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I remarked to both lameautarch and rikhei that I may be one of a very small number of people who would walk into Borders and buy Pink Floyd and Public Enemy in the same purchase.

Snagging The Piper at the Gates of Dawn could be seen as understandable to the informed observer. Syd Barrett died recently, and the news hit today. So it seemed appropriate that one might augment one's Pink Floyd collection with the album that featured his work.

Public Enemy, now that's a different animal. ( Read more... )

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World's first 3-D crop circle found in English field

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What Spike Lee movies have you seen? Which have you liked more?

when the socioeconomic pie starts getting squished

race tensions rise. At least in this country.

A conservative backlash to the massive street demonstrations over immigration is aggravating Republican leaders' carefully orchestrated plans to renew the landmark Voting Rights Act before the fall elections.

I've figured it out.

Today's Christians strive to be nice to people.

But Christ wanted his followers to be kind.

There is a world of difference.

(I know I'm generalizing. Let me say this is my perception of American Protestantism in the last five years or so.)

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Are you superstitious?

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Nation's capital declares crime emergency

Review ordered in wake of Big Dig death

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Justice Department Lawyer To Congress: 'The President Is Always Right'

The Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday heard testimony from Steven Bradbury, head of the Justice Department's office of legal counsel. When questioned by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) on whether the President's interpretation of the Hamdan case was right or wrong, Bradbury replied, "The President is always right."


LEAHY: The president has said very specifically, and he's said it to our European allies, he's waiting for the Supreme Court decision to tell him whether or not he was supposed to close Guantanamo or not. After, he said it upheld his position on Guantanamo, and in fact it said neither. Where did he get that impression? The President's not a lawyer, you are, the Justice Department advised him. Did you give him such a cockamamie idea or what?

BRADBURY: Well, I try not to give anybody cockamamie ideas.

LEAHY: Well, where'd he get the idea?

BRADBURY: The Hamdan decision, senator, does implicitly recognize we're in a war, that the President's war powers were triggered by the attacks on the country, and that law of war paradigm applies. That's what the whole case —

LEAHY: I don't think the President was talking about the nuances of the law of war paradigm, he was saying this was going to tell him that he could keep Guantanamo open or not, after it said he could.

BRADBURY: Well, it's not —

LEAHY: Was the President right or was he wrong?

BRABURY: It's under the law of war –

LEAHY: Was the President right or was he wrong?

BRADBURY: The President is always right.

The future is now

Paralyzed man masters thought control: Brain power used to control computer, operate robotic limb