Daily Archives: June 15, 2024

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    • Islamofascism

    By Frank Paynter | Published: June 15, 2024

    i don’t want to cut those terrorists any slack. They’re murderers and we ought to bring them to justice, every one of them. Swift justice. But here’s the thing. There’s this word, “Islamofascism,” and every time I hear it I wonder if there isn’t some kind of Godwin’s law being broken. Islamofascism, fairly rolls off [...]

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    Dried up…

    By Frank Paynter | Published: June 15, 2024

    Maybe I’m dried up.  I have a bunch of posts bubbling, but I don’t have time to do any of them justice.  And just when I’m thinking I’m creative or something, I’m humbled by a brainwave like this at Jeneane’s and I simply have to suggest that somebody get on over to the Sessum house [...]

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    Ernie Pyle these guys ain’t…

    By Frank Paynter | Published: June 15, 2024

    Writing credits for the Dick Van Dyke Show: Carl Reiner Bill Persky & Sam Denoff Bill Idelson Rick Mittleman David Adler Walter Kempley Jack Raymond Norm Liebmann, Ed Haas Arnold and Lois Peyser Leo Solomon, Ben Gershman John Whedon Sheldon Keller, Howard Merrill Ray Allen Saffian, Harvey Bullock Charles Aidman, Roy Roberts Lee Erwin Martin [...]

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    Google Power

    By Frank Paynter | Published: June 15, 2024

    If you, like me, clicked thru from Doc Searls to Markoff’s article on ServerLand, Google’s theme park on the Columbia River, and if you found it interesting, then you will want to read McD’s cogent if speculative ramble around the world of distributed iron this morning. Disintermediate.

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    She teaches…

    By Frank Paynter | Published: June 15, 2024

    From Flaubert’s unfinished final novel to Charles Olson, the avant garde inspiration of so many beat poets, there is ever a lesson at le blog de Mme. Levy. One has only to Google to become aware. Following up the Googly citations with several decades of awareness and study, one may hope eventually to become informed. [...]

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