Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Even More Recommended Reading

Mario Cuomo surfaces from the undisclosed location where he's been hiding for so many years to remind us of something. It's that Congress has the power to declare war and the President of the U.S. does not.

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Up the Down Staircase

A lot of people have built some amazing things with Lego blocks. But as you'll see if you scroll down his page a ways, Andrew Lipson has been building replicas of M.C. Escher works. This is not humanly possible.

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Today's Video Link

I don't understand much of what you're about to see. Some years back, the beloved childrens' entertainer Raffi recorded a nonsense song called "Banana Phone." Someone who heard it got the idea that the record could be improved by being sped up...and they're right. It's very catchy that way. So people began speeding it up. Keith Olbermann often uses a sped version to lead into commercials and there are dozens of places one can find the song on the Internet and it's almost always sped up, sometimes too much. The following video doesn't have the greatest visuals but it seems to have the pace about right...

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Still More Recommended Reading

Jeffrey Rosen profiles law professor Jack Goldsmith...who not that long ago was advising the Bush Administration on what was legal and what was not. That all ended when he started telling them that some of the things they wanted to do were not legal. Goldsmith has solid Conservative credentials and I think his outrage at the current White House definition of Presidential Power is more in keeping with a true Conservative position.

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Recommended Reading

Evgenia Peretz (that is not a typo, at least not by me) has a powerful article in Vanity Fair this month about the press mistreatment of Al Gore during the 2000 election. I thought for a time that Gore would soon jump into the '08 presidential sweepstakes but with the low profile he's been keeping lately, I'm inclined to think not. Given this article, he may just be waiting until Maureen Dowd and Katharine Seelye are dead.

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Recommended Reading

The slang expressions and vocabulary from Operation Iraqi Freedom.

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