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  1. Prog-blog.

    http://waxbanks.typepad.com/blog/2008/05/prog-blog.html

    [Aah, hell. You can get away with reading just the quote and the short second paragraph following it. The rest isn't up to snuff.] In the 'Left' blogosphere, Ezra Klein is rated more accurately than Matthew Yglesias (neither is an intellectual heavyweight but Klein seems to be the more serious of the two). …

    2 days ago
  2. Crowded House: Somerville Theater.

    http://waxbanks.typepad.com/blog/2008/05/crowded-house-s.html

    Crowded House play at the Somerville Theater tonight (Tuesday)! If you're in town, c'mon down to the show - against all laws of God and man, tickets are still available. Drop a line if you go, perhaps whiskeys could be tipped at the Burren or something?…

    3 days ago
  3. Themes, glorious themes.

    http://waxbanks.typepad.com/blog/2008/05/themes-glorious.html

    'It is possible to locate certain themes in artwork XYZ' is not meaningful criticism (it's a middle school book report). Similarly, 'This art raises questions' isn't really much of a compliment; 'problematize' isn't the most ambitious thing you can do to a concept or object. …

    4 days ago
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    M. Thomas Eisenstadt’s Blog

    http://www.eisenstadtgroup.com

    to whatsoever, is now reaping the flip side of that experience. Obama, raised by a white woman from Kansas, a distant relative of Dick Cheney, thought that by mimicking Martin Luther King’s speaking style, he could garner nearly 100% of the African-American Democratic primary vote and displace Bill as the first black president. What Barack failed to take into account is that there’s a reason why there’s never before been a genuinely African-American president and that is because we enslaved, raped and lynched

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    Acephalous

    http://acephalous.typepad.com/acephalous

    Heh? Indeed! MORE: Reader Bing Smith emails: I attended the Midvale School for the Deceptively Unreflective. The weather there is pleasant in the springtime. I like cookies and am also a fan of butter.

    11 days ago in Acephalous · Authority: 133
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    Acephalous

    http://acephalous.typepad.com

    Heh? Indeed! MORE: Reader Bing Smith emails: I attended the Midvale School for the Deceptively Unreflective. The weather there is pleasant in the springtime. I like cookies and am also a fan of butter.

    11 days ago in Acephalous by acephalous · Authority: 182
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    2008 Election - 2008 Election

    http://2008election.stackeo.com

    James Carder wrote an interesting post today on Here’s a quick excerpt … reasons: to stage a photo op in order to show an American media audience that the war in Iraq is going well, in order to secure political cover for the president and for his political

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    What one will accept, and what one will say.

    http://2008election.stackeo.com/2008/03/22/what-one-will-acc...

    James Carder

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    Blogging While Brown

    http://bloggingwhilebrown.blogspot.com

    The Blogger Racial Divide and Blogger Color Arousal  - AAPP The Blogger Racial Divide and Blogger Color Arousal  - AAPP McWhorter on Obama's speech.  - Wally The Speech on Race  - Jerid Manic Monday  - Lola Gets

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    My sisters keeper

    http://audralynn.vox.com/library/post/my-sisters-keeper.html

    given today on race, america and the role it is playing in politics.  It is stirring, deep down in your soul stirring, and it gives hope to things that before lacked hope. I can't say it any better than Wally, so go to his post and read it.

    52 days ago in audralynn · Authority: 5
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    Shop Wire Cover

    http://www.scorehort.stopshop.mine.nu/shop-wire-cover.asp

    I strung this bracelet on Soft Flex Beading wire, .019/49 strand, finished with crimp beads and Beadalon Silverplated Wire Cover ends and Crimp Covers. It is strung a bit lose so that when closed it does not put too much pressure on the ... The Wire. This was a story about a newspaper that now -- on some fundamental basis -- fails to cover its city substantively, and guess what -- between out-of-town ownership, carpetbagging editors, the emphasis on impact journalism or

    58 days ago in Shop Wire Cover · Authority: 2
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    Acephalous

    http://acephalous.typepad.com

    ] caught a lot of praise and flack for the amount of cursing on it, but I haven’t seen much in the way of in-depth criticism about how the rampant cursing works, just some standard titillation. To which I am obliged to aver: "Ahem. Ahem. Ahem." Cocksuckers need not even resort to Google Blogsearch—plain Google pulls the fuckers right on up. Ask me? Backwoods big-shot bloggers can't take advice when it's free fucking gratis.

    61 days ago in Acephalous by acephalous · Authority: 182
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    Acephalous

    http://acephalous.typepad.com/acephalous

    ] caught a lot of praise and flack for the amount of cursing on it, but I haven’t seen much in the way of in-depth criticism about how the rampant cursing works, just some standard titillation. To which I am obliged to aver: "Ahem. Ahem. Ahem." Cocksuckers need not even resort to Google Blogsearch—plain Google pulls the fuckers right on up. Ask me? Backwoods big-shot bloggers can't take advice when it's free fucking gratis.

    61 days ago in Acephalous · Authority: 133