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One of the Christmas gifts I received this year is Heartaches by the Number: Country Music’s 500 Greatest Singles. As you might guess, it’s the authors’ attempt to rank the 500 greatest singles in the long history of country music. As all of these lists are, it’s more a beginning than an end, but the [...]

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Every once in awhile you encounter an observation so revolutionary and yet so obviously true that you have to catch your breath. I’ve recently started reading March Schmitt’s weblog, The Decembrist, and was rewarded with this:

I do think that the backlash against the Medicare bill is not long in coming, and No Child Left [...]

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I love Firebird unreservedly, but I’ve been plagued by a particularly annoying bug recently. For some reason whenever I click on a page, a blinking cursor appears just as if I were editing the page. I haven’t had much luck searching Bugzilla, so I’m going to try reinstalling. I wonder if something was corrupted, [...]

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Here’s a table of Linux equivalents for Windows software. In this world, Linux has more of everything!

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I’m no lover of Halliburton or this administration’s relationship with the company, but it seems clear that Halliburton isn’t making money hand over fist in Iraq, as is frequently alleged or implied. That still doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t be giving a lot more work to Iraqis or at least competitively bidding jobs out.

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Wikipedia, like many popular and growing Web sites, is short on hardware. They need $20,000 to upgrade and keep things running smoothly. As I’ve noted before, this is a project worthy of support.

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Dave Johnson writes about the fundamental problem we face with Bush’s core supporters. They’re rich and they don’t have any empathy for people who aren’t. I’ve often said that the fundamental difference between most hardcore conservatives and the rest of us is a lack of appreciation for the old bromide, “There but for the [...]

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The Valerie Plame affair has not been in the media much of late, but the investigation continues. Oh, and people at the CIA say that the White House is still leaking classified information in order to damage or discredit Joseph Wilson and his wife.

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Donkey Rising provides a preview of the new retirement program that the Bush administration is going to propose:

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It’s wonderful news that Libya has decided to get rid of its stocks of antique chemical weapons and its “nuclear weapons program,” but I’m highly skeptical of the suggestions that this is the direct result of our invasion and occupation of Iraq. Much has written about this elsewhere, so I’ll keep it short. First of [...]

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