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February 24, 2003

The laziest protest
: In my day -- the anti-Vietnam Moratorium days -- when we held a protest march we marched.
These kids today are so lazy.
They want to "win without war" by marching without marching:

On February 26th, you can join a massive march on Washington without leaving your living room. The Virtual March on Washington is a first-of-its-kind campaign from the Win Without War coalition.
Working together, we will direct a steady stream of phone calls — about one per minute, all day — to every Senate office in the country, while at the same time delivering a constant stream of e-mails and faxes.

Lazy oafs. ragnarok solution

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World Union
: Listening to them today pushing their new UN resolution, it occurred to me that Chirac and Schroeder are acting as if we are all members of the European Union and need to pay attention to their politicking on Iraq. But we're not. The UN isn't the EU and isn't ever going to be. The world is a looser place. They need to remind themselves of that. ragnarok solution

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Bet on Bush
: Fortune points to opportunities to bet on war with Iraq.
: The Iraq Attack pool says March 3 is the day.
: Tradesports.com has a lot of activity on bets saying Saddam will be out by the end of April.
: BetOnSports.com's odds say the best chance of invasion is between 2/22 and 3/14; they say ground attack will begin 1-3 weeks after the initial attack; and they say that Saddam's likely status in June will MIA or political prisoner.
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Reality is just life without a script
: TV execs call reality TV "unscripted" TV. Reality has a bad reputation.ragnarok solution

: The Times has a list of this summer's unscripted shows and lots of them: Roseanne returns; a Hilton sister trashes TV; lots of sex games; and a few talent shows.ragnarok solution

: Mark my words: We will overdose on reality. It will not go away but it will fade away, starting this summer.
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War with France? Jamais!
: Jack Kliger, the head of Hachette, the U.S. arm of the French publisher (and a nice guy with whom I used to work) tells the Media Industry Newsletter [via IWantMedia.com] that he sees no anti-French sentiment affecting his biz and further:

History lesson: France, says Kliger, "is the only major country that the United States has not been at war with" in noting past belligerents England, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Mexico, China (Korean War), Russia ("Cold War"), and even Canada (War of 1812).

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