tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58550292011-11-08T11:36:14.918-06:00<b>Dr. Kaufman:</b> A strange neurosis, evidently contagious, an epidemic mass hysteria. In two weeks, it spread all over town.<br> <br> <b>Miles:</b> What causes it?<br> <br> <b>Dr. Kaufman:</b> Worry –– about what&#39;s going on in the world, probably.<br> <br> <b>Miles:</b> I'd hate to wake up some morning and find out that you weren't you.<br> <br> <i><small>From: "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1956)</small></i>Nemohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17497262195318493814noreply@blogger.comBlogger12881100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-53782058844769878852010-11-16T19:23:00.004-06:002010-11-16T20:15:55.637-06:00

The Republican's latest Lucy-Pulling-Away-The-Football moment, courtesy of the New York Times:President Obama’s hopes of ratifying a new arms control treaty with Russia this year appeared to unravel on Tuesday as a Senate Republican leader moved to block a vote in what could be a devastating blow to the president’s most tangible foreign policy achievement.Mr. Obama had declared ratification of

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-86367191832673285982010-11-15T21:22:00.004-06:002010-11-16T12:28:19.484-06:00

If a TSA employee put hands on my daughter the way they put hands on the little girl in this video, I would put a stop to it and dare the bastards to arrest me:var myvidster_embed="myvidster_embed_600891";Making me take my shoes off in the security line is one thing. But we are a nation of sheep if we put up with this sort of thing. Laughably, TSA reps say that Americans can ride the bus if they

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-8069295788984439072010-08-11T20:12:00.001-05:002010-08-11T23:07:09.950-05:00

I'm a fan of the AMC's Mad Men, and thought last week's episode, "The Good News", ranks among the series' best so far. Don Draper and Lane Price end up bonding on New Year's Eve, as each of the divorced men find they have nowhere to go.They down a few drinks (at the office, of course) and decide to go see a movie. After rejecting Zorba the Greek, The Guns of August and The Umbrellas of

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-46960393518143581952010-08-09T19:03:00.000-05:002010-08-09T19:11:22.742-05:00

My previous post on Blockbuster Video didn't mention (or perhaps just glossed over) the fact that Blockbuster really did try to change its business model as it was getting squeezed by advancing technology.The videocassette rental giant began offering on-demand viewing on home computers in its waning days. Too little, too late, the Blockbuster critics hooted. But at least Blockbuster tried to

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-38978982015454207042010-08-02T20:46:00.002-05:002010-08-02T22:59:27.550-05:00

Back in 1987 I got a job at a video rental store. It was a mom-and-pop operation on Saint Paul's Grand Avenue, and it offered each of its titles in two videocassette formats -- Betamax, which was still cherished by many, and VHS, which was quickly becoming the industry standard.The video rental market had gotten started in such little shops, and in the beginning, business was good. On a Friday

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-17879453752879544102010-07-21T20:41:00.001-05:002010-07-21T21:16:59.386-05:00

I've always felt some affection for the old Popular Science feature Wordless Workshop, a cartoon that would teach you how to spend twelve hours building an impractical solution to a ten-second annoyance.I hadn't seen a copy of PopSci (as it now irritatingly markets itself) for many years, but I picked one up at the doctor's office the other day. In what I guess is a modern-day version of WW, we

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-42857441344414453262010-07-21T18:35:00.001-05:002010-07-21T18:50:43.363-05:00

Economic Lysenkoist J.D. Foster has a beef with President Obama's criticism of the latest bit of Republican obstructionism: With a vote on a $33.9 billion extension of jobless benefits pending in the Senate, Obama’s attack is to charge Republicans with opposing the extension. Why would he do that, given that congressional Republicans have stated repeatedly that they support the extension?Um,

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-69614416655805916882010-07-10T09:10:00.004-05:002010-07-10T11:10:39.768-05:00

I usually ignore whatever idiocies Rush Limbaugh is spewing, but I think this is too troubling a symptom of our current political mess to ignore.I think we face something we've never faced before in the country -- and that is, we're now governed by people who do not like the country, who do not have the same reverence for it that we do. Our greatest threat (and this is saying something) is

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-28143741426522707252010-07-09T20:53:00.002-05:002010-07-09T21:33:46.225-05:00

Never let it be said that National Review Online isn't on the cutting edge of scientific inquiry. Today Rich Lowry recycled an old Jonah Goldberg piece which proclaimed that Galileo wasn't persecuted by the Church, but by other scientists (you know how they are). The Church, according to Jonah, didn't agree with the persecution and felt really bad about it; that's why they commuted his sentence

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-8069845782801122732010-07-08T00:51:00.000-05:002010-07-08T12:01:21.291-05:00

The National Review Online places scare quotes around the word science.Cause you know, that's the garbage libtards believe in.

