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May Day what day

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Today is May Day, the global labor day, or something to that effect. In celebration I’m asking: Who here has a job? Independently employed? Retired? Student? Fulltime homemaker? Kept man or woman?

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Burningbird

Time to change

…the subject, and then go for a walk to sooth my inner savage beast. Besides, I think there are still some needy ticks out in the woods, waiting for a meal. I had a chance to look at this site in Safari last night, and I can’t believe how horrible it looks. It’s time that […]

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People Political Weblogging

Not one word

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I am trying not to focus too much on Iraq because frankly the situation over in that country makes me so angry that I want to break something. But it’s hard to ignore the reports about our abuse of Iraqi prisoners in the very prison we have used as a model for […]

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Media Political

Two and two equals zero

Thanks to Sheila Lennan I found out that the local St. Louis ABC affiliate is one of the few that will not be telecasting Ted Koppel’s April 30th Nightline show, featuring him reading the names of the service people killed in Iraq to this point. I called the station twice, and was put through to the comment […]

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Art Books

The Art of Book, Volume One

A month or two ago, Steve at LanguageHat pointed out a New York show consisting of Art Deco book bindings by Pierre Legrain and Rose Adler. I was mesmerized at the beauty of the bindings, and the concept that book binding could actually be considered an art form. I’m not an arts and crafts type of person. I don’t […]