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We’re Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore -- In These Times -- a well-written tirade against the current Republican party, by Garrison Keillor. (From filkerdave)

Here in 2004, George W. Bush is running for reelection on a platform of tragedy—the single greatest failure of national defense in our history, the attacks of 9/11 in which 19 men with box cutters put this nation into a tailspin, a failure the details of which the White House fought to keep secret even as it ran the country into hock up to the hubcaps, thanks to generous tax cuts for the well-fixed, hoping to lead us into a box canyon of debt that will render government impotent, even as we engage in a war against a small country that was undertaken for the president’s personal satisfaction but sold to the American public on the basis of brazen misinformation, a war whose purpose is to distract us from an enormous transfer of wealth taking place in this country, flowing upward, and the deception is working beautifully.

Teh Clicky-Shiny!

EudoraPro[sic] Keyboard, Vintage Clicky-Clacky - Gizmodo [product page] -- it's EnduraPro. Stupid Gizmodo.

I admit it -- I'm addicted to IBM Model M keyboards. It's true that the price on this one is roughly 10 times what I was paying at the local surplus joints back when they still had the Real Thing (I snarfed up most of them), but still -- USB, Windows keys (easily rebound in X), and... black! Now, if only they carried them at Fry's...

Hey, mr_kurt! Mind if I expense one of these for my work system?