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-60874957966851156592010-07-04T09:37:00.002-05:002010-07-04T10:26:47.238-05:00

America, you're one resilient country. You survived a bloody fight for independence, a devastating civil insurrection, the moral wounds of African slavery and native genocide, two world wars, a cold war, two depressions, Jim Crow laws, stagflation, Three's Company and two terms of the Bush Administration.And think of all the things you've contributed to the world: baseball, Duke Ellington, the

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-48773150351152136962010-07-02T01:22:00.003-05:002010-07-03T13:48:02.330-05:00

The news that Mel Gibson's girlfriend recorded him in the midst of an abusive, racist and foul-mouthed rant won't do much for his street cred among the family-values crowd. They don't talk as loudly about the guy as they used to. But they continued to carry water for him long after they should have known better.Back in 2000, Mel Gibson was the cat's pajamas in conservative circles. When Mel's

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-34709312536057983372010-06-28T01:19:00.001-05:002010-06-28T11:27:43.578-05:00

Last week Sarah Palin delivered a weird, rambling speech at California State University - Stanislaus. Operating sans Teleprompter put her extemporaneous speaking skills on full display, and it wasn't pretty. But it was interesting.It's a commonly held belief that Palin is dumb. It's an easy thing to say, but it isn't true. Rather, she seems to be a reasonably intelligent person who possesses a

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-60866600570698303502010-06-26T11:52:00.002-05:002010-06-26T11:56:48.256-05:00

The drummer from OK Go recklessly enters a staring contest with the drummer from Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem Orchestra. Place yer bets.

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-59655881133569545072010-06-07T20:55:00.004-05:002010-06-07T21:05:24.877-05:00

So here is the cover the geniuses at Vermont Catholic chose for their June issue -- the same issue reporting a record $18 million settlement with 22 victims of sexual abuse by priests in the diocese: Yep, the same sort of common sense that got the Vermont Catholics where they are today.Too bad doctor-assisted suicide is out of the question. Because the whole damned Church ought to be

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-83933704486933762322010-05-30T09:33:00.006-05:002010-05-30T09:50:34.806-05:00

This week marks the launch of a new blog called The Horror Incorporated Project.It's all movie commentary, built around an old creature-feature show that ran in the Twin Cities in the 1970s.Funny thing, I have essentially been the sole proprietor of The Lost City for six years now, yet still think of myself as temporary help while Nemo is on hiatus. I live in hope for his return to these pages,

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-69014159920329475192010-05-29T21:11:00.002-05:002010-05-29T21:21:50.657-05:00

He was a pretty good actor who seemed doomed to play psychos and losers; and a very good director who might have been great if he'd been able to keep it together. Still, what a fascinating life he led. Hopper was his own man and I've always admired him for it.Seems to me the best work he did toward the end of his life was on the album Demon Days, by Gorillaz.Check it out.

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-63738751117933638162010-05-29T16:32:00.004-05:002010-05-29T21:03:05.282-05:00

NPR's chief congressional reporter David Welna filed a story the other day that made me wonder about him. Is he 21? Did he just start his career as a reporter? Does he have an editor?I wondered these things because of the curious way he started his report on the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" repeal the other day. First, here is the intro that All Things Considered host Robert Segal read:A 1993 law

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-79473493303987734042010-05-22T22:53:00.004-05:002010-05-23T08:33:02.453-05:00

Josh Green is convinced that Rand Paul's senate campaign in Kentucky is "flailing" because once he got the nomination, he stopped talking about bread-and-butter issues and began pulling out the more crankish items in the libertarian bag of tricks:What Paul spoke about on the stump was mostly the size of the deficit, his desire for a balanced budget and term limits, and his belief that a lot of

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-81411733179300687722010-05-17T21:02:00.006-05:002010-05-17T21:29:39.373-05:00

Meet Dale Peterson, an emissary from this "real America" we've all been hearing about. He is running for Alabama's Commissioner of Agriculture. Dale has a horse, a gun, a cowboy hat, and a pair of mom jeans, and he shouts unhinged statements at the camera with a lack of self-conciousness usually found only in small children and mental patients. "Responsible for five billion dollars -- I bet

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-46178198985742741902010-05-09T17:43:00.008-05:002010-05-09T22:33:05.195-05:00

I found it interesting that in 1999, when journalists were busy compiling lists of the biggest technological advances of the 20th century and / or 2nd millenium, the birth control pill was rarely mentioned. Neither were things like automated looms, or electrolytic capacitors (or soap, for that matter) -- because these are all things we take for granted.But the still-capitalized Pill is getting

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-90579024826116960872010-05-03T21:09:00.004-05:002010-05-03T21:49:48.961-05:00

Like Evel Knievel attempting to jump sixteen buses because last week he successfully jumped 15, manic film blogger Arbogast guns the throttle, releases the clutch, thunders up the ramp, arcs across the sky, and explodes in a shower of charred logic and twisted verbal wreckage: In his misguided altruism, in his presumption that God cannot or will not provide sufficient sustenance for his flock,

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-81470453634663585952010-04-08T16:14:00.003-05:002010-04-08T21:48:47.166-05:00

Saw the following bumper sticker on a PT Cruiser driving in front of me on 10th street today:The quote sounded fishy to me: too contemporary in cadence to be Jefferson, and addressing concepts ("big" vs. "small" government) that were quite alien to the 18th century.Looking it up today, I found that the quote actually came from Gerald Ford, speaking to a joint session of Congress in August 1974.

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-26944735557327444712010-04-01T02:52:00.000-05:002010-04-01T15:08:37.608-05:00

This photo gallery of Tea Party signage didn't convince me that health care reform is a bad idea, but it certainly made me worry about the health of our public school system.

