:: blame the extended gestation.... ::

:: Saturday, December 06, 2003 ::

Yahoo! News - Sharpton Appears on 'Saturday Night Live' Those bastards... they aren't showing it in Sacto...

:: Jim Nichols 12/06/2003 11:36:00 PM [+] ::
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Wal-Mart Invades, and Mexico Gladly Surrenders: "The company that ate America is now swallowing Mexico."

hahaha.... right!

"Wal-Mart says that it treats its Mexican employees so well that the workers want no union, and that it pays its workers better than do its Mexican competitors."

I've never heard of a worker not wanting a union. Maybe its cause I don't know enough workers but I don't see it...

" in the United States, a unionized supermarket worker makes, on average, about $19 an hour. At Wal-Mart, where there are no unions, that worker makes about $9 an hour. In Mexico, for a newly hired Wal-Mart cashier, the pay stub reads about $1.50 a hour."

:: Jim Nichols 12/06/2003 05:26:00 PM [+] ::
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California Insider - Arnold's first defeat: "Schwarzenegger, in effect, was asking legislators on a few days notice to adopt a constitutional amendment that would have banned tax increases to solve next year?s problem and made higher tax rates all but impossible to enact forever more. There was simply no way the Democrats who control the Legislature were ever going to agree to such a provision."

:: Jim Nichols 12/06/2003 05:21:00 PM [+] ::
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George Bush is a miserable failure and i'm not just saying that to say that. Look here

:: Jim Nichols 12/06/2003 05:08:00 PM [+] ::
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"My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure." -Ashleigh Brilliant

:: Jim Nichols 12/06/2003 11:17:00 AM [+] ::
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"I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I
dare a little the more, as I grow older."
-- D. A. Battista

:: Jim Nichols 12/06/2003 12:56:00 AM [+] ::
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Have fun

:: Jim Nichols 12/06/2003 12:47:00 AM [+] ::
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Headline of the week... (brought to you by Atrios)

Rumsfeld meets rival warlords in Afghan visit

:: Jim Nichols 12/06/2003 12:25:00 AM [+] ::
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I don't know why I keep clicking

:: Jim Nichols 12/06/2003 12:12:00 AM [+] ::
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No one is listening.

:: Jim Nichols 12/06/2003 12:12:00 AM [+] ::
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See, wasn't that fun.

:: Jim Nichols 12/06/2003 12:12:00 AM [+] ::
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For someone who wants more than anything to be able to think clearly, with depth and accuracy, this whole inablitiy of mine of late to not be able to concentrate on anything for more than two seconds is quite a bitch. In a way blogging sometimes is a substitute for thinking things out... you publish crap in one click of a button. Here, let me give you an example...

:: Jim Nichols 12/06/2003 12:12:00 AM [+] ::
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LRB | Frank Kermode : Complicated Detours:

"At the lowest practical level, Phillips advises us to regard death as a satisfactory as well as an inevitable terminus, and to stop wanting it to be other than it is, either by supposing it isn't the end or by regarding it as something for which in one way or another we should live; as if lives were the material of fictions dependent on that end. He is keenly pro-life, and quotes, ultimately with approval, what John Cage said in response to a complaint that there was too much suffering in the world - namely, that on the contrary there was just the right amount. This is theodicy with God left out, or replaced by Nature. The argument here is that Darwin and Freud so redescribed nature that we ought to be able to forget the old regrets about transience and accept an ephemeral existence, suffering and all, as a source of joy."

Darwin's Worms is a very interesting book. I should throw up some of my favorite quotes. I'll have to do that...

:: Jim Nichols 12/06/2003 12:03:00 AM [+] ::
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Okay so maybe it wasn't the movie. I'm in this really odd place right now; i'm not quite sure how to explain it although it may have something to do with my eating/sleeping/exercise pattern of late--unhealthy would be a bit of an understatement.

:: Jim Nichols 12/05/2003 11:42:00 PM [+] ::
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I just got back from seeing Shattered Glass. I still have that kinda fuzzy haze feeling I sometimes get after watching a movie. The friend I went with really liked it; i'll have to sit on it for a while...

:: Jim Nichols 12/05/2003 11:40:00 PM [+] ::
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I haven't been going at it for a while. Its hard to work yourself up and get all excited about blogging when you're depressed and not really motivated about getting out of bed let alone taking the three steps over to the computer. But I won't waste your time complaining...

I just recently got the new Distillers album. I have to say this is my first album from them; christ she sounds like courtney love. I don't really care about the tim armstrong drama--drama sells records--this is pretty damn good music.

:: Jim Nichols 12/05/2003 07:08:00 PM [+] ::
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"Among the many lessons for the left, one is clear and recently
demonstrated for us by the people of Venezuela and Bolivia: elections are
important but they must not be seen as an endgame, something where you
get the "bad guys out" and then go home, saying "mission
accomplished." Elections should be approached as occasions in the process of
building deep, durable and richly textured movements for justice that
help lift the best possible and least harmful candidates into power but
work just as fiercely to keep officeholders honest and to defend them
whenever necessary against the armies of the perpetual dark
reactionary night."

Paul Street

:: Jim Nichols 12/04/2003 08:06:00 AM [+] ::
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"All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running
from, and to, and why." -James Thurber

:: Jim Nichols 12/04/2003 07:59:00 AM [+] ::
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Alaska can come too

:: Jim Nichols 12/04/2003 07:46:00 AM [+] ::
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Wolfowitz sought to undermine UN Weapons Inspector Hans Blix,: "“Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know,”" --Rumsfeld

:: Jim Nichols 12/03/2003 05:34:00 AM [+] ::
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I'm finally back from GA. Can I just say I don' promote visiting family. Actually, ironically enough I thought I had a really good trip till I get home and find this email from the moms... I guess I don't really need to say much more.

:: Jim Nichols 12/01/2003 04:09:00 PM [+] ::
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John & Belle Have A Blog: The Black Arrow & The White Moth: "Let us all let 'wary-ness' of lack of 'interesting-ness' be our watchword. Life has a 'short-ness' to it and should not fill up with bad books."

:: Jim Nichols 12/01/2003 04:03:00 PM [+] ::
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