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Did Anyone Get the Gun Out of His Cold Dead Hand?
Charleton Heston dead at 84. You can say what you want about Heston. Certainly, his final role as figurehead for the NRA has colored my opinion of him, but I guarantee that there is at least one movie he starred in that you really like. Mine is The Omega Man. A proper obit can be…