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Ironfistvelvetglove( 07/25/11 17:56) perfectly encapsulates Obama's recent and expected press appearances -

Tonight, "folks," we will see the "adult in the room." Measured. Atonal. Boring.Professor of economics, lecturing Republicans. Finger-pointing. Inherited debt.

Shared success of evil wealthy people. Corporate jets. Evil Wall Street. Stock market down (DOW closing almost 0.7% lower!!! Doom!). Increased taxes. Bad, bad, evil mean Republicans who want to default. Can't guarantee checks before my birthday bash, "folks." I,I,I,me,me,me. Yada yada, I killed Bin Laden.

ROFLMAO!

Racist economics

Widest Wealth Gap Between Whites, Minorities On Record

Under a white Republican president there would be an outcry about racist policies(Bush doesn't care about black people).

So let's not treat Obama differently just because he is black. That would be racism.

Therefore the wealth gap between the whites and the minorities must be due to, as in the case of a Republican administration, racism.

Deconstructing deconstruction

John Steele Gordon -

Deconstruction is a philosophical technique coined by the French thinker Jacques Derrida in 1967 that, as far as I can figure out, allows the practitioner to twist words so they mean whatever they find convenient at the moment. Their prose is extraordinarily incomprehensible. (What do you get if you cross a deconstructionist with a Mafioso? You get someone who makes you an offer you can’t understand.)

Wow!

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Commentator Bohemond (July 23rd, 2011 at 4:23 pm)-

And yet to this day, liberals refuse to regard Communists as what they are: evil. They're just, well, lefties who may have got a bit carried away, that's all. For a lib, it's "academic freedom" to have Marxist professors, but the same libs would riot if a professed Nazi were on staff. Somehow in their warped view the Communists weren't as bad as their first cousins the Nazis, when in reality they were even worse.

Nor can they admit that Trumbo or Hiss or the Rosenbergs were traitors in the service of the Kremlin.

Zinger of the day

Peggy Noonan on dealing with Obama-

He's like a walking headache. He's probably triggering Michele Bachmann's migraines.

All solutions to Typominima headaches

Ok, not all. Not even most. But a lot, I hope, of that some which is really troublesome about this gorgeous but exasperating template.For this last emotion see the comments here or here where I am involved.

Typominima is a single wide column template created by Blogsessive for Wordpress (sometimes it seems all good designs are created for Wordpress) and adapted to Blogger by Vikas Bhargava (I think) of Besttheme.net.



It has minimum of graphic elements to distract(hence the name Typo -minima). However that also creates problems for those who love this design but are rankled by the lack of options. You love it, you hate it! It feels like your spouse!

The elements missing in the original template include the post date, author stamp, link to comments, labels, quick edit icons, share links etc (that is, all the goodies in a post footer). There is also a loneliness at the top,  at least for me. I love big, colorful and striking blog header images. And I just can't live without sidebars. Where else to put ads, shameless self-promotions and other thingamijigs?

After great inhuman exertions ( so great that if someone of finer intellect had put them to task in a higher field, he might have come up with the Super Grand Unification Theory of the Universe), I believe I have managed to solve some of the most entangling tangles of this lovely template.
(Ok, I'm kidding - about the effort, I mean. But it was exasperating at times).



An index of the stuff in this post so far (there will be more surely)-

i) SINGLE COLUMN TYPOMINIMA TEMPLATE FOR BLOGGER WITH MISSING ELEMENTS ADDED

ii) SINGLE COLUMN TYPOMINIMA TEMPLATE FOR BLOGGER WITH MISSING ELEMENTS ADDED AND WITH HEADER IMAGE
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iii) 3-COLUMN TYPOMINIMA TEMPLATE FOR BLOGGER WITH MISSING ELEMENTS ADDED AND WITH HEADER IMAGE
How to replace header image with your own

iv) 4-COLUMN TYPOMINIMA TEMPLATE FOR BLOGGER - NEWS SITE OR MAGAZINE LOOK

v) ANSWERS TO SOME ANNOYANCES
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