Daily Archives: September 26, 2006

Capacitance

By Frank Paynter | Published: September 26, 2006

EEstor… that’s what I’m talking about. Got my fingers crossed that it goes big and that it goes big fast.

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Well endowed…

By Frank Paynter | Published: September 26, 2006

Watching Amanda interview Jarvis my mind wandered to the Harvard endowment. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not wandering off into the misty distance of a techno-elitist, white privilege rap. I follow Amanda with pleasure. Her perigrinations promise not the picaresque vicissitudes of — oh, Tom Jones, nor Sal Paradise, nor even “Half Cocked Jack” Shaftoe [...]

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Conspiracy

By Frank Paynter | Published: September 26, 2006

Bruce continues his examination of Alexander Cockburn’s put-down of the 9/11 contrarians, those who think more was done to pull down the unimaginative architectural shoebox monstrosities at the lower end of Manhattan than simply flying a couple of airliners full of passengers and jet fuel into them. We’ll never have proof because any evidence pro [...]

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