"It depends on what the meaning of the word is is. If the...if he...if is means is and never has been, that is not - that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement."
-- Bill Clinton

$am $loan

From best I can tell, he’s somewhat unhinged, but probably mostly well-meaning–or at least believes he’s in the right.

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June 9th, 2007 2 comments
Posted by Donnie Filed under Chess

A personal touch

Once in a while, we’ll see or read first-person stories relating to some news event. Sometimes, it feels like the reporter is too much a part of the story, and it just gets in the way.

I like the style Al Jazeera has in these stories…there’s no commentary given by a journalist, except for a few sentences of background in the beginning (who they’re talking to, from where, and what about).

The changing face of my Beijing

Indian slum girl ‘makes good’

‘They destroyed our lives’

June 9th, 2007 no comments
Posted by Donnie Filed under In the News