Archive for October, 2003

Michele’s Confused

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Michele writes:
No one tries to understand the other. No one wants to discuss. No one wants a healthy debate. Everyone just wants to throw mud and start fights. That’s the thing that annoys me the most - sites that obviously post material that is specifically designed to start an argument or a controversy. And when […]

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Ok Sports Weekend

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The Badgers looked bad, but the Vikings lost, and my alma mater swept the Minnesota Golden Gophers. It turned out to be a good sports weekend even without the Packers playing.
“One Less Undefeated Team”
“UMD Skates to 4-2 Victory, Earns Sweep of Gophers”

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Battlestar Blegging

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The case is kind of corny, and it’s too expensive, but if anyone wants to give this editor something in return for all the pithy commentary you’ve come to expect here Battlestar Galactica on DVD would be joyously accepted. Heck, if you just want me to stop with the Howard Dean=Howard the Duck references, a […]

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Traveling to Cuba

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The Senate went along with the House and passed a bill allowing U.S. citizens to travel to Cuba. Should President Bush veto this? It’s been over 40 years of the embargo and travel restrictions and Cuba is no closer to freedom than when Castro first made it a Communist prison island. After 40+ years of […]

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Weblogs as Portals

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If Tyler Cowen is right, then TAM will never become an uber-weblog. He writes,
Glenn is so successful because he understands the idea of blogs as portals. (This is my view, not Glenn’s own self-description.) Blogs that offer too much of the author, and the author alone, are vulnerable to other blogs that cream-skim them, and […]

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ANSWER is at It Again

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For anti-war/Bush bashing coverage, visit Michele.

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Moderates=Squishes

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Frank J on moderates:
There is now a Centrist Coalition blog. I hate moderates… much more than even liberals. I bet Satan is a moderate; the best way to get evil accepted is to package it with some good. That’s what moderates do; they’re always like, “Oh! I’m so special because I don’t take a firm […]

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Badgers Lose Again

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Two weeks ago after beating #3 Ohio State, the Wisconsin Badgers were giant killers. Now, after a loss to Purdue last week and a loss to lowly Northwestern today, the Badgers are imploding. Two weeks ago, the Rose Bowl was in sight. Now, let’s see if the team can get through another game without anyone […]

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One Step Closer to Better Self Defense

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Yesterday, the Wisconsin State Senate passed a bill allowing citizens to carry concealed weapons. It now goes to the State Assembly then to Gov. Jim Doyle. He will probably veto it. Senate Minority Leader Jon Erpenbach doesn’t expect the veto to be overturned.
“Senate OKs Concealed Weapons“

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Duck Will Get Nomination

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I’m just going to say it. No longer will I keep my Howard the Duck prediction all to myself. I predict Howard Dean will win the Democratic Presidential nomination. And no, I’m not just writing this because he’s kicking Sen. Kerry’s butt in New Hampshire. I’m picking him because he’s generated the most passion with […]

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A Conversation in Montana

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mtpolitics.net got a great scoop. Democratic candidate for governor, Brian Schweitzer left a comment on the weblog which will lead to a multi-post conversation. The first question deals with higher education. This may be a blogosphere first where the candidate engages the weblogger and not the other way around.
“Interview With Brian Schweitzer“

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Duck Sighting on ESPN

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Dean supporters got some free media on ESPN’s College Gameday (and now TAM). Ben Domenech writes that it makes the Duck “seem like a Howard Stern candidate, not a real one.”

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Basic Economics

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David Bernstein shoots down a canard used by Leftists opponents of school vouchers.
“It’s Called Supply and Demand“

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Saletan Doesn’t Get It

Will Saletan can say all he wants that a partial-birth abortion has nothing to do with a birth because the baby is so small when killed (around 20 weeks). The child is almost completely out of the vagina (Oh, no! Here come the sick Google searches.) then killed. Who cares that babies born at around […]

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Bailey on Schiavo

Ronald Bailey gets way to analytical over the Terri Schiavo case. He offers long quotes from AMA and National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke reports. What he doesn’t include are the financial and familial benefits Terri’s husband Michael would recieve upon her death.
Bailey also doesn’t mention that death by starvation and dehydration is […]

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