The American Mind

What do you do when you hold an anti-war/Bush bashing rally and no one shows up? If your Cindy Sheehan you close up shop.
“It’s Over“

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“Poetry Jam?” On Sports Center?
Yes, you heard it right. I just put up with Stuart Scott dishing out free verse on Sunday’s games. Why? Why? Why? Isn’t replaying sports highlights enough for the sports network? I don’t turn into ESPN for culture. I want highlights.
Sports Center is losing me. ESPN has a problem when I [...]

The Racine Unified School District handed out the personal information of about 500 of its employees to financial software firms bidding on work. How this happened no one knows, not even the district. I’m guessing the companies wanted data to demonstrate their products. That’s why they invented dummy data.
What’s even more galling is the personal [...]

Silly me got too busy reading news and weblogs that I forgot to watch Sunday Insight. I also forgot to TiVo it. Anyone have a copy they can easily send me a link for. I’d like a copy to save for posterity.
P.S. Was TAM mentioned? Seeing the spike on my Site Meter I think it [...]

When not consuming mass quantities of turkey or staring one’s Christmas shopping, many have been talking about Pajamas Media. Here’s some stuffing sure to fill you up (or make you sick of the whole topic):

There’s a PJM Death Pool. I picked May 12, 2006 for the company’s demise.
Some members of the PJM Editorial Advisary Board [...]

Howard Dean, M.D.’s Thanksgiving statement is short so I’ll quote it in full:
Today Americans across the country gather together with their families and loved ones to celebrate the tradition of Thanksgiving and to give thanks for the many blessings and gifts we have received throughout the year. As a nation, we also join together in [...]

In Brussels, Chancellor Merkel said German troops wouldn’t be going to Iraq. She said, “We made clear that we will continue not to take part in training inside Iraq, but continue training in neighbouring countries.” It’s disappointing but not surprising. She has to hold together a grand coalition with former chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s Social Democrats. [...]

What am I thankful for?

Living in a free nation with brave men and women risking their lives to keep it that way.
An economic system with so much material blessings a major problem is obesity.
Magical science and technology that allows you to read these words and for you to reply back.
Family and friends who enrich my [...]

We’re not even to the 2006 mid-term elections but Hugh Hewitt is running a Presidential straw poll. Vote so we can see who TAM readers are leaning toward.

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Wendy at Boots & Sabers gives us a little taste of the weblog edition of Sunday Insight.
“Owen Takes off his Pajamas…”

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Steve Clemons goes after Frank Gaffney for saying exactly what I did: al-Jazeera could be a legitimate military target. Gaffney told a reporter,
We’re talking about a news organization, so called, that is promoting bin Laden, that is promoting Zawahiri, that is promoting Zarqawi, that is promoting beheadings, that is promoting suicide bombers, that is other [...]

CNN’s X over Vice President Cheney may have been a technical glitch but an operator taking calls for the network decided to call it freedom of speech. Some interesting quotes of his include:
“Maam, it was just a comment or opinion of someone watching the speech.”
“The point is, tell them to stop lying.”
“Tell your President to [...]

The lovely Teri Hatcher is suing a British tabloid for libel:
London law firm Schillings said Hatcher, 40, had instructed them to begin libel proceedings against the Daily Sport over articles that she says “falsely alleged that she engages in sex romps on a regular basis with a series of men in a VW van parked [...]

The next Sunday Insight hosted by Charlie Sykes will discuss weblogs and the internet. Webloggers on the show include Jessica McBride, Professor John McAdams, and Owen Robinson. I hope they mention TAM often.

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Colored bubbles.
“The 11-Year Quest to Create Disappearing Colored Bubbles” [via Gizmodo]

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