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Wednesday, January 9, 2008 — Well, we held your first in the nation presidential primary. It’s over now. Was it everything you thought it would be? Did you get what you wanted? Are you happy now? Are you satisfied? We don’t suppose anyone cares how we feel … people coming in from all over, causing all sorts of commotion, trampling dirt everywhere, throwing things on the ground, treating this place like a pigsty. Then they all up and leave! Gone! Just like that! How do you think that makes us feel? We’ll tell you how – dirty! Dirty, and used! Fortunately, we like that. Y’all …

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Tuesday, January 8, 2008 — The temperature is about thirty degrees warmer than normal, voter turnout is high — so high there is concern that polling places in some New Hampshire cities may run out of Democratic ballots. The November, 2006 elections were a repudiation of the status quo, and they only dealt with Congress. This one is a chance for voters to express their dissatisfaction with the Executive Branch. Local authorities should be grateful that they don’t have to cope with unruly mobs bearing pitchforks and torches. We got a few odd e-mails this morning making allegations about the integrity of New Hampshire’s voting …

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Monday, January 7, 2008 — It is the eve of New Hampshire’s much-ballyhooed First in the Nation™ Presidential Primary. Forty-eight hours from now a second set of digits will be associated with the names of the leading candidates, and the hirelings of the media corporations will go thundering off to the next arena. National interest in our state will vanish as surely and as quickly as this cheerful fellow. For the record, it was 45 degrees Fahrenheit at noon today. Tomorrow the mercury is predicted to rise into the low 50’s. This morning’s indicators look ominous for the candidate of the Democratic party’s establishment. The …

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Tuesday, January 1, 2008 — Wednesday, January 2, 2008 — Thursday, January 3, 2008 — Friday, January 4, 2008 — On this day some number of years ago, we resolved never again to make any resolutions on this day. Today, we break that resolution, and resolve to post every day. More regularly. A little more often. We must, however, caution the reader against expecting the sort of constant Bruckheimeresque commotion in which some websites traffic. We were stimulated to throw off our torpor by a metaphor, used in an article published Tuesday in the Boston Globe (see right) in which David Mehegan compares author Seth …

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Tuesday, November 20, 2007 — A reasonable person might well wonder just what’s going on around here. And we’re not talking about the somewhat unusual motor vehicle depicted above, we’re talking about this operation: the online presence of the nation’s most venerable newspaper. Sorry to disappoint, but the answer is, nothing to get excited about. We’re just bumping along, putting out the paper, and occasionally dropping the ball. Which is why we haven’t posted anything new since 11/11. We did put the paper out last Friday. Skeptics are invited to scrutinize the number and date on our banner, above. There’s a fairly scandalous story on …

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Sunday, November 11, 2007 — On Veterans Day six years ago the remains of the World Trade Center were still smoking, and the war in Afghanistan had just begun. No one, outside the Bush administration, was thinking that much about Iraq. The idea of attacking Iran would have seemed even crazier than it does now. Lower Manhattan is more orderly today. Afghanistan is more of a wreck. Iraq makes Afghanistan look placid. And people who think attacking Iran would be crazy have only to look back a few years to realize that for some people, crazy is no obstacle. On Veterans Day six years ago, …

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