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I can’t imagine anyone was really surprised that Gary Hart decided against running for president. On the other hand, it wouldn’t have stunned me if he got in, either. Hart is a truly fascinating guy. I met him once in a bar just outside of Des Moines during his brief “return” to the 1988 campaign. I was covering the Iowa caucus for the UW-Milwaukee Post. He graciously signed my copy of his campaign platform pamphlet (which I still have somewhere around here), and answered a few questions.
I believe him when he says that nobody outside the press still asks him about the Donna Rice and the good ship Monkey Business. He’s slightly less credible when he says he had the best chance of any Democrat to beat Bush.
10:52:41 PM 
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I knew I’d get around to tech stuff eventually. Tony Steidler-Dennison, who used to write the Penguin Shell newsletter for Lockergnome, now has a blogazine called Uptime.
His introductory essay is a little flowery, but anyone who loves John Lee Hooker can’t be all bad.
10:47:28 PM
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MP George Galloway was suspended from the Labour Party, effectively chucking him out of the party after 35 years. Supposedly, this sacking was due only to his calling Tony Blair and George Bush “wolves” to Iraqi state television. Curiously enough, however, the same week he is accused of being on Saddam’s payroll and stealing from a charity. Amazing how all this happens in a week, isn’t it? Roy Greenslade, former editor of the late unlamented Robert Maxwell’s Daily Mirror sees more than a few parallels between this ‘scandal’ and an earlier one.
10:37:57 PM
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