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Poor little Debbie. They took her off the national beat and demoted her to local news. All for solid business reasons, of course. WaPo: Read below the fold...

Via MyDD, this amazing quote from America's littlest Senator: Read below the fold...

We feel your pain!

Looks like the curse is working. Why is Google's stock in the stratosphere if they can't run blogger's server farm? Read below the fold...

Wireless Philadelphia means I can liveblog from inside The Constitution Center. Excellent!

Obviously, in my ancient Red Sox T-Shirt, I'm heavily under-dressed. For the guys, being under-dressed is a cable-knit sweater. For the women--the majority of the audience--it's a Penn T-Shirt. For these nice young people, the American Democracy Institute's Eastern Regional Summit is clearly a Big Deal. Read below the fold...

Janitorial work: The entire site has now been re-indexed using the Porter stemmer algorithm (a search for "blogging" finds "blogger," "blog", "blogged,"--and "bloggered"? Try that with Blogger...)

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Whaddaya know? A state can initiate impeachment. V-e-r-r-y interesting. Read below the fold...

Here's their site. I'm going there tomorrow to listen to Hillary give a speech and maybe blog about the event. Readers?

And actually, I thought she was great during the SOTU. She knew the cameras were on her, and whenever His Royal Lieness would say something even more egregious than usual, she'd be ready for the cutaway shot with an amazed, incredulous smile. Very classy. Read below the fold...

Money is the mother's milk of politics. So this is sweet.

Sweet, and it shows that Stirling Newberry, though a very smart guy, is just plain wrong about the blogosphere and where it's going. A Wilson, as Bobby Newmark would say. But:

Newberry's article is still brilliant; go read it anyhow. Read below the fold...

Not exiled, and still under the "White House Briefing" Banner, Froomkin writes: Read below the fold...

Here's a nice 5:00 horror; wingnut Pat Roberts[on says "Bush for King!" AP:

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts said Friday the Bush administration's domestic spying is within the president's inherent power under the Constitution, and he rejected criticism that Congress was kept in the dark about it.

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In the name of that's Civil and Dignified!

Sayeth the Grey Lady, pronounce it Bay-tor.

Dammit. Bay-tnor.

Sorry.

Who would have thought, a squeaky clean Ohio Republican! And best of all, his name doesn't sound French, like that DéLay character. Good riddance, say I. Read below the fold...

I spent the first 15 years of my professional life buried in the archives of the Italian fascist state, after several years as a research assistant to George L. Mosse, one of the great historians of Nazi Germany. Let's call it 20 years in intimate contact with evil in its most active and charismatic form.

-Michael Ledeen, When People Freely Choose Tyranny (It’s still a loser).

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The Freeway Blogger has a new animated bit up here. Read below the fold...

Looks like the corporations want to fuck the Internet.

They want to make it a lot more like cable.

Complete with cable weasels. Read below the fold...

Well, the headline--where's that damn editor who wrote it for me? Out to lunch--exaggerates. But only slightly! San Francisco Chronicle:

"For 40 years we always assumed the left would take care of our civil liberties," [Norquist] said. "If there were problems, the Democrats were the ones who would push back. But now with a Republican Congress and a Republican in the White House, the ACLU can't get their calls returned."

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Via Ars technica:

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a lawsuit against both the old and new versions of AT&T, alleging that they have illegally cooperated with the National Security Agency's (NSA) recently revealed domestic wiretapping program.

The EFF has elected to try a different tactic, choosing the class action route in an effort to hit the NSA's largest private collaborator where it hurts the most—in the extremely large wallet.

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