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The lights in my bedroom aren't strong enough. I've come to work wearing two different colored trouser socks (navy & black). Thankfully I'm wearing navy, so maybe it's not so noticeable.

Lots of links

I didn't know I should have watched 60 Minutes last night. God, now I wish I had! Apparently, Richard Clarke put the smackdown on Bush and his administration.

Did Bush Press For Iraq-9/11 Link?

See also:

Carter: Bush wanted to finish his dad's work (short yet pertinent)

Clarke Kent (very insightful)

Iraq Intelligence Timeline (I love their snippet of February 2003: Preparing for his U.N. address, Powell removes dozens of pages of unsubstantiated evidence provided by OSP. A frustrated Powell yells, “I’m not reading this. This is bullshit.”)

the "nice price"

Philip Glass's The Photographer is interesting. To be honest, I picked it up because it was $9.99 and I'd already had a CD in my hand that was $16. But I wanted to expand my Glass collection, so I made a purchase.

It's odd. The voice parts are odd, even for Glass. I believe this was composed pre-Koyaanisqatsi, and it seems the ghost of that is present in The Photographer. And the ending is so--I don't know! It trails off into the ether. But it's not off-putting. I don't know how to describe it.

I think it was priced correctly.

via ann_arbor_ypsi

rikhei, can you believe it? This happened during the very next showing.

Man beats another in shushing incident

A moviegoer was severely beaten after he shushed another man in the row behind him during a showing of "The Triplets of Belleville" at a downtown Ann Arbor theater Saturday evening, city police said.

The 51-year-old victim was hospitalized with multiple fractured ribs, a collapsed lung and several facial lacerations that required stitches, police said.

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With all the lies she tells

I don't know how Condoleezza Rice sleeps at night.

really, tests aren't the Devil

ACLU seeks probe into school's test prayer

A middle school principal has been told it was inappropriate to have teachers give students a prayer asking God to help vanquish their "enemies" -- the standardized tests they were about to take.

[...] The prayer, which had errors in grammar and punctuation, states: "I receive your help faith, knowing that through you I shall do valiantly, for you are the one who treads down my enemies.(LEAP, Iowa)".

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"The poetic process is psychologically an escapist process."
--Wallace Stevens

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"The disordered sexuality of the Western (and some other) cultures is surely due to the fact that the sexual relationship has never been seriously integrated with and illuminated by a philosophy of life. It has had no effective contact with the realm of spiritual experience. It has never even achieved the dignity of an art, as in the Indian Kamasutra, and would thus seem to rank in our estimation far below cookery."
--Alan Watts, Nature, Man, and Woman, pp. 11-12

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The snowbald mountain
ascends, where cumulus soldiers
hunch on haunches of vapor.