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11:58:50 PM 
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Shanti, Shanti, Dahat, Dahat!
Nina Khrushcheva, granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev, says this at The Nation:
We found ourselves back at the drawing board, turning off George W. Bush's enthusiastic TV appearances the same way we tuned out robotic CPSU Secretary Leonid I. Brezhnev. Determined President Bush, it seems, has an invisible tape in his head playing out a collection of keywords--evil, compassionate, terrorism, national security, liberation, promoting democracy. Those who've studied the Soviet Union know that Kremlin leaders similiarly repeated words and catch-phrases for decades on end. Brezhnev, too, seemed to be plugged into an electric socket, automatically replaying his own endless broken record--imperialism, socialism, world equality, peace and security...
Meanwhile, as The Daily Howler notes, Sunday pundits discuss how realistic Our President appears to be while wearing an aviation jump suit. Like Bill Bennett scribbling notes for his next book of virtues while losing millions playing video poker, our press corps is in denial over their complicity in begetting this creature.
11:35:40 PM
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Betting the pass line
When Raoul Duke spoke about his attorney, he justified 3 decades of lawyer jokes. Benico Del Toro symbolized all that can go wrong on the idealistic path to justice. “My attorney”, on the other hand, whose services I pray I’ll never need, is a fellow Zappa fan who just got back from Vegas, fearing and loathing naught, where he gambled wisely and lost within “one sigma of self-defined limits,” taking into account the unpredictable volatility of games like craps where you will probably see a two sigma event against you in an hour of playing. He symbolizes the best idealism of law.
A country gentleman and a country lawyer, he continually astounds me with insight. You get so accustomed to hearing manufactured talking points spewed at you when all you want is a social drink that an original viewpoint at the bar hits you like a shot of unchased tequila.
We took to discussing North Carolina’s efforts to declare a moratorium on the death sentence. I went back to the reasons it was originally cast aside – basically on grounds of unfairness. But Chad (I’m pseudonyming him on Mr. Wackerman, one of Zappa’s drummers) took it to another level. He said he has no problem with Rhode Island or Vermont having a death penalty, because they have shown more than a century and a half of concern for human and civil rights. By contrast, he pressed on, the South has forfeited that right by over two centuries of racial oppression, including slavery and segregation. Since the majority of prisoners executed are black and in the South (Texas, Virginia, and Florida – the Hanson Brothers of lethal injection - have managed the job of carrying the “Red Team”), the same logical arguments that caused the death penalty to be cast aside originally are still valid.
Yeah, I agreed, looks like more than two sigma down here.
7:43:25 PM
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The finished beef jerky
6:49:01 AM
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