. . . discusses, once more, the crazy world of American book publishing. Very illuminating.

And depressing.

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. . . Jeff Percifield's amazing "In the Future, Everyone Will Be Hitler for 15 Minutes," you can find it here.

Every once in a while I think "that boy has peaked with that entry. It can't get funnier than this." And then, later, he writes one that's even better. This one was linked by everyone, though, including Lileks (who claims first use of the Warhol update phrase), and then Reynolds himself.

Then Jeff went on vacation, but you should still check in at his site this week: he's re-running some of his classic posts, which you probably received as e-mail forwards from your friends ten months ago. Now you can enjoy them again.

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The Anchoress has an entry about a very little boy in medical distress who needs our help. It appears that cancer treatments may have damaged his kidney functions, and it's unclear if they will return to him.

Please pray, if that's what you do. Otherwise, please direct postive mental energy to this case.

Thanks.

(Via the Cotillion Ball.)

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Kate of Small Dead Animals discusses an article about the BBC in the U.K. that she feels could just as easily have been written about Canada's CBC. The extreme leftist bias in both cases is not a conspiracy at all; it simply reflects the world view of those who work there.

These news agencies are only a few degrees further left than our own heritage media, though in the U.S. the anti-American bias has to be muted somewhat, made palatable to the masses (who aren't as stupid as the media elites imagine, and are simply voting with their remote controls).

The difference, of course, is that in Canada and the UK these agencies are state-run, supported by tax dollars. Here in the U.S. we only have to put up with National Public Radio, which appeals to a niche market, and (despite its being far-left) I rather like. Still, there is something maddening about the idea of the person who works at 7-11 having to pay taxes to support media organs that present only a tiny piece of the spectrum of political thought. Especially when these news agencies do not acknowledge this bias in the least, or even really see it.

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Sissy Willis is covering the movement to impeach President Bush; hit her main page, and keep scrolling. I've tried to write about this issue, but I just collapse in giggles. My bottom-line advice to the Democrats is this: knock yourselves out. No, really—have fun.

Of course, it doesn't weaken Hillary's hand at all: the sillier the supposedly mainstream Dems act, the more Hill looks like The Only Electable Person in her party.

And I still believe that in her first term she would govern from the center; it's only in the second four years that she will become truly dangerous.

The world needs grownups, Zonker.

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1 Hillary will most likely be their candidate, but I don't think she has a chance of winning unless the Rep. candidate is really a lousy one. I agree - spend your time and energy trying to impeach Bush. It's a hopeless waste of time.

Posted by: Jamie Dawn at June 04, 2005 08:43 PM (pj9lX)

2 Thanks for the nice link, doll.

Posted by: Sissy Willis at June 05, 2005 02:23 AM (7WFgX)

3 Hillary won't be running 'cause Willy is HIV possitive and he will be fading fast by then. Poor Willy, we hardly knew ye.

Posted by: comrade jamima at June 05, 2005 08:00 AM (o2TWn)

4 You know we're in trouble when you look at the Washington Post and wonder if you're reading the Onion. Let me get this straight: they want to impeach President Bush. Did I just have a rather vivid dream or something, or did we not have a national referendum on whether or not to remove Bush from office, about eight months ago? An election, I think they called it? My recollection is that the pro-impeachment side lost. I know liberals live in a different world sometimes, but I'm sure I remember them participating in said referendum. What startling new evidence has since been brought to public attention to merit these quite startlingly tedious new demands?

Posted by: Simon at June 06, 2005 06:45 PM (GRyHA)

5 Bush lied and stuff.

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I just did the usual quickie Bay Area trip: drove up in one day, spent two days there, and drove back on the fourth day. This experience included:

1) Seeing my aunt's new house in Walnut Creek, which is nicer than the one that burned down last year. I spent the first night there, listening to my aunt talk for two and half hours about what kind of furniture she plans to buy. It was interesting talk, but there was a lot of it, considering that I'd just spent over five hours on the road. Damn, though: I was gratified to be a good niece. My relatives can't help it that they talk too much. And neither can I, of course, when I get going. It's in my genes.

2) Having to choose which social engagement I would take. I have so many friends in the Bay Area that I only see each person every 2-3 years or so. If I didn't make this rule, I'd never spend enough time with my family.

3) Finding out at a family dinner that my "little cousin" (he's almost 40 and towers over me) is now engaged to the Very Nice Girl he's been dating. Being genuinely glad that my cousins are marrying such sweet, ethical women.

4) Eating ice cream at Fenton's in Oakland with my mom.

5) Getting lectured by my mother about how I need to cut down on carbs and sweets—over her third dessert. No, really; there was something kind of charming about it.

6) Letting my mom spoil me: she crashed on the couch, and I got to sleep in her brand-new queen-size bed, which includes a remote control that lifts the foot—hospital-style—and tilts the head. One almost doesn't need pillows, and it's terrific both for reading in bed and increasing respiration (because one is sleeping almost upright, at the precise angle of one's choosing). It was the second most decadent experience of my life. (The first: going to the 21 Club in New York City after my husband won his last Emmy.)

7) Lunch on Friday with my brother in Dublin, where he works. This has become my custom on the days I drive back to L.A., and it compensates a little for the fact that he and his family don't join the rest of us for dinner too often.

But no internet access for four days. That hurt. And I missed my biggest traffic peak of all time (1,100 hits in one day, double my previous high-water mark). The Ladies of the Cotillion danced on in my absence, aided by an Instalanche and a Malkinization.

Dang, but I'm content, probably because this Prozac shit is starting to really work. And I'm going to bed now.

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I've been looking for a flashlight to shine my way through the fog of immigration. Here's one, by a friend of mine who was ostensibly writing about abortion. Not so incidentally, she makes some good points about what amounts, in a lot of cases, to a sub rosa system of indentured servitude.

Or: slavery in the present day in this country.

It has to stop, but I don't think the answer is to militarize the border and to kick all the "illegals" out of the U.S.

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The Cotillion now has its own site: your one-stop shopping for some of the best libertarian/right opinions out there, written by women of distinction.

I don't always agree with the other ladies, but that is exactly the point: thoughtful people are supposed to exchange views, rather than simply talking at each other.

I'm deeply honored to be part of the cotillion, and thrilled that we can all now blog openly about this exciting project.

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1 Which is great... Except it's on Blogspot. Hint hint.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 07, 2005 03:54 AM (+S1Ft)

2 Right. Good thinking.

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