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Friday Cat Blogging

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In cats , Civil War , Lincoln
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On February 2, 2007
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"The Question Settled" is a print by the E.B. and E.C Kellogg Company, which ranked among the more popular producers of mass-market illustrations. The image, which dates from either late 1864 or early 1865, depicts "Old Abe" -- the white cat -- displacing "Jeff [Davis]" from...

Perhaps Too Long?

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On February 2, 2007
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I'm afraid that an otherwise good blogger who shall not be named approvingly cited this "classic" passage from Camille Paglia, the Mickey Kaus of "public intellectuals," explaining why she "was probably the only leading [sic] feminist [sic] to have believed Paula Jones right from the start":One...

Is Maureen Dowd Necessary?

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On January 31, 2007
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Ugh.What's frustrating is not only that this shallow, misogynist claptrap is filling up op-ed space at the Times, but that Dowd is often portrayed as a liberal and sometimes even as a feminist....or, to put it another way, the Times is the organization that fired Molly...
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