Archive for July, 2007
Saturday, July 28th, 2007
Story of Our Times
Washington Post this morning, Page A1, “Obama Rises in New Era Of Black Politicians; Most Have Similar Résumés, Ideology”:
Although Obama (Ill.) has forged a path as the first African American with a serious chance of becoming president, his rise coincides with the emergence of a whole cohort of black politicians who share similar résumés and […]
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Friday, July 27th, 2007
The Clinton-Obama Flap
You know, I’d think the whole thing had gotten silly if it weren’t for the fact that the last people who liked to compare Democratic presidential candidates to George Bush were Ralph Nader and Howard Dean, and that worked out real well for them — as well as the people so tarred — at the […]
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Friday, July 27th, 2007
Strange Town
You know, I’ve slowly started to realize that the large number of people in Washington region with jobs that require them to wield arms or know how to wield arms means that there are probably a lot of people violating the District’s concealed weapons law. I don’t know quite what to think of this but […]
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Thursday, July 26th, 2007
The Power of Camp
Via Andrew Sullivan, “It’s All Because (The Gays Are Getting Married)”:
This has Wigstock anthem written all over it. By Oded Gross.
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Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
Life on the Edge
How are you supposed to feel when a burglar tries to kick down the door to the apartment directly above you, then comes back a couple of weeks later and succeeds in kicking in the door of the one above that? Meaning that your apartment is probably on his short-list of targets, too, assuming he’s […]
