There’s not much to add here, other than Jenny needs to be stopped. Stopping her is even more important than stopping Sylvia Browne. As vile as Sylvia Browne is, at least she doesn’t endanger millions of children by self-righteously …
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TPM explains the origin of the term, what it evolved to mean, and who in the US punditocracy is on the tire, who is off for good and who’s off but yearns to get back on:. Meghan McCain: “It was a really fun experience. …
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Scoble goes for a walk through Rep.Brad MIller’s precinct, canvassing the neighborhood and talking about politics:. Read the comments on this post…
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Close Enough To Honest:. CNN lies about ACORN 54 times which is certainly better than, say, a billion. Nuts About ACORN: Believing in vote fraud may be dangerous to a democracy’s health.:. As far as “gotcha” stunts go, the right-wing …
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tags: honeycomb, honeybees, photography, Image of the Day. Honeycomb, photographed at Russ Pittman Park, Texas. Image: Joseph Kennedy, 12 December 2006 [larger view]. Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope with TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/125s …
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Check out Howard Fineman’s new column, Why Is the Race So Close?. His method of “analysis” is simple; list a number of factors which should favor the generic Democrat, and then contend that Obama’s average 6 point lead in the polls is …
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The Boston Public Library has a really interesting exhibit of George Bellows’ drawings. Here’s one drawing, “The Law Is Too Slow”:. Read the rest of this post… | Read the comments on this post…
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Every year Houghton-Mifflin puts out a edited volume entitled “The Best American Science and Nature Writing”. The latest volume looks like some delightful bedtime reading (although I may be biased because I was chosen as one of the …
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The pundits keep telling us that a particular problem for Barack Obama are older, white Catholics. Like this woman? Sister Cecilia has lived in the convent in Rome for 50 years. A 106-year-old American nun living in a convent in Rome …
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A single molecule in the intestinal wall, activated by the waste products from gut bacteria, plays a large role in controlling whether the host animals are lean or fatty, a research team, including scientists from UT Southwestern Medical Center, has found in a mouse study.
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