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What We Stand For: Guest Blogger Franklin D Roosevelt

By Barth on Tue, 03/16/2010 - 12:07am |
It simply is not possible to post all the things that need to be said, though others have said those things before and often better than your not so humble blogger can muster.So, again, in a week of great importance...
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Watching Cartoons

By Barth on Sat, 03/13/2010 - 5:33pm |
A person could blog while on short trip to Florida, certainly, but it is too hard to study Red Sox minor leaguers and observe whether Tim Wakefield can actually get off the mound, while considering world and national affairs. It...
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Vice President Jor -El

By Barth on Sat, 02/27/2010 - 9:05pm |
Someone whose views I share writes:I admit to making jokes about Vice President Gore. They are all hereby withdrawn with sincere apologies to him and anyone I presented them to. This is from tmrw's NY Times and, while I have...
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The Worst Government in the world

By Barth on Sat, 02/27/2010 - 2:35pm |
If Keith is renaming his segment "since some of the people did not get that the title was ironic" we can steal it and use it to announce that, nothwithstanding Gail Collins' well- meaning rankings, the State of New York...
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"A republic, if you can keep it"

By Barth on Sat, 02/20/2010 - 2:50pm |
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." --Thomas Jefferson to Charles Yancey, 1816 Let's see if we have this right. In a week when...
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Will Mourning Joe Ruin My Morning Again...

By Barth on Wed, 02/17/2010 - 10:29am |
...by his pious shaking of the head while explaining that the stimulus didn't work and the President should have been doing more for jobs:See the pretty chart here.Data and facts just get in the way, because just making noise is...
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Presidents' Day Quiz about our country

By Barth on Mon, 02/15/2010 - 3:58pm |
Since, by the grace of as much fooling around with calendars as we can do, we are celebrating the birthday of President Lincoln (hitherto celebrated on February 12) and of President Washington (February 11 under the calendar "we"---Britain---were still using...
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About the Olympics (a few notes for broadcasters)

By Barth on Sun, 02/14/2010 - 1:08pm |
We have all come to learn than things incessantly reported on television, and its cable bastard, frequently become accepted fact, even if absurd. Recent examples of this include the idea that unusual, record setting snow storms in places that never...
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Screaming into the Night

By Barth on Sat, 02/13/2010 - 3:13pm |
It's really all one can do. Bizarre weather crops up all over the country. Washington, D.C. gets more snow than ever before while Vancouver, B.C., trying to host the winter Olympics has temperatures in the 40s and too little snow....
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Ernesto Miranda and the Christmas Underwear Guy

By Barth on Sun, 02/07/2010 - 12:37am |
The pseudonym used in these posts is meant to protect the person who has appointed the author of this junk from having to account for the private ravings of a Public Servant. The utility of this device could be tested...

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