For those people who voted for Bush because you thought he should be forced to clean up his own mess:
“Thank you.”:http://thinkprogress.org/2006/03/21/troops-in-iraq-through-2008/ Read more »

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I’ve told a lot of people that the Democrats have so many *good* potential candidates for President in 2008 that I’m going to have a hard time choosing during the primary if they all run. Having to decide between John Edwards, Barak Obama, and Mark Warner is bad enough, and who knows who else is [...] Read more »

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It is
Mean Earraigh, the Spring Equinox. Winter is over, having barely touched us this year in Northern Virginia. But it’s cold outside today, and there’s snow in the forcast.
It doesn’t matter. The days are getting longer anyway. Spring is here, it’s just going to take a little while for the weather patterns to notice. [...] Read more »

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Can the State take away your children because you engage in perfectly legal, but clearly adult-oriented, social activities *without* your child present? And can the State then order you not to talk about it on the Internet?
“Apparently so.”:http://feeds.feedburner.com/boingboing/iBag?m=150
bq. His Honor also strongly disapproved of the photos of Mary Magdalen [Rachel Bevilacqua] in a bondage [...] Read more »

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It’s been awhile since I mentioned the “Anvil and Sprocket”:http://www.anvilandsprocket.com/, our movie review site, here at Thudfactor. In one form or another, it’s been around longer than this weblog. Back when Thudfactor was rarely updated static pages, I was posting reviews here. It’s grown slowly but steadily in the nearly — six years? I can’t [...] Read more »

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