Metablogging

OK, everyone should be able to squeeze at least one blog entry out of their bookmarks, so here are mine. Actually, these aren't my bookmarks (I'll spare you the boredom of that overgrown list), but my "Daily Routine" at Backflip, the first sites I click through each...

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LCpl. Boudreaux, Again

I promised to keep you posted, no matter how tedious this becomes. Salon weighs in with a review of the controversy (you'll have to watch an ad to get access), as well as some useful ruminations on visual propaganda and the believe-what-you-want culture of the...

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Photo Not Pentagon Approved

Tammy Silicio and her husband have been fired for this photo: Tami Silicio and David Landry, a co-worker she recently married, were fired Wednesday by Maytag Aircraft Corp. of Colorado Springs, Colo., for violating federal government and company rules, said William L....

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Marines: Submit or else!

If you were a rebel in Fallujah, and you knew this: An armoured column of about 1,000 soldiers from the 1st Battalion 16th Infantry Regiment reached the outskirts of Karma today, a small village six kilometres north of Fallujah. They were attempting to clear food...

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UN Corrupt? Saddam a Jerk? No Way!

Why, I'm shocked, just shocked! The warbots are making a lot of hay over the oil-for-food scam in which UN officials and Saddam Hussein skimmed billions from the program, but I still have to ask: Why did the humanitarian disaster happen? As I pointed out in an article...

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tasty manatees

Ryan, So you're not going to distort and fabricate anymore? Sounds credible to me. But why do so many of the comments above sound and look exactly the same, with no return addresses? Oh, and you've still yet to answer my initial post. Lie, distort, evade: you've...

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Laugh of the Day Update

You'll notice that Mr. Tasty Manatees has altered, fabricated, and deleted at will on the comments board I talked about here. He also removed his warning about this Orwellian practice. Several readers have written to inform me of his alterations and deletions, but the...

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Fallujah turns in junk weapons

Marine commanders say some rebel fighters are turning in weapons as promised. But most of the weapons don't work. Did they say they had to turn in their good stuff? Peace efforts in this besieged city ran into trouble Wednesday as guerrillas mounted a heavy attack on...

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