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Cleaning Up the Nation

Austin Bay:

If Air America were a conservative radio network its corrupt funding trail and cynical abuse of a poverty program would be front page news at the NY Times and full-time mega-scandal at

Rank Materialism

Freedom. I am now the proud new owner of a Gateway 6020GZ laptop, perfect for students and others with limited means. I can now go into a Starbucks or a Barnes & Noble and look like I'm doing some

Fallujah Fonda

Uh-oh. From the Telegraph comes this exciting news:

Jane Fonda is returning to anti-war activism and embarking on a cross-country tour to call for an end to US military operations in Iraq.

Acros

John Pilger: Partner in Terrorism

In an outrageous piece of terrorist propaganda appearing on the cover of today's New Statesman, John Pilger puts the blame for the 7/7 London attacks not on the terrorists, but rather on Tony Blair:

Word!

You know, you don't have to put a space between "1" and "st" and then go back and delete the space in order to not have Microsoft Word supserscript the "st". After Word superscripts for you, just hit "undo". The "undo" function will work for any automatic Word feature by the way: spell correction, bullets & numbering, what have you.

That's my helpful Micorsoft Word tip o' the day for all you forgers out there.

And speaking of forgery, what a classic. As Charles Johnson clearly demonstrated, there is a very precise line-to-line, word-to-word, character-to-character match between one of CBS's "Bush is AWOL" documents and the contents of the document typed freshly into Word.

Many people don't understand how much work and thought go into such things as font design and layout. I'm an amateur fan of this kind of thing. There is no way, and I really mean no way, that a 1972 typewriter and Microsoft Word at its default settings, will produce nearly identical documents. There are too many variables, too many daisy-chained decision points in the design and production of typewriters and computer software, for the two to produce such similar results coincidentally.

Alone, the mathematical probability that the line breaks in a typed paragraph, chosen by a human, will be the same as those chosen by Word at its default settings is vanishingly small. It may seem a harmless coincidence, but the likelihood is actually on the order of thousands to one against.

CBS has some 'splainin to do.

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