oh, so that's what they meant

William Saletan:

Thursday morning, President Bush greeted the people of Iraq on their TV screens. "You are a good and gifted people," he told them as Arabic script appeared below his face. I don't know Arabic, but I'm sure the translation didn't convey what Bush means by "gifted." He doesn't mean exceptional. He means ethnic.

What? Go read it.

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Fox News just reported that Tariq Aziz owned a DVD of "Sleepless in Seattle".

open mike report

Caffe Verona, 2002-04-10

( A good night. )

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Here's the Kathleen Edwards chorus that I was unpredictably but wholly obsessed with at three in the morning:

And if you weren't so old I'd probably keep you
If you weren't so old I'd tell my friends
But I don't think your wife would like my friends

She's playing around here on the 18th, but, so am I.

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I put a new track on the web site--sort of. It's a new version of "Losing Streak" (aka "the one about Daisy"), recorded live at the Palo Alto Open Mic. They do a great job with the recordings--so on those rare occasions when I play a whole song right, I get a ready-to-post song out of it.