Jenny, Jenny, you’re the girl for me,
You don’t blogwatch but you make me so happy…

Wayward Catholic: Talks about firefighter series Rescue Me; makes it sound really interesting….

And two links via The Corner: Awesome retro cell phone; and

Track the words used in State of the Union speeches! Keep an eye out for “Catholic,” “polygamy” (a search says the word appears in nine SOTUs, though I think it’s only frequent enough to show up on the chart in one), “Indians,” “slavery” (as vs. “emancipation,” by the way), various legalese and regional acquisitions, “gentlemen,” “debatable” (heh), “faith,” “freedom,” “America,” “kill,” “parents” and (shudder) “kids”–seriously, this is a wonketeria. The only bug I noticed on casual investigation is that the program seems to count “applause”–as an indication that listeners applauded–as if it were a word in the speech, which means the very recent speeches all have that as the most common word, with the other words kind of scrunched together.


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