I picked up a copy of John Dean’s book, “Conservatives Without Conscience.” A lot of political books have come through my house the last few years, but this is definitely one of the scariest.
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We were shut out of our offices for eight days. The first day back I took some pictures, and here are a couple of them.
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Opening day of JV field hockey today, and this dad was out there making his daughter (left) self-conscious. I’ve been instructed to only attend home games in the future, and leave the camera at home.

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This week’s fracas over ABC’s mockumentary, “The Path To 9/11,” has brought a lot of strange creatures into the daylight. Over at MOL the obsessive behavior of the local right-wingers has us on the left just kind of staring slack-jawed at them. Just when we’re really scratching our heads wondering “how can they believe this [...]
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I took advantage of the nice weather on Monday to take a walk through parts of the Great Swamp and take some pictures. It had rained for two days before, and it was a swamp to begin with, but it was still a nice walk.

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It seems as though if you’re on the web, you must want to buy Viagra while you refinance your mortgage.
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Beloit College annually puts out a Mindset List which “looks at the cultural touchstones that have shaped the lives of today’s first-year students.” This year’s incoming class was born in 1988. For them:
- The Soviet Union has never existed and therefore is about as scary as the student union.
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Edward Norton plays a very unusual magician in fin de siècle Vienna. His childhood friend (and adult crush) Sophie, played by Jessica “sexiest woman alive” Biel, is about to be engaged to the Crown Prince Leopold, the heir to the throne. She’s unfortunately out of his league, at least as far as others believe. Forcibly [...]
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Well whose fault is that? A fine review of Stravinsky: The Second Exile: France and America, 1934–1971 (see also the petulant rebuttal by Robert Craft) closes with the thought, “The composer George Perle observed when Stravinsky died that the world was without a great composer for the first time in six hundred years. It still [...]
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