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Josh:

I should be able to get a job as a talking head. For example, here's a conservative talking head (you know, what's her name, the blond, arrogant one) sounding off about the President's new SCOTUS nominee, John Roberts ( Read more... )

Josh:

Sucks. Which is why this blog will never make slate.com; ah, well. A number of things have happened:

1) Robin Lovitt, referred to in my last post, won a stay of execution from the United States Supreme Court 4 and 1/2 hours before his execution. The Supreme Court will hear the case when the justices return in the fall; Lovitt had ( Read more... )

Seth:

Josh, I promise to reply to your two serious posts shortly. Tonight was my night for correspondence and uncomfortable phone calls. Bleh. The song's right.

Finally, I've just been told that I may need to be "very focused and proactive" in arranging my future career. Crap.

Seth:

Naturally, it's the Daily Show. Jon Stewart interviews Bernard Goldberg, July 13. Makes some good points (the "cheapening of the culture" Goldberg bemoans is a bullshit, meaningless distraction; Jon Stewart is hard to talk to, since he won't let his guests go off on their self-serving sermons and is a wiseass), is quite amusing.

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Josh:

Checking my W&L e-mail today (an infrequent occurrence over the summer), I found a somewhat out of the ordinary e-mail. I'd seen the Post article, but, as usual, a friend of mine sums it up better than I can; does more than I can.

Hey All ( Read more... )

Josh:

As you noted, Seth, I continue to believe that we are fighting people who, in some ways, are not far removed from imbecility. I'm sure that there are many objectively intelligent jihadis out there. But, at the same time, the person who could write and believe this piece of idiocy

We continue to warn the governments of Denmark and Italy ( Read more... )

Seth:

A point you frequently make: The rhetoric of the maybe bombers is ridiculous. It drives me nuts.

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