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Monday, July 30 — Well, folks, we’re pretty well out of excuses. We may have to get into the habit of posting something here on a daily basis. That is not to say that we intend to run a normal sort of a blog here. Not if a blog is expected to provide daily flashes of brilliance that move the public dialogue forward and demonstrate the author’s superior intellect. All we really plan to do here is make one point, over and over again: in this fairly desperate time, when our already imperfect democracy is in imminent danger of going completely to hell for good, …

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Saturday, July 28 — We try to get our banner refreshed on our day of publication. Yesterday we failed. We apologize for the delay. We did get a paper out, of course. Here’s the top half of the front page. We have it in mind to post something today, but there are a few chores to attend to, and the weather is looking pretty iffy. In fact, we just heard rumbles of thunder. We may be back later, today, depending. It’s not that we think the world’s waiting. We’re just gradually inching this aspect of the overall operation forward, and we feel like leaving a …

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Wednesday, July 25 — Sigh. We’re more than a little preoccupied finishing up our Vol. 251, No. 22, due at the printer’s tomorrow, and on the streets Friday, but inspired by a faithful reader and erstwhile volunteer we hastened to get up a post on Monday about the possibility of actually getting Congress to impeach a certain arch-criminal. Now, it appears, our hopes were in vain. Rather than re-hash, we’ll send you to Jonathan Schwarz’s post at AfterDowningStreet.

Monday, July 23 — Time to impeach, that is. Readers familiar with the paper know that we are in the habit of taking serious things lightly. That is not the case here. We’re presently fairly busy hammering together our next issue, which we expect will be on the street this Friday, as usual. But we’re taking time out here, in response to several urgent e-mails from subscribers, to draw attention to what begins to look like a serious effort to impeach Cheney and Bush. John Conyers, Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, says that if three more members of Congress sign on to co-sponsor House …

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Saturday, July 14 – Folks, don’t let our recent lack of posts, or this day-late updating of the banner, mislead you into thinking we’re not on the job. We just have a little more job than we have hours in the day. We did in fact get out another 16 pages of high-octane propaganda. And as usual it’s being well-received by the local malcontents. What else would you expect in a town where sights like this guy are not particularly peculiar? Back here tomorrow, perhaps. In the meantime, thanks to Bruce Pingree for tipping us off to Radio Free Amsterdam.

Thursday, July 12–We interrupt our recent torpor to pass along this Special News Flash from Veterans for Common Sense: Please Watch ABC World News and ABC Nightline Tonight Veterans for Common Sense urges our members and supporters to watch tonight’s ABC “World News Tonight” and ABC News “Nightline,” today, Thursday, July 12. The two programs are scheduled to feature breakthrough reporting from Joshua Kors, the journalist who exposed how the Pentagon is abusing the personality disorder diagnosis to kick soldiers out of the military, as reported in The Nation. Kors showed how the military is cheating our wounded Iraq War veterans out of a lifetime …

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