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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/01/06/geek-love/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Geek Love">Geek Love</a></h2> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> By: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/author/tbogg/" title="Posts by TBogg">TBogg</a> Friday January 6, 2012 11:45 pm</td> </tr> </table> <div class="postContent"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://static1.firedoglake.com/29/files/2012/01/Atari2600jr.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-34323" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648im_/http://static1.firedoglake.com/29/files/2012/01/Atari2600jr.jpg" alt="" width="262" height="153"/></a></p> <blockquote><div class="wbq"><p>“No giant two-headed hermaphrodite demon unicorn avatars were allowed. Not on school grounds , anyway.”</p> <p>- <em>Ready Player One</em></p></div></blockquote> <p>One thing that I promised myself that I would do in 2012 was Read. More. Books.</p> <p>Seeing as I spend an inordinate amount of time waste-deep (…and I mean that) in Douthatnania and McArglebargle and Halperinanity, I thought I owed it to myself to occasionally get some joy out of reading what I actually want to read. Last year was kind of a lost year with not too much memorable or enjoyable (with the exceptions of James Wolcott’s<em> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://www.amazon.com/Lucking-Out-Getting-Semi-Dirty-Seventies/dp/0385527780/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1325920798&sr=1-1">Lucking Out</a></em>, Brian Kellow’s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://www.amazon.com/Pauline-Kael-Life-Brian-Kellow/dp/0670023124/ref=pd_sim_b_3"><em>Pauline Kael: A Life In The Dark</em></a>, Tom Perrotta’s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://www.amazon.com/Leftovers-Tom-Perrotta/dp/0312358342/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1325920851&sr=1-1"><em>The Leftovers</em></a> and Tom Shone’s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://www.amazon.com/Rooms-Tom-Shone/dp/0312622783/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1325920892&sr=1-1"><em>In The Rooms</em></a> which I just finished the other day). The fact that I probably acquired about five books last year for every one that I actually got around to reading means I have quite the backlog to get through.</p> <p>I was fortunate to start off the year with <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-Ernest-Cline/dp/030788743X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1325920597&sr=1-1"><em>Ready Player One</em></a> which is basically <em>Charlie And The Chocolate Factory</em> for gaming geeks and eighties nerds. I’ll let author Ernest Cline <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/08/16/the-big-idea-ready-player-one/">explain it all to you </a>from over on John Scalzi’s blog:</p> <blockquote><div class="wbq"><p>I spent a lot of time thinking about the future of the internet and how it might evolve. I’d grown up reading science fiction novels like <em>Neuromancer</em> and <em>Snow Crash</em>, and I was still a recovering EverQuest addict. To me, it seemed inevitable that the Internet would eventually evolve into a three-dimensional space, a sprawling virtual reality that was part MMO and part social networking playground. But unlike in movies like <em>The Matrix</em>, I didn’t think humans would become unwitting prisoners inside this new virtual universe. Instead they would retreat into it knowingly and willingly, en masse, to escape the ever-growing troubles of the real world. Which doesn’t seem too different from the way we use the Internet now.<br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://static1.firedoglake.com/29/files/2012/01/Ready-Player-One2.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-34340" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648im_/http://static1.firedoglake.com/29/files/2012/01/Ready-Player-One2.jpg" alt="" width="165" height="251"/></a></p> <p>I was imagining what sort of person would create a virtual world on that scale, and then I remembered Warren Robinett’s first Easter egg. And that was when I got my Big Idea.</p> <p>What if an eccentric video game designer, sort of a cross between Howard Hughes and Richard Garriott, created that ubiquitous virtual reality platform? And what if he decided to find a worthy successor for his company by turning his last will and testament into the greatest video game Easter Egg hunt of all time? It would be an epic treasure hunt, in a simulated universe that contained thousands of virtual planets. And those planets could be modeled after fictional worlds from other novels, films, comic books, and TV shows. It would be the ultimate storyteller’s sandbox.</p> <p>The concept grabbed hold of me immediately and never really let go. I even had the perfect title, <em>Ready Player One</em>, taken from the message that used to appear on old coin-op video games. I began to fill notebook after notebook with ideas for scenes and characters, scribbling as fast as I could.</p> <p>And when I started to ponder what sort of puzzles my eccentric video game designer would leave behind for his potential successors to try and solve, that was when I got my second Big Idea.</p> <p>They tell first-time novelists to “write what you know.” Well, what I know about is being a huge geek. I grew up consuming mass quantities of science fiction novels, Dungeons and Dragons supplements, comic books, movies, and video games. And I never really outgrew any of it. Like most geeks of my generation, I still adore all of the pop culture of my youth.