Author: DXO
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Hussein Goes on Trial Wednesday, and Iraqis See a First Accounting – New York Times
By JOHN F. BURNSPublished: October 18, 2005 BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 17 – On Wednesday, 22 months after he was dragged from his hiding place in an underground bunker, Saddam Hussein will appear in an Iraqi court to answer for the brutalities he inflicted on his fellow Iraqis. But what should be a moment of triumph…
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Ill-Advised Product #327
So BP Amoco is using gas pump toppers to offer their scrumptious Bacon Cheeseburger Panini Melts. I’m all for BP Amoco increasing their c-store sales to previous gas-only customers, but I really can’t imagine the scene where I unhook the pump and decide, “holy shit, I gotta get me one of them Bacon Cheeseburger Panini…
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Searching for John F. Burns
Here’s another in the “How I Use” series: Google Alerts. Over the last few months I have migrated the bulk of my news consumption and web research from Google to Yahoo!. In fact, my browser start page is now Yahoo! News, even though I was once a huge lover of the automaton Google News. I’ve…
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Annotating Judith Miller
The first definitive story from the New York Times on the Judith Miller/ Valerie Plame/ Scooter Libby situation is the perfect illustration of Annotated New York Times. Being such an NYT freak, I thought I would constantly be reading it all of the time, but I almost never look at it. Briefly, the Annotated NYT…
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Break; Give Me
So I’m not a real vociferous political blogger. There are plenty & I am not needed. But I have to comment on the Onion-like headline I saw this morning. Every single time this President of the United States comes in contact with the public it is highly scripted and controlled. So when I saw the…