Monday, January 30, 2012

Last Call

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Having taken over Washington Monthly's Political Animal blog for Steve Benen (now part of the Maddow team at MSNBC , and more power to ...

Turn On The Lights, Watch The Roaches Scatter Part 85

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Foreclosuregate is the hell that remains fresh each new day, it seems.  ProPublica's Jesse Eisinger and NPR's Chris Arnold drop this...

Getting Serious On Syria, Part 4

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The UN is apparently looking to play the power sharing card in Syria, with a draft resolution that would reportedly ask President Bashar al-...

Honor: I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means

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Mohammed Shafia, 58; his wife, Tooba Mohammad Yahya, 42; and their son, Hamed, 21, were found guilty of first-degree murder in the deaths of...

Science Awesomeness

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One of our readers linked to this, and it was too good not to share . A ten-year-old girl randomly arranged some oxygen, carbon and nitrog...

Home, Home I'm Deranged, Part 28

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President Obama is finally relaxing requirements for federal aid to underwater mortgage holders , and it couldn't come any sooner. The...

Greek Fire, Part 49

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After months of meetings, it appears European leaders finally have an agreement on bailouts and a permanent EU facility fund, Reuters repor...

StupidiNews!

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With an aging population and an extremely low birthrate on top of the effects from the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japan's population in...
Sunday, January 29, 2012

Last Call

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In all seriousness, if you still actually believe that Ron Paul was somehow unaware of the awful racist things being said in his own newslet...

Weezing The Juice

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Orange Julius begins the 2012 election year hostage-taking in earnest by playing Keystone XL Or Nothing with the next round of jobs and infr...

GOP Gets That Poll-Asked Look Again

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The latest NBC/Marist poll in Florida this weekend finds Mitt Romney up big over Newt Gingrich now, 42%-27%.  That's not the big news. ...

StupidiNews! WTH Edition

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This one got me .  I really thought this story was going to go in a different direction, and was so surprised that I had to sit and just thi...

Teaching Compassion: Epic Fail

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Charter schools accept public money but are not subject to all the regulations of public schools.  For example, they are allowed to enforce ...

Sex And The Cindy

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It seems Cynthia Nixon has ruffled feathers by saying she chose to be gay .  I don't get the backlash.  There are many ways to be straig...

The Sport Of Kings

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In case you missed it (and if you were in the US, you did) Novak Djokovic just outslugged Rafael Nadal in a six hour record-setting Australi...