davidl on February 9th, 2010

I hate to bring up the subject of Miss Sullivan for a second time.   Miss Sullivan is two all-beef patties short of quarter-pounder.    As  Eric rambled:

BEING CRITICAL OF SULLIVAN It’s easy to do, but Leon Wieseltier does a

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Eric Florack on February 9th, 2010

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DJ Durant on February 4th, 2010

bored-tv-watchingPresident Obama has a huge problem:  jobs.  As in, lack of them.  As in, not creating any.  He promised them on the campaign trail, and he promised them as part of the $1.2 trillion stimulus package he signed a year

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on February 2nd, 2010
JonesToTheGrindstone.com
Who created “napkin art” anyway?

As I walked up the carpeted flight of stairs and choked the white enameled handrails, I wondered what in the hell I was putting myself through. Once I was at the top of the

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Eric Florack on February 2nd, 2010

Amherst WI- Well, I got here anyway. I pulled in at 7:30 local time last night… 22 hours after I got on the bus and about 35 hours since I slept last. 

The place itself doesn’t look bad. It’s not

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Eric Florack on January 28th, 2010

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  • STATE OF THE ONE: If you’re interested in reading the speech, it’s here. Frankly, I had thought to do a running commentary

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on January 27th, 2010
Tonight
Art will be a featured guest at the Des Moines Register’s web site tonight during the President’s speech in an online chat.  You can join us at this link starting at 7:45 PM Central Time.

Well, friends, tonight could

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Dan Riehl at Pajamas Media this morning:

Conservative activist James O’Keefe has been arrested by the U.S. Marshal’s Service for allegedly attempting to bug the offices of U..S. Senator Mary Landrieu. Also arrested were Robert Flanagan, the son of a

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Eric Florack on January 24th, 2010

From SPOOK86 at In From The Cold:

President Obama’s poll numbers are in free-fall, but he still has at least one “citizen” who ardently defends him, in the letters section of your local paper.

We refer to one Ellie Light,

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Eric Florack on January 23rd, 2010

Dodd Harris over at OTB makes the excellent point that:

At the core, corporations are just human constructs. We invented them to further our own purposes. They exist as concepts rather than physical objects, but have no more or less

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davidl on January 22nd, 2010

Ben Claw, Talking Points Memo, sums up Barack Obama year, 2009, on healtcare:

Well folks, it’s been one year since President Barack Obama took office. And he spent a lot of that year working on health care reform.

Correction

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davidl on January 21st, 2010

It is hard having to correct the boss.  
But I’ve been doing it for a long time and somebody needs to do.  Alas!   Eric rambled:

ISSUE AVOIDANCE: It is flat out amazing to me that the wild scramble for

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Eric Florack on January 20th, 2010

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  • THE FINGER-POINTING AND THE DAMAGE DONE: Well, by now you will have known already that there was an earthquake in Massachusetts last

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Eric Florack on January 19th, 2010

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  • BROWN/COAKLEY: The polls won’t close until 8:00 eastern time tonight, and my guess is we will see several days of

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on January 15th, 2010

Editor’s note: It’s with pleasure that I introduce to you an old friend of mine… and a new author here at BitsBlog… Maribeth Achim.

Maribeth has always been a creative sort, and so when I told her about this website

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