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I think I've cut my typo rate down a full .08 percent. Woo-hoo! (I maintain the typographical errors as some sort of charming artfulness.)

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Where Stephen Colbert is gaining me: in his parodies of Glen Beck

Public Surprisingly well-informedÂ (but it’s a multiple choice test)

Jimmy Carter was right.Â Damned right!Â (I hate it when two political magazines converge from different directions to a semi-contrarian view I’ve generally held.)

An Italian Leftist Magazine struggles to survive

Automakers struggle to survive

Te Nehishi Coates on Booker T Washington

DNC enters an anti-Republican entry into the Urban Dictionary

Come back to this one: party affiliations and relationship to the normal

Why Angela Merkel of Germany Won’t Help: her country’s population is about to implode

John Hope Franklin: a collection of stuff.

Eliot Spitzer, fools.

New Statesman (March 12 or thereabouts edition):
“Back on the Terror Trail”, Leo McKinstry, on latest violence in Northern Ireland
“Visiting the Zapatista”, Nick Rider, 15 years after declaring the war the Rebels are inviting tourists

Weekly Standard, March 23
“It Looks So Natural” How politicians handle graying hair
“History in Stone“, Ann Marlowe, Afghanistan’s historic treasures

New Republic, March 19
“The Shah of Venezuela”, Â Enrique Krauze.Â How Hugo Chavez Rules
“Obama Vs. Marx”, Alan Wolfe.Â Nope.

The Nation, March 30
Populists in the HouseÂ John Nichols.Â Special attention paid to Oregon’s Peter Defazio
“Philadephia Rising” Robert Eshelman.Â Saving the city’s public library

Newsweek, March 23
“The Myth of Kurdistan” Lennox Samuels, Paradise tarnished
“The Surprising Dark Side of the Very Hungry Caterpillar”, Ramin Setoodeh.

Mosquitoes to be shot down with SDI technology … um… why re-invent the wheel when these $20 fabric contraptions known as “Mosquito Nets” do the trick?

The Failed Presidency of Barack Obama

My relative John Sadleir was the greatest bank fraudster of his day. But, in a way, he was merely a century or so ahead of his time

“Brown is the New Green” — British Journalist Nick Rosen cannot stand the word “green”.

Is it all Chris Dodd’s fault?Â (Actually, my problem with the current AIG flap is that I had internalized this flap as inevitable back around this time… though not necessarily at anything as specific.)

St Patrick’s Day Stinks.

The US: Stronger than its Rivals.

NCAA Basketball Tournament expanded to 4096 teams

Seymour Hersh:Â Dick Cheney’s “Assassination Squad”s.Â Let the Conspiratorilizing Commence, and let it occasionally actually flicker over some truths.

Daylight Savings Time a SCAM!Â (Good lord I hate those oh-so-contrarian Libertarian/Objectivists sometimes… link comes from lewrockwell)

Republican Troubles: Steele calls Republican critics “Mice”, Vitter suffers from Egotistical Disorder with the “Don’t you Realize Who I Am?” classic; Specter gets primary challenger

29,000 Counts of Accessory to Murder.Â Historic Crimes demand such a number, I guess.

More Whites and Fewer Jobs at Day Labor Site

Matt Gallagher calls Obama out for inability to sell his House (in this market, mind you.)

Great Depression Era Wear

From Belgium:Â Marge Simpsons’ Lesbian Kiss Shocks Nation

Zoo Chimp Prepared for Attacks

Christopher Buckley offers up Some Good News

MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice:Â Together Again on Stage.Â The correct question is not “Why?”Â The correct question is “Why Not?”

Of mild interest.

Should the UK become the USA’s 51st State?

1906 Earthquake Deniers

CNBC:Â Yeah, thank you Santelli.

Frontline Inside the Meltdown Cut Footage

Okay, Doonesbury mentions “Skull and Bones”.Â This concerns this story, right?Â

The precocious 14 Year old Conservative the “Conservative Movement” is rallying behind.Â Two words:Â “Kill” and “Me”

Vision of the FutureÂ as present assumptions seem to be propelling it.

Major League Soccer is going to bring Vast Economic resources to Portland?Â Are you kidding me???Â Major League Soccer?Â (At least with Major League Baseball there’s something <i>major</i>, as opposed to dealing with the minor league / major league soccer schematics where nobody really notices a difference.)

Your 10 Minutes of Alex Jones — Webster Tarpley Conspiranoia:Â “Now they’re even talking about us in the Gyms”.

David Icke Urges Everyone Not to RiotÂ and to remain calm

al Qaeda… waiting?

America’s Lost Decade

Watchmen was so not a good movie.

Iraq’s Shi’ite Pilgrims return to the bombed Golden Dome

Barack Obama’s Weekly Address :Â Get used to it, because he’s going to repeat this template over and over again.

Ralph Nader:Â Bailout.Â Next what?

Weekly Standard “The Stupid Party”Â What’sÂ interesting is that if that titleÂ had been published just a few year’s ago, you’d know it was referring to the Democrats.Â Now you know it’s referring to the Republicans.Â Wait a few years and things will switch again.

Pop Culture Analysis:Â It’ll be all about the Apocalypse.

Letter in the Oregonian contains a factual error.Â Paul Panza:Â With state budgets for alcohol and drug treatment likely to be cut back, Oregon needs every dime it can muster to assist those in need of treatment. Lenin said religion was the opiate of the masses. It seems beer has supplanted it.Â Â While surely Lenin said that, when he did he was quoting Karl Marx.

The Zombie Banks.Â Pop Cultural influence for the current day.

Just because you’re paranoid… Bush and Civil Liberties
PAUL PANZA

Bikini Coffee begats Topless Coffee.

The Reverend Sun Myung Moon plans the next Mass Meeting with Two Congress-women to speak:Â #1:Â Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX)

Reflections on Post-Communist Central EuropeÂ from a former Czech spy

Attack on the Sri Lanka Cricket Team:Â Is this the catalyst that turns Pakistani public opinion away from Terrorism?

Bad Paintings of Barack Obama

Natural Selection in action:Â Our Dolphins are turning Pink.

Uranium Mining threatens culture of the nomadic Tuareg in Niger

Blackwater Xe Head Erik Prince Resigns

Good Luck in battling this regime.