Well, now we have a name for this. TheStreet.com does its best to debunk. But we’ll know within three weeks whether there really is anything to this, won’t we?

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Bill Stiegerwald shows some Pittsburgh good sense (in Scaife’s Trib, no less!) and points out something your average winger will never, ever admit:
The French were right:
No one west of Normandy’s beaches remembers or cares what French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin said at the United Nations on Feb. 14, 2003, as President Bush and his […]

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Always dug this song, and have been thinking about trying to rework it in a sort of alt-country arrangement for the band. 1978, the band is Sniff ‘n the Tears - with, apparently, original MTV VJ J.J. Jackson on backing vocals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFwcmU6Ql0A

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I was running the show, actually. The boss was off and I was sitting in the big chair, putting out the front section of the newspaper, when we heard via the wire that Diana had been in a crash, a fairly serious crash.

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Came up on the MP3 player on the way to work. One of Lennon’s prettiest, most melancholy melodies. Somehow appropriate for the imminent dawning of September.
There’s also a very cool version of this by R.E.M.
Busy today, light posting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_yZn2cHgCI

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The boy’s sixth birthday party took place at Golden Meadows Swim Club last Sunday, and I spent much of the afternoon in the five-foot-deep section of the pool, tossing him and several of his little friends into the air before they’d come splashing down. It was all great fun until I woke up the next […]

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Pericles thinks I’m milking this. Which I am. Because it’s hilarious. Which brings us to Dennis Perrin’s “Savior of the Men’s Room,” a rather inspiring - or something - tale of “Straight Man” Tucker Carlson’s bathroom heroics:
STRAIGHT MAN: Say there, fellas! Why the waterworks?
BOY 1: There’s a weird guy in there, Straight Man! He looked at me […]

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Hmmmmm…..

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Most excellent. MeFi links to basically every performance from George Harrison’s Concert for Bangla Desh, including this one - with Pete Ham of Badfinger on second guitar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABIHB1uJKQY

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Every now and then they slip up and let the truth through:
Gasoline prices could rise to about $9 per gallon if the United States withdraws troops from Iraq prematurely, Rep. Jon Porter said he was told on a trip to Iraq that ended this week. …
Porter did not elaborate on the assessment that gasoline prices […]

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Via Matt Yglesias, we see this map courtesy of Yuval Levin at the Corner, which shows the number of farmers in Manhattan. Or rather, the people who live in Manhattan but somehow receive agricultural subsidies, some more than $250,000 per year.

Levin correctly notes that this all rightly seems ridiculous - but then (as we might […]

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You might have seen that the wingers are baying for Larry Craig’s blood - or at least his Senate seat - while remaining curiously quiet about Sen. David Vitter’s little indiscretions. Aside from the fact that if Vitter resigned a Democratic governor would get to appoint his replacement - and Craig can safely be thrown to […]

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Shocked, I’m shocked!
Well no, I’m not really shocked. And neither are you.
New draft report saying that our Excellent Iraq Adventure has failed to meet all but three of the 18 congressionally mandated benchmarks for political and military progress:
The strikingly negative GAO draft, which will be delivered to Congress in final form on Tuesday, comes as the White […]

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Was curious to see that F&M’s got a few more projects in the works - which these days seems like a given - and, even more than that, the increasing amount of grumbling that seems to go along with the school’s plans these days.
Which in one respect is understandable. F&M pretty much gets what F&M […]

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Hilarious.

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Glenn Greenwald on how the Leader is telling us he’s going to attack Iran:
Leave aside all of the dubious premises — the fact that the U.S. is supposed to consider Iran “the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism” because of its support for groups that are hostile to Israel; that Iran is arming its longstanding […]

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Sounds about right. Kevin Drum notes that the Leader is about to ask Congress for another $50 billion to fund the surge - because Petraeus and Ryan Crocker are about to tell us the surge is working, so strike while the iron’s hot:
So that’s that, I guess. The White House already knows what Petraeus and […]

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Following the Larry Craig story, it occurs to me that what he’s accused of doing - cruising for gay sex is a public toilet - is the very thing I wrote about a couple months back at Long’s Park.

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Ramesh Ponnuru over at the Corner, wondering if the Craig business isn’t indicative of something beyond one man’s demons/perversions:
There was a period in the 1990s when every few months you’d read about some British Tory politician found dead of autoerotic asphyxiation, or somesuch, and of course it was right after the Tories had started a […]

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