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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
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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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Who writes the history books

Posted on March 18, 2006 by Bookworm

[I haven’t yet gotten Don Quixote signed up at WordPress, but I wanted to make sure you got to read the last post he did at the old Blogger address.] DQ here, and my shows are at it again. This time it’s Criminal Minds, who put forth an American Indian

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Bits and Pieces
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Starting over….

Posted on March 18, 2006 by Bookworm

Welcome! You found me. Blogger has been so difficult for me lately that I decided to switch to a new host. (I’m apparently not alone with having Blogger problems.) So, here I am, starting all over again, and trying to figure out how to get the word out. If you’ve

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Blogs and Blogging
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How to find other things I’ve written

Posted on March 18, 2006 by Bookworm

If you’re curious about what I’ve written before, you can find eighteen months worth of archive material at Bookworm Room, which is my old Blogger site. I was having so many troubles with Blogger, I decided to switch over, so here I am.

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Blogs and Blogging
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