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-43353339637263829592010-03-31T21:13:00.008-05:002010-03-31T23:21:56.685-05:00

When I first saw a picture of the over-hyped and idiotically named new Apple iPad, I laughed.I'd read a few breathless reports from people who'd seen prototypes. They had described the mysterious gizmo as a giant iPhone. Come on, I thought, no way is Apple going to market a giant iPhone. I imagined it would be slim and light, kind of like a Kindle, but sexier and with a color touchscreen.But

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-21324601189828606862010-03-28T17:26:00.000-05:002010-03-28T19:08:09.610-05:00

Matt Yglesias on Barry Goldwater's 1964 Presidential candidacy:I think that to understand what’s wrong with the conservative movement today, you need to think about Barry Goldwater’s 1964 Presidential campaign. In ‘64, the GOP establishment felt that Goldwater was too radical. They said that nominating a hard-rightist like Goldwater would be counterproductive. But conservative activists worked

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-69641691800813367792010-03-23T21:47:00.004-05:002010-03-23T22:46:26.740-05:00

John Derbyshire is just a little bit gloomy over Sunday's HCR vote:I am of course neither shaken nor stirred at the passing of the health-care bills. It was to be expected.I see plainly that Western civilization, over my lifetime, has been a slow-sinking ship. The few who have known what is happening have worked desperately to seal the watertight doors, repair the fissures, pump out the flooded

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-47757566484495915282010-03-22T18:17:00.001-05:002010-03-23T22:47:38.114-05:00

The other night I was suffering from insomnia and flipping through the blighted landscape of late-night cable TV. I flipped past Tim Burton's crummy 2001 remake of Planet of the Apes (which lately has been playing endlessly on HBO for some reason I can't fathom) but on my second swing round the dial I stopped and watched.I had seen the movie when it first came out, disliked it, and haven't

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-17413361152442378972010-03-21T19:15:00.006-05:002010-03-21T21:02:36.556-05:00

The final health care reconciliation bill is about to come up for a vote in the House. So let us climb into the Wayback machine, you and I, and travel to the heady days of July, 2009. Let's hear Republican Senator Jim DeMint explain why every Republican should stand united against any form of health care reform:If we can stop this bill, it'll be Obama's Waterloo. It will break him.That, of

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-923069194439037822010-03-14T10:51:00.006-05:002010-03-14T21:47:34.887-05:00

Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty is not particularly smart, not particularly likable, and not particularly well-spoken. His main strength as a candidate is a glib willingness to say whatever it takes to get elected, as well as a canny ability to know when it's time to cut off his mullet. But I'll give him this much: he's the first Minnesota pol in a long time whose national ambitions haven't

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-60308817183167997182010-03-11T18:06:00.011-06:002010-03-11T23:53:49.572-06:00

Some readers have noticed that comments have been offline here at the Lost City for a spell. This is not intentional; it's apparently some twitchy Blogspot-related problem. But rest assured, our crack team of technicians is working around the clock to set things right.The lack of comment threads did not discourage faithful reader Brer John, who sent an email-borne missive to the city's Hominid

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-36852461662284627432010-03-09T22:36:00.000-06:002010-03-09T23:01:29.527-06:00

It used to be the wildest science fiction, the topic of late-night bull sessions in the dorm room. It should have stayed that way. But now, geneticists at the Max Planck laboratories in Leipzig have nearly reached their goal: they have almost completed the first draft of the Neanderthal genome. And you know what that means:The best way to clone Neanderthals may be to create stem cells that

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-60339551352722630772010-03-07T15:57:00.006-06:002010-03-07T16:02:03.078-06:00

And we have the temerity to call him the monster.

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-89265546369018044342010-02-28T14:08:00.004-06:002010-02-28T21:27:47.636-06:00

I wrote a little bit about Karl Dane and his connection to The Whispering Shadow here. That 12-part serial is largely forgotten today, but like many movies made about emerging technology, it treats its subject as spooky and dangerous. In this case, the spooky and dangerous technology was television.The movie's plot (such as it is) concerns the hunt for "the lost jewels of the Czar" which, for

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-64679713968324699092010-02-23T20:44:00.004-06:002010-02-23T21:00:04.876-06:00

I can only hope to one day have the kind of close relationship with my own daughter that Nicholas Cage and Chloe Moretz share in this clip from the upcoming film Kick-Ass. Will I see it on opening day? I think I will.Maybe I'll see you there.

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-37018201817945384252010-02-21T22:32:00.004-06:002010-02-21T23:46:11.722-06:00

I really can't say enough about Chris Jones' remarkable profile of film critic Roger Ebert for Esquire. The piece avoids the mawkishness and pretense we usually associate with journalism in our postdeluvian age.What Jones offers us instead is a portrait of a brilliant and decent man, ravaged by cancer and approaching the end of his life, who has found meaning and solace in the things that really

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-58641451143074939162010-02-20T18:06:00.005-06:002010-02-20T18:48:16.431-06:00

Tim Pawlenty wants to be the Republican nominee for President in 2012, and Tim Pawlenty was speaking yesterday at CPAC. Those two facts probably tell you everything you need to know about what his speech was like.The second-term governor of Minnesota suddenly became everything the right-wing wished him to be. They wanted an outspoken evangelical Christian. Pawlenty, whose religious convictions

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-30345975931779354412010-02-11T20:51:00.004-06:002010-02-17T20:40:04.462-06:00

The adventures of Curious George, as reinterpreted by gloomy oddball director Werner Herzog.