</p> <p>What if the puzzles left behind by my eccentric billionaire nerd tested people’s knowledge of all the pop culture stuff he loved? It felt like a very geek thing to do. What could be a better power trip for a massive nerd than using your vast fortune to blackmail the entire world into studying and treasuring all of your favorite pop culture icons? It would be the character’s ultimate tribute to his obsessions, and would immortalize them for all time.</p></div></blockquote> <p>If you’re interested (and how could you not be?) boingboing has <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://boingboing.net/2011/08/15/ready-player-one-the-best-science-fiction-book-ive-read-in-a-decade.html">a downloadable pdf file</a> of the first three chapters. It’s pure unadulterated fun to read. Highly recommended.</p> </div> <div class="postFooter"> <div class="postFooterLine"> <span class="postItem"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/01/06/geek-love/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Geek Love"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648im_/http://static1.firedoglake.com/template/tbogg/images/bReadMore.gif" alt="read post" align="middle"/></a> </span> <span class="postItem"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/01/06/geek-love/#comments" title="Comment on Geek Love"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648im_/http://static1.firedoglake.com/template/tbogg/images/commentBtn.gif" alt="comment on this"/>2 Comments</a> </span> <span class="postItem"> </span> </div> <div class="postFooterLine tagList"> <span class="postItem">Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/tag/once-this-thing-hits-walmart-there-will-be-no-stopping-it/" rel="tag">Once this thing hits Walmart there will be no stopping it!</a></span> </div> </div> </div> <div style="text-align:center; margin:10px 0"><script language="JavaScript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648js_/http://csm.rotator.hadj7.adjuggler.net/servlet/ajrotator/161175/0/vj?z=csm&dim=616028&kw=&click=&pv="></script><noscript><iframe width="300" height="250" noresize scrolling="No" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648if_/http://csm.rotator.hadj7.adjuggler.net/servlet/ajrotator/161175/0/vh?z=csm&dim=616028&kw=&click=&pv="><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://csm.rotator.hadj7.adjuggler.net/servlet/ajrotator/161175/0/cc?z=csm"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648im_/http://csm.rotator.hadj7.adjuggler.net/servlet/ajrotator/161175/0/vc?z=csm&dim=616028&kw=&click=&abr=$imginiframe&pv=" width="300" height="250" border="0"></a></iframe></noscript> </div> <div class="mainPost" style="clear:left"> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td class="postHeader"> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/01/06/friday-night-random-ten-new-year-new-shakira-ass/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Friday Night Random Ten – New Year/ New Shakira Ass">Friday Night Random Ten – New Year/ New Shakira Ass</a></h2> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> By: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/author/tbogg/" title="Posts by TBogg">TBogg</a> Friday January 6, 2012 4:36 pm</td> </tr> </table> <div class="postContent"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://static1.firedoglake.com/29/files/2012/01/shakiras_ass.gif"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-34315" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648im_/http://static1.firedoglake.com/29/files/2012/01/shakiras_ass.gif" alt="" width="143" height="347"/></a>Hey!</p> <p>Over here!</p> <p>First Random 10 of the ye—</p> <p>Hey! I’m talking to you…. over here. <em>Excuse</em> me….</p> <p>Random ten-ish song thingy..</p> <p><em>Cherry Blossom Love</em> – The Wailin’ Jennies<br/> <em>Asleep On A Sunbeam</em> – Belle & Sebastian<br/> <em>Too Many Miracles</em> – Badly Drawn Boy<br/> <em>Pussy Liquor</em> – Rob Zombie<br/> <em>Sol Tapado</em> – Thievery Corporation<br/> <em>Going Fetal</em> – Eels<br/> <em>White Folks Blood</em> – House Of Freaks<br/> <em>Hurt</em> – Johnny Cash<br/> <em>Down Home With Homey</em> – Wynton Marsalis Septet (Live At The Village Vanguard)<br/> <em>Chasing Heather Crazy</em> – Guided By Voices<br/> and… <em>Do Miss America</em> – Ryan Adams</p> <p>I’d try talking about some other things right here but I can see that I would probably be wasting my time.</p> <p>You guys…</p> </div> <div class="postFooter"> <div class="postFooterLine"> <span class="postItem"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/01/06/friday-night-random-ten-new-year-new-shakira-ass/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Friday Night Random Ten – New Year/ New Shakira Ass"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648im_/http://static1.firedoglake.com/template/tbogg/images/bReadMore.gif" alt="read post" align="middle"/></a> </span> <span class="postItem"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/01/06/friday-night-random-ten-new-year-new-shakira-ass/#comments" title="Comment on Friday Night Random Ten – New Year/ New Shakira Ass"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648im_/http://static1.firedoglake.com/template/tbogg/images/commentBtn.gif" alt="comment on this"/>15 Comments</a> </span> <span class="postItem"> </span> </div> <div class="postFooterLine tagList"> <span class="postItem">Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/tag/your-favorite-band-sux/" rel="tag">your favorite band sux</a></span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="mainPost" style="clear:left"> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td class="postHeader"> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/01/06/mitt-romney-is-a-mexican-now/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Mitt Romney Is A Mexican Now">Mitt Romney Is A Mexican Now</a></h2> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> By: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/author/tbogg/" title="Posts by TBogg">TBogg</a> Friday January 6, 2012 2:13 pm</td> </tr> </table> <div class="postContent"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://static1.firedoglake.com/29/files/2012/01/aztlan11vr4.