The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    Quiz: Guess who wrote this?

    By amike on Mon, 03/09/2009 - 11:29pm |
    I'm too old for quickies...but this is just too good to resist.  Some folks have enjoyed my ventures into literature and history.  I've got something more substantial I'm working on-a multi-part look at popular media and the "common man," but...
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    Craig Crawford: How to Properly Prepare Your Comments for Publication

    By Richard Day on Mon, 03/09/2009 - 10:39pm |
    MESSAGE OR A MASSAGE?Craig Crawford is a fine reporter. I have almost always enjoyed his appearances on cable news. He is mostly liberal although it became clear that he is one of those Texas Dems who has been slighted too...
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    Arthur of the Roundish Table--The Two Quests Continue

    By Richard Day on Mon, 03/09/2009 - 10:46am |
    Two hedgehogs are wandering through the grass, following a knight.Hey Fred.What Hilda?There is a wild boar following us. He is scary looking.They both had picked up the pace a little in their pursuit of Lancelot, but this new straggler began...
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    Hannity, O'Reilly, Cavuto, Barnes to Prez: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMORAZCog5A">"Happy Talk, keep talkin' happy talk"</a>

    By jollyroger on Sun, 03/08/2009 - 11:11pm |
    To make this post, I am obliged to reveal something not entirely admirable about myself, but so be it. Since the election, I have been drawn to spend more and more time in an orgy of schadenfreude, listening to the...
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    What Women Think About Writing

    By wws on Sun, 03/08/2009 - 9:56pm |
    With apologies to Flowerchild. If I had posted all these quotes on her thread, I would have hogged it more egregiously than I did (in my enthusiasm).   Here, then, is what smart women I admire think about writing: "Censor...
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    The Undeserving Poor

    By Richard Day on Sun, 03/08/2009 - 3:07pm |
    Alex Koppelman of the famous War Room over at Salon on Friday noted that the people from the 'Right"...are in a tizzy over an Associated Press photo that shows a man taking a picture of Obama using a cellphone....The first...
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    Strange Mideast signals from Clinton

    By acanuck on Sun, 03/08/2009 - 4:36am |
    Anyone interested in Mideast peace should read this Haaretz article carefully: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1069308.html I trust the reporters are accurately relating what they are being told -- and what the headline states: that the U.S. will recognize a Palestinian government only if...
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    Spring Ahead-But "Looking Backward"

    By amike on Sat, 03/07/2009 - 11:16pm |
    Does anyone read Edward Bellamy anymore?  I hope so, and not just as a quaint Victorian utopian novelist.  The right generally hates him, which means he must be right about a lot.  Else why try to paint him as a...
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    Arthur of the Roundish Table--The Holy Quest Begins

    By Richard Day on Sat, 03/07/2009 - 8:17pm |
    (National Geographic reports that Britain's Oldest Toy Found. The carved figurine--most likely of a hedgehog or a pig--was discovered during an excavation of a wooden fence near the prehistoric stone monument. The figurine is estimated to be over 2,000 years...
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    Making the most of what is happening

    By Barth on Sat, 03/07/2009 - 5:32pm |
    . Obligations elsewhere require that this week's post be somewhat edited versions of observations sent hither and yon during the week concerning how bad things are, how they got that way and what happens next.The best thing to come from...
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    Watchmen: Complex but Rewarding

    By allsburg on Fri, 03/06/2009 - 3:49pm |

    As DAGblog's newly self-appointed film critic, I've chosen Watchmen as my first foray into DAGblogging. And since I'm not an "established" critic, I didn't get courtesy press tickets a week in advance. No, I went to the theater last night at midnight and left this morning at three a.m. (Please, press guys, get me some of those advance screening passes next time, and maybe the review of your film won't be written on three hours sleep.)

