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by Nina Camic

Wednesday, February 04, 2004

A liberal dose of laughs

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Michael Moore (winning the 03 Oscar for best documentary) says he almost did not deliver his anti-GWB political message during last year...

Dean’s at the Majestic, I’m at home

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I went to hear Nader, I listend to Gore, I got an eyeful of Clinton as he stood in front of the Capitol, right there where they sell cheese ...

Apocalypse charm

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Newsweek (to Sofia Coppola): You’ve said that some of your happiest memories are of being a kid on the set of “Apocalypse Now.” That sounds ...

Potato, potahhhto, spaghetti, spaghettini..

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Potato and orange growers, bread-makers, pasta producers, rice growers -- all are worried about the shifting tide of consumer preferences aw...

Betcha By Golly Wow

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While listening to the debate on Public TV following the announcement of the primary results, I remembered a favorite song by the Stylistics...
Tuesday, February 03, 2004

With ZERO percent reporting, CNN is projecting Kerry the winner in Arizona

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This reminds me of the election day party we had in 1980. It was to be dinner followed by a night of TV and rowdy comments of the football g...

Tall and cuddly = a mismatch?

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How can you explain the slanderous reporting that blasts away at the warm and fuzzy traits of tall people?? The NYT today says this about K...

Growing the pool of money

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Krugman’s Op-Ed comment today is based on that tired but neglected truth: if you want something you can’t afford you can only hope for a sal...

Middle-of-the-night questions

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The phone rings at 1 a.m. and the voice of a person whom I like very much says “there are two huge mice chasing each other around my apartme...

Never assume anything

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Today was “common law marriage” day in class. Typically this is a real breather lecture – the doctrinal law is vague and undefined, the case...
Monday, February 02, 2004

Assurances and Updates

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1. No, I am not Kerry's speech writer, and the fact that the first words uttered by him today on the campaign trail were "how about...

The half-crazed halftime of the Super Bowl

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A reader wrote: “don’t you wish you had tuned in to see the scandal?” Well now, I actually saw the moment now so richly discussed and savore...

The physical but not moral superiority of humans over birds.

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In 1979 I bought a bird feeder. In 1981 I learned that hanging a birdfeeder may 1. domesticate the birds and therefore render them incapab...

Moving on, but not on your screen

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On January 12 I posted a link to MoveOn’s contest for the best commercial, depicting failed policies of the current administration. It appea...

Should charities feed the poor?

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Ann’s blog , referencing my Sunday post on the Salvation Army (below) suggests that the answer is “not necessarily.” She writes: Consider ...

�Lord of the Right Wing�

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A reader sent this link to give me a bit of cheer on a Monday morning. The worst thing you can do to yourself is minimize the link after the...

The votes that could make a difference

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If every registered Democrat was asked to bring one person who had never voted before to the polls, would that change the number of red v. ...
Sunday, February 01, 2004

An alternative evening with a groundhog

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While 1 billion (world-wide, though I assure you, NOT in Poland) watch the Super Bowl, I'm here picking up tidbits about Groundhog Day f...

Does the Ethicist blog?

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I had a question for him, and though it’s too late to hope for a paper reply, maybe I could post it and eventually somehow, through the worl...

Pointing with a nose

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Recently, a pop-up appeared telling me that the message pointer that I am using is really boring. It proposed that I consider a FREE pointer...
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