June 2007
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Jun 30th
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Jun 30th
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Jun 29th
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Jun 29th
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“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on...”
– Chief Justice Roberts and a majority of his court miss the boat on race, precedent, and human nature in the rendering of an infuriating decision yesterday that does much damage to the intentioned climatic ends of Brown v. Board and again opens a very large door to de facto segregation and schools...
Jun 29th
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WatchWatch
Wilco’s best new song: ‘You Are My Face.’ They played the B of A Pavilion tonight, alack.
Jun 29th
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Barack lived down the street while at Harvard law.... →
Jun 25th
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Jun 16th
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Jun 10th
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Richard Rorty died yesterday of pancreatic cancer.... →
Jun 10th
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Jun 7th
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“So, why not step even further out. Just split. Leave the nest. 50 - 49 = 1. Face...”
– The Case for California Secession
Jun 6th
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Jun 6th
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Jun 4th
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Good Ole Bill, via Waxy
BOB GARFIELD: I want to ask you one more thing: Those Mac ads -- how do you feel about the John Hodgman character?
BILL GATES: I can't comment on someone else's ad.
GARFIELD: OK ... but he's you.
GATES: Yeah, I'm not gonna comment on someone else's ad.
GARFIELD: OK, well, Bill Gates, thank you so much for joining us.
(Silence)
GARFIELD: Can I just have a clean goodbye?
(Silence)
GARFIELD: OK, can you just say goodbye? Thank you or goodbye or something like that?
GATES: Goodbye
Jun 4th
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Jun 2nd