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** It was a markedly different discussion from when Pat Cadigan spoke at my Science Fiction course at UC Santa Cruz, when the boondoggled Cadigan was sabotaged with a bunch of unintelligible academic-theory questions about the implications of Lacan and Freud in her identity-bender work.

A Paparazzo at the LA Festival of Books darkerblogistan 2009

Sarah Palin has effectively stopped the boondoggled government option from Facebook while Obama can't do anything town hall after town hall.

McCain addresses Palin, health care on Tonight Show 2009

But I think this is why I still subscribe to the NYT Latest News Blog on my Kindle: so I can be boondoggled earlier.

2009 March | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2009

But I think this is why I still subscribe to the NYT Latest News Blog on my Kindle: so I can be boondoggled earlier.

Kindle Shots: Wow, G.M. | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2009

A system so boondoggled in the confounding complexity that it is near inscrutable?

The Politics of Politics 2008

I myself have a long history of being boondoggled by pop culture: I applied to NYU because I thought it'd be just like Greenwich Village in the 1950s, all beatniks in berets, poetic and artistic and sipping coffee over a dog-eared Village Voice.

Jessica Wakeman: Eulogy for Dead Trees 2008

For all these advantages, this particular intersection is boondoggled by two problems:

Waldo Jaquith - Bad urban planning: Curved intersections. 2006

I don't know why it has taken so many years for such an oversight to begin, but we Americans need to ensure that some two hundred hearings are held annually and get back every last penny of the billions boondoggled out of U.S. taxpayers over the past decade or so.

POGO-The Project on Government Oversight Needs More Support and Awareness-as do federal whistle-blowers 2007

The "horrible mistake" actually would have been for UF to honor Jeb! after he systematically dismantled higher education in Florida and turned it from a solidly functioning organization into a politically motivated, bureaucratically-boondoggled trainwreck ... not to mention his destruction of K-12 education through his cheerleading of the FCAT standardized test, the "grading" of schools, and the implementation of a voucher program.

Today's Daily Schadenfreude Sinfonian 2007

The "horrible mistake" actually would have been for UF to honor Jeb! after he systematically dismantled higher education in Florida and turned it from a solidly functioning organization into a politically motivated, bureaucratically-boondoggled trainwreck ... not to mention his destruction of K-12 education through his cheerleading of the FCAT standardized test, the "grading" of schools, and the implementation of a voucher program.

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