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No more death
re: [news.yahoo.com]
by Joel Aufrecht
06:53 PM, 03 May 2006
Today's good news (okay, so this feature isn't exactly coming out daily...)
After seven days of deliberation, the nine men and three women rebuffed the government's appeal for death for [Zacarias Moussaoui]
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by Joel Aufrecht
06:05 PM, 03 May 2006
I upgraded my shredder, from an entry-level model that was a gift to a slightly sturdier Staples model that does cross-cutting, with a nominal 8-sheet capacity and a credit card slot. Its ability to chew through junkmail is not only gratifying, but provides a sense of power that overwhelms the futile anger junkmail had previously caused. In the big picture, junkmail is still an example of the tragedy of the commons, and a net destroyer of wealth, and a (misdemeanor) crime against humanity, but each envelope bugs me less than before.
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For people who have been out of the country and off the internet for the last few days
re: [www.mininova.org]
by Joel Aufrecht
11:41 AM, 03 May 2006
If you're not a big internet/blogosphere reader, and don't watch C-SPAN, then you probably missed Daily Show spinoff star Stephen Colbert's phenomenal performance at the White House Correspondent's dinner last Saturday. Four days later, the print edition of the New York Times remains silent (Elisabeth Bumiller, notorious for scrupulously respecting the Bush administration's talking points, covered the whole thing without mentioning Colbert), although an online-only (correction: it's on page A19) mentions the issue. You can download a high-resolution copy of the whole event with bittorrent or watch it on YouTube.
The obvious comments are all out there and you can probably guess what I think, so I will just quote one comment about a minor point: But when the camera pans to Scalia, it shows him laughing hysterically: not just a polite ha-ha to show that he got the joke and is being a good sport about it, but deep, out-of-control, impossible-to-fake belly-laughs. He is obviously enjoying — really enjoying — a joke at his own expense. No, that doesn't make up for Bush v. Gore. But it does make Scalia, in this one respect, a better human being than most of us.
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