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Dyngus Day report

Posted on 2012-05-28 by GaryMay 27, 2012
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CNN’s Anderson Cooper is reduced to incoherence during is report on the traditional celebration of Dyngus Day, the Polish American name for Easter Monday: I gather Cooper later apologized for cracking up, and the organizers of Dyngus Day in Buffalo, … Continue reading →

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Legal memo advised Bush administration against torture

Posted on 2012-05-27 by GaryMay 28, 2012
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(Update: For more on U.S. war crime prosecutions for waterboarding, see this later post.) Years ago several legal memos surfaced in which the Bush administration’s lawyers attempted to justify the use of waterboarding and other means of “enhanced interrogation” despite … Continue reading →

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AP analysis of assertions about the deficit

Posted on 2012-05-26 by GaryMay 26, 2012
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The Associated Press recently published a “Fact Check” in response to some of Mitt Romney’s claims about his and Obama’s budget policies. It’s worth a read. by … Continue reading →

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Review: The Avengers (2012 movie)

Posted on 2012-05-26 by GaryMay 25, 2012
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Joss Whedon’s treatment of The Avengers is pretty faithful to the source material and a lot of fun. I wouldn’t rate it quite as highly as some reviewers — frankly, some of the early action sequences bored me, and I … Continue reading →

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More on federal spending growth

Posted on 2012-05-25 by GaryMay 25, 2012
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This is a quick follow-up to the previous post about Rex Nutting’s piece on The Wall Street Journal‘s Marketwatch website in which he debunked the notion that Obama had drastically increased federal spending. One point I originally made in the … Continue reading →

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Europa’s vast ocean

Posted on 2012-05-25 by GaryMay 24, 2012
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NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) website is always worth a visit, and yesterday’s entry is particularly interesting. We often think of the Earth as a watery planet because water covers so much of the surface, and evidence of … Continue reading →

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Anti-JFK coloring book

Posted on 2012-05-24 by GaryMay 23, 2012
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Yesterday I posted a review of Stephen King’s 11-22-63, novel about a time traveler’s attempt to prevent the assassination of President Kennedy. The early 1960s were, obviously, a quite different time, before the Civil Rights Act and the sexual revolution … Continue reading →

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Federal spending growth: the real story

Posted on 2012-05-23 by GaryMay 25, 2012
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(Updated; see below.) Yesterday Ray Nutting, a columnist for The Wall Street Journal‘s Marketwatch website, published something that quickly became a major topic among bloggers across the political spectrum: Contrary to what many people think, spending has risen more slowly … Continue reading →

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Review: 11-22-63 by Stephen King (2011 novel)

Posted on 2012-05-23 by GaryMay 25, 2012
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A hole in time in the storage room of a Maine diner allows passage to a specific instant in 1958, and after a couple of experimental trips, the protagonist embarks on a longer excursion to prevent several tragedies, including the … Continue reading →

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Attention students: What your teachers are doing when you’re not looking

Posted on 2012-05-22 by GaryDecember 31, 2014
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It’s not pretty. Update: Well, dang. The video appears to be gone. (It might be somewhere else on YouTube, but I haven’t time at the moment to look for it. There are plenty of similar pranks anyway.) It was a … Continue reading →

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