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Lady Liberty
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

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at the Statue of Liberty
(from Emma Lazarus’ poem,
The New Colossus)

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Tuesday, August 31, 2004

Michael Moore Controversy at the GOP Convention: A Photo Montage

posted by Bathus

For readers who have complained that this blog is too highbrow:

Michael Moore finds booger during
break in GOP convention in New York.

Moore worries whether cameras
caught him eating booger.

Moments later, Moore pretends
to wipe booger on baseball cap.

Confronting reporters afterwards, Moore
angrily rebuffs requests to inspect cap.

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Anonymous said...: Is his head bigger than Teddy Kennedy's?
1:57 PM, September 01, 2004
Anonymous said...: would have been funnier if the first photo was not photoshoped.
11:24 PM, June 15, 2006

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Finding a good, but not too well known, blog is like finding a good local garage band that plays for no cover charge in a bar around the corner. You have to tell other people about it. So once a month or so I'll be using this space to do just that. A blog featured in this space will be one that (A) is regularly updated, and (B) has a Google PageRank of 5 or less (the lower the better). If you'd like to recommend a blog to be featured here, let me know.

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03/01/06: This month's Blog of the Month is Crank Case, a promising new enterprise my blogmate Tom launched just this week. Ever since he joined me here on Adeimantus, I've been telling Tom that he should start his own blog, where his wit and wisdom will radiate forth untainted by any dubious associations with Yours Truly. Finally, Tom has heeded my advice.

Athough I first crossed paths with Tom online about ten years ago, I've never actually met him in person. So I can't say for sure whether this picture from his blog

has been air-brushed a little, but it certainly does capture something of his vital essence. And I'm not sure exactly what Tom has planned for his new blog, but I can guarantee you that his writing on Crank Case will always be original and entertaining.

Join me in wishing my dearest online friend Tom all the best in his new venture. Visit Crank Case now!

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Live, from New York

posted by lostingotham

Vets Respond to "Let It Alone"

posted by Bathus

Let It Alone

posted by Bathus

10 Things John Kerry Promises to Do First, Before ...

posted by Bathus

Bada Bing!

posted by Bathus

A Dialogue with Dave on Abortion, Religion, and th...

posted by Bathus

Al Gore Redux

posted by Bathus

Kerry campaign resorts to heterophobic slur

posted by lostingotham

I'll bet he invented the Internet, too.

posted by lostingotham

Bing's Bling (and Other Soft Money from "Regular F...

posted by Bathus

06/30/05 ADEIMANTUS QOTD: Regular readers--all four of them--could hardly avoid noting the recent addition of a "Quote of the Day" feature at the top of this page. And one or two of you regular readers might have been wondering, "Geez, what happens to a "Quote of the Day" after it's replaced by a new one?" Worry not, faithful readers! For your convenience all entries in the growing collection of "Quotes of the Day" (along with some other quotes not posted on this site) are being assigned titles and meticulously catalogued for posterity at Adeimantus' new sister site, ADEIMANTUS QOTD, where you can study them at your leisure. I recommend you begin your study with a contemplation of this watery drivel, which blogmate lostingotham, at grave risk to his own mental hygiene, sieved from the foul effusions of a liberal sewer.
-- Bathus

04/23/05: Did I really go two months without posting anything new on this blog? Is anyone, besides you, still reading this blog? Yes, my dad called today and told me he still surfs here every once in a while. (Thanks Dad!) Well, I'm not going to give you another worthless promise to be better about posting regularly. Instead, I'll promise to post something when I feel like it. I am glad you are here reading this now, and I hope you'll stop in once in a blue moon to see if there's anything new. Speaking of which, today I did manage to update the Blog of the Week feature, which I've renamed Blog of the Month to correspond with the reality of my lazy habits.
-- Bathus

12/14/04: Have you noticed that the text of the posts here is in three different colors? That's because there are three of us blogging in this space. My posts are the ones in the bluish font. Lostingotham's posts are in the darker reddish-purple. Tom's posts are the color in between those two.
-- Bathus

11/29/04: Ever since Tom and lostingotham joined me as blogmates, I've felt a little uncomfortable about continuing to use my pseudonym as the title of this blog because that seemed to suggest that I was grabbing top-billing when Tom is the one who's been keeping this blog alive for the last several months. But it's really a whole lot simpler to change my pseudonym than to change the blog title. Therefore, the title of this blog will remain Adeimantus, but effective immediately, the blogger formerly known as Adeimantus will hereafter be known as Bathus. If you try to call me Adeimantus, I won't answer. I'll just glare at you silently.

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One of my favorite bloggers, Marc (formerly of marcland), has relocated and is back to blogging on a new site he just got up and running. Visit him now at Hubs and Spokes.
-- Bathus

11/06/04: I'm Baaaaack! Well, sort of. Life around this place is finally starting to return to the tolerable level of chaos we call normal in my household. While I was otherwise occupied with putting things into boxes, moving them around the corner to a new house, and then taking them out of boxes, I heard a rumor that we were having an election. I also heard a rumor that Kerry was winning big. Then I heard another rumor that Bush won. Then I heard a rumor that four divisions of Democrat lawyers were parachuting into Ohio. How's a poor red-state redneck dumb-ass like me to make sense of it all?

