Monthly Archives: June 2002

this entry makes less sense than it originally did

Jim Henley says, amid flattery: Unqualified Offerings wishes that Sherwood would condescend to narrow his text columns, but then, Unqualified Offerings wishes a lot of bloggers would condescend to narrow their text columns. Handy tip: you can narrow Sherwood’s text … Continue reading

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fond memories

Chicago’s key contribution to civilization.

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the official cult

I applaud the Ninth Circuit for recognizing that teaching schoolchildren to recite “one nation under God” is an establishment of religion; though without the offending phrase the tots are still being taught that their first duty is to “the republic … Continue reading

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the right to drive

A Coyote at the Dog Show has second thoughts about a discussion we had lo these four months gone. Well, since I understood him then to be making exactly the opposite point from what he now reveals he had in … Continue reading

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the music of the dark ages?

Udhay Shankar sent me this link: Black Sabbath songs covered by medieval music band Rondellus. Yow! Have you heard this?

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the fragile infrastructure

BART was stuck for about half an hour this morning when its master computer crashed. If the crash were unrecoverable, I wonder how long they’d have waited before cobbling up a way to run a limited schedule by hand (or, … Continue reading

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whiz, pop

Someone’s having fun a little early: I just heard the unique sound of a display rocket.

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