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Archive for January, 2006

state of the onion: bush is a rank git

randomduck - January 31st, 2006 | Comments Off

The smug grin. The hyperbole. The need to repeat the same drivel again and again and again.
Yup - it’s BushCo delivering their annual report…. er, State of the Union.
He is, of course, leaving out a lot of details: the fact that other Presidents who’ve used FISA have obtained the necessary warrants, the fact [...]

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cd playback 2006: day 7

randomduck - January 31st, 2006 | Comments Off

More musical fun after a warm January day (believe me, this warm winter weather is driving me nuts - where’s the damn snow?).
N: The Best of New Grass Revival - New Grass Revival
O: One More Song: An Album For Club Passim - various artists
P: Hang On Little Tomato - Pink Martini
The first disc features the [...]

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post cloture unwinding

randomduck - January 31st, 2006 | Comments (2)

There has been a lot of talk - angry, horrfied, mournful, scornful, confused, raging, screaming, crying, swearing to the heavens, damning to hell, pouring gasoline on electronic personae and lighting them ablaze, reaching out with a comforting blanket - about the fact that Senate Democrats couldn’t block cloture on the debate about the confirmation of [...]

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the dems shouldn’t filibuster over alito

randomduck - January 30th, 2006 | Comments (2)

Right now, there’s a lot of chat in the liberal blogopshere about how “we all need to filibuster” over the cloture vote on Alito. The issue is portrayed as the “put up or shut up” moment that Dems need to act on.
Yet I don’t think it is - at least, in the form it [...]

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workout log: 29 january 2006

randomduck - January 29th, 2006 | Comments Off

Activity: crunches
Location: home
Quantity: 100
Type: anaerobic
Couldn’t drag my butt out onto the bike before the rain set in. It was a day where I couldn’t win: the weather would clear, then cloud up again, then clear. Whatever. I’ll get a ride in on Wednesday evening.
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cd playback 2006: day 6

randomduck - January 29th, 2006 | Comments Off

More fun, and more stretching of the term “alphabetical order.” As sprite says, “iTunes alphabetizes by first name” - can’t argue with that (much).
I: Acoustic Soul - India.Arie
J: Honky Chateau - Elton John
K: Evolver - The Kennedys
L: Imagine… All The Outtakes: The Alternate Album - John Lennon
M: Ladies Of The Canyon - Joni Mitchell
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