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Thoughts on Scooter Libby
I haven’t paid much attention to the Libby trial. Joe Wilson always seemed like too much of a pompous blowhard, and Libby too much of a devoted apparachik, to care much. However, like tax cuts, impeachments and special prosecutors are always good.
Two surprising things
- Fitzgerald convicted Libby on essentially technical grounds, which struck me as odd, as he’s a rather talented lawyer. IIRC he was Clinton pardonee Marc Rich’s lawyer.
- No one has brought up this reason for the animus towards Wilson; to wit: Cheney’s office is filled with 45-65 year old true believers who all work 60-80 hours a week. Along comes some guy who retired in his late 40s who tries to tell them their business (and not too well either). That has to some sort of huge insult in the late middle aged workaholic society.
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The funniest thing I read today
From Time Magazine no less
Like all language or thought police, the nigger-nazis are humorless snobs who dream of a world without toilets.
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Tea in the parlor makes the ladies holler
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Your tax dollars at work
In Lilburn in this case:
Shut up and drink, Lilburn bar patrons told
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Earlier, the city outlawed pool — the game that spelled trouble in the musical “The Music Man” — in its watering holes. Now it’s also barring karaoke and just about any other party game from places that serve alcohol.America is getting ridiculous at an increasing rate. However, my zoning for no-children idea is gaining good feedback in my informal polls.
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Freaking Vista
For some reason after the upgrade my local box would not respond to localhost. After several hours of searching, I finally see this article. Who knew write permissions on a log file could be so important?
And now of course, it doesn’t work anymore. Sigh.
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Tommy Womack at Decatur CD
Yesterday I went to see the immensely talented Tommy Womack at both Decatur CD and later Eddie’s Attic. One of the best shows I’ve seen in years. The photos are from the in-store appearance at Decatur CD.
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The insurgency in Iraq
Check out this interview with terrorism expert Evan Kohlmann. It’s a fascinating look at the current state of the insurgency in Iraq.
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Random assortment of links
- Frank Miller is going to be on G4 on Sunday.
- A 96 year old mobster has his day in court. His mob name is “The Old Man” which is rather unimaginative. His record goes back to 1932.
- Stand-in mistress sought to take wife’s abuse
- Your tax dollars at work, in hovering cloud of smoke form.
- Underground coal fires.
- A horrible abuse of language from the junior senator from Massachusetts. “
Might I ask you what your opinion is with respect to the state of American politics as regards the politics of personal destruction?
He has the perfectly descriptive term, slander, to use and yet he came up with that. He makes Bush seem downright articulate sometimes.
- A lot of interesting talk on Gore, and specifically his carbon offsetting program from Marginal Revolution and The Economist. FYI – he seems to be a part owner of the offsetting company.
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Quick tab clearing round up
- Meanest quote: they “breed like flies but die in the same way.”
- Joaquin Murietta
- The funniest thing I read on Sunday “A small group of the SOF participated in mass nudity and arson as means of protesting against materialism”. Mass nudity and arson! Probably not at the same time though.
- Why the camera adds 10 pounds.
- Bikes must ride single file on Columns Drive
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“I get real depressed and tell everybody”
That’s my favorite line on Tommy Womack’s latest album “There I Said It“. I like this album a lot. Womack has been on my top three list of favorite living songwriters for several years now, and this is probably his best work to date. It’s a bit more electric than much of his prior work, which usually i don’t like but it works quite well on this album.For those of you not familiar with Tommy, he was in the bands Government Cheese and the Bisquits and also worked with Jason Ringenberg on several albums. He’s had five (I think) solo releases; all very good. I’d ordered several of his other albums through his website and he was nice enough to send me an advance copy of There I Said It several months before it came out. I think it’s his best yet. He’s one of the very few non-bluegrass artists I listen to at this point in my musical life.
I think this is the only album review I’ve done on the blog to date.