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...again. The notably mild Warner-Levin resolution of disapproval would "discourage our troops and hearten our enemies," he said. A day later, I asked Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska about politicians--not Lieberman specifically--who made such statements. "They're despicable," he said, in a decidedly unsenatorial tone. "Those sorts of statements are the last refuge of a scoundrel. They suggest a lack of patriotism on the part of people like me and John Warner and Carl Levin. They hurt our democracy...
...user. The company’s customers receive a payment each time their special number is dialed; initial payments are as high as $1, and average $0.05. As a bonus, those who sign up for “Brring!” can select a ringback tone their friends will hear after the ad is played and as they wait for an answer. “Anything you can put on an mp3 player can be used as a ringback,” Tanjeloff said in an interview last night. “What we’re trying...
...appearing on The Powerpuff Girls’ LP? Not quite. Shuffling between five cities, the band’s guitarist/vocalist Robert Schneider was busy making up his own scale. I repeat: his own scale. Based on mathematical equations using the properties of natural logarithms, Schneider replaced the standard twelve-tone octave with a new set of frequencies. According to Schneider, “music theory in this scale has not yet been worked out.” The results are two 30-40 second songs enticingly called “Non-Pythagorean Theorem Compositions...
...afraid to parse policy with her readers. Those qualities helped earn Pandagon, which will continue in the care of other bloggers while she's gone, a dedicated and sizable fan base. Marcotte has made it clear to her fans that working for a campaign requires a change in tone. "I know how the game works," she wrote in a recent post. "I'm more interested in helping my candidate win than anything-luckily we see eye to eye on most issues...
...only one breathing more than a little hype into the trial. In anticipation of the French and international news coverage of the case, France's media establishment has taken on a crusading tone in covering its opening - or, as in Lib?ration's case, appointed itself the role of rear-guard in defending this attack on free speech. And this being campaign season, it's hardly surprising leading French politicians have not only spoken out on the case, but even arranged themselves invitations to testify...