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• Tuesday, January 13, 2009 03:44 PM

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  • Paul Daniel Ash: I have a magic rock that keeps grizzlies out of my yard here in Boston. I haven't seen a single grizzly since I got it. So it works.

  I want to buy that rock!

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  • LondonLad: Speaking for myself, Kafka has been internalized; meanwhile, ordinary life has become so Kafkaesque that, for better or worse, it seems to go without saying. I often wonder if anyone else "remembers" existentialism; it doesn't mix very well with pragmatism, which is all the rage.

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  • The Canadian: Jim Douglass's “JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters” is indeed a fine book; I join in your recommendation. Perhaps it will be off-putting to note that it precipitated an interest in JFK and his assassination that has caused me to delve into the literature. As LondonLad, I believe, opined during a spin on the thin ice of Discussing the Events of 9/11 here, the more one troubles to learn about such world-shattering events, the more one realizes how utterly relevant and crucial such events are to the present.

  (Incredibly, as I am typing this, in the background Helen Thomas-- being interviewed by Amy Goodman on "Democracy Now"-- is remarking that the Amerikan press corps "lost their guts" after 9/11, and didn't question and challenge the administration.)

  • Ché Pasa: Fuck Conyers, not to put too fine a point on it. He's a time-serving tapdancer. Having Cindy Sheehan and her companions arrested and forcibly removed from his office by Capitol police was the icing on the cake.

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  • Derbig: If your eye falls on a bargain, please pick it up!

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