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...When you look at the logo, you may worry that we forgot our name overnight, skipped a letter, or have decided that 'Googe' has a better ring to it," Google's Webmaster and official doodler Dennis Hwang wrote on a company blog in response to the blogosphere's blather. "None of the above. I just know that those with true romance and poetry in their soul will see the subtlety immediately. And if you're feeling grouchy today, may I suggest eating a strawberry...
...course you do. Which leads to the next question: Why should you bother? If so blatant a fiction is placed in a co-starring role into an account of a real life, what can you usefully take away from the movie? That blather about being "inspired" by a good book when what they're really talking about is travesty is an excellent clue. So is that stuff about expressing "what might have been Arbus' inner experience." It is really a statement of desperation. It might just as well not have reflected her inner experience. How are we to know...
...easy to summarize the Senate debate over judicial nominees and the talk of legislative "nuclear options" as boring political blather best left to politicians. But the President can nominate Supreme Court Justices, who, if confirmed, have unique power over every area of our lives. The rulings of those judges could mean the reversal of long-standing court decisions and laws protecting our rights and privacy...
...autobiography should carry him effortlessly through the celebrity barrier, though it is not likely that talk-show hosts will draw the usual life-style blather from this tough old rooster. The world he describes is an arena of endless combat where victory means maneuvering behind your opponents and "hammering'em." It happened to Yeager over France, when he was flying his P-51 Mustang and three German fighters jumped him. He parachuted, evaded capture with the help of the underground, and not only made it to England but got the rules bent to allow him back into...
...ARENA: Joe Klein on Kerry's weakness for market-tested blather...