Archive | July 26, 2007

Eyeballs to this blog site, please, Britney pregnant, not sure who father is…

Britney Spears is preggers with her third child. She’s not sure who the father is. Yes, of course, I understand the implications of this….

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VerseDay: minimalism

After last week’s fun little exchange over poetry-related topics my fellow scrogues and I agreed to make Thursdays Poetry Day here at S&R. Let me kick things off. Since we’ve also been chatting behind the scenes about the relative wordiness of things we’ve seen and written, I’d like to make today’s subject minimalism: let’s talk […]

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Summer of scandal and the death of sport?

I love sports. Always have. I grew up playing all the usual sports and eagerly tried out a lot of others when I got older. I’ve always been a big spectator, too, watching everything from football, basketball and baseball to soccer, track, cycling, volleyball, water polo – whatever was on, you know? But these days […]

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Quotabull

Q: Is it in part a response to the Democratic criticism last night over Iraq at the debate? MR. SNOW: No. Q: Did he watch the debate? MR. SNOW: I don’t think so. I don’t think he’s big on YouTube debates. — White House spokesman Tony Snow aboard Air Force One, explaining the president’s speech […]

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Russia’s sabre rattling exposes the rust on the blade

One should never forget that dictatorships are inherently inefficient. Russia, now one of the world’s largest oil and gas suppliers, has made a great deal of cash out of the energy run. Most of that has been siphoned off by cronies, apparatchiks, corruption, and outright inefficiency. When Russia declared a few days ago that they […]

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