• Asymmetrical Information believes “that contraceptive availability is not a major factor in teen pregnancy” … and that “children are a special libertarian case” …
• Downtown Dancer notes Fayard Nicholas’s death on Jan. 25, 2006 … “the Nicholas Brothers were absolutely inspiring movers and I felt lucky to be able to discover their film work” …
• An Unamplified Voice reminds us that “popular music exploded in popularity with the advent of the microphone. Athletic and remarkably well-trained as any particular one may be, the live voice is a limitation: it (with its sibling, the physical stage presence of one body) ensures that characters in opera remain at a recognizably human scale even as they’re kings or heroes — or gods. This fits naturally with the aesthetic of high culture, which characteristically explores the (tragic or amusing) limitedness of individual man, his inability to throw off mortal bonds from even the highest point.” …
• The Malcontent‘s headline for the post about “Cindy Sheehan said she is considering running for the U.S. Senate against Dianne Feinstein” … “Dear God, Let It Be So” … THAT would be an interesting race …
• About Last Night has an interesting discussion about e-books …
• Clublife reminds us that online “relationships go bad, just like they do in the “real world.” You don’t get along, or someone does something stupid, and things take a turn for the sour. It happens. The difference in Blog World, though, is that one or both parties are eventually going to write about it. You can’t help yourself.” …
• The Assimilated Negro believes “There is no situation where a wink is appropriate. There’s no biological, or physiological, or any-ological pedigree that supports a need for a human being to wink.” .. and is starting the “The Blink Don’t Wink™ Campaign” …
• Liberteaser says “Weed culture is stupid” … and “Helen Thomas has the President shaking in his boots” … “Who wouldn’t want to skip her and thus avoid having to hear her shrill, well-past-her-prime, ‘isn’t she dead?’ voice?” …
• Forgotten NY added a page about “mysterious names over apartment house entrances” …
• spinachdip nyc is going to have to start hanging out with a different set of bloggers .. you know, the kind that pay their tabs and leave tips … not the other kind …
• The Dawn Patrol has news about an eBay auction by an atheist to go to a church of the winning bidder’s choice, every day .. for $10 per day … and spiritual adoption of the unborn …
• New York Hack was on TV …
• Ace of Spades links to story “Cindy Sheehan Considers Challenging Dianne Feinstein For Senate” … and says the recent Palestinian elections were “almost like the Constitutional Convention. If I recall correctly, Governeur Morris threatened to “liquidate” anyone who suggested that Congress consist of only one House. He retracted his objections when John Jay kidnapped his son and began sending him severed fingers through the mail.” …
• 10,000 Birds reports that someone mowed the grass at Croton Point Park in northern Westchester … “Why they had to do it at the beginning of this critical season is beyond me.” …
• NYC Stories had to help a cabbie determine if a half-eaten meal was beef, pork, or veal … and they discussed trichinosis …
• Atlas Shrugs declares “Iran is begging, pleading for war” …
• Harleys, Cars, Girls & Guitars explains why he is no longer a Democrat … likes satellite radio (4 years ago we wouldn’t have believed we would happily pay $12 per month for it) … and says “There is only one way to go now … the restoration of the Patriarchy” …
• NewYorkology has the date and route for the “7th Annual Chinatown Lunar New Year Parade” …
• Night After Night disagrees with Pinchas Zukerman … “As far as I’m concerned, the historically informed movement breathed new life into 18th- and 19th-century music … Zukerman’s comments about the inability of HIP conductors and musicians to perform at any kind of professional standard do nothing more than make me think that he probably hasn’t checked out a concert during the last decade — especially given that he’s still harping on Hogwood and Norrington.” …
• WhiteTrashBBQ wishes a “Happy Birthday to one of mankind’s greatest inventions, canned beer. The first canned beer was released today, January 24, 1935 in Richmond, Virginia. It was Krueger’s Ale and Krueger’s Beer.” …
• greg.org links to an unusual video … “Football team owner Gigi Becali [aka the Woody Johnson of Bucharest]’s car got sideswiped. So he and a henchman opened the door like they do in the old country: with a couple of crowbars and a sportsnews camera crew watching on.” … Ai yi yi … don’t let those guys near your car …
