Monthly Archives: August 2004

Gotta love hypocrisy

“I deeply resent the destruction of federalism represented by Hillary Clinton’s willingness to go into a state she doesn’t even live in and pretend to represent people there. So, I certainly wouldn’t “imitate it”:http://www.suntimes.com/output/elect/cst-nws-sside11.html.” –Alan Keyes, on Fox News, 2000.

_[quote via "BAGnewsNotes":http://bagnewsnotes.typepad.com/bagnews/2004/08/stronglike_a_ba.html]_

Gypsy tea makes me happy

It’s fair trade, organic tea blended by a single mother in Ojai who gives workshops to women about starting their own businesses. And it’s “yummy”:http://www.gypsytea.com/osb/itemdetails.cfm/ID/3.

Fairly balanced

To counter all this negative information I’ve been feeding on lately, I’ve just decided to alternate ranty entries with goofy/wacky/uplifting entries. The first one is an “eccentric menu”:http://www.kottke.org/04/08/shopsins-menu courtesy of “Boing Boing”:http://www.boingboing.net/2004/08/09/eccentric_dinermenu_.html. (I wonder if Ben counts as a fifth person?)

Journalism, San Diego style

I don’t know what makes me angrier about “this Union-Tribune article”:http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/health/20040808-9999-1n8pill.html, the topic or the amazingly transparent bias.

_(Note: I just watched “Outfoxed”:http://www.outfoxed.org/ today, so I’m in that kind of mood.)_
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