• Spent some of today rebuilding a Palm Pilot E2 out of scrap parts.You may recall I had bought a junker to strip for parts for my own unit, but still needed a screen. So, I got another screen. Which left

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Eric Florack on January 21st, 2008

I mean, not like this stuff wasn’t expected. I’ve been talking about this kind of thing for years. But it does give us an idea of the kind of nonsense we’re in for: From the London Times:

AMERICA’S favourite television

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davidl on January 18th, 2008

Ben Smith, Politico

The radio ad aired by one of Obama’s labor allies re-injects ethnicity into the Democratic primary contest in sharp terms.

“Hillary Clinton does not respect our people,” the ad says in Spanish (original and Clinton campaign translation

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Eric Florack on January 17th, 2008

From a reader, this morning: 

One day a fourth-grade teacher asked the children what their mothers did for a living.

All the typical answers came up — teacher, nurse, businesswoman, saleswoman, doctor, lawyer, and so forth.

However, little Justin was

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By way of Memeorandum, I see that’s the question Hillary Clinton is facing.

(CNN) — Hillary Clinton faced a grim statistic in Michigan tonight, despite her primary “win” there: results revealed that she may have reason to worry about her

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Eric Florack on January 15th, 2008

I see the votes are in, in Michigan. if there’s anything surprising about them, it’s that relatively few of the blogs have made notice of the results. I suppose that to some degree, there’s a reason for the lack of

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Eric Florack on January 15th, 2008

I can’t imagine that she figured on this:

 NEW YORK, N.Y. —The Politico- Dogged by continuing racial tensions around her presidential campaign, Hillary Rodham Clinton drew a smattering of boos on Monday when she spoke at a religiously tinged Martin

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  • First things first: An Honorable Mention at the OTB Caption Contest.
  • I’ve noticed that Memeorandum thinks we have a heartbeat again. I’m not at all sure what caused them to hang up on us, but I’m glad we’re back on

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Eric Florack on January 14th, 2008

Sam Stein at HuffPo:

Obama’s presidential campaign has prepared a detailed memo listing various instances in which it perceived Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign to have deliberately played the race card in the Democratic primary.

Yeah, no shock for that. But

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davidl on January 14th, 2008

Mrs. William ClintonEric Lipton, New York Times, argues the Clintons continue to miscontrue the facts regarding Mrs. Clnton’s vote which authorized the liberation of Iraq:

In interviews and at a recent campaign event, they[the Clintons] have said that Mr. Hagel, Republican

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davidl on January 12th, 2008

Mrs. William ClintonAs Bit commented yesterday, Mrs. Clinton’s campaign looks to be going for ugly.  The Clinton loved passing B.J. off as the “First Black President’ but how dare an uppity black stand between Mrs. Clinton the Oval Office.

Eric Kleefeld

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Eric Florack on January 11th, 2008

Ya know, it’s early in the morning yet, but there’s something very wrong with that title. Else, there’s something very right with it, I can’t figure which.

Anyway, check this:

 Hillary’s willingness to tolerate Bill’s compulsive philandering is a function

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Eric Florack on January 10th, 2008

Glenn notes:

PROPHECY: Last week, Jonah Goldberg wrote:

Imagine the Democrats do rally around Obama. Imagine the media invests as heavily in him as I think we all know they will if he’s the nominee â?? and then imagine he

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Eric Florack on January 9th, 2008
  • Memo to the Paulbots: If 9/11 was an inside job, you’d not be alive to talk about it today. Think about all of what the hijackers had to do that day to accomplish what they did. You really think your

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Eric Florack on January 8th, 2008
  • There’s apparently a video out showing those Iranian boats attacking US warships. No working links to the vid itself, yet.
  • An Honorable Mention at the OTB Caption Contest. Hillary Clinton’s always a good target.
  • Two folks talking at work

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