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Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:55:04 -0400

Let's Squish Our Fruits Together

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:36:43 -0400

Let's Squish Our Fruits Together:

via reflectionof.me

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THE END OF POLITICS

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:33:10 -0400

THE END OF POLITICS:

[From UNDERNEWS ]
Sam Smith
As I tried, for about the seventeenth time, to make sense of the healthcare negotiations, I suddenly realized that I wasn’t watching a political debate at all; rather it…

Tom Waits & Iggy Pop - Coffee and Cigarettes

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:46:22 -0400

Tom Waits & Iggy Pop - Coffee and Cigarettes:

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Pentagon Instructs Officials to Cancel Contracts with ACORN. The Problem: They Don’t Exist Pentagon Instructs Officials to Cancel Contracts with ACORN. The Problem: They Don’t Exist

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:46:08 -0400

Pentagon Instructs Officials to Cancel Contracts with ACORN. The Problem: They Don’t Exist Pentagon Instructs Officials to Cancel Contracts with ACORN. The Problem: They Don’t Exist:

[From RebelReports] While the DoD targets a community group that does no business with the Pentagon, actual corporate crooks go un-confronted and continue to rake in $ billions in contracts. By…

Print: Where is the Defund Blackwater Act?

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:46:08 -0400

Print: Where is the Defund Blackwater Act?:

[From The Nation]
Where is the Defund Blackwater Act?
by JEREMY SCAHILL
Republican Congressional leaders are continuing their witch hunt against ACORN, the grassroots community group dedicated to…

It’s not a pike. It’s a gaff hook.

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:57:13 -0400

It’s not a pike. It’s a gaff hook.:

[From Pragmatos]

NY Magazine is having fun with Dan Brown’s latest masterpiece. It’s a respectable lineup, and while one expects fine stuff from Geoff Pullum, I was waiting for Matt Taibbi, who…

PR in Germany

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:41:58 -0400

PR in Germany:

[From Pragmatos]
I ran across two rather different takes on the proportionality of the results of Germany’s recent election.
First we have Matthew Søberg Shugart at Fruits and Votes:
The German…

FEDOT THE SHOOTER

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:33:15 -0400

FEDOT THE SHOOTER:

A fascinating and beautiful use of Flash animation, even if you don’t speak or read Russian. The site is a promotional project for an animated film.

Click here.

Membership Has Its Privileges

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:04:39 -0400

Membership Has Its Privileges:

[From iowahawk] [ed. note: republished and amended from a 2007 post] Dear BARACK OBAMA :
Congratulations! On behalf of the selection committee, I am pleased to announce that you have been named a…

Health care reform: who’s your daddy?

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:04:38 -0400

Health care reform: who’s your daddy?:

[From Pragmatos]
This piece by Robert Reich lays out the worst problems with the current health care legislation. He’s right, of course, but it seems to me a safe assumption that the administration…

Out-raising Vallone, Council Hopeful Serpe Inspires Other Greens

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:46:47 -0400

Out-raising Vallone, Council Hopeful Serpe Inspires Other Greens:

[From City Hall News]
By Selena Ross
UPDATE: Council Member Vallone wrote in with a statement to explain that he had made the decision not to take matching funds knowing that Serpe would be seeking…

Greens call for British troops to be brought home

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:46:47 -0400

Greens call for British troops to be brought home:

[From Your Thanet News]
Kent Green Party members have joined the campaign for British troops to be withdrawn from Afghanistan. Green supporters from across the county will take part in a march in…

Too Big for My Skin - The Campaign

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:01:26 -0400

Too Big for My Skin - The Campaign:

Too Big for My Skin is not just a poem. It’s a mind state. It’s an international campaign that invites you to leave your response to the video in the comment section or to…

What Whoopi Goldberg (’Not a Rape-Rape’), Harvey Weinstein (’So-Called Crime’) et al. Are Saying in Their Outrage Over the Arrest of Roman Polanski

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:00:55 -0400

What Whoopi Goldberg (’Not a Rape-Rape’), Harvey Weinstein (’So-Called Crime’) et al. Are Saying in Their Outrage Over the Arrest of Roman Polanski:

By Calvin Trillin This article appeared in the October 26, 2009 edition of The Nation. October 7, 2009 A youthful error? Yes, perhaps. But he’s been punished for this lapse– For decades exiled from…

Girl Gets Photo Removed from Yearbook for Wearing a Tux

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:00:14 -0400

Girl Gets Photo Removed from Yearbook for Wearing a Tux:

[From feministing.com]
Ceara Sturgis is a senior at a Mississippi high school described as being exemplary: “a straight-A student, goal on the soccer team, a trumpet player in the band and active in…

Interracial Marriage

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:00:27 -0400

Interracial Marriage:

[From The J-Walk Blog]
You probably read about that justice of the peace in Louisiana who refused to perform an interracial marriage. The latest: Louisiana JP says he won’t resign over interracial…

War is peace, ignorance is strength

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:23:07 -0400

War is peace, ignorance is strength:

[From New Statesman] John Pilger Obama, the man of peace, is planning another war to add to his impressive record
Barack Obama, winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, is planning another war to add to…

BBC: The Amazing Bouncing Pebble Toad

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:09:18 -0400

BBC: The Amazing Bouncing Pebble Toad:

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Colorado boy floats away in balloon

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:13:29 -0400

Colorado boy floats away in balloon:

(CNN) — Officials are trying to rescue a 6-year-old boy who climbed into a balloon-like experimental aircraft built by his parents and floated into the sky over eastern Colorado.

The…