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    • Something's coming
      Posting may be light, because I'm working on something big. In fact, I plan to do up a video presentation on a huge story that could destroy the Murdoch/Fox empire.No, I'm not talking about the phone hacking scandal. Think bigger. Much bigger.Actually, the real work was done by some very prestigious foreign news firms. What infuriates me is that no […]
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    • Obama headquarters
      Charlie Pierce pays a visit to campaign central: The headquarters is on the third floor. To visit, guests have to surrender their driver’s licenses in exchange for a visitor’s tag at the front desk. The days of the storefront walk-in headquarters are as dead as the Whigs, and Steve was not even allowed to tell [...]
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    • Dutch Disease
      It seems a lot of people don’t know what Dutch Disease is.  Here’s the short. Dutch disease is when you sell a lot of resources and that makes your currency increase in value.  So if you discover a lot of oil, or oil becomes a lot more valuable because of a shortage so that you [...]
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Choosing Media Sources

  I keep seeing people on the Kool-aid blogs get their knickers twisted because a negative story about Obama comes from an allegedly ”right-wing” source.  If someone here refers to such a story (even if it was done to support a minor point or something trivial like the weather) the PUMAS-obsessed blogstalkers freak-out and say something like “ZOMG!  [...]

BACK IN THE DAY….

When nuns wore habits and no child went home complaining to the folks that “Sister does not like me” as an excuse for misbehavior, I was schooled for 12 years by a group of women who were making every attempt to “save my soul”. Their methods varied by degree but their collective thinking did not. [...]

Read any good books lately?: Happens Every Day by Isabel Gillies

I bought this book based on a review by Maureen Corrigan on Fresh Air a couple of weeks ago. For what it’s worth, Maureen was wrong about her review in many respects but she’s right about its readability. I can’t put it down. Happens Every Day is a memoir by Isabel Gillies of the time [...]

Saturday: Beautiful Things

Yesterday on my way to the fitness center, I passed under the branches of some large cherry trees at my worksite and noticed that they are starting to get buds on them. The transition from winter to spring has been slower than normal in NJ this year, making me momentarily question the conventional wisdom about [...]

A Song About My Peeps

Today’s lunatic fringe is tomorrow’s mainstream. This is an open thread.

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