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Bilingualism and HBO

Posted on March 20, 2006 by Bookworm

Sometimes, someone writes an article that manages to touch upon more than one issue near and dear to me. Catherine Seipp managed to do just that when she wrote about Walkout, a new HBO film. Walkout is about historic injustice, circa 1968: You’d need a heart of stone not to

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Bilingualism, TV
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Another Blogger defection

Posted on March 20, 2006 by Bookworm

One of my blogfriends, ExPreacherMan, has also abandoned Blogger for WordPress.  His reason? We are fed up with Google’s leftist politics… for those who do not know — BlogSpot – Blogger is owned by Google, the entrepreneurial voice and supporter of the left. I’m not quite as strong a conservative

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Bits and Pieces
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Okay, I’m with you on everything but the worms

Posted on March 20, 2006 by Bookworm

Shortly after my first child was born, I heard that the best house for raising a healthy child is one that is fairly well-organized, and slightly dirty. “I can do that,” I thought. I mean, that’s how my house has always been. I grew up in the immaculate house of

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Health
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Again, it’s what they don’t say that’s interesting

Posted on March 20, 2006 by Bookworm

Today, the SF Chron got around to acknowledging how pathetic the anti-War protests have been around the world. Indeed, the Chron mentioned this surprising little fact in both the lede and the first paragraph: Fewer Protest Iraq War’s 3rd Anniversary Protesters marking the third anniversary of the Iraq war made

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Anti-war, Media matters
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Back in the saddle

Posted on March 20, 2006 by Bookworm

Busy, busy day, but I’ll back to my diatribes this evening or tomorrow.  Sorry for the silence but, as a self-employed person, I can’t be too sad when my clients are knocking at the door seeking my services.

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Bits and Pieces
5 comments

Separating facts from editorializing

Posted on March 19, 2006 by Bookworm

Jennifer Loven is at it again. She’s the political writer for AP who always comes out with anti-Bush stories, and who always, somehow, manages to forget to disclose that her husband is a former Clinton employee and was working for John Kerry last I heard. I took her latest “news”

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Bits and Pieces, Media matters
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Triumphing over adversity

Posted on March 19, 2006 by Bookworm

My parents, despite fairly awful childhoods (the Depression, abandonment, Nazis, internment, major battles) did pretty darn well.  They lived normal lives, raised children, made a lovely home, etc.  Lots of people do that, which may be why I’m confused about why we in America make so many excuses for disadvantaged

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Uplifting stories
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The non-blame game

Posted on March 19, 2006 by Bookworm

If you’ve been thinking that official agencies and mainstream media outlets have been remarkably coy about reporting Muslim violence, you’re not alone. The examples are easy to find: it took a month before anyone bothered to make the anti-Semitic connection with Ilan Halimi’s murder; the Oklahoma University bombing was presented

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Media matters, Muslim violence
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Embarrassing numbers at home and abroad.

Posted on March 19, 2006 by Bookworm

I just read a fascinating article about the anti-War march in San Francisco — fascinating, not for what it says, but for what it doesn’t say. The lede is “Anti-war protests in S.F., other cities draw thousands.” The first paragraphs again exude awe about the sheer numbers: On the third

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Anti-war, France, Iraq
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Of protests and chickens

Posted on March 18, 2006 by Bookworm

I had a wonderful law school flashback when I visited Michelle Malkin’s blog just now.  She has a picture of an anti-War protestor.  Can you spot what’s wrong with this picture? As Malkin rightly points out, this protestor got just a little confused with the Mercedes symbol: When I was

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Silly Stuff
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Being obvious about it

Posted on March 18, 2006 by Bookworm

It would seem to me that, if you’re colluding with bad guys, you’d prefer that this collusion be low key — and the bad guys would prefer it to, so that it wouldn’t look as if you’re in their camp for PR purposes.  Somehow this basic fact about allegiances and

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BBC, Palestinians
4 comments

Quality literature for quality kids

Posted on March 18, 2006 by Bookworm

Laer has a rather horrifying exposé about a hot book series called Gossip Girls. You should read his post and, if you have young girls in your house, you might want to keep a weather eye on their bookshelf, backpack and library bag. This stuff is trashy by any standards,

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Literature
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Press releases as they should be written

Posted on March 18, 2006 by Bookworm

Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for Earth has just begun! Temporarily anozinizing our episode will NOT stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies. Curses and drat! You have obstructed us for now, but your feeble bid to save humanity will

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Silly Stuff
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Not quite the head of steam they wanted

Posted on March 18, 2006 by Bookworm

It was inevitable, I guess, that with the War’s third anniversary upon us, angry people would be marching like crazy (don’t these people have lives?). If you go to Drudge, you see a picture of what looks like just masses of people: That looks pretty serious and, as an aside,

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Iraq
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An insight into judicial activism

Posted on March 18, 2006 by Bookworm

[This is one of my recent posts that was pretty much unavailable due to Blogger troubles, so I’m republishing it, slightly edited, here.] Apparently Justice Ginsburg, while in South Africa, was heaping disrespect on the American Constitution. (What is it lately with American public figures going abroad to denigrate America?

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Judges, Judicial activism, Strict constructionism
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