Thursday, September 28, 2006

GOP Torture/Dictatorship Legislation: 65 Yea 34 Nay Matt Stoller at MyDD has the final tally. Democrats voting Aye (12) - Carper (Del.), Johnson (S.D.), Landrieu (La.), Lautenberg (N.J.), Lieberman (Conn.), Menendez (N.J), Pryor (Ark.), Rockefeller (W. Va.), Salazar (Co.), Stabenow (Mich.), Nelson (Fla.), Nelson (Neb.) Republicans voting Nay (1) - Chafee (R.I.) Independents voting Nay (1) - Jeffords (Via The ITT List.) A sad and shameful day for this country. It's hard not to feel the country I grew up loving slipping through our fingers. 9:40:56 PM    comment []

Plagiarism (incl Proust) in Dylan's autobiography ... Plagiarism (incl Proust) in Dylan's autobiography (Ralph) (Via robot wisdom weblog.) This is the kind of thing that was called "allusion" when I studied lit back in the early 70s. I guess it's called "plagiarism" now. This is the kind of thing you find in all sorts of writers. Was Joyce plagiarizing Blake when he referred to the harlot's cry from street to street in the second chapter of Ulysses? 9:17:00 AM    comment []

20 miles out of town 8:48:13 AM    comment []

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