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-34306" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648im_/http://static1.firedoglake.com/29/files/2012/01/aztlan11vr4.jpg" alt="" width="202" height="363"/></a></p> <blockquote><div class="wbq"><p>“I’m Running for Office, for Pete’s Sake! I Can’t Have Illegals!”<br/> -Mitt Romney, criticizing his genealogy</p></div></blockquote> <p>In the ultimate flip-flop, Mitt Romney will soon be announcing that he is not an exxxxtreeeeme white guy, but is instead … <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://rockcenter.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/06/10005266-mitt-romneys-family-in-mexico-reveals-candidates-heritage-south-of-border">a Mexican</a>:</p> <blockquote><div class="wbq"><p>Heading into the New Hampshire primary, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has a strong lead in the polls as he continues his effort to become the Republican nominee challenging President Obama in the fall. That would mean, of course, that the 64-year-old Romney would be closer to The White House than any Mormon ever has been.</p> <p>If Romney secures the nomination, he would also be the first presidential nominee whose father was born in Mexico.</p> <p>It’s a little-known fact that there’s a whole branch of Mitt Romney’s family living south of the border, including his second cousin Leighton Romney, and about 40 other relatives descended from religious pioneers who first traveled to Mexico 125 years ago. These days, the Romneys of Mexico enjoy pleasant and productive lives in two remaining settlements: Colonia Juarez and Colonia Dublan, just 175 miles south of the border.</p> <p>“He’s got a great pioneer heritage starting with people that crossed the plains going from Illinois to Utah, and then on from Utah down to Mexico,” Leighton Romney told NBC’s Mike Taibbi in an interview to air Monday night on ‘Rock Center with Brian Williams.’ “So there’s a great heritage there of people that had to fight for what they believed in and for people that had to travel to different places and learn different things. I think there’s a vast amount of experience that he could draw from there.”</p></div></blockquote> <p>Viva!</p> <blockquote><div class="wbq"><p>In his public life Mitt Romney has said and written little about his ancestors’ history in Mexico. In one oft-repeated quote he said his family left the U.S. for Mexico to escape persecution for their religious beliefs.</p> <p>In fact, Romney’s great grandfather, Miles Park Romney, led that first expedition to escape not persecution but prosecution for polygamy, or what Mormons called ‘plural marriage.’ After polygamy ended, the family remained in Mexico.</p></div></blockquote> <p>For those keeping score at home, “plural marriage” is like “opposite marriage” but one louder; not that it matters because it is every bit as bad as gayhomofag marriage<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2012/0106/Rick-Santorum-compares-gay-marriage-to-polygamy.-Will-that-help-him-with-GOP"> if you ask Rick Santorum</a>. Needless to say Mitt will soon be referring to himself as ‘El Mitt-O’ as is the custom of white people when confronted with the mysteries of that crazy moon-man language that we call Spanish.</p> </div> <div class="postFooter"> <div class="postFooterLine"> <span class="postItem"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/01/06/mitt-romney-is-a-mexican-now/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Mitt Romney Is A Mexican Now"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648im_/http://static1.firedoglake.com/template/tbogg/images/bReadMore.gif" alt="read post" align="middle"/></a> </span> <span class="postItem"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/01/06/mitt-romney-is-a-mexican-now/#comments" title="Comment on Mitt Romney Is A Mexican Now"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648im_/http://static1.firedoglake.com/template/tbogg/images/commentBtn.gif" alt="comment on this"/>22 Comments</a> </span> <span class="postItem"> </span> </div> <div class="postFooterLine tagList"> <span class="postItem">Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/tag/mittens/" rel="tag">Mittens!</a></span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="olderPosts"> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td class="postHeader"> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/01/06/your-tenured-tennessee-tax-dollars-at-work/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Your Tenured Tennessee Tax Dollars At Work">Your Tenured Tennessee Tax Dollars At Work</a></h2> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> By: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/author/tbogg/" title="Posts by TBogg">TBogg</a> Friday January 6, 2012 10:27 am</td> </tr> </table> <div class="postContent"> <br/> <p>Breaking! Must credit Ole Perfesser! Later today, Reynolds will probably serve up a link to someone complaining that people are being mean to Scott Walker because he’s trying to keep state employees from looting the taxpayers.