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On the subject of funny lines, I've been wanting to share the best thing I've ever overheard here in the IT department. (I messaged the guy that he should make it his .sigline -- and he did.)

"That will require an act of God and a Change Request."

Dems Hold Breath, Nation Turns Blue

We were at the victory party tonight. Deval Patrick and Tim Murray were quite a contrast ( Read more... )

Saw "The Illusionist" last night. Favorite movie of the year so far. Beautiful, touching, excellent story. Didn't make any of the mistakes I imagined could be made in its handling of the "does he really have Supernatural Powers" uncertainty. Period costuming and setting were completely believable without distracting from the rest. A must see ( Read more... )

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Pat Oliphant cartoon from December 1, 1972

Pat Oliphant cartoon from October 18, 2006

As history repeats itself, so must cartoonists I suppose.

In other Pat Oliphant news, did anyone catch the cartoon from a couple days ago? It featured a statue of Bush in the desert, broken from the legs up (harkening to Ozymandias), with STAY THE COURSE ( Read more... )

Today I decided that the net probably has a Buzzword Bingo generator, which when given a set of words will generate random bingo cards to print out. And indeed, just such a thing exists.

I used it to create Massachusetts Gubernatorial Debate Buzzword Bingo, tuned specifically for debates between Deval Patrick, Kerry Healey, Grace Ross, and ( Read more... )

This needs to be heard far and wide:

Garrison Keillor on the new "enemy combatant" legislation just passed by the senate.
None of the men and women who voted for this bill has any right to speak in public about the rule of law anymore, or to take a high moral view of the Third Reich, or to wax poetic about the American Idea. Mark their names. Any ( Read more... )

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