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-29120239219847200332010-02-10T21:53:00.004-06:002010-02-11T21:02:44.847-06:00

The other night I was watching Karl Dane's last screen appearance, in a 1933 Mascot serial called The Whispering Shadow. Dane wasn't onscreen much; he was mostly there for comic relief. He had been a star of the silent era who, like many of his colleagues, fell on hard times when the talkies arrived. But Dane's journey down was more tragic than most. His guttural Danish accent made him sound

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-88570983511511194502010-02-01T21:41:00.004-06:002010-02-01T22:00:20.779-06:00

Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty wants the Republican nomination for President. That means he has to pander to the right. He has to whisper those sweet words Republican primary voters long to hear. And believe me, he does not disappoint:Tell us, Tim, what's your plan for the economy?Congress should reject federal legislation that places additional burdens on growth, such as the proposed health

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-23711598377230488662010-02-01T21:30:00.000-06:002010-02-01T21:32:53.268-06:00

Last Friday marked the end of the line for Dollhouse, Joss Whedon's low-rated melodrama about human trafficking in the digital age. The usual suspects have been up in arms about the show getting cancelled, saying it just proves that, hey, Whedon's a genius: Dollhouse has been cancelled right on schedule, i.e. just when Joss Whedon was getting to the point. It is (soon: was) not a show about sex

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-42250510902211974822010-01-25T22:54:00.003-06:002010-01-25T23:35:12.263-06:00

Hmm, I dunno. Via Andrew Sullivan's blog, we get this report on the dreams of small children:Preschoolers’ dreams are often static and plain, such as seeing an animal or thinking about eating. There are no characters that move, no social interactions, little feeling, and they do not include the dreamer as an active character...Preschoolers do not report fear in dreams, and there are few

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-43743871662891737602010-01-24T22:04:00.012-06:002010-01-24T22:58:07.581-06:00

There exists in the mainstream media a very persistent notion that the lack of bipartisanship in Washington is entirely the fault of the Democrats. The Republicans would like to make a deal, this theory goes, they really and truly would, but the Democrats have been so arrogant and so unreasonable that it simply hasn't been possible. But now that Scott Brown has won the Senate election in

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-62077881212025261322010-01-08T23:05:00.005-06:002010-01-08T23:36:53.328-06:00

Via Matt Yglesias, AEI's Charles Murray adds his two cents to the tiresome right-wing "Eurabia" meme:Last night, having been struck by how polyglot Paris has become, I collected data as I walked along, counting people who looked like native French (which probably added in a few Brits and other Europeans) versus everyone else. I can’t vouch for the representativeness of the sample, but at about

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-36199409361722273142009-12-31T23:16:00.003-06:002010-01-01T00:33:00.971-06:00

Matt Yglesias is a serious comic book guy, and as the decade comes to a close, he isn't afraid to name names and take sides. And I respect that: We had a lot of comic book adaptions in the zeros, and the best of them, contrary to what you might have heard, is Iron Man. I promise you that this is a better movie than The Dark Knight. Go back and watch them again if you don’t believe me. I’m not

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-55074148916636522372009-12-29T23:27:00.000-06:002009-12-29T23:34:19.722-06:00

Yes, Johnny, there is a sales tax. And John J. Miller is pretty steamed about it:"They just took my money."That's what my 8-year-old son said about the sales tax on the ride home from Borders a few minutes ago. He had a $10 gift card from Christmas, bought a Clone Wars book for $7.99, looked at the receipt, and wondered why he still didn't have a full $2.01 on it.This is how conservatives are

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-3814067148938571932009-12-29T22:30:00.001-06:002009-12-29T23:37:16.743-06:00

I found this Christmas-y post from a couple of years ago, and thought I'd share it with you again. I like to think of it as an "encore presentation", not a "rerun". Happy Christmas, Lost Citizens!Today is December 29, the fifth day of Christmas, which runs to January 6, the Feast of the Epiphany. Our word Christmas is derived from the Old English Cristes Maesse or "Mass of Christ". It is neither

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-85223266550377379312009-12-24T00:47:00.000-06:002009-12-24T12:53:50.407-06:00

So, a health care reform bill just passed the Senate in spite of Republican efforts to gum up the works every step of the way. Well, so what. Big deal. Enjoy your hollow victory while you can, Barack HUSSEIN Obama! Andy McCarthy is biding his time:Though the point of mad-dash cash-for-cloture was to give the President his monumental "achievement" in time to brag about it in the State of the

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-75068646917440881012009-12-10T13:00:00.005-06:002009-12-10T14:53:11.631-06:00

It’s been a while since I’ve seen or heard from the elusive Nemo, so imagine my surprise when I saw his picture plastered all over MPR’s news site this morning.At least, I think that’s him. The face isn’t visible, but still, that is definitely how Nemo walks.Seems a hunter up in Bemidji set up a game trail camera and Nemo just ambled along in front of it during the dead of night.The wee small

