Two weeks ago I bookmarked this entirely vacuous web page from something called Independent Catholic News.¹ For all that time it gnawed vaguely at me. I felt I ought to respond. But why bother. They’re not listening. And yet, all it takes is for good people to do nothing ...

It’s about yet ano...

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I Googled “+Ahmadinejad +Watson” and was pretty astounded to find almost nothing. Doing the same on Blogsearch¹ provided three items.

• [Undemocracy in America] http://undemocracy.blogspot.com/2007/10/ahmadinejad-1-watson-0.html
• Wired Blog Network, and
• Sweetness and Light

All make the...

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I tried a long and meaningful post about getting straight from flickr to here. But I was being too clever, and the words vanished into the aether. So I'm trying again, with a bunch of garbage words, just to see what's what.

I tried a long and meaningful post about getting straight from flickr to...

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By G8 standards, Italy is a strange country. To put it simply, it is a nation of octogenarian lawmakers elected by 70-year-old pensioners. Everyone else is inconsequential.

I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised, but Italy’s attempt to gag bloggers is actually getting some traction in the wide wor...

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What did the duck say to the cashier when he was buying Chapstick?

Put it on my bill.

I'm not too sure how this works. Some kind of infection. But Blue Girl requires me to acknowledge her comedic genius (which I am happy to do, especially if the joke is original; she doesn't say.)

Then I hav...

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