Carnal Reason

I wonder whether Sony will appreciate this insightful review.

Posted on August 31st, 2006 by pwyll
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In August of 2006, Larry King did an hour-long interview with Sheryl Crow on CNN. While most of the interview was devoted to other topics, most important of which was a thorough discussion of Ms. Crow’s recent fight against stage one breast cancer – she caught it early and is apparently out of the [...]

Posted on August 31st, 2006 by Paco Malo
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Via No Silence Here:
If I understand all this correctly, a senator (apparently Ted Stevens) can stop legislation all by his own self by placing a mysterious voodoo known as a secret hold on said piece of legislation.
I’m not up to date on all the hooey that governs senate rules but here’s an idea: Get off [...]

Posted on August 31st, 2006 by pwyll
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The New York Times:
JERUSALEM, Aug. 27 — Two journalists kidnapped in Gaza were released unharmed today after being forced at gunpoint to say on a videotape that they had converted to Islam.
The Times continues to amaze. It has distilled its vast and willful blindness, and its unbounded hypocrisy, into a single crystalline sentence. Bravo. The [...]

Posted on August 29th, 2006 by pwyll
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Via the BBC:
Four firefighters are due before a disciplinary hearing over their refusal to hand out leaflets at a gay pride march in Glasgow.
Another five men, who are also based at the city’s Cowcaddens fire station, had their cases considered last month. All nine will be told later whether the fire brigade plans to take [...]

Posted on August 28th, 2006 by pwyll
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Paco Malo wrote, in reply to secret fantasies of the heart:
In the above post, you both take a cheap shot at the left and also misrepresent Mr. Shaw’s comments.
This is beneath you.
In Mr. Shaw’s Huffington Post commentary, he writes that he is engaging in “[a]n entirely hypothetical yet realpolitik calculus that is ugly, and cold-hearted [...]

Posted on August 27th, 2006 by pwyll
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