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    Arthur of the Roundish Table--A Tale of Two Visions

    By Richard Day on Fri, 03/06/2009 - 2:20pm |
    Lancelot finished his rosaries, on a wonderful mesa, filled with green and a view of forests and a sniff of nature.  His Clementine awaited. She knew when he was in one of his moods.    To be able to follow such...
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    Ethics and Anger; Oh, and also, Feminism

    By wws on Thu, 03/05/2009 - 7:33pm |
    A few years ago I attended the funeral of a venerable Charleston grande dame whom I knew well. I respected her because she was a woman so sure of herself that, despite being a legatee of the old south,...
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    Gandhi's Diaper

    By Richard Day on Thu, 03/05/2009 - 2:10pm |
    Despite Protests, Gandhi Auction Is to Go On By Jennifer 8. Lee AND Robert Mackey Antiquorum An auction for Gandhi's possessions, including this watch, is scheduled to proceed on Thursday. Despite direct appeals from the Indian government and a last-minute...
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    The Question - TPM Edition

    By CVille Dem on Wed, 03/04/2009 - 8:02pm |
    This is the next TPM Challenge -- First, an introduction:  Quinn introduced me to a site that poses an annual question to erudite people.   Some examples are, "What do you think is true even though you can't prove it?,"...
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    March 4

    By Barth on Wed, 03/04/2009 - 6:00pm |
    After New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify the Constitution on June 21, 1788, making it effective under its terms, the Congress operating under the Articles of Confederation set March 4, 1789 as the date on which the Constitution...
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    Slavery is Alive and Well here in America

    By Ramona on Wed, 03/04/2009 - 3:38pm |
    This is my first blog post here, and I hate being a newbie, but I feel as if I've come out into the sunlight from inside the Bushman's cave, and I just can't stop talking.  I started my political blog...
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    Arthur of the Roundish table--The Confessional

    By Richard Day on Wed, 03/04/2009 - 3:15pm |
    Lancelot wandered into the chapel ruing his sins. He was depressed lately about how he had been conducting his life. He felt he worked so hard. He battled so hard. He quested so hard. That he DESERVED to love so...
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    Fool me once, shame on you. No, I'm Not Quoting Dubya

    By amike on Tue, 03/03/2009 - 4:08pm |
    Among other things, one of the courses I teach is designed to introduce my kids to some seminal ideas about democracy, and especially the relationship between democracy and reason.  It's not a rigorous intellectual history course.  I'm not an especially...
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    Arthur of the Roundish Table--The Great Race

    By Richard Day on Tue, 03/03/2009 - 1:25pm |
    Meanwhile back at Camelot:The big day is upon us, said Gaharis, clapping his hands in great satisfaction. We must balance our bets on this a little. But your stallion is beyond compare. Old Yeller shall have the day.I dunno, Gaharis,...
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    Red alert! Canada has ability to make nuclear weapons

    By acanuck on Mon, 03/02/2009 - 5:11pm |
    For a full day, that's been one of the headlines over at the Drudge Report. Well, not actually about Canada -- it's about Iran, and it's attributed to Joint Chiefs of Staff chair Mike Mullen. As you might expect with...
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    Some Questions for the Economists in the House.

    By amike on Mon, 03/02/2009 - 4:53pm |
    I tell my history students to ask questions.  I beg them and implore them to ask questions if something is confusing them.  Some do, some don't.  It just struck me I'm not practicing what I preach, and that I should...
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    Arthur of the Roundish Table (Ch-XXX)

    By Richard Day on Mon, 03/02/2009 - 11:13am |
        Sir Quixotic awoke. Refreshed. He felt so gooooood. At last he had found his love.As he awoke he looked around. The sun had been up an hour. A little chill but no clouds. He looked around. He was on...
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    What Limbaugh says, should remind us ...

    By MrSmith1 on Mon, 03/02/2009 - 8:17am |
    ,,, that whenever Rush or his minions in the GOP attack President Obama, they are attacking his strength, not his weakness. That is their way. ...
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    Julian Jaynes and The Word

    By Richard Day on Sun, 03/01/2009 - 11:58am |
    Why do we need a god at all? Every single culture I have read about has at least one god. I do not enjoy reading the Bible. The first four Books of the New Testament are short and sweet and...

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