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-38763242030574492372009-12-05T08:26:00.000-06:002009-12-05T14:39:29.430-06:00

During the 2008 presidential campaign, I happened upon an old paperback copy of Irving Wallace's novel The Man. I'd never read it, but remembered the film version and decided to give it a spin.I got bogged down about halfway through and put the book aside. I'm a fairly tenacious reader but Wallace's writing has lots of long, arid stretches of exposition and in the end I got pushed out of the

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-5307966720607516782009-11-29T00:13:00.000-06:002009-11-29T18:09:34.230-06:00

Fifty years ago the western was the most popular Hollywood genre, and science fiction films were enjoying their first modest successes. Today the western is all but dead, and science fiction films seem to be bubbling up from the multiplex all the time.There's hardly a Philip K. Dick novel that hasn't been adapted for the movies. But Isaac Asimov, arguably the most respected writer of that

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-38902447035573358682009-11-28T12:54:00.000-06:002009-11-28T13:09:10.316-06:00

In his preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde stated that there are no moral or immoral books. To him, a book was either well-written or poorly-written, and had to be judged on that basis alone.I tend to agree with that, but in our Manichean culture, all literature must be weighed for its political content. And John J Miller, whom you may remember from the National Review's attempt

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-25038588288585428052009-11-24T17:49:00.000-06:002009-11-24T17:49:00.268-06:00

If they gave out an award for Best Defensive Jibber-Jabber On A Blog Post, National Review's Andy McCarthy would take it in a walk. He gets all huffy because Glenn Greenwald called him on the nutty conspiracy theories he regularly promotes on NRO. McCarthy's response to one of Greenwald's accusations:I didn't suggest that Bill Ayers is the author of one of Barack Obama's biographies — I reported

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-64026781652292297692009-10-28T16:55:00.003-05:002009-10-28T17:15:39.931-05:00

Whenever I see the back of a car festooned with a kajillion bumper stickers, 29 times out of 30 it's a liberal driving a car.I've never been sure why this is. Maybe liberals feel a need to stake out each of their bumper sticker convictions separately, as they tend to be a coalition with different specific pet issues, while conservatives can use a single sticker (Bush/Cheney 04, for example) as a

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-18122256392097161662009-10-23T21:43:00.006-05:002009-10-24T18:17:29.586-05:00

Tim Pawlenty is the Marshal Petain of American politics. Nobody surrenders his stated principles as quickly or as cheerfully as he does.On Thursday he attended a D.C. fund-raiser, where he shared his vision of the Republican party's future:He touted his ability to win in a state with a grand liberal tradition, briefly promoted his record in St. Paul and said the GOP ought not be in the business

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-88645843575519866842009-10-23T18:54:00.003-05:002009-10-23T19:09:43.205-05:00

I've known a lot of good dogs. But you were one of the best.Miss you already, Tori.

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-91341820687284827382009-10-22T20:39:00.002-05:002009-10-22T21:03:44.856-05:00

John Cole enters the oh-so-exciting world of Windows 7Did precisely what I was asked, uninstalled my antivirus, uninstalled itunes, and uninstalled my ati drivers, followed all the instructions, and now my desktop PC is in an infinite loop with Microsoft 7 halfway installed. It restarts, boots to the Windows 7 install screen, sends me an error message that the “install can not be located,” and

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-88493121073071570382009-10-19T19:56:00.004-05:002009-10-19T20:36:23.676-05:00

You have probably never heard of Bernard Silver or Norman Woodland. The title of the patent they filed on October 20, 1949 -- "Classifying Apparatus and Method" -- probably doesn't mean much to you either. But like all great inventors they were ahead of their time. On this sixtieth anniversary of the patent application they filed, it seems appropriate to pause and remember their remarkable

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-41474748454269443952009-10-15T16:47:00.004-05:002009-10-15T17:23:48.910-05:00

Ladies and gentlemen, meet Rep John Shadegg (R-AZ), who manages to wear shoes and socks and hold down a responsible job while publicly saying things like this:What we’re really getting here is, we’re not just getting single-payer care. We’re getting full on Russian gulag, Soviet-style gulag health care.Not only do I not know what this means, I feel pretty confident that Shadegg doesn't know

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-7470924479240350202009-10-14T17:20:00.000-05:002009-10-14T16:44:36.923-05:00

Bottom-liners beware:there'sanothersetofbooks.--James DePriest

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-8015156598241317752009-10-14T09:19:00.003-05:002009-10-14T09:31:28.941-05:00

Over at New Majority, Zac Morgan is dreaming:President Obama addressed the Human Rights Campaign last night and re-declared his opposition to “don’t ask, don’t tell.” But wait a minute: he’s commander in chief. If he’s opposed, why doesn’t he actually do something about it?Here’s one issue where conservatives with their traditional concern for the military can outbid the all-talk president.I

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-15004447908253013852009-10-10T15:57:00.002-05:002009-10-11T11:37:08.688-05:00

Alex Tabarrok's brother is noodling about the movies:One interesting thing that I've always found about the film business from an economic point of view is that unlike in any other business I can think of, the cost of manufacturing the product has no affect on the purchase cost to the consumer. For example Honda can make a cheaper car with less features and cheaper finishes than BMW without

