Monthly Archives: July 2004

Protected: New Web Site (at last)

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Linda Ronstadt Gets Dixie-Chicked

She’s ejected from the Aladdin casino in Las Vegas after calling Michael Moore “a great American patriot” and encouraging people to see Fahrenheit 9/11.

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Terrorist Dry Run, or Band on the Run?

Blogs have been chattering since last week about a woman named Annie Jacobsen, who wrote a terrifying account of flying Northwest Airlines 327 from Detroit to LA on which she was convinced she saw either an aborted terrorist attack or … Continue reading

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Download this!

Well, I saw the future of music last night from a front-row seat at a Prince concert. And I’m not talking about the show; it was brilliant but mostly a retrospective revue, including performances by Morris Day and Sheila E, … Continue reading

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Used books: Illegal?

The New York Times on Monday ran an article comparing Amazon.com’s used book marketplace to Napster. The fact that you can use this service to find used copies of almost any book (or CD, or whatever) worries authors and publishing … Continue reading

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Moore misbehavior

Michael Moore has been bashing Pete Townsend in interviews for refusing to allow “Won’t Get Fooled Again” to be used in Fahrenheit 9/11. (It would have been used in place of Neil Young’s “Rockin In the Free World” at the … Continue reading

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It Can’t Happen Here

And so it begins: American counterterrorism officials, citing what they call “alarming” intelligence about a possible Qaeda strike inside the United States this fall, are reviewing a proposal that could allow for the postponement of the November presidential election in … Continue reading

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It’s the possessive, stupid!

Can someone explain to me how a glaring grammatical error — “there was nothing where it’s face should be” — makes its way from a professional writer with a dozen published novels, to one of the biggest SF magazines in … Continue reading

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Here’s your “straight face” test…

There’s an arrogance in the scientific community that they know better than the average American. — Andrea Lafferty, executive director of the Traditional Values Coalition, in the New York Times today. So which bridge do you want to walk across: … Continue reading

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No Artificial Cows Here!

A new brand of milk has shown up in the local bodega lately, Cream-O-Land. Their label design somewhat resembles the organic milk brands, and proudly proclaims, FROM REAL COWS. As opposed to…?

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