Monthly Archives: July 2004

Spend, Spend, Spend

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Some will say big deal others will say w can do no wrong:

The White House will project soon that this year’s federal deficit will exceed $420 billion, congressional aides said, a record figure certain to ignite partisan warfare over President Bush’s handling of the economy.
The annual summertime analysis is expected out this Friday, said several congressional aides speaking on condition of anonymity Tuesday. That would be well after the frequently ignored legal deadline of July 15.
Showing an exemplary respect for the law of the land:
White House budget office spokesman Chad Kolton said the report will be issued when it is ready, and offered no date.
I wonder how this would work on the street:
Drug War Jackboot: You are under arrest for growing and possession of marijuana!
Drug War Victem and Cancer Patient: But my doctor gave me a prescription.
Drug War Jackboot: Tough!
Drug War Judge: Twenty years! You must obey the law.
Sure, there are a lot of laws that should be ignored. However, if you are the Whitehouse and the law applies to you then you really should set a good example.

For Classical Music Lovers and Other Interested Parties

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Yesterday Arts Journal launched a 10 day blog called Critical Conversation:

THE QUESTION BEFORE US

If the history of music is the recorded conversation of ideas, then where do we find ourselves in that conversation at the start of the 21st Century?
The conversationalists are a dozen of the “top classical music critics in America” (YMMV) and based on the early posts the discussion might be pretty interesting.
Of note, also, is the description of this blog as a 10 day blog. A short finite lifetime to have a snapshot discussion of a particular idea. And you can join in via comments.
Another aspect is that while the blog may build interest in and traffic to Arts Journal with this short life the blog will not have any focus on building long term traffic and relationships to itself.
All in all a pretty nifty idea for.

Atrios? Revisited

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Jaquandor wonders a bit why Atrios has not said something about being outed. And he is not the only one. the talking dog talks:

Atrios finally “outed” (if he really is Bryn Mawr professor Duncan Black… unless THAT is some sort of misdirection too…) and…
Well, I remember some preconvention comment by Atrios along the lines of puzzling over what would make reporting from the DNC interesting. Ahhh, here is a bit from that post:
So, anyway, hopefully it’ll be fun for me but I don’t know quite how to make it fun for you. I have some ideas, but I won’t really know how well they’ll play out until I get there.
To quote Jaquandor: Hmmmmmm.