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  Tuesday, February 22, 2005


 What's new about that?  The name of course.  :)

 


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Boomerang, the video.  Great job.

Boomerang. Maybe you've heard about these billboards that will taunt Hollywood's glitterati as they shuffle into the Oscars for their annual festival of self-congratulation. Well, Anna of Liberty Belles decided to go out and ask some Hollywood residents what they thought of the signs. The resulting video, called Boomerang, shows that most people were a little confused. But one thing's clear: Anna's great on camera. I'm betting this won't be her last video. [Brain-Terminal.com: Evan's Journal]


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Snippet from Evan's Journal

News From That Other Quagmire. Three weeks into the war in Afghanistan, American and coalition forces controlled about a fifth of the country. Eager to compare every American conflict to Vietnam, that's when the media and the American left began their predictable use of the term "quagmire" to describe the conflict. A week later, of course, the Taliban government was crushed and its ragged remnants fled to the mountains. It wasn't widely covered in our media, but last fall, Afghanistan had a rather successful election that was remarkably free of bloodshed. To say the election was a historic event is to downplay it. It was monumental. Now there seem to be even more reasons for optimism:


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