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O’Franken Further

March 30th, 2004 · Comments Off · Hot Off The Presses

Air America Radio goes live tomorrow at noon, according to their website - and they’ll be streaming audio, so I’ll be able to listen at work… but tomorrow I’m home, so I’ll give it a try and see if it’s awful, good, or awful good.
That is, if this crazy experiment to bring liberal/left of center [...]

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Playing Catchup

March 30th, 2004 · Comments Off · Uncategorical Weirdness

With limited ability to stay current with some of the blogs I read, I had to content myself with scanning headlines in Bloglines a time or two. But not all of the blogs I read have RSS feeds, and my connection was so slow using dialup at Mom’s house on the laptop that I [...]

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Sad News

March 30th, 2004 · Comments Off · Uncategorical Weirdness

Alistair Cooke’s death was sad news for us this morning; we were lucky enough to hear quite a few installments of his excellent BBC NEWS | Programmes | Letter From America radio series, owing to the fact that our local :NPR affiliate, WBEZ, broadcasts BBC World Services on Saturday mornings.
I’ll miss that warm, erudite voice [...]

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Jiggity Jog

March 30th, 2004 · Comments Off · Uncategorical Weirdness

So we’re home again. It’s been a hella fine weekend, but it’s nice to be back in our own house, and a few hours from now, we’ll sleep in our own bed. The thought fills me with contentment. Of course, the fact that I don’t have to go to work until Monday [...]

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