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October 2005 Archives
9:09 AM Sun, Oct 30, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon  Email
Joseph C. Wilson: Our 27 months of hell. Wilson is the husband of CIA agent Valerie Plame. Valerie was an innocent in this whole affair. Although there were suggestions that she was behind the decision to send me to Niger,......
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9:48 PM Fri, Oct 28, 2005 | Permalink |
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Special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald meets the press at the Dept. of Justice today. I posted only primary sources this afternoon -- the thing itself, not about the thing -- because I studied a lot of history back when,......
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3:55 PM Fri, Oct 28, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
3:54 p.m. Transcript is online now at NYT. 3:41 p.m.C-Span has archived the video of Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's press conference. It's one hour, seven minutes and 16 seconds long. You can watch a rebroadcast on C-Span TV at 8 p.m.......
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1:41 PM Fri, Oct 28, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Here's the text of the indictments in a pdf at the Department of Justice. Cheney aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was indicted by a Washington D.C. grand jury today on obstruction of justice, lying to a grand jury, lying to......
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10:28 AM Fri, Oct 28, 2005 | Permalink |
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11:50 a.m. WaPo: Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald has one indictment in hand, according to a source close to the investigation. Officials at the courthouse plan to release that indictment and a press release from Fitzgerald about noon after he......
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8:56 AM Fri, Oct 28, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Miers's Supporters Wince at How She Was Treated; She Seems to Bear Up Well: An hour after she walked into the Oval Office and withdrew her Supreme Court nomination, Harriet E. Miers called Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, an old friend......
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1:15 PM Thu, Oct 27, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
I haven't had a good links dump day in a while. I'll be posting to this item all day. But first... Famous last words. We're really short-staffed today, and I need six hands and four more eyes. AP White House......
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10:15 PM Wed, Oct 26, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
During yesterday's nor'easter, roughly a dozen Journal reporters and at least one photographer blogged realtime storm reports from wherever they were, all over the state. These weren't stories, they were the quick news we tell each other, what's happening......
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9:14 AM Wed, Oct 26, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Joe Hagan in the Wall Street Journal today: New York Times reporter Judith Miller has begun discussing her future employment options with the newspaper, including the possibility of a severance package, a lawyer familiar with the matter, said yesterday. The......
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1:33 AM Wed, Oct 26, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Money Gushes In for U.S. Oil Companies: LAT, Even for Big Oil, the numbers have never been as big as this. When major U.S. energy companies including Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp. announce their third-quarter earnings in the next......
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4:20 AM Tue, Oct 25, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
There's a lot to wrap today. NYT: Cheney Told Aide of C.I.A. Officer, Notes Show I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, first learned about the C.I.A. officer at the heart of the leak investigation in......
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11:05 AM Mon, Oct 24, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Updated 11:05 a.m. Monday Judy Miller responds to NYT public editor. Posted last night in Byron Calame's Web Journal on the Times site. Updated 12:44 p.m. Silence not always the most reliable source by blogging former journalist Tom Matrullo was......
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1:26 PM Sun, Oct 23, 2005 | Permalink |
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Guardian (UK) reporter Rachel Cooke visits Anita Thompson, Hunter's 33-year-old widow, in Woody Creek, Colo. A lonely legacy is long and she wisely just lets Anita talk: Two men helped her get through. One was Ralph Steadman, Hunter's friend......
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2:45 AM Sat, Oct 22, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Updated 2:45 p.m. SundaySteve Gregory' blog at weather Underground: "The GFS continues to forecast that Wilma will be transformed into a powerful Nor'Easter that will pound the SE portions of New England on Tuesday. All the hurricane models have brought......
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4:36 PM Fri, Oct 21, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Patrick J. Fitzgerald, Special Counsel is the title of the new Website with a doj.gov (Dept. of Justice) address. Dan Froomkin of the Washington Post asked why: Fitzgerald spokesman Randall Samborn minimized the significance of the Web launch in an......
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10:25 AM Thu, Oct 20, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Concept and production cars are rolling out at the Tokyo Motor Show. Business Week has a slideshow, Car Design News offers an index of thumbnails and a more comprehensive three-page spread (clicking the main photo of each car usually leads......
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10:08 AM Thu, Oct 20, 2005 | Permalink |
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(Imageupdated 11:09 a.m. Thursday; click for latest version) There's a fascinating discussion about Hurricane Wilma (Wilma Category 5: Lowest Pressure Ever) going on at The Oil Drum, a group blog about the petroleum industry I discovered during Katrina. Physicist......
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4:05 AM Wed, Oct 19, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
The Okie from Muskogee speaks out. Merle Haggard Takes Another Musical Stand: Outspoken Musical Icon Urges, "Rebuild America First". No audio yet, but Haggard's new Chicago Wind CD, out next Tuesday (Oct. 25), includes the tune in the headline. Chet......
