Notes Upon Reading the Express

The Express is a free newspaper here in D.C. that you can pick up on your way into a metro station and read on the train. It contains ads, one-paragraph summaries of the biggest news, more ads, lots of little factoids and “news of the weird” type stuff, still more ads, and pages and pages of ads disguised as “information” about celebrities, tv-shows, movies, music, and crap for you to buy. It's published by the Washington Post and it has a more right-leaning competitor in The Examiner.

So anyway, yesterday's paper contained this real gem on page 8 I just couldn't pass up passing on:

“It is the government's job to deal with the hungry; we, the traders, are here for business.” —Ibrahim Bay, Millet Trader, on the high prices of food in Niger as the country faces a severe famine.

Oh yeah, I love free trade. And capitalism. It's a good thing that “the chief business of the American people is business.”

The Express also tells me that Gary Cole, aka “Bill Lumberg,” is going to play a tough cop on a new TNT show called “Wanted.” Don't get me wrong; I think Mr. Cole is a fine actor and I've enjoyed his performances in many things, but, well, a tough cop? Mmyeah.

Posted 08:13 AM | TrackBack | life generally

Voices Now Available

For the thousands one of you out there who would like to listen to the previously recorded ambivalent voices podcasts, they are once again available here. You can either download each one individually, or subscribe to this feed in iPodder or iTunes or some other podcast aggregator.

You know, if I were a real podcaster I could have done a podcast about all of this, huh?

UPDATE: Ok, so I made a podcast to update listeners on the changes to the location of the feed. I also rambled on about some other things, including primarily the Law School Podcast. Listening to it after the fact I realize my comments about self-censorship and whether the Law School Podcaster is putting too much personal info online are rather hypocritical in light of the fact that so much of my own life is online here, there, and everywhere. How will any of this affect the looming job search? I guess I'll find out, won't I? I also forgot to mention in the upcoming podcasts that once we both have the time I'll also be talking to Andrew Raff about his experience studying for and taking the bar. I also would still like to do something special for one of the Blawg Reviews I'll be involved in hosting, so stay tuned!

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