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To review: The Democrats, now about to be in control of Congress, need to find someone to chair the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence ( Read more... )

Two posts in one day!

I just stumbled across this essay (while looking for one an Ecuadoran pottery...)

"You're 16, You're Dutiful, You're Online: 'Fangirls' and the Negotiation of Age and/or Gender Subjectivities in TV Newsgroups," by Christine Scodari.

I can only say: Bwahahahahaha.

I haven't been around much lately (though I did recently catch up on reading two weeks' worth of friends-list posts). Life is lifey--for many of y'all as much as for me, it seems. Possibly more on that later. For now, two things ( Read more... )

http://news.yahoo.com/photo/061031/photos_ts/2006_10_31t153611_354x450_us_iraq_forces_rumsfeld

I just looked at the Delaware Valley Branch's web site, and discovered that the music for Hogmanay this year is Thistle House plus Natalie Haas! An almost-dream line-up (the dream line-up would be multiple fiddlers, preferably including HannekeThere's really no way L. or I can afford to purchase plane tickets to go. HOWEVER, I just happen to have ( Read more... )

I don't usually like to just post links in lieu of real entries, but, hey, links are shorter, so maybe y'all link them more...

Anyway: If you care about local food, health, capitalism, and/or government regulation, check out this New York Times Magazine essay about the "Vegetable-Industrial Complex."

So, I created a website a little while back. I've been keeping an eye on craigslist, and there are a goodly number of writing gigs that I might want that I'd be in a much better position to apply for if I had a website. Step one: make a website ( Read more... )

Looks like NBC is making episodes of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip available for free online, in case you missed one. You can either watch the whole show or watch a two-minute summary of the episode if you just want to catch up on the plot points. Presumably they're doing this with other shows too; pretty smart move on their part. It's certainly ( Read more... )

In the category of events that, in the not so distant past, would have been "condemned as improbable fictions"--or at least seemed like over-the-top, exaggerated satire, check this out:

Apparently, Pervez Musharraf, president of Pakistan, has given 60 Minutes an interview in which he says that he was bullied into cooperating in the "war on terror ( Read more... )