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Sunday, February 23, 2003 |
The director of the British Museum says the Elgin Marbles should never go back to Greece. [BBC News | Front Page]
Of course, because once you steal something, it's yours.
Stealers keepers, victims weepers
5:59:15 PM 
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Ego Boost Waiting for a load of laundry to finish, I fired up NetNewsWire and started scrolling through. Radio Workbench linked to a Douglas Anders. "Hey," I thought, "didn't know there was two of us".
Wow, that was weird. Having your own name rise up out of the internet and smack you in the face. I had to get and pace around the room for a minute. Deep down, I didn't really believe that anyone read this thing. Oh, great, now I'll have to start spell checking.
I love news aggregators!
I also love Radio Workbench
(Sorry Roger, but unless you are a leggy blonde with a Greek accent, you'll have to settle for my warm blogger-affection)
5:18:52 PM
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Sunday Afternoon in Toledo, Ohio 
Done!
(Still alive, too)
4:04:07 PM
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Sunday Morning in Toledo, Ohio 
This is not what I want to see on a Sunday morning.
Sunday mornings are for The New York Times, coffee, listening to NPR and eating cinnamon rolls in your bathrobe. I should not have to deal with this. Crap.
Also, there is subtext to such a scene if you are male, over 34 and own your own home. It is this: one day you will go out to shovel snow, and you will not come back. While your wife putters in the kitchen, while your son plays a video game, you will perish of a heart attack brought on by shoveling snow. You will die like countless generations of Midwesterners before you: shovel in hand, boots on feet, face down in a snowdrift. Your last thought will be something along the lines of, "God, let them find my body before the damn cocker-spaniel next door starts to nibble my rapidly-cooling corpse".
1:23:06 PM
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A damn fine job of coalition-building Ever get the feeling that this Iraq thing is getting worse by the day?
From the BBC
The Kurds of northern Iraq have warned that there will be clashes if troops from neighbouring Turkey cross the border.
Ankara is demanding that Turkish forces should enter the north of the country to secure Turkey's interests if the US and Britain go ahead with an attack on Iraq.
Kurdish spokesmen have said that their guerrillas who control the north will oppose any Turkish intervention.
Regional tensions are rising in advance of expected military action by the US and its allies and the atmosphere between two of those allies - the Turks and the Iraqi Kurds - is becoming increasingly embittered.
We claim that we want to help the Kurds, but to do so, we have to promise to allow the Turks into their territory, resulting in armed conflict between our two allies. Which will bring in the Iranians, just to make things more unpleasent.
9:52:00 AM
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