Here’s another Spam concept that I find pretty funny. Some software — or spammer — or someone has decided it would be a good way to foil some filters by using random words in the *name* field. So I get email from people like “Anglophiles G. God,” “Seismology P. Cerise” [Cerise == "cherry red"], and [...] Read more »

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I understand some people are asking if Dean’s support of earlier military action doesn’t make him, you know, some kind of hypocrite given his “anti-war” stance.
It’s as though you either have to be “for war” or “against war.” You know, if you’re for war, then any war that comes along, you’re bam-right-there-where’s-my-gun-sarge. And if you’re [...] Read more »

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I know everyone who reads this blog is a very intelligent person and therefore has already seen this (probably
via Atrios), but I have to share anyway.
James Bowman (in the conservative National Review Online) takes the recent Michael Jackson case as an opportunity to complain about how women can use the law to their [...] Read more »

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My parents always taught me that you should pick your fights carefully, which advice I am ignoring right now. The fight over the memorial space in Manhattan has me bothered.
Not many people like the new design for various reasons. But not many people liked the World Trade Center when it was built either. But in [...] Read more »

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I’ve been getting some interesting blogspam recently, too. They used to just say something like “this is a good page.” But the faux comments are getting … weirder.
For example, one I deleted yesterday said this:
bq. Your page bears the necessary information for people were interested in the given question.
Um, thank you. Yes, that sounds [...] Read more »

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