Let’s see if we can square what Hillary says now: “I think that since we now know Sen. (John) McCain will be the nominee for the Republican Party, national security will be front and center in this election. We all know that. And I think…
Derek Bridges
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From the WaPo: Clinton goes into today’s crucial primaries in Texas and Ohio with her candidacy on the line, and (Marion) Wagner (a regional director for NOW) believes it is ignorance and bigotry that undermined it. As Wagner and other NOW executives toured Ohio last…
Derek Bridges
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I’d like to see John Stewart play the first part of the clip for her to explain tonight. It’s so blatantly dishonest, downright Bushian in its denial of reality. I know you like to be polite to your guests and all, Jon, so be polite,…
Derek Bridges
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Paul Krugman is at it again. He makes some bizarre assumptions in today’s column. He correctly summarizes the present political landscape thusly: “the public appears fed up not just with President Bush, but with his party.” So far, so good. But then he follows up…
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On Feb. 10, George W. Bush offered up this truncated, garbled summary of Barack Obama’s foreign policy: The only foreign policy thing I remember he said was he’s going to attack Pakistan and embrace Ahmadinejad. On March 2: (photo credit: David Furst/Agence France-Presse — Getty…
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“Expected to make surprise” sounds appropriate enough. I know I’m shocked.
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Lorraine, my mother in law, bought her first house in July, 2005, and stayed in it 3 nights before the levees failed and flooded New Orleans. Her Gentilly house took on about 8 feet of water, and she was stranded at Charity Hospital, where she…
Derek Bridges
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(photo credit: Daniella Zalcman) Teflon is polytetrafluoroethylene, or PTFE. The molecular structure of Teflon is based on a chain of carbon atoms, the same as all polymers. Unlike some other fluoropolymers, in Teflon this chain is completely surrounded by fluorine atoms. The bond between carbon…
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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest published instances of the word beep appeared in the late 1920s and 30s in reference to the sound of a car horn. But in 1951 Arthur C. Clarke wrote in Sands of Mars, “The carrier wave … now modulated into an endless string of ‘beep-beep-beeps.'” The beep, as we know it, was born.
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Maybe the metaphor is a stretch, but wouldn’t it have been nice if the same care taken in protecting these tress from the looming destruction of the C.J. Peete Projects (formerly The Magnolia) had also been extended to the former residents? Not to slight the…
Derek Bridges
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Bo Dollis, Big Chief of the Wild Magnolias, celebrated his birthday at Handa Wanda’s tonight. GB (I still have to work out how I’m going to refer to her here…) and I were on hand. We’re getting that Mardi Gras buzz. I wish I could…
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I’d give you an after pic but we ate it too fast. (Here’s during). Next time.
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