</p> </div> <div class="postFooter"> <div class="postFooterLine"> <span class="postItem"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/01/06/your-tenured-tennessee-tax-dollars-at-work/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Your Tenured Tennessee Tax Dollars At Work"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648im_/http://static1.firedoglake.com/template/tbogg/images/bReadMore.gif" alt="read post" align="middle"/></a> </span> <span class="postItem"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/01/06/your-tenured-tennessee-tax-dollars-at-work/#comments" title="Comment on Your Tenured Tennessee Tax Dollars At Work"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648im_/http://static1.firedoglake.com/template/tbogg/images/commentBtn.gif" alt="comment on this"/>6 Comments</a> </span> <span class="postItem"> </span> </div> <div class="postFooterLine tagList"> <span class="postItem">Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/tag/i-come-from-a-family-of-academics-who-are-actually-intellectually-intimidating/" rel="tag">I come from a family of academics who are actually intellectually intimidating.</a></span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="olderPosts"> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td class="postHeader"> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/01/05/peter-wehners-selective-culture-of-life/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Peter Wehner’s Selective Culture Of Life">Peter Wehner’s Selective Culture Of Life</a></h2> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> By: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/author/tbogg/" title="Posts by TBogg">TBogg</a> Thursday January 5, 2012 11:20 pm</td> </tr> </table> <div class="postContent"> <br/> <p>First, a personal anecdote… Yesterday I spent the day with my mother, brother, and sister going out to lunch and just sitting around talking. During the course of the conversation, my mother asked me who “this Rick Santorum” person was. In so many words I explained that Santorum is a hardcore Catholic (a religion, I [...]</p> </div> <div class="postFooter"> <div class="postFooterLine"> <span class="postItem"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/01/05/peter-wehners-selective-culture-of-life/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Peter Wehner’s Selective Culture Of Life"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648im_/http://static1.firedoglake.com/template/tbogg/images/bReadMore.gif" alt="read post" align="middle"/></a> </span> <span class="postItem"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/01/05/peter-wehners-selective-culture-of-life/#comments" title="Comment on Peter Wehner’s Selective Culture Of Life"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648im_/http://static1.firedoglake.com/template/tbogg/images/commentBtn.gif" alt="comment on this"/>57 Comments</a> </span> <span class="postItem"> </span> </div> <div class="postFooterLine tagList"> <span class="postItem">Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/tag/all-ya%e2%80%99ll-dumb-motherfuckers-don%e2%80%99t-even-know-my-opinion-on-shit/" rel="tag">all Ya’ll dumb motherfuckers don’t even know my opinion on shit!</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/tag/specifically-vicious-graphically-unforgiving/" rel="tag">specifically vicious - graphically unforgiving</a></span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="olderPosts"> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td class="postHeader"> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/01/05/mike-adams-appreciates-a-good-black-on-white-rape-thought-experiments/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Mike Adams Appreciates A Good Black-On-White Rape Thought Experiment">Mike Adams Appreciates A Good Black-On-White Rape Thought Experiment</a></h2> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> By: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/author/tbogg/" title="Posts by TBogg">TBogg</a> Thursday January 5, 2012 6:37 pm</td> </tr> </table> <div class="postContent"> <br/> <p>Townhall Bigot In Residence Mike Adams has a very interesting tale about how a couple of hippies forced their daughter to date a Black boy (named Barry, just like the President!) because he was Black and of course he raped her because that is what The Blacks do when they are around white women, and [...]