CBS News | Bush To Rally Iraq Support | August 22, 2005?11:00:05 My lucky family in Salt Lake will have the dubious pleasure of a Presidential visit there; meanwhile the anti-war activists on the Cindy Sheehan bandwagon couldn’t even get an ad on one local TV station, because it was deemed likely to be “offensive to the community.” No, really it’s likely to be “offensive to the conservative power base most likely to support Bush while his ratings take a dive with everyone else.” A comment on Dan Froomkin’s Washington Post “live interactive” page from a while back comes to…
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Last night we went to see the latest offering at the Marriott Lincolnshire’s musical theater season, “A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum.” I’m really glad I didn’t read the rave reviews in the Chicago Tribune or at Chicago Critic before seeing the show, because then I would have known going in just how big a triumph Guy Adkins has in his portrayal of Pseudolus, the wily and wryly funny slave of ancient Rome. I vaguely knew the story: it’s a pastiche of characters and situations lifted from classical Roman and Greek comedies, mostly from the works…