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-60187227412923652552009-10-09T09:33:00.001-05:002009-10-09T09:35:19.151-05:00

I consider myself a pretty loyal Obama supporter, but I have to say I was baffled by the Nobel commission’s decision this morning to award him the 2009 Peace Prize. My initial reaction was to look at the calendar. Is it April 1st? Obama’s a good guy and I think he’s sincerely committed to repairing the damage that George W Bush did to the international community. Still, Obama needs to prove

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-47648335626459040022009-10-06T21:56:00.004-05:002009-10-06T22:34:35.523-05:00

Ah, the hubris of the right wing. It is as boundless and eternal as God's love, isn't it? I guess that's why an outfit called Liberty Counsel is asking its followers to "adopt a liberal" -- a liberal whose benighted soul you can pray for.Pick one or more of the liberals from the list we have posted online at www.LC.org, or choose your own liberal(s) to adopt. If you are led to choose one or

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-66277008117836518302009-10-03T22:51:00.008-05:002009-10-03T23:54:01.002-05:00

It may be dreary, rainy evening here in the Lost City, but ah, it's still been a beautiful day.Why, you ask?Because today -- after months of trailing by 4 or 5 games --the Minnesota Twins caught up with the Detroit Tigers and are tied for first place in the American League Central. And it happened thanks to an eighth-inning home run by Michael Cuddyer, God bless his fully-healed fingers.Not a

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-78207711153680572482009-10-03T15:12:00.000-05:002009-10-03T15:19:53.728-05:00

Recently I was reading a breathless news item about some movie star I had never heard of. This sort of thing has been happening more frequently in my dotage. Apparently the prettyboy in question starred in the movie Twilight, which is based on a series of popular books and which is about to spawn a sequel, or perhaps it already has, or perhaps there have been five or six sequels released in

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-61314378166773469282009-09-30T22:55:00.007-05:002009-10-01T09:09:07.528-05:00

Given that the current crop of GOP wannabees for President is a collection of goofballs, cranks and has-beens, it shouldn't be surprising that Republicans are dreaming of some savior riding in on a white horse. Nicolle Wallace apparently spends her evenings writhing around in bed, hoping the next Republican president will leap through the window in the dead of night and ravish her: It’s also

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-36204780489207615172009-09-14T21:50:00.003-05:002009-09-14T21:58:26.469-05:00

The University of Minnesota's most famous alum died on Saturday. According to Penn Jillette, he was not only the most famous alum of the U, but the greatest man who ever lived.Norman Borlaug died at age 95, a Nobel laureate who spent his life finding ways to improve crop yields in Mexico and South Asia. When he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1970, it was estimated that his work had saved a

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-27914982880890762002009-09-09T21:20:00.004-05:002009-09-09T21:29:38.998-05:00

My, my, my. Isn't life a trip? You start out as a rock-ribbed, family-values Republican from Yorba Linda, and you end up like this:Orange County Assemblyman Mike Duvall, R-Yorba Linda, just resigned from office after a huge uproar from both sides of the aisle over a tape of him bragging about sexual affairs, reportedly with two Sacramento lobbyists.“I am deeply saddened that my inappropriate

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-17977110378106898082009-08-26T08:48:00.003-05:002009-08-26T09:11:21.215-05:00

Kathryn-Jean Lopez provides what is perhaps the most disingenuous political R.I.P. I've ever read:When I interned at the Heritage Foundation, I would sometimes pop into Mass at Saint Joseph’s on the Hill at noon on a weekday. And I would almost always find myself sitting near Ted Kennedy. He’s responsible for things that are deeply offensive to my conscience and diametrically opposed to the

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-31439606991132364542009-08-22T14:51:00.009-05:002009-08-23T22:31:21.091-05:00

Ten years ago America was mesmerized by a ghastly train-wreck of a live television event. It was called Who Wants To Marry a Multi-Millionaire, and it was essentially a two-hour beauty pageant with a twist: the contestants were vying for a quickie marriage to a mysterious multi-millionaire who watched the proceedings from an undisclosed location. At the end of the evening, the would-be brides,

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-52251792409527452952009-08-19T14:49:00.001-05:002009-08-19T20:59:49.241-05:00

And I don't appreciate Niall Ferguson using him as a political prop.That's really all I have to say on the matter.

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Only forty percent?

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-70345353691303501042009-08-16T13:41:00.004-05:002009-08-16T14:10:11.960-05:00

History shows that sooner or later, every nation ends. Doesn't matter how powerful, how wise, how ruthless the country is. Sooner or later it reaches the end of the line.The same goes for America, loathe as most Americans are to admit it. But how will it end?Slate.com now has an entertaining game where you pick what you believe are the five most likely America-ending scenarios. Then you learn

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-83922715783061270372009-08-08T22:08:00.000-05:002009-08-08T22:08:41.103-05:00

Our great nation has been on pins and needles lately, wondering when former Gov. Sarah Palin would weigh in on the health care reform debate. The suspense ended yesterday, when she delivered a major policy address on the subject to an audience at the Heritage Foundation.Okay, I made that up. Actually, she wrote an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal, outlining her objections to the Obama