</p> </div> <div class="postFooter"> <div class="postFooterLine"> <span class="postItem"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/01/05/mike-adams-appreciates-a-good-black-on-white-rape-thought-experiments/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Mike Adams Appreciates A Good Black-On-White Rape Thought Experiment"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648im_/http://static1.firedoglake.com/template/tbogg/images/bReadMore.gif" alt="read post" align="middle"/></a> </span> <span class="postItem"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/01/05/mike-adams-appreciates-a-good-black-on-white-rape-thought-experiments/#comments" title="Comment on Mike Adams Appreciates A Good Black-On-White Rape Thought Experiment"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648im_/http://static1.firedoglake.com/template/tbogg/images/commentBtn.gif" alt="comment on this"/>21 Comments</a> </span> <span class="postItem"> </span> </div> <div class="postFooterLine tagList"> <span class="postItem">Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/tag/seriously-fucked-up-shit/" rel="tag">Seriously fucked up shit</a></span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="olderPosts"> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td class="postHeader"> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/01/05/thursday-night-basset-blogging-198/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Thursday Night Basset Blogging">Thursday Night Basset Blogging</a></h2> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> By: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/author/tbogg/" title="Posts by TBogg">TBogg</a> Thursday January 5, 2012 3:30 pm</td> </tr> </table> <div class="postContent"> <br/> <p>Taking turns in The Sun Chair On the Wembley seizure front, he’s had two more; one on the Tuesday before Christmas and another one on Tuesday this week. Fortunately these last two have been less violent than the previous ones. We’re going to give the diet change two more weeks and if the seizures continue [...]</p> </div> <div class="postFooter"> <div class="postFooterLine"> <span class="postItem"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/01/05/thursday-night-basset-blogging-198/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Thursday Night Basset Blogging"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648im_/http://static1.firedoglake.com/template/tbogg/images/bReadMore.gif" alt="read post" align="middle"/></a> </span> <span class="postItem"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/01/05/thursday-night-basset-blogging-198/#comments" title="Comment on Thursday Night Basset Blogging"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648im_/http://static1.firedoglake.com/template/tbogg/images/commentBtn.gif" alt="comment on this"/>8 Comments</a> </span> <span class="postItem"> </span> </div> <div class="postFooterLine tagList"> <span class="postItem">Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/tag/bassets/" rel="tag">bassets</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/tag/basset/" rel="tag">basset</a></span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="olderPosts"> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td class="postHeader"> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/01/05/nutcracker-sweet/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Nutcracker? Sweet!">Nutcracker? Sweet!</a></h2> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> By: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/author/tbogg/" title="Posts by TBogg">TBogg</a> Thursday January 5, 2012 2:24 pm</td> </tr> </table> <div class="postContent"> <br/> <p>Barack Obama gives Richard Cordray a recess appointment to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and discoverer of imaginary Constitutional do’s & don’ts John Yoo is all, “Hey! Not cool!“: Some think me a zealous advocate of executive power, and often I am when it comes to national security issues. But I think President Obama [...]</p> </div> <div class="postFooter"> <div class="postFooterLine"> <span class="postItem"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/01/05/nutcracker-sweet/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Nutcracker? 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Sweet!"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648im_/http://static1.firedoglake.com/template/tbogg/images/commentBtn.gif" alt="comment on this"/>9 Comments</a> </span> <span class="postItem"> </span> </div> <div class="postFooterLine tagList"> </div> </div> </div> <div class="olderPosts"> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td class="postHeader"> <h2><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/01/05/smells-like-sarah-palins-hamper/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Smells Like Sarah Palin’s Hamper">Smells Like Sarah Palin’s Hamper</a></h2> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> By: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/author/tbogg/" title="Posts by TBogg">TBogg</a> Thursday January 5, 2012 11:47 am</td> </tr> </table> <div class="postContent"> <br/> <p>Just when I thought that I was condemned to a year of joylessly mocking the horse-race aspects of all political coverage in a Presidential election year, along comes Bill Kristol & the Koch Bros to provide me with daily material from the type of people that only wingnut welfare could love and employ (via Balloon [...]</p> </div> <div class="postFooter"> <div class="postFooterLine"> <span class="postItem"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/01/05/smells-like-sarah-palins-hamper/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Smells Like Sarah Palin’s Hamper"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648im_/http://static1.firedoglake.com/template/tbogg/images/bReadMore.gif" alt="read post" align="middle"/></a> </span> <span class="postItem"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648/http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/01/05/smells-like-sarah-palins-hamper/#comments" title="Comment on Smells Like Sarah Palin’s Hamper"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120107124648im_/http://static1.firedoglake.com/template/tbogg/images/commentBtn.gif" alt="comment on this"/>25 Comments</a> </span> 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