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Seriously though, all's well that ends well. Unfortunately, I've been too busy to gloat properly, and now it looks like I've missed my chance. Maybe there's still time to throw together a non-gloating, only slightly tongue-in-cheek post-mortem, titled something like: "Democrats' post-election soul-seaching somewhat hindered by disbelief in existence of human soul."

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Thanks again and again to Tom and lostingotham for keeping the blog fresh and hot for the last month. (I promise to start doing a better job of pulling my weight.) Thanks again also to the ever calm and wise Jan V. Bear, the ever resolute and sensible Marc at Hubs and Spokes (formerly marcland), and others who find reasons to link this blog.
-- Bathus

10/11/04: TOO BUSY TO THINK! I'm feeling terribly guilty about not posting anything new for more than two weeks now. I'm still here, still kicking. I've just been too busy to think. Not to bore you with personal details, but we're in the process of moving into a new house, my real job--the one that pays--is depleting my time and energy these days, and for the last month we've had out of town guests arriving in waves. Anyway, I've got a thing or two in the works for the blog, but it could be another week or two before I can find the time to put all the pieces together. In the meantime I'm counting on Tom to continue to satisfy your needs until I can get myself dug out, so please do continue to check back in every once in a while. Keep the faith!
-- Bathus

09/15/04: MANY THANKS to Charles at Little Green Footballs for posting the photo I did of Al Gore going bonkers. Several photography experts, formerly employed by CBS, have confirmed that it's entirely possible that there's a good chance that it could be that Al's picture might not have been photoshopped. That's good enough for me.
-- Bathus

09/08/04 ANSWER TO THE QUIZ: All answers are correct except W. (Return to the Quiz.)
-- Bathus

09/04/04: GREAT NEWS!!!! Moxie's back! On the first of September, moxie resumed blogging. In celebration of her triumphant return, JerseyGOP honored moxie as the Republican Babe of the Week, a selection endorsed by all red-blooded conservative males. (Be forewarned, moxie's prose is a little salty.)
-- Bathus

08/30/04: If you visited this blog earlier today and the layout was out of whack, blame me. I tried to get a little too cute with the formatting--adding a few more bells and whistles. Yes, I previewed the changes, and everything was fine, or so I thought. Little did I realize, about three-quarters of the way down the page the formatting blew apart. I think it's fixed now. For this amateur, this CSS and HTML stuff is all trial and error. If this site doesn't seem to display correctly in your browser, please drop me a line.
-- Bathus

08/28/04: The BlogRoll has been updated with a Recent Additions section. If I still owe you a link, please be sure to let me know.
-- Bathus

08/26/04: Thank you, James Taranto for republishing my essay "Let It Alone," in The Wall Street Journal's OpinionJournal under the title "Kerry's Lost Opportunity." The OpinionJournal version is very nicely edited, with one of my more dubious digressions mercifully excised. If you'd like to read that slightly slimmed down version, it's available here, and OpinionJournal readers' responses can be read here.

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To those of you who have posted responses either here or on OpinionJournal or who have sent me emails, I want to say thanks again not only for taking the time to slog through my clunky prose, but also for adding your comments.

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A special note of gratitude to the vets and current military folks who wrote in, one of whom emailed me: "I am deeply indebted to you for your article appearing in Opinion Journal on August 26, 2004. I came back to the US in May, 1969 after two years in Viet Nam feeling like an alien in my own country. Your piece answers questions I have held in my mind all those years. . . . If your travels ever bring you to Reno, Nevada, this old dogface would be honored to shake your hand and buy you a drink." I don't know how to respond to that except to say that I feel humbled and honored all at the same time.
-- Bathus

08/25/04: A word to first time visitors. There usually won't be a fresh post on this blog every day. Sometimes a week or more will go by. And the posts here do run long, sometimes very long. I realize that the deadly combination of infrequent and long posts makes this site a tough blog to follow, so I really do appreciate it that you have taken the effort. (Maybe I should have called this the "Long Slog Blog," but I'm guessing that name has already been taken.) The point is, I won't object if you don't check in every day. I'll be more than content if you stop by once a week or so--whenever you're in the mood for a longer read.
-- Bathus

08/15/04: Finally got around to reworking the "BlogRoll" which now lists only blogs with a Google PageRank less than 6. Exceptions to the "PR<6" rule: 1 - Any site with Adeimantus linked on its blogroll will be linked here in return. (That's the "you scratch my back" exception. Please let me know if I owe you a link.) 2 - If a site has a Google PR less than 6 when it first shows up here on Adeimantus' BlogRoll, but then later rises to higher Google PR, it will stay on the BlogRoll as a testament to my prescience. (That's the "I found it first" exception, which will soon apply to CBFTW's "My War" and to "Jan Bear's "A World of Speculation".) 3 - Moxie will stay on Adeimantus' BlogRoll no matter what. (That's the "Moxie" exception.) I'll continue to list a few (very few) non-blog sites, but in a separate "Links" section. That's where you'll always find the link to the indispensable Victor Davis Hanson. )
--Bathus

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