HEADLINE: SACHS HAS UPDATED HIS BLOG

SEE here.

AND tell him to update more frequently. ESPECIALLY WHEN I SEE HIM IN CALIFORNIA THIS WEEKEND.

MEANWHILE, BM continues to do a good job updating his blog regularly and finding bits of spooky coral.

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RYAN MCSHOWOFF WANTS TO KNOW IF I UPDATED MY BLOG TODAY

DID HE update his blog?

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DRIVE GERVAIS

SPEAKING OF INCREDIBLY FAT AND BALD, I presume you all know about this, yes?

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THAT'S NOT MY HAIR

IT'S A TIME HELMET. Come on, Matt Tobey. Get it right.

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HERE IS THE TRUE STORY

RYAN unveils the horrid truth, from a time long ago (2001), before I was fat and balding.

PS: Thank you, CC Insider and ANGRY Jesse Thorn, for defending me. OR AT LEAST MY HAIR.

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THANK YOU ALL

WHILE EVERYONE, including Xeni, had proposed able solutions, I found Chris's suggestion of cutting and pasting within the "Edit HTML" pane to do the trick.

THAT IS: if it works.

THANK YOU, in any case.

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TRYING AGAIN

I AM SEEING THIS. Are you?

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I DON'T GET IT

I CAN SEE THE VIDEO when I check Blogger's "Preview" mode.

BUT NO ONE CAN SEE IT once it gets published.

XENI--can you help?

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SOMEONE TO HOLD ON

MY LATEST ATTEMPT to embed the brilliance of bOINGbOING.tv



"SPAM THEATER."

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MIRMAN? MOREMAN!!!!

WATCH THIS, SHELLEY--I'm going to blog this right now.

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MORE FROM DETROIT OCTANE

Minimal blog activity due to television.

See you tomorrow.

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NPR and TRAUMA

LISTENING TO NPR this morning (imagine that) re: a panel of PA women voters speaking on the state of the primary election, I had exactly two faults.

1. The listener who is concerned she has not heard enough about how the White House will specifically be different under either Democratic administration.

2. I think we're all traumatized by the Republican attack machine. YES, they will "pounce," come the general election. But we're already seeing them pounce. And we're already seeing (one) candidate effectively fight back against those right wing attacks. But there seems to be this idea all the same that, when they REALLY REALLY pounce, we're history, no matter how powerful our ideas, how sophisticated our election organization, how strong we are on counter attack, and no matter how weak their candidate.

WE REALLY NEED TO GET OVER THIS. McCain is a weak candidate. In my mind, the only thing that would really make him a strong candidate is having Clinton as a rival. But even if you don't agree, you must agree to the truth: DEMOCRATIC REGISTRATION IS UP, REPUBLICAN REGISTRATION IS DOWN, THE BUSH WHITE HOUSE IS INCREDIBLY UNPOPULAR, MCCAIN HAS TERRIBLE LIABILITIES,

...and the non-issue of both the Wright- and Bittter-gate controversy among the actual voters (most polls remain unchanged) suggest that among actual voters (if not the media) the "attack politics" that so frightened us away from core principles in 2004 really aren't as effective as we fear they are.

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ASTONISHING

THIS PIECE from the Atlanta Journal Constitution about Michelle Obama's old Princeton roommate is astonishing. 

FOR THOSE ON TV who like to believe that THEY know what's going through the minds of people in the South or North, whites or blacks, liberals or conservatives, gays or straights, here's evidence that it's all so much more beautifully complex. 

IN THIS ONE FAMILY, all these worlds blend together, learn from each other, and change one another. And I don't think this family is the only one either. 

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SENATOR ASSCRACK

JOHN WARNER mercilessly reveals the fundamental problem with Senator Asscrack's candidacy.

NARRATOR: (In voice-over.) Confused? Lost? Wanting to take a tire iron to these two? Don't they remind you a lot of Senator Asscrack—pretentious and sort of French? Do you really want a president who hates America? That doesn't make sense, and neither does voting for Herman Asscrack.

DRAWING THESE KINDS OF important contrasts is perfectly fair, and not AN IDIOTIC, CONDESCENDING, DISTRACTING, REDUCTIVE, AND SELF-DEBASING ATTACK at all.

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PS: John Warner is NOT a Senator, but a very good writer of books. PROOF EXISTS HERE.

See, he's one of us. NOT ONE OF THOSE WASHINGTON FAT CATS.

PERHAPS BECAUSE HE IS CANADIAN

I FIND PAUL TOUGH calming.

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BLOGGING!

SO THIS is what it's like.

HERE IS A WEB SITE THAT I VISITED and liked. I will "web log" it.

FROM JOSH MARSHALL...

With the Wright business and now with this, the more nuanced version of the Clinton line has been that what 'we' think is not really the point. It's what Republicans will do with it in the fall. And that's a real concern that I definitely have. I won't deny it. I've never thought Obama was a perfect candidate. But as we get deeper into the primary calendar, increasingly so, this 'what the Republicans will do' line has become more of a simulacrum, or a license, if you will, to do what Republicans actually do do. That is to say, to grab for political advantage by peddling stereotypes about Democrats and liberals that are really no less offensive than the ones we're talking about about Americans from small town and rural America.

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A READER NAMED HILLARY W. SENT THIS IN LONG AGO

...BUT APPARENTLY, this was a "picross" puzzle.

WHATEVER "PICROSS" is, or "puzzle," or "this."

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BOOZE CLUES

PAULINE AND DAVE'S pub quiz "Booze Clues" moves to the Echoplex starting tomorrow night, TUESDAY, at 7PM in Los Angeles.

I BELIEVE I AM TECHNICALLY STILL A MEMBER OF TEAM NEAL POLLACK. Perhaps you can go and ask him for me.

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BITTER STICKER=PURPLE HEART BAND-AID

YOU KNOW, I probably just should have twittered it.

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PHOTO and background courtesy: CNN

FROM TURNERS FALLS, MA

THIS, THE GREAT SARAH REID, believes:

I started waitressing when I was 16 years old. I would get up at 4 am to be at the diner by 5 and I would watch the sunrise from my bike as I rode down the nearly empty highway. My customers were mostly regulars- truckers- and what they didn’t give me in cash tips, they gave me in genuine and warm compliments, camaraderie and jokes. One very drunk college student one night didn’t have tip money, so he wrote me a check for a million dollars. I still have it in my desk, waiting till I see his name someday in Forbes magazine or something.

As I grew older I returned to waitressing a couple times. I was good at it. Eventually, I opened my own café, the only one in my tiny town. We didn’t have waiters, just bar help. But we had a big glass tip jar on the counter. My small staff and I always noticed who tipped well and who didn’t – did you know that, that we talk about you behind your back if you don’t leave a tip, even at a counter or a bar?

READ ON , or perish.

OBVIOUSLY I AGREE WITH SARAH, and not merely because I wrote great chunks of BOOKS ONE AND TWO in her and her "husband's" good company at the Bookmill and the cafe they used to own there.

(AND I HOPE TO GOD I TIPPED ENOUGH)

SARAH AND MATTHEW don't own the cafe anymore, but maybe you can go and buy them a drink at the Rendezvous some time. It is Turners Falls's only Space Shuttle themed bar, and it's hard for me to recommend a finer place to tip heavily in.

Meanwhile, AS I AM SURE YOU KNOW, you can find more "THIS I BELIEVE" essays and contribute your own HERE.

UNLESS YOU BELIEVE IN NOTHING. In which case, go HERE. (That is one wacky picture of the Kremlin).

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