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I’ve never understood what the big deal is with inert landfill.  Whether what lies under the ground is a pile of dirt and rocks, or some inert garbage seems to me to be perfectly irrelevant.  I understand that, if the garbage creates toxic byproducts, that should be addressed (and it is addressed with liners), but [...]

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It has been an epic Monday on the domestic front (nothing bad, just lots of frustrations and inconveniences), and it’s looking as if the afternoon will be only marginally better.  I’ll blog when I can, but would be delighted if you’d use this as an open thread.

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Sorry for the blog silence.  I’m getting better, but I pinched a nerve in my back, and have found it very difficult to sit for the last few days.  Worse, when I have been sitting, the Valium I’ve taken to enable that sitting has left me typing in Swahili — a good language, but not [...]

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Have at it my friends.  I’m regrouping:  reading news, thinking, and (gasp!) doing actual legal work.
I do have a few suggestions, though:
I’ve always known it’s an irrational way for me to think, but I’ve never been able to shake the feeling that there’s something symbolic about the Muslim loathing for dogs.  Dogs are the only [...]

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Just stuff I found interesting:
As a word person, I was delighted with Jeannie DeAngelis’ American Thinker article explaining why George Bush’s vocabulary errors didn’t matter, and why Obama’s should. “Corpse-man” is just the gilding on the lily of Obama’s disconnection from the world of true communication and real values.
Come election time, third parties are [...]

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I’ve had a few thoughts swirling around my brain today, so I thought I’d toss them in the mix.
Thought one:  Rahm Emanuel’s been getting heat for insulting the mentally disabled by using “retarded” as an insult.  The focus has been on the hurt feelings of the mentally disabled, and I think that’s valid.  More valid, [...]

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You can read my favorite opinion/news story of the day, while I get down to work I really don’t want to do.
After you read the story, here’s the interview that’s referenced in the story, with Tim Tebow showing remarkable composure as the media giggles nervously in the face of his religiously based integrity:
I’m becoming very [...]

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Sorry for not posting today, but I just haven’t felt like it.  I feel that, today, my contribution to my blog should be about Ryan and Viola, rather than about politics.  That doesn’t mean, though, that you should be shut out, so please consider this an Open Thread.

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I keep compulsively flipping between Drudge, which is updating about every ten minutes with numbers, and Hot Air, which is giving trends.  The numbers are great, the trends are disturbing.  The tension between the two is killing me.  I can’t even imagine how Brown feels (and I don’t care how Coakley feels).  I would characterize [...]

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Just haven’t had a chance to blog this morning or even to process the day’s stories.
Here’s an open thread for all of you, since I assume you are much more on the ball than I am.

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I will be blogging this afternoon, but my morning has been taken up with family stuff, including the exciting one of reinstating TiVo in our lives.  We had TiVo for many years, but when we got an HD TV, we tried switching to the Comcast DVR, because it was cheaper than upgrading to HD TiVo.  [...]

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I got an emergency research project, and slipped in a quick workout, so blogging hasn’t happened yet.  Here’s an open thread and a little Dusty Springfield for good measure.

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When the family is around, I get nothing done.  I haven’t even read the news today.  The earth could have reversed its rotation and I wouldn’t have known.  I am never left alone.  My presence is essential to all activities, whether it’s sitting, standing, or walking.  If I hear my name called again, I will [...]

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Intense family time, not to mention the fact that my brain is obsessed with a post (article?) I’m working on regarding San Francisco.  I therefore seem to be temporarily without much to say.  I do, however, have a joke in honor of Sen. Ben Nelson (one I’ve told before under similar political circumstances), who sold [...]

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You know how, every holiday season, there’s that one weekend that is the busiest weekend of the whole year?  That’s my weekend.  We attended a show last night in the City, my son has a concert today in the City, we have a business dinner tonight on the Peninsula, tomorrow my son has another performance [...]

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I’ve been reading the news assiduously today, but just don’t feel as if I have a coherent message or analysis in my own brain that’s worth passing on.  I know it’s late in the day for some of you, but consider this an open thread.
Meanwhile, a little Christmas music from Marin County, which as been [...]

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I’m going to be in travel mode all day today, as we head off to spend Thanksgiving with the in-laws.  (And one of the first things for which I give thanks every year is just how much I like my in-laws.  Imagine how grim the annual holiday would be if I didn’t.)
This trip means blogging [...]

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This has definitely not been a bad day.  It’s ranged from irritating, to neutral, to quite good — but none of it has included time at the computer.  I’m now heading off for the post-school carpool circuit, after which I treat myself to the pleasure of a neighborhood mom’s night out.  So, let me leave [...]

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I find irritating people who comment on ones stress level and then either (a) add to it or (b) do nothing to alleviate it.
My morning is taken over by matters domestic, and blogging will resume in the afternoon.

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I’ve been on the go since 6 a.m. and am only now sitting down at the computer — where I have 6 minutes until my next “on the go moment.”  I’ll be back here as of 10:30 my time and I finally figured out what I want to write about.
I’ll let you guys write about [...]

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Spoke with a federal prosecutor the other day.  She was honorably very circumspect, but she couldn’t stop herself from saying that a KSM trial in New York’s federal court system would be a “nightmare.”  I don’t know her political viewpoints, so I can only believe that she’ talking about the discovery and motion aspects, as [...]

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The race is on to see whether the Motrin kicks in first or my back goes out first.  No sitting at the computer for me right now, at least for several hours.  I’m alternating between flat on my back and moving around to ease the spasms.  I’m betting on the Motrin, of course, but am [...]

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With the House of Representatives having gone insane, it seemed like an appropriate time for a song about hitting rock bottom:
Please feel free to make your comments about the bill here.  I probably won’t be blogging tomorrow until later in the day, Pacific time.

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I’m running, but there’s no reason you can’t kvell about the victories in Virginia and New Jersey.  They are a big deal.  Also, Michelle Malkin takes a sanguine view of Hoffman’s narrow defeat in New York’s 23rd District.  While I worry that the Republican Party will take it as a sign that RINO me-too-ism is [...]

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Reality is intruding on my yen to blog.  I will necessarily be incommunicado for a while when it comes to writing here.  However, I leave you urging that you read Rich Lowry’s downright impressive article explaining just how much Obama’s refusal to go to Berlin symbolizes about the man and his presidency.
Also, please consider this [...]

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