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Is it time to reduce our baby emissions?

Slate has an article discussing the benefits of reducing the number of people born every year.  I am suprised that this this is so contraversial, it seems to make a lot of sense that if people had fewer children not … Continue reading

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Open Football thread

For the AFC right now it looks like New England is the favorite and if Randy Moss does not turn into Randy Moss they should stay that way.  With Indianapolis as the likely runner-up and maybe San Diego has a … Continue reading

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A legal victory for republicans everywhere

A Fresno man’s conviction for soliciting sex from a sheriff’s deputy in a Roeding Park restroom nearly five years ago was overturned by a three-judge panel, it was announced Thursday.But the ruling, which threw out the conviction of Stephen Lake, … Continue reading

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Larry Craig from Idaho

Do Republicans keep electing these clowns so the rest of us will have something to laugh at? Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) was arrested in June at a Minnesota airport by a plainclothes police officer investigating lewd conduct complaints in a … Continue reading

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Rats leaving a sinking ship? Maybe just rats trying to stay out of jail.

MSN is reporting that attorney general, Alberto Gonzales, is going to resign effective September 17Th.  This is on the heels of the resignation of Karl Rove another man who seemed to be an integral part of the Bush Machine.   My first … Continue reading

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Even a blind squirrel occasionally finds a nut

Usually I make fun of wingnuts when they blame the teachers unions for all of societies ills but things like this make me think they have a point: MESA, Ariz. (AP) — School officials suspended a 13-year-old boy for sketching … Continue reading

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Diebold and CIA editing wiki entries

From Dkos: Wikipedia Scanner — the brainchild of CalTech computation and neural-systems graduate student Virgil Griffith — offers users a searchable database that ties millions of anonymous Wikipedia edits to organizations where those edits apparently originated, by cross-referencing the edits … Continue reading

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Leave Those Kids Alone

Van Helsing emailed this story today, and since we’re living with 2 toddlers each, it pertains to both of us especially. Here is his chosen excerpt: …There is now a concerted effort to spread adult-child play beyond its stronghold in … Continue reading

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Alan Watts: When Will You Arrive?

(h/t Andrew Sullivan)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERbvKrH-GC4

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bBlogBouillabaisse – Novocaine

Chavez Meets Ahmadinejad in Tehran Beatbox…talent? skill? exercise? disorder? New Drug Deletes Bad Memories Judge lifts injunction on ‘DC madam’ phone records Biden on Bush: “This guy is braindead.” Consumerist.com Catches Geek Squad Stealing Porn From Customer’s Computer (Video) Statements … Continue reading

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Woke Up This Morning…

“Writing in his masterwork Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft in 1922, Max Weber showed that the “bureaucratic class” (Beamtentum) manipulated state secrets in order to undermine democratic institutions. By wielding security classifications, they could claim an information monopoly and render the parliament … Continue reading

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Stuffy Monday

Sam is sick, and I’m running on fumes after a project for school kept me up until 4AM…so reading is working for me a lot more than writing or anything else. FYI – SiCKO got bootlegged, and is already up … Continue reading

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Hortatory Subjunctive

(h/t TPM Muckraker) Four years of Latin for me in high school didn’t put me anywhere near the level John Sarbanes is communicating from, but it was pretty cool to see this and know what they were talking about. Laurita … Continue reading

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Tomorrow

Not only does Hillary stand in front of the first one, but ABC News manages to get it wrong another way on the same page. You know that each of these mistakes made their way past a number of eyes. … Continue reading

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Out of ideas?

“At the end of the day, I believe fully the president is doing the right thing, and I think all we need is some attacks on American soil like we had on [Sept. 11, 2001 ], and the naysayers will … Continue reading

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Journal ~ December 2000

GOODBYE BLUE MONDAY ~ of methods such as specific manipulation of the body and mind’s emotions as well as its ability to speak to you using signs & language bop that will pop loud or soft depending on how good … Continue reading

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Hillary Convo From Elsewhere

(from Control Congress) preussow Says: Al, how can she (Hillary) lose you, she keeps changing the stance on the audience and surely at one point she hit your button. Al Swearengen Says: Nah – I expect all politicians to lie … Continue reading

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Journal ~ September 2000

This here is a bit of some journal I’d found a couple weeks ago, long after remembering it was written or still in existence. Very engrossing for me since then, picking it up and catching a glimpse of Al, age … Continue reading

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10 Things You Shouldn’t Know

“Poor people go to hospital for minor surgery of some kind, abdominal surgery, or for women gynecological surgery, and come out of the operation with a longer recovery rate and a larger scar than expected. They learn later on that … Continue reading

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Spam Net Too Wide

FYI – bernie kosar and a few others…my spam filter managed to catch one of my own comments and in reviewing the contents I noticed several others that should have gone through.  I’ll be checking this daily from now on, … Continue reading

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Scent of a Stevens

TPMmuckraker: “Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) jacked his house off the ground, inserted a new first story and placed the old first floor on top, thanks to the help of a top executive at local oil company Veco Corp. who hired … Continue reading

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bBlogBouillabaisse – Tones of Home

‘Group Therapy‘ by Marc Olmsted, this one comes with my 100% money-back guarantee! ‘Operation Freedom From Iraqis‘ by Frank Rich On why Jose Padilla is looking more and more innocent every day, I suggest you read Lewis Z. Koch at … Continue reading

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Focusing on the Injustice

I get frustrated watching testimony like the Monica episode yesterday, as the short time allotted for each member to ask questions, and the off-topic blah from Republicans about everything but the topic at hand, really work together in a way … Continue reading

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Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ)

Today’s NYTimes editorial page features a letter by Holt, touting his legislation to make paper trails mandatory for voting machines, as was endorsed by the Times on May 16th. Having read this endorsement on the day it ran, my first … Continue reading

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Woman killed by drunk driver

Alleged ties between the driver and Iran are being investigated

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U.S. soldier shot to death in Pakistan

Tony Snow claims the soldier was killed by bullets manufactured in Iran

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bBlogBouillabaisse – Hey Pocky Way

The BRAD BLOG – Got to love this guy, sticking to the stories that our media refuses to go near. What’s more fundamental to our system of government than the legitimacy of our elections? I threw my two cents into … Continue reading

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William F. Buckley – Filling the Void

Big Daddy Conservative goes out on a limb in stating the obvious, and it is news because of who he is, with a pseudo-intellectual named William Kristol being paid as an editor of Big Daddy’s hallowed National Review, and all … Continue reading

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Sopranos Predictions

Tony has a gambling problem, which isn’t too hard to pick out, as he placed three large bets prior to his meeting with Little Carmine, and during a call to Hesch in the last episode, he let us know that … Continue reading

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Treasure, Rich, Fascism and Summary

T: “Perhaps the rationale for why we lost is already in the works, with liberals, the media, UN and most likely the Iraqis themselves ending up responsible in the end when a right-winger tells the story to their sons and … Continue reading

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