Ken was right to be “suspicious of the Spanish interview”:http://www.thudfactor.com/textpattern/index.php?id=916 — the translation was accurate, but it turns out that the Spanish interviewer was _paraphrasing_, something (to my mind) unacceptable in an interview.
According to Norquist, a commenter claiming to be the interviewer and posting as “Zimba” (but unresponsive to my email) and _El Mundo_ [...]

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A brace of new reviews. I’m on “_Dracula 2000_”:http://reviews.thudfactor.com/review.php?rec=129, Glen does “_Tenchi Muyo_”:http://reviews.thudfactor.com/review.php?rec=128.

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Oh, I should probably put up a picture with this. But really, I just have a cat-related question. My cats seem drawn to warm surfaces, like receiver cabinets, digital cable boxes, and the like.
They tend to ingore these surfaces when cold, but leap upon them pretty quickly when they warm up. Can cats see [...]

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Here’s an interesting site: “John Kerry’s Vietnam Medals”:http://homepage.mac.com/chinesemac/kerry_medals/summary.html, a rather lengthy refutation of _Unfit for Command_. Unlike most efforts I’ve seen to discredit the book, Eric Rasmussen actually addresses the argument of the book itself rather than trying to discredit the book based on who paid for it, which I think is a much stronger [...]

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A while back we had a “spirited discussion”:http://www.thudfactor.com/textpattern/index.php?id=911#comment about ballots and legal maneuvering. At the time, Ken was saying that printing ballots in defiance of a court order in Florida was both morally and legally justified. I remain unconvinced, but I wonder about what’s going on in Ohio.
According to the “Dayton Daily News”:http://tinyurl.com/3s9v5 [...]

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