Irony, thy color is grey.

(You gotta read all the way to the end of the Okrent piece. In spite of myself sometimes, and certainly in spite of the standard shrill-leftist blogospiel's thinking about him, I've rather liked Okrent's work to date edit: i don't really know what i'm talking about, it seems. Nothing new there, as i tend to skim the Times bits that interest me and ignore others. selah. /edit -- and a good deal of Nagourney's reportage, for that matter; there's a little voice in my head saying that, certainly, he got permission to publish that dumb sombitch's name, right?

Also: Don't piss Dan Okrent off, or he'll write about you in the Times.

Also also: YES, that includes YOU, the Bitch At Dan Okrent's Video Store that made him pay the late fee even though he got LADYBUGS back at 8:01 and not 8:00 like your precious rules state. You're about to get publically edited, cunt.)

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Here, read about Bush's horrid civil rights record, and then just go and read the report.

Then, there's a pretty excellent piece on Senator Kerry in the Times Magazine-- stick with it through the end, and you'll come away with a fairly nuanced portrait of a guy that's been fighting "the war on terror" since 1991. suckerbet says the GOP will try and spin some of this out-of-context within the next couple days, so read it before it gets mangled to death in soundbites.

EDIT, 8:55 pm CST: Ha ha ha.

And then read about the Fifty Percent Rule, because it'll make you do the Snoopy dance around the room.