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Blog Entries by Marty Kaplan from 06/2007

Pardon Me

| Posted 06.05.2007 | Politics
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I want Bush to pardon Libby. I want the persistent presidential nullification of the Constitution to be perpetually exemplified by an unambiguous act of unmistakable arrogance.

Paris is Push; Baghdad is Pull

| Posted 06.07.2007 | Media
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Push-news is what media gatekeepers dangle to grab our lizard-brain attention. It's most apparent in the stories that dominate local television news. Pull-news is what people seek out.

Watch Mr. Wizard

| Posted 06.13.2007 | Media
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What Woodward and Bernstein's All the President's Men was to journalism, Don Herbert's Watch Mr. Wizard was to science.

Reaming College Rankings

| Posted 06.20.2007 | Media
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A quarter-century ago, U.S. News & World Report devised a brilliant marketing strategy to escape its own somnolent reputation as the reading matter of choice in mid-western dental waiting rooms.

Bong Hits 4 Bush

| Posted 06.27.2007 | Politics
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Despite the criminalization of dissent by the Bush Administration, its Court, and its courtiers, there's something going on among young Americans.

"You Can't Impeach Me, I'm Delusional!"

| Posted 06.29.2007 | Politics
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I saw the accounts of Bush's Iraq speech at the Naval War College, and it suddenly became clear: SCOTUS is handing POTUS a lifeline in case he's impeached.