Archive for April 3rd, 2007
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Life Delights in Life
The new Israeli baby-boom:
Ziv medical director Dr. Oscar Embon said that according to health fund reports, the number of pregnancies among women in the North is 35 percent higher now than at this time in 2006. Doctors, psychologists and sexologists explain that the “mini-baby boom” was motivated by the determination that life must go on […]
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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Back of the Envelope Math
On Sunday, I did some back of the envelope calculations and concluded Barack Obama would come in with close to Hillary Clinton’s $26 million for the first quarter. Today Andrea Mitchell reports (via MyDD):
The best guidance we have from people in the know in the campaign … is that he may be as high as […]
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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Washington Review of Book Parties
Because my life isn’t weird enough, I stopped by R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.’s book party last night at Morton’s Steakhouse, which celebrated the publication of The Clinton Crack-Up: The Boy President’s Life After the White House with bottles of Beringer, steak sandwiches, crabcakes, and shrimp the size of my palm (definitely not kosher for Passover). […]
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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Vlogging vs. Blogging
I’m going to agree with Nick Yglesias and Kevin Drum on the vlogging question. The biggest difference between consuming vlogging, which I do rarely, and consuming blogging, which I do continually, is that you can get the compressed product of a great deal of time and thought on a blog, but not in a vlog. […]
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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Isn’t It Ironic
Alanis Morisette covers The Black-Eyed Peas‘ “My Humps.” Totally brilliant.
