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The bodies of a woman and a male fetus were discovered separately yesterday at the dog walkers’ hot spot Point Isabel in Richmond: Bodies of fetus, woman found in bay / Cops investigating vanishing of Modesto woman called to site There’s no evidence yet of a connection to Laci Peterson, who’s been missing since December, […]

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Something tells me that Ask Jeeves and Teoma are indexing the Web today. My logs have been swamped with huge spider crawls like the below all day long: 65.214.36.113 – – [14/Apr/2003:19:22:06 -0400] “GET /life/archives/000109.php HTTP/1.0” 200 10890 “-” “Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; Ask Jeeves/Teoma)” 65.214.36.113 – – [14/Apr/2003:19:22:43 -0400] “GET /life/archives/000302.php HTTP/1.0” 200 8765 “-” “Mozilla/2.0 […]

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Friday night James came to town for the opening night of our weekend debauchery. Jen and I had been planning simply to do laundry. How wrong we were. Once James was on his way, we decided to stop by our local Andronico’s to buy some food for the weekend. There, we ran into some fellow […]

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How do you go from a record U.S. budget surplus ($236.4 billion in 2000) to a record deficit ($304.0 billion in 2003) in just 3 years? Have the Supreme Court put Bush in the White House. [via bit.ch]

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My Dad worked for the late Assemblyman John Williamson of Bakersfield in 1976. Williamson wrote the Williamson Act, which protects California farmland from suburban sprawl and shopping mall hell. On Friday the Chronicle wrote an editorial (Preserve farmland) arguing against Gov. Davis’ “proposal to eliminate the funds the state pays to counties under the act.” […]

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From January 30, 2003 IM conversation with Ben: benjaminfry: Hmm, that sounds kinda interesting… maybe I should rule. i will have a crown, and scepter… Ooh, and a purple hooded Robe, with one of those really big hoods, so you could see my face, but you could see my eyes blazing, proper lighting benjaminfry: I […]

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Today‘s San Francisco Chronicle contains the following apology in the A section: APOLOGY The Chronicle apologizes for the objectionable illustration on the cover of today’s Book Review. Editors noticed it too late to stop the presses and remake the page. This did, of course, pique my curiosity, so I went promptly to the Book section […]

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Mark Morford has another excellent commentary today: The Lie Of Liberation / Cheering Iraqis are just a diversion, folks. BushCo’s real goal is only just beginning. Here’s a snippet: Ah, but what are Bush’s spoils? Let’s look: His copious corporate pals get to rush in and install a nice puppet government to help the baffled […]

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Few people realize that I am an international kickboxing champion. Meet my team: Wayne, Marlowe, and Selwin. Together, we are Team M. Don’t mess with us.

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George McGovern has an excellent commentary in the new issue of The Nation. Here’s a snippet: He (Bush) treads carelessly on the Bill of Rights, the United Nations and international law while creating a costly but largely useless new federal bureaucracy loosely called “Homeland Security.” Meanwhile, such fundamental building blocks of national security as full […]

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