It starts on the East Coast, and ends on the West Coast. It's long and boring. It was rejected twice before I figured out that I should be submitting pieces I actually like to literary journals, so when the rejection slips come I can snap my fingers and condemn their shitty taste and inability to see my sheer fucking poetry-in-prose for what it is.

Turns out the way to write about a road trip is under stress and on the fly.

If today's the last day for a while, Harrell, you'd better make it good.

UPDATE: "You didn't tell me you were going to kill it!"

Silly me, thinking The Shape of Days would stay on the web, and simply not be updated. Oh, well. If you didn't read my link this morning, you're SOL. We can only hope you-know-who resurfaces someday, with more verbal crack.

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. . . to catch Shape of Days, before Harrell takes a breather to learn his new job.

He tells us to get our blog on while we still can. And, being from Texas, he thinks Virginia is mountainous; he should see the Sierra Nevadas. That's some topography for you there, Buddy.

Via con Dios, Jeff. I always knew you had guts.

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I had no idea Venomous Kate had a regular column up over at Wizbang! Cool stuff.

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Harrell's got an article up at Wizbang! about it.

(No. I don't mean al Qaeda. I mean moving.)

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I know a few, but they are so difficult to find that I'm thinking of creating a separate blogroll for them. I'm not interested in snarky remarks about how the only correct positions are center-right: I'm interested in where you see the most provocative, even seductive arguments from your left-leaning friends or adversaries. What makes you think?

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Is anyone going? I'm tempted, though CPAC may have used up all my time and emotional energy for overnight blog-conferences.

Still, it's close enough that I could do this one on a serious shoestring (though I stayed under-budget for the D.C. trip, mostly due to my "one meal a day" approach, and liberal use of protein bars).

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. . . has a thoughtful piece about the effects of child care. It's refreshing to read about that subject from a point of view other than the two standards (that is, "child care can save the world!" and "child care is destroying our kids!").

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Ace on Arianna, who's been writing about the "Shotgungate" non-story:

I'm pretty sure Michael Huffington is the one homosexual who wasn't born gay. But the poor sonofabitch just never had a chance, did he? What would you have done?

Me? Had I married Arianna Huffington? I think I'd be blasting my own friend in the face right now, if you know what I'm sayin'.

Read the whole thing, 'cause it's funnier 'n' a sonofabitch.

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Aw, come on, boys: let's not, um, rag on her for her looks. That's the kind of thing the lefties do.

Hackbarth has another mini-roundup, and remarks that the whole flap is "almost boring." Yeah. But if we don't distance ourselves from this woman we're no better than the lefties who defend Michael Moore's prevaricating—or those who don't closely examine the more, um, colorful arguments Pat Buchanan makes over on populist row.

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. . . to find a good Descartes joke.

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Dead men tell no tales, and Dick Cheney likes having colorful, bloody stories told about him. Usually these stories include the lines, "And then all I did was call 'shotgun' as we were heading back to the car, and Cheney says 'That's not how my Pappy taught me to play shotgun.'"

RTWT.

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are undisclosed, it's all good.

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"there's nothing to read on the internet." But I suspect that would try even his patience.

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1 ?

Posted by: k at February 07, 2006 02:43 PM (Ffvoi)

2 It's just like "I have nothing to wear," or "there's nothing to eat in the house." Just childishness.

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3 A woman, whine to her husband, never. That would insult his honor, and make provoke a beating...... Darn, I haven't submitted to Islamic Law (never will). So the little lady will whine all day long... Ah, bliss...all is normal in the world.

Posted by: Marvin at February 07, 2006 06:29 PM (ClgUv)

4 Joy, If you want some interesting (albeit academic) fare, try searching for "OSINT" or "WBIL" on the web. If the Hub likes studying conflicts, I recommend "The Bear Went Over the Mountain", by Les Grau and Ali Jalili. It is a study of the Soviets in Afghanistan. It is available online from the Foreign Military Studies Office, Ft. Leavenworth, KS. You could even find some stuff by yours truly, including "A Part, not Apart", covering the EZLN-ETA dialogue in southern Mexico and "Latin Gangs in the U.S." focusing on the MS-13 (with help from USBP Intelligence). (Also printed in Crime and Justice International). All sorts of interesting things in the open source arena; you just have to look for them. BTW; none of the above is classified. Good luck and happy reading! SGT Dave, Camp Victory, Iraq

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5 Thanks, Dave! I'll check 'em out.

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6 ...all the things you used to do... they don't satisfy you, they don't tell you anything new...

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7 All right, all right

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8 But our mr. ferry describes that sort of blase ennui ever so well, doesn't he?

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One possible answer.

(hat tip: Hog Beatty)

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There's some unusual introspection here from Laurence. The man has a point all of us should think about: when do we begin to see the enemy in ourselves? And what can we do to stop it?

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. . . jumps on the bandwagon.

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Via Glenn, PJM has a roundup of blogger reactions.

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