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by John Cole|  April 2, 20022:42 pm| Leave a Comment

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If you have not been paying attention to his website lately, in between his all too frequent vacations, Damian Penny is simply on fire lately on the Israel/Palestine issue.

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If you own a blog,

by John Cole|  April 2, 20022:33 pm| Leave a Comment

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If you own a blog, it is your duty to go read this, and then to go back to your website and make fun of the jackass Alex Beam.

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Interesting article about blogs. Via

by John Cole|  April 2, 20022:28 pm| Leave a Comment

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Interesting article about blogs. Via Doc. Weevil.

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Greg Hlatky has stumbled across

by John Cole|  April 2, 20022:07 pm| 1 Comment

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Greg Hlatky has stumbled across H.R.2459, a bill proposed to create a cabinet level Department of Peace, which will, as Mr. Hlatky noted, have both foreign and domestic chores. This is not, as Mr. Hlatky also noted, an April Fool’s Joke.

Other than the fact that we already have three departments responsible for keaping the peace (domestically, the Justice Department, overseas, the State Department and chiefly the Defese Department), the proposal is just a bunch of hogwash from the usual suspects. Feel free to send in any job titles that you think might be relevant for the newly created Department of Peace. Here are mine:

Undersecretary for Armpit Hair on Women

Undersecretary for Patchouli Distribution

Grateful Dead and CSNY Archivist

Undersecretary for Jesse Jackson’s Overseas Travel.

House Initiative For Peaceful Protests and Individual Expression (HIPPIE for short).

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Sorry for the lack of

by John Cole|  April 2, 20021:56 pm| Leave a Comment

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Sorry for the lack of posts, but I have been doing work I should have done two years ago. I have a few things I want to put up, and then back to the grindstone.

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This was amusing.

by John Cole|  March 31, 20029:55 pm| Leave a Comment

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This was amusing.

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Pet Peeve #125003438 If one

by John Cole|  March 31, 20023:41 pm| Leave a Comment

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Pet Peeve #125003438

If one more pundit says things are ‘spiralling out of control in the Middle East,’ I am going to get so angry blood is going to shoot out my nose and ears. If this is not already out of control, then I do not know what is. Maybe I am just a control freak.

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