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Sunday, June 29, 2003 |
WASHINGTON -- Democratic presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich, who set the end of June as the time to decide on whether to stay in the race, said Friday he will continue his White House bid, with plans to make his candidacy official around Labor Day.
9:23:00 PM 
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After gobbling down a champagne-soaked peach, nearly anything looks like food. This is what T. S. Eliot warned us about!
5:06:18 PM
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pragmatic, utilitarian.
2:22:22 PM
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Found some white peaches at Harris Teeter, PLU code 4401. A bottle of Freixenet sits beside them on the refrigerator shelf (the peaches wouldn't cause excessive foaming at the pour if they well-chilled is the reasoning). Soon there will be kullerpfirsich! In a beer mug - I gave up on finding the right glasses.
1:17:59 PM
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Blix bows out of UN role
Mr Blix will return to Sweden, where he will watch developments from afar.
And he says he will be honing those skills developed in the search for Iraq's weapons - by hunting instead for field mushrooms and blueberries in the countryside around his home.
9:56:44 AM
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Shock And Awe In Mugr Altheed - Special Limited Release Edition
Turns out we didn't get Saddam in that airstrike last week. No wonder the military was downplaying stories that we might have, anxiously waiting the next news cycle. Here's what the LA Times is reporting now:
In the days that followed, the military action would be the subject of unconfirmed media reports and rumors discussed on Sunday talk shows in Washington and among the GIs stationed in Baghdad — that an Iraqi "leadership target" had been struck, perhaps Saddam Hussein's two sons, or even the deposed dictator himself.
Now residents in this wind-swept, desolate hamlet of 300 have stepped forward to give their version: Neither Hussein nor any other top Iraqi leader has ever set foot here. Of those who died in the raid last Wednesday, residents said, two were villagers — a 22-year-old woman and her infant. Also killed, they said, were some smugglers who had earlier passed through Mugr Altheed
In other news from the country as large as California, it appears President Bush should have done some touch-and-go warmups on the Abraham Lincoln instead of landing and declaring that war was over. Again, it's the LA Times injecting a bit of depressing reality into our poet-warrior's fantasy world.
Even more depressing is the naive belief than you can accomplish something just by bombing. If someone annoys you, shoot them; If a country annoys you, bomb it. Then what? Well, no plan. That pipedream of maidens strewing flowers in the path of liberating GIs has become the nightmare of guerrilla warfare. Why? They had no plan. Just bomb and everything will be okay. What we really have is what Philip Gourevitch calls "an improvised occupation." Take it, Don...please.
A Confession
Once in a while,
I'm standing here, doing something.
And I think,
"What in the world am I doing here?"
It's a big surprise.
—May 16, 2001, interview with the New York Times
(Gourevitch's comment was in The Case Of The Missing Weapons from the June 16 & 23, 2003 Talk Of The Town , The New Yorker magazine)
9:04:02 AM
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Secrets Of The Universe Revealed!
Nah, this ain’t the Weekly World News, this is for real! Adam, at the Carolina Brewery, has demonstrated a technique for freeing stuck catsup.
Adam is a bartender there. When he saw a customer struggling put a little Heinz on his hamburger, bottle fully inverted, tapping the bottom, he intervened with a lesson in practical physics. “See, the air pressure up here, “ he said, pointing at the bottle’s base, “is the same as outside the bottle.” He let that sink in a minute…yes, of course, you can’t fight air pressure. If a little catsup comes out, the pressure above is lowered, making it more difficult to get the next drop. Then Adam demonstrated what he had learned “from years in the restaurant business.”
He tilted the bottle at a 45 degree angle and tapped at the junction between catsup and the trapped air. Presto! The catsup was flowing like honey in the Promised Land. “All you have to do is break the surface tension of the meniscus,” he explained. I wonder if he’s related to Don Herbert.
7:55:12 AM
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