Friday, October 09, 2009

Weekly Wrap-Up 2

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This is the second in an irregular series of quirky and informative items that have shown up recently in the news media or in the blogosphe...
Thursday, October 08, 2009

Exposing the 'Twitter Gap'

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According to a news release from Project Virginia , a campaign consulting service, more Republican than Democratic candidates in the Old Dom...
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2009 Virginia Film Festival Program Announced

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Oscar-winning screenwriter Alan Ball . Oscar-nominated actress Annette Bening . Tony-winning actor Matthew Broderick . Tony winner Cherry...
Monday, October 05, 2009

And Now for Something Completely Different ...

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It was forty years ago today -- October 5, 1969 -- that Monty Python's Flying Circus first took to the airwaves on the BBC. A leader i...
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Friday, October 02, 2009

Charlottesville's Choo-Choo Flim-Flam

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Charlottesville is agog with the news that a new passenger train rides through town on its way to Washington and New York. Rachana Dixit ...
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Thursday, October 01, 2009

Weekly Wrap-Up 1

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Sometimes one comes across interesting, intriguing, or -- let's be honest -- silly items in the news media or around Web 2.0 that deserv...
Sunday, September 27, 2009

Deifying the Chief Executive

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Not since " The Apotheosis of George Washington " has an American president been subjected to deification to the extent that Barac...
Friday, September 25, 2009

Charlottesville Daily Suck-Up?

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For the past few days, the Charlottesville Daily Progress (a Media General newspaper) has been running profiles of local candidates for pub...
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

GOP Congresswoman Calls Out UN Homophobe

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At a news conference in New York on September 18, the new president of the United Nations General Assembly, former Libyan foreign minister A...
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Who Wants to Live in New York?

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In the Outlook section of Sunday's Washington Post , Jonathan Yardley reviews a new book by journalist David Owen (not, I presume, the ...
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Friday, September 18, 2009

Swiss Shards

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What would legendary Swiss patriot Wilhelm Tell think about this? Colonel Moammar Gadhafi (also spelled Qadafi, Kadafi, Khaddafi, Gaddafi, b...

Porn for a Cause

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Each week I look forward (pardon the pun) to an email from The Jewish Daily Forward , with a list of its most recent articles. I can always...
Thursday, September 17, 2009

Constitution Day 2009

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Today is the anniversary of the day in 1787 that the Framers of the United States Constitution signed the document and sent it on to the sta...
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