• Brain Terminal compares search results for “Tiananmen” on Google and Google China …
• Deadprogrammer’s Cafe is unsettled by the fasces on the NYPD badge … fasces are “a bundle of sticks with an axe inside – the ancient symbol of authority. Along with the swastika, fasces has been marred as a symbol of Fascism, to which it gave its name.” … get a grip DPC … the design of the Mace in the U.S. House of Representatives is derived from the fasces …
• exit zero points out the link between “cannibalism and clean air” … “I don’t know if they’re still eating people in Uganda, but they do in the Democratic Republic of Congo, specifically UN representatives. The Congo is in a state of chaos, with a civil war that has taken millions of lives.” .. and then asks, “Are these environmentalists suggesting that this is the sort of good governance we should copy in the US?” …
• Ragged Thots agrees with Shelby Steele that “Republicans may be ‘freer’ of a certain ‘political bigotry.’ However, they do evidence a deep-seated need to do their own sort of ‘alchemy’ on the black members of their party, which plays out in its own demeaning fashion” …
• The Politburo Diktat notes that the US win over Norway “was a good win, the U.S. absolutely dominated, but it’s important to note that this was not Norway’s first string. It was basically a U-23 team” … we wondered why the Norwegians looked so cowed …
• Kesher Talk runs a profile of former CIA Director William Colby …
• Mona’s Apple says she could watch “The Last of the Mohicans” over and over …
• Metroblogging NYC asks “Dear Pervs: Why, why, why?” … “my friend Mari told me that a few blocks after we said good-bye at the corner of Broadway and Astor Place, a car pulled up next to her at the intersection of 10th and Broadway. Some guy leaned out the window and started yelling something at her. It was even more obscene than what St. Mark’s perv had yelled.” … and gets a link to the movie “War Zone” in the comments … free screening, Tuesday, February 21, 6:30pm – 9:00pm, New Lantern Events, at the Whirlwind Creative Gallery, 330 West 38th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues, Suite 511 … cosponsored with Holla Back NYC …
• jewschool, who is traveling in Israel, discovers “a Jewish hipster TV show” …
• A Hamburger Today says he can help … “Did you forget to make reservations for Valentine’s Day this year? Does your wife/girlfriend have an obsession with hamburgers? Are you looking for a way to end your relationship without actually saying “it’s over”? I think I may have the answer for you.” …
• elvira black got some grief for cross posting on her blog and at blog critics … and likes mister snitch!’s “rules for internet trolls to live by” …
• slashfood “would like to thank Hershey’s for finally deciding that filled Kisses were a good idea” … “But I must say that the new Peanut Butter filled Kisses might just be the best of the bunch” … and suggests that Di Fara’s post a sign: “Limit 2 Slices When Busy” …
• blog NYC has “it on good sources that the owner [of Burrito Bar and Kitchen] is terrible to work for. Employees have told us that guests have seen him on the floor, dressed in sweats and a Brazilian soccer jacket, scolding employees while the guests ask, ‘who’s the dick?’ Our source says that if the owner ever has to deal with a table and they don’t know who he is, they ask the bartender or waiter, ‘hey, who’s the guy with no personality’.” …
• Drones Club makes a too-rare appearance … “The old man came through town this evening, and I had managed a subterranean balcony, as it were. The view was not everything, but the acoustic quality of the space was remarkable, and Rostropovich himself was every bit his melancholy instrument” …
• Dave Friedman’s Soul of Wit declares “Googling “rent boy” doesn’t constitute proof that one is looking to hire a hooker, any more so than googling cocaine proves that one is looking to snort some blow” …
• mister snitch! advises “The biggest mistake people make with their resumes seems to be in parroting the language they see in the classifieds” …. links to some pictures: “Proof that your job COULD be worse” … and says “Iraqis and Afghans are among the world’s most economically-optimistic people … they saw what happened to Japan and Germany’s economies after we flattened THEM” … and links to pics of “another cruelly-humiliated cat for your enjoyment” …

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