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And no new posts? Lame. Suffering here from part post-holiday crash, and way too many things to do. I even feel guilty typing this right now because I should really be doing something productive.

[This is where the other bloggers are supposed to, you know, step in occassionally and participate so I can procrastinate in less public ways...]

But too much stuff has gone on recently not to at least run down a few notables:

1. NSA spying on phone conversations and e-mails between inhabitants of the US and suspected terrorists. A legal gray area, sure, but morally or ethically objectionable how exactly?

2. The Alito hearings. Only notable for Joe Biden and Ted Kennedy reaffirming every negative stereotype of blowhard opportunism run amok in politics.

3. Oregon’s Assisted Suicide law upheld by the Supreme Court. Would need to know more about the Controlled Substances Act to have an opinion either way, but find it a little amusing that last night murder mastermind Clarence Ray Allen, age 76, was executed in California despite protests that executing a blind, deaf, and crippled senior citizen amounted to cruel and inhuman punishment. Apparently, they should’ve killed him in Oregon.

4. Saw a few movies, but the one that most stumped me was Oscar-winner Chicago. Why was this popular? I like musicals far more than the next guy, but this was by turns aimless, pretentious, obvious, underwritten, overblown, nihilistic and so very very very ordinary. On second thought, it doesn’t sound much different from American Beauty. Or Duece Bigalow.

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