Anna Nicole Smith or Jimi Hendrix?

Try both.

• You can see Anna Nicole Smith in her more pious poses (and some of those fabulous Playboy covers): "Vickie A.N. Smith, Alas"
  

• What was the meaning of Jimi Hendrix's star-spangled ordnance at Woodstock? See Candide's Notebooks contributor Rick de Yampert's "Anthem to Jimi Hendrix"

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Of Vaccine Trials and Deaths Foretold

Good Morning. A few new items today...

• Sexually-Transmitted Profits: See "Merck, God, and the War Over the HPV Vaccine."
  

• Remember Bush declaring victory in the Iraq war on the USS Abraham Lincoln in May 2003? Even then, the writing of the mayhem to come was on the wall--or in the papers. See "Chronicle of Deaths Foretold."
  

• If it's a romp through Tim Russert's Rolodex you're interested in, fine. But "Spare Me the Libby Trial."
  

• Surge here, disperse there: "The Iraq Insurgency Goes Suburban."

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Taser Brutality in Our Schools

Good Morning. A couple of items today...

• Last Thursday morning a 16-year-old special education student at a Florida high school was shot with a Taser by a school cop. It all began when the student refused to do his school work. He ended up with a felony charge and in juvenile detention. Welcome to our brave new America. See "Taser Brutality In Our Schools."
  

• "Ehren Watada's War Theater: A Soldier Disputes an Illegal War"
  

• Happy Birthday, Eubie Blake: a Ragtime Rover.
  

• The WPA Guides: Arizona, "Ancient and Venerable Land"

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Cowards and Militarists

Good Morning. A few new items today. Cue up the Sousa.

• When a society is no longer exclusively and vigilantly civil, its claim to be a civilized society, let alone a civilizing one, is in peril. Other countries have been discovering that about the United States . We’re discovering it at home, too, every time a police shield is flashed with the presumptive power of an M-16 burst. See "America's March Toward a Military State."
  

• The Senate folds on an anti-war resolution. See "Cowards."
  

• He's a Sixth Amendment thug. See "Henry Stimson, a Lousy Pentagon Lawyer, Thankfully Resigns."
  

• Had a Snickers bar lately? Feeling woozily homophobic? See "Those Superbowl Ads Again."
  

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Superduds

Good morning. A few new items as the sogginess outside our Floridian windows continues. In FEMA's absence, as always.

• I didn't know who the Colts were and wasn't sure why the Bears were there, but commented the Superbowl anyway. See "The Superbowl, Semi-Live."
  

• Robert Fisk and the fallacies of the word terrorist, see "Spare Me the Word Terrorist"
  

• It's getting old: The Bush administration has been inventing a case for war against Iran out of thin air. See "Iran, the Muddle."

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