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Lines of communication

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. If you’ve followed this weblog for a couple of years, you might remember a time when I had classified the weblogs in my blogroll into specific categories. The categories were somewhat humorous, or not, but I couldn’t see any harm with what I did. You can imagine how taken aback […]

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The little woman

Though I sometimes wish Dean would go out and hire a strong DC insider to manage his campaign and keep him from inserting foot in mouth, my estimation of him as a candidate was enhanced when I read about his relationship with his wife, Dr. Steinberg Dean, and the fact that she doesn’t have much […]

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Good news for MoveOn

Good news for MoveOn, according to Sheila Lennon CBS has denied the organization’s request to air the winning Bush in 30 seconds ad, because supposedly the ad focuses on an ‘issue’, and CBS won’t take issues-based advertising during the Superbowl. Already people are expressing outrage, particularly since, according to Sheila: CBS will however run anti-smoking ads during the game and, for […]

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Borders, boundaries, and birds

Walking along the Riverway walk in San Antonio, I ended up at a large set of steps where a member of a local conservation group was introducing a golden eagle to the crowd. While she was talking with people, answering questions and posing the bird for photographs, I was captivated by the identical expression on […]

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Bittersweet

I am in the midst of travels, just completed one trip, about to head out on another. I hadn’t planned on writing to the weblog during these trips except that I heard from a friend who asked if I was on Blogger Strike. Since that was one of my more asinine ideas, I didn’t want […]