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Should I write a blog entry about our new baby? Isn’t everyone sick of seeing blog posts about various blog authors’ offspring? Well, I’m not, so I’ll pretend that there are others who aren’t either. So, here goes: Natalie is here! Eight pounds, four ounces of amazing little person stuff. I’d forgotten that they came this small. I’ll post more pictures in a bit, but for now, here she is.

To very loosely paraphrase Greg Palast’s missive to most of the political press: “Ring, ring. It’s the Clue Phone and it’s for you.” Palast opens up a can of reality check. Read his piece…

Television dramas have their heroes. The prefascist hero was a policeman. The fascist hero is a torturer.

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