Eric Florack on May 7th, 2007

The Music:

lotr1.jpgOK, this is going to be a little odd; I’m actually listening to the soundtrack from Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring.

Sometimes, particularly after you’ve heard a sound track a few times, by virtue of

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davidl on May 7th, 2007

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James Lileks, a terrific writer and one of the best newspaper columnists in America, says on his blog today that his newspaper, the Minneapolis-St.Paul Star-Tribune, has decided to kill his column and have him write straight local news stories. This

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davidl on May 7th, 2007

The Associated Press reported on republican in general, and the Rudy Guliani campaign in particualr, dissatisfaction  with the selction of Keith Olbermann as republican debate moderator.

Greenwald seemed to resent the characterization of Olbermann as the partisan hack that he

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Eric Florack on May 7th, 2007

Continuing from the earlier post, there’s another lesson we can learn from recent events in Europe: Perhaps our image in the world isn’t quite so damaged as the left would have us think.

We have in France a President

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Eric Florack on May 7th, 2007

CAMARILLO, Calif. â€”AP–  Gasoline prices have surged to a record nationwide average of $3.07 per gallon, nearly 20 cents higher than two weeks earlier, according to oil industry analyst Trilby Lundberg.

The previous record was $3.03 per gallon on

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Eric Florack on May 7th, 2007

Financial Times– Paris– Let the finger-pointing begin. Ségolène Royal’s defeat on Sunday night left the French Socialist party in disarray and searching for someone to blame. There is hardly a shortage of scapegoats.

It is the party’s third consecutive presidential

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davidl on May 7th, 2007

Sheryl CrowHow dumb can dumb get?  In the case of Sheryl Crow, it is pretty dumb.  From the Puffington Post:

We have risen to great heights of arrogance in our refusal to acknowledge that the earth is changing.

Can Crow

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