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3:43 AM Tue, Oct 18, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Lady of the Canyon: In 1968 Joni Mitchell arrived in Laurel Canyon... (Guardian (UK)) Here's a photo of Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins and Joan Baez in June 1968 (at Esalen), from the fine collection of photographer Robert Altman. Thumbnails of......
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4:21 AM Mon, Oct 17, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
I first met Bob Albee 15 years ago, when I visited my brother, Frank Lennon, in West Palm Beach, Fla., and he invited friends to a barbecue to meet his sister. Frank later came back to Rhode Island and founded......
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8:28 PM Sat, Oct 15, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Judith Miller (Mr. & Mrs.) Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald Cheney aideI. Lewis (Scooter) Libby Tomorrow's paper tonight on the New York Times website: My Four Hours Testifying in the Federal Grand Jury Room By JUDITH......
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11:05 AM Sat, Oct 15, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Cameratoss, at Flickr: Have a light source. Set your camera for a long exposure. Throw it up, around, into the air. Catch. Repeat. The results can be quite spectacular if you juggle, spin, toss well. (Do disposable digital cameras do......
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10:33 AM Sat, Oct 15, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
11:23 p.m. Friday: Our 170-year-old house is close to nature. We've got an inch and a half of water around the boiler, visibly pouring in at ground level through a hole between the original foundatioa and a crawlspace under the......
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2:42 PM Fri, Oct 14, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
This photo is traveling around the undernets, where wags are giving it a spin. Can you come up with a label/headline/caption/short story about this photo from post-Katrina New Orleans? Post it at the "comments" link below. (Go ahead, free......
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4:33 AM Fri, Oct 14, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
My home desktop finally went stark raving mad, crashing every which way and sending a "disk full" error message. I searched for giant files, and found an apparent 90 gigs of giant files with impossible filenames piling up in the......
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4:11 AM Thu, Oct 13, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
If it makes you feel stupid is it really a game? From Robin Allen, the mad genius who drove you nuts with Hapland and Hapland 2 , here's Escape from Rhetundo Island. (detail at left) In a June story at......
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1:23 PM Wed, Oct 12, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
The title single of Sinead O'Connor's new reggae record, Throw Down Your Arms is downloadable. It's not heavy dub, for sure, but it's a new rhythm and a new sound for her. Chicago Sun-Times notes that O'Connor has become a......
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3:25 PM Tue, Oct 11, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
You may recall that we led our Katrina links with The Interdictor, the blog of directNIC.com, an ISP in New Orleans whose live webcam pointed at Poydras Street, kept alive by a generator. The Interdictor has morphed into NOLA.us, with......
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1:59 PM Sun, Oct 09, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Africa live in kumina at the Jamaica Gleaner. Kumina, otherwise known as kalunga or kaduunga, features flat-footed inching of the feet (or the kongo step), a steady, but often subtle, forward-thrusting of the hip with the rib cage and arms......
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2:59 PM Sat, Oct 08, 2005 | Permalink |
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Click the photo to see it larger (there's an "All sizes" link at the upper left of the photo on that Flickr page, if you want to see this full screen). The photographer, a 24-yearold German, specializes in animals. This......
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2:47 AM Fri, Oct 07, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Collision course? Maybe it's time to repost Chicago Magazine's July 2002 profile of then-U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, The New Face of the Law. He's formidable. Clapton production: Buddy Guy & Junior Wells Play The Blues Quicktime audio samples of all......
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7:47 AM Thu, Oct 06, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
The L.A. Times revisits (Ex-Door Lighting Their Ire) the feud between John Densmore (at right), who won't sign to sell Doors tunes for commercials, and Ray Manzarek, Robbie Krieger and former Cult singer Ian Astbury, who sings the late......
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2:49 PM Wed, Oct 05, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Vegan Lunch Box documents the daily lunchbox with photographs and reports on what came home uneaten. The photo is of whole-wheat pita with hummus, lemon soy yogurt, organic grapes and cucumber rings. The Washington State blogger is also a knitter,......
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2:53 AM Wed, Oct 05, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Who would have expected a Rhode Island connection might enter the newest Supreme Court nominee's confirmation hearings? From Ken Herman of the Austin-American Statesman yesterday (Bush's Guard service may affect Miers nomination): A former Texas lottery official, who claimed that......
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12:02 AM Tue, Oct 04, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Battle of the hose: World Series drought: Both Sox know the deal at MSNBC. Starts at 4 p.m. Ozzie and Harriet: I don't know if Bush is circumventing a systemic judicial old-boy network or trusting that Harriett Miers' job to......
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4:01 AM Sun, Oct 02, 2005 | Permalink |
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By Sheila Lennon Email
Such a tease: Quoting The Daily Show host liberally, The Guardian (U.K.) tries to explain Jon Stewart to Britain. ...Less blunt than Michael Moore, but more politically engaged than late-night hosts Jay Leno or David Letterman, Stewart, 42, combines the......
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