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-44200709620346260742009-08-02T10:56:00.000-05:002009-08-02T12:35:58.578-05:00

Think of James Burke as the coolest guy ever to wear a leisure suit. Burke was (and I suppose still is) a British science writer and historian. He covered the Apollo moonshots in a smart and entertaining manner for the BBC, did a number of entertaining special programs on science through most of the 70s, and in 1978 hosted a fascinating 10-episode series called Connections. It was that last

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-11206322470864325252009-07-31T15:58:00.003-05:002009-07-31T22:06:30.893-05:00

Time for an important message from our friends at Old Glory Insurance:

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Officer James Crowley isn’t a household name yet, but he’s getting there. Crowley is the cop who arrested Harvard prof Henry Louis Gates for disorderly conduct in his own home, sparking an entirely predictable and tiresome culture war debate centering around race and justice. The usual suspects rallied around Mr. Crowley, declaring him a hero to their cause; he is already being talked up as the

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-6039551321341038772009-07-28T20:50:00.003-05:002009-07-28T22:12:05.270-05:00

After months of public hand-wringing, Brett Favre made his announcement the day before training camp starts: he's not coming out of retirement and signing with the Vikings:Tarvaris Jackson and offseason acquisition Sage Rosenfels were expected to vie for the Vikings' starting position until the New York Jets released Favre. As time went on, it seemed more and more likely that Favre would sign

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-61871519601212702152009-07-26T10:11:00.004-05:002009-07-26T15:31:34.990-05:00

Maybe it's just my imagination, but how come so many scientists seem eager to usher in a new era where the world is run by computers possessing superhuman intelligence? Just look at the stuff the New York Times is publishing these days:Impressed and alarmed by advances in artificial intelligence, a group of computer scientists is debating whether there should be limits on research that might

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-60964162293641616212009-07-24T18:53:00.005-05:002009-07-24T22:37:40.804-05:00

I've been rereading Plutarch's Age of Alexander, and this is one of my favorite passages:In the previous year a congress of the Greek states had been held at the isthmus of Corinth: here a vote had been passed that the states should join forces with Alexander in invading Persia and that he should be commander-in-chief of the expedition. Many of the Greek statesmen and philosophers visited him to

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-78732127379265866662009-07-22T05:04:00.001-05:002009-07-22T09:18:43.360-05:00

So according to NPR, rapper Jay-Z is like a 19th century sea power, because as an up and comer he took out 50 Cent who had previously taken out Ja Rule, but maybe things have changed because the rap world has coalesced into a 21st century unipolar model rather than a 19th century multipolar one, so now we have Jay-Z at the apex, just like the United States today, so even a punk like The Game is

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-67612897397373595152009-07-20T19:52:00.007-05:002009-07-20T21:08:17.036-05:00

On this 40th anniversary of the first manned Moon landing, it's interesting to see all the bloggers who pay homage to the importance of the event, even though most of them were not even alive when it happened.I was four years old at the time, and it's one of my earliest memories. On that summer night I remember standing in the front yard with a toy pair of binoculars in my hands, staring up at

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-72885062945606786862009-07-20T13:54:00.005-05:002009-07-20T14:04:27.357-05:00

If you're wondering exactly when it was that the lunatics took control of the 149-year-old asylum called the Republican party, here's your answer.This video shows Rep. Mike Castle of Delaware besieged by a roomful of unhinged birthers. Castle was polite and did his best to dispense with the question, but he has to be wondering if wild-eyed kooks are all that's left of his party. Last one to

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-43539160517595388162009-07-18T18:33:00.006-05:002009-07-18T20:13:42.997-05:00

My five-year-old daughter has turned into something of a Star Wars nut. We've watched the original movie together a number of times (the original 1977 release, sans the idiotic "improvements" George Lucas tacked on in his dotage). She likes "the funny part" (the cantina scene) finds the robots amusing, and adores Chewbacca.But watching it with her repeatedly has made me realize something that

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-30086385130871777312009-07-17T03:42:00.000-05:002009-07-17T16:08:06.568-05:00

This week marks the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon, and that made me curious how the anniversary is being celebrated on the right wing. So let us go then, you and I, and find out what they are up to.First up is our old friend Charles Krauthammer:America's manned space program is in shambles. Fourteen months from today, for the first time since 1962, the U.S. will be

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-64150624212475818722009-07-12T20:36:00.003-05:002009-07-12T21:39:56.290-05:00

I agree with much of what Frank Rich writes in his Sunday New York Times column, but I feel that -- like many of the mainstream pundits -- he actually overestimates Sarah Palin.Not her ability to rev up the right wing -- anyone who's read the comments on Peggy Noonan's latest column knows that the Palinistas are fanatics. But I don't think there are enough fanatics in America to get Palin to the

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-36543864476153365542009-07-08T21:32:00.004-05:002009-07-08T22:20:28.329-05:00

Recently the BBC had a very clever idea: give a 13-year-old kid the original Sony Walkman, let him test it out for a week, and get his impressions. It's fascinating to hear someone review the technology who's never used a cassette player, let alone a Walkman:In some classes in school they let me listen to music and one teacher recognised it and got nostalgic.It took me three days to figure out

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-76644862048690271012009-07-08T00:22:00.005-05:002009-07-08T00:47:28.347-05:00

