SALT LAKE CITY – Two men planning to throw lighted fireworks from a car were burned when they forgot to roll down the window. Duh.
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Maybe it’s breaking at last: Boing Boing reports via various blog links that Seymour Hersh is going somewhat more public with the assertion that children were raped at Abu Ghraib, and that the Pentagon has the videos. There’s a lot of discussion out there on the Net – see the comments sections of the blogs linked by BoingBoing. I would still like to know whatever happened to the story of the Titan contractor that was accused of raping a teenage boy that was reported on back in May on :NPR’s Marketplace.
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I was listening to AAR – Majority Report just now for the first time in a while, and happened on an interesting discussion with George Lakoff, author of Moral Politics : How Liberals and Conservatives Think. It’s very interesting. He proposes that political views can be categorized by two family archetypes, the Strict Father and the Nurturing Parent. As he spoke listing the attributes and belief systems of each model, it made our current political system of dysfunctional polarism sound more and more like Family Feud. There’s a lot more about how to take back control of the national debate…
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The 2004 Emmy nominations were announced: TAR is up for four of them: Cinemetographym, Editing, Sound Mixing, and Outstanding Reality-Competition Program. And hey! Futurama got a few nods, too. Wish it hadn’t been cancelled, but maybe there’s hope for it yet.
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Rance is thinking of hanging up his mouse and pulling the “Dread Pirate Roberts” maneuver. A world without the one true Rance is like a world without… little tiny green letters and amusing barbed wit. Um. I’ve been having even more fun reading the whacked out “Gus Overshaw” that he recommended, but Rance’s blog would be sorely missed. Several of us suggested solutions to make it easier for him to continue in some way; I hope he’s just messing with us and making “biddity-biddity” noises with our heads. I’ve been trying to make sense of some of the issues that…