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Posted on September 27, 2005 in Roundup

This roundup covers the period from 19 September 2005 to 25 September 2005.

Hurricane Rita threatened the Gulf Coast. Many bloggers ignored that storm, wisely waiting to see if she lived up to her potential. And she didn’t except for a fantastic traffic jam on the freeways leading out of Houston. More stunning, I think, were the John Roberts hearings which led us to know exactly nothing about where Bush’s candidate for Chief Justice stood. Someday, my fellow bloggers may understand that this is part of an intellectual revolution led by the late academician Leo Strauss who taught his neoconservative students the skill of saying absolutely nothing about their intentions lest they be found out. Too bad Patrick Leahy doesn’t get this.

The stories in the Annex include: porn stars asking men to cease and decease in their lust for ordinary women to look like porn stars; diabetics denied needles for their insulin at the Cajun Dome; reply from a scientologist; a giant pink bunny; controversial gay kiss poster in Italy; Google intrudes on intellectual property; Bill Clinton lambasts Bush; what would Jesus do?; functional psychopaths as financial traders (see my article on this topic somewhere below); Bushbots; beer-flavored soda; is the Bush administration sunk?; Jon Bon Jovi excoriates Tom Cruise; why rape victims can’t “just get over it”; outsiders are very into destroying damaged buildings; people who sit in their cars going nowhere; museums struggle with Creationist challenges; Anglicans suggest an apology to Muslims about Iraq; China won’t let Murdoch in; big salamanders in danger; breaking Harare ducks (with a bat?!); first face transplant due; Simon Wiesenthal passes on; choosing career over children; Lyndie England goes on trial; gay men in your coffee; ice for Lousiana rerouted to Massachusetts by FEMA; stupid relief tricks; Jeb Bush has an invisible friend named “Chang”; women get all the grief when it comes to career versus family; killer lions in Ethiopia; World Bank warns about inequality; green sperm; crucified nun exhumed; Iraq’s defense budget just — well — disappears; more U.S. soldiers die; Republicans getting mad at Bush; Sharon Olds will not break bread with Laura Bush; Tom Delay keeps his pork; Viggo Mortenson admits to eating roadkill; who tried to destroy National Archives BIA documents?; drag queen radio; is Bush guilty of criminal neglect?; Clinton and Lewinsky brand condoms in China; blog censorship handbook (see article below); the Hobbit people of Indonesia; how No Child Left Behind guarantees failure; the wimpocrats don’t put up a stand; why is it that sexually suggestive language is more obscene than the lies coming out of Washington?; Bill Frist’s criminal activities; intelligent design; hijab Barbie; underestimating health effects of air pollution; AHnold’s cowardice; Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes; expert in animal husbandry appointed to women’s health committee; the big antiwar protest; want to exterminate orangutans — just buy palm oil; Bush searches for Bianca; watching your own death on television; race and Katrina; pediatric performance-enhancing soft drinks with caffeine(!?); Bush promises not to get in the way (but only this time); and the same old stuff on television, no matter where you look.

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