Andrew Sullivan links to a video from an Iranian expat music duo called Abjeez. Amusingly, Sullivan titles his post "Outing Iran: Abjeez". Now Sully's been (understandably) pretty gung-ho in his support of the Iranian protesters and (understandably) pretty angry at their treatment at the hands of the mullahs; it makes sense that he'd post a music video, sent in by one of his readers, that gives

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-12803337517115900512009-07-05T08:02:00.004-05:002009-07-05T12:20:31.592-05:00

On Friday, a lot of people were asking: is Sarah Palin trying to dodge a scandal? Is she prepping for a run for President? Is she contemplating a lucrative career on the lecture circuit? Is that why she's resigning?Naw. All these theorists were wrong. They were trying to fit the square peg of Palin's nutty decision into the round hole of logic. Yesterday she issued a statement that was

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-68936835353917586432009-07-04T10:49:00.000-05:002009-07-05T08:02:23.369-05:00

I'm not getting to this until the end of the day, but I hope you have a lovely Independence Day.One great way to celebrate our nation's birthday is to read up on its history. Ta-Nehisi Coates recently discussed James McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom on his blog recently, and I went out and got a copy. I would recommend it as a great single-volume history of the Civil War. It gets deep into

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-61778491554996598042009-07-03T21:19:00.004-05:002009-07-03T22:05:57.981-05:00

The only thing weirder than Sarah Palin's announcement today that she was resigning the governorship of Alaska is the timing. No politician -- except maybe Mark Sanford -- would schedule such an announcement on the 4th of July weekend. It makes no sense at all, especially if -- as many maintain -- Palin is gearing up for a White House run in 2012.The excuses she makes, and those bandied about

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-3847551125530517532009-07-03T11:11:00.005-05:002009-07-03T12:08:30.288-05:00

CNN.com often gets razzed for its terrible headline-writing. It doesn't usually bother me, but this morning there were some real doozies. For instance, this one gets the award for useless personal health factoid:CONTEST EATERS FACE OBESITY, OTHER HEALTH RISKSWhat?! People who competitively gorge themselves have a higher risk of obesity? I'd better click through and read that one right away.On

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-81309718866381382652009-06-29T20:49:00.002-05:002009-06-29T23:52:12.344-05:00

Well, it's another Monday, so let's see where the National Review -- America's beacon of liberty! -- is landing on the issues of the day:After a long, embarrassed silence for most of the day, National Review Online finally weighed in on the Bernie Madoff sentence. You will recall that our Bernie got a 150-year sentence for running a multi-million-dollar, decades-long Ponzi scheme. But NRO's Eli

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-74471346529634538132009-06-23T19:22:00.005-05:002009-06-23T20:49:51.298-05:00

Back in the mid-1990s I made the mistake of working for Book-of-the-Month Club in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. The Internet was still in its infancy then. Amazon.com had just recently launched and most Americans had never heard of it; in fact online shopping was still seen as a strange, perilous activity. If you wanted to buy something you would go to the store, or call an 800-number, or order

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-55310289789862357352009-06-22T08:45:00.004-05:002009-06-22T13:30:43.274-05:00

Looking back now, it seems ironic that the day after the Iranian elections -- when it was clear that the government had rigged the results and the people took to the streets to protest -- there was little more than a few murmurs from the National Review Online's team blog, The Corner. In fact the longest response to the issue came from K-Lo, who linked to this post from Daniel Pipes: [W]hile my

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-59126716362227674712009-06-20T09:33:00.006-05:002009-06-22T14:33:56.677-05:00

You can laugh. It's funny, and a bit poignant, to see this 1981 TV report about newspapers offering their content via home computer. It's clear that no one in the newsroom imagined that what they were building would eventually put them on the unemployment line and destroy their entire business model. But that's exactly what happened:The movie Colossus: The Forbin Project explained these risks

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-50501746774251698542009-06-15T20:28:00.004-05:002009-06-15T23:44:44.879-05:00

For years, the brave new world of privatized municipal services has had the pulse rates of young conservatives pounding, but I have to admit it doesn't turn me on. As Deng Xiaoping famously said, it doesn't matter what color the cat is, as long as it catches mice.But of course, the ideologue's corollary is that it doesn't matter what the hell the cat does, as long as it's a cat of the right

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-24321666010218075192009-06-13T22:22:00.004-05:002009-06-13T22:53:28.743-05:00

As the evidence mounts that Iran's two most powerful groups -- the military and the theocracy -- conspired to rig last week's election for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, street violence has exploded across Tehren. Rafsanjani is reported to have resigned his posts in protest and Mousavi is apparently under house arrest. There's a lot happening right now, but the MSM is curiously low-key about it. The

Uncle Mikenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5855029.post-11576494256807495482009-06-13T12:36:00.004-05:002009-06-13T20:24:42.140-05:00

A lot of crazy things have been said by the right in the wake of the James Von Brunn shooting at the Holocaust Museum, but the award for batshit craziest goes to our old friend Andrew Breitbart. Congratulations, amigo! According to Breitbart, Von Brunn was:[A] multiculturalist just like the black studies and the lesbian studies majors on college campuses.A multiculturalist! Yup, the right wing

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