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Boston Globe: Job Losses Mount in Bay State. The paper points out that while the jobless rate dropped to 5.3% last month in Massachusetts, much of that was due to people not looking any more. For the record, the jobless rate in Washington State is 6.1%.
Clancy Ratliff: Dude, who put a screw in YOUR spring [...]

After rumors and accusations, a former counterterrorist official in George W. Bush’s administration (and Reagan’s, and George H. W. Bush’s, and Clinton’s) is out in print and on 60 Minutes, laying out how the administration’s criminal neglect of its duties in 2001 laid the groundwork for 9/11. Commentary by Oliver Willis and Talking Points Memo/Joshua [...]

There are now so many Dunkin’ Donuts stores in Boston that they are causing traffic problems, says the Boston Globe. There are currently 1.9 Dunkin’ Donuts stores per square mile in the city, and the company thinks they need more to alleviate parking lot congestion.
(God, I love the Local News Boston.com RSS feed.)

Oliver North says that liberals worry too much about conspiracy theories. This is, of course, the same Oliver North who was the principal criminal and photogenic felon for the conspiracy to sell arms to Iran and send the money to the Nicaraguan Contras while defrauding Congress. So he should know.
—Am I on Candid [...]

The New York Times on Rauschenberg’s latest exhibition. I first saw his work in an exhibition in the National Gallery in 1990—a retrospective of the Rauschenberg Overseas Cultural Interchange works. I still have a print of Malaysian Flower Cave, though it’s somewhat dented from falling off dorm room walls.

A year ago yesterday: To Hell With Good Intentions. In my opinion the best installment of my Internet Lyric Poetry experiments.

I just watched the implosion of Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia about three times on network TV. Say what you like about network television, there is no better medium for high fidelity replays of vast deployments of explosive devices.
I love the quotes from Philadelphia residents in the San Jose Mercury News: “I’ve lived here 12 [...]