The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    MISAPPROPRIATION

    By Richard Day on Sat, 06/05/2010 - 9:48pm |
                                                                LAURENCE STERNEWe can say nothing but what hath been said . . . Our poets steal from Homer . . . . Our story dressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best.                                                           Robert Burton...
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    Echo Chambers and Critical Thought

    By Barth on Sat, 06/05/2010 - 5:09pm |
    Sometimes, a guy thinks that he has become "Mr. Wilson." Maybe you are not old enough to remember him (though Walter Matthau revived the character in a movie a few years back). He was the Mitchell's next door neighbor and...

    'Israeli commando who shot six dead on ship may get 'medal of valour'

    By letthesunshinein on Sat, 06/05/2010 - 1:14am |
    Once again I am making a comment into a blog entry in its own right because I do not want this event to be buried as some side note. Please be forewarned, what you are about to read is very...
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    WE HAVE TO DRILL EM OVER HERE SO WE DON'T HAVE TO DRILL THEM WAY OUT THERE

    By Richard Day on Fri, 06/04/2010 - 9:49pm |
                            AESCHINES, THE PLAY ACTORYour health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike... Our...
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    Gulf Disaster Warning was Posted Early on the Road to Hell

    By SleepinJeezus on Fri, 06/04/2010 - 2:54pm |
    Last night, songwriter Chris Rea channeled for me the ghosts that have been haunting us all in the weeks since the Deepwater Horizon blew sky high and then sunk to the depths of the Gulf of Mexico, taking 11...
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    MONEY FOR NOTHIN'

    By Richard Day on Thu, 06/03/2010 - 9:46pm |
                                     Overheard playing at a recent meeting of the Young Republicans:   I want my senate seat (a bunch of music)   Now look at them ya ya's that's the way you do it You run for office toward a...
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    Are CIA Operatives Who Oppose Drone Attacks *Objectively* Pro-Taliban?

    By we are stardust on Thu, 06/03/2010 - 6:20pm |
    Some of you may have already guessed that I am haunted by drone attacks.  They have taken up residence in my brain, though to a lesser degree than the millions of pounds of explosives of all kinds that we rained...
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    The Worst Thing the Repubs Ever Did

    By stillidealistic on Thu, 06/03/2010 - 3:44pm |
    What was the first thing that came to mind? The war in Iraq? Tax cuts for the wealthy? Dismantling regulations? All good choices, but the worst thing they ever did, the one that I will NEVER, even if I live...
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    THREE LEGGED DOGS

    By Richard Day on Wed, 06/02/2010 - 5:14pm |
    A three-legged dog is a survivor. A tough, sure sign that life is difficult. Yet sometimes, leaping for a frisbee or bristling at the sight of a cat, he will become graceful, his fourth leg magically visible as he...
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    Problems at TPM Café (plus an update)

    By we are stardust on Tue, 06/01/2010 - 9:54pm |
    Please understand I love the Café for so many reasons, and appreciate that Josh keeps it up, even though he says it's not a money-maker. I don't love the software problems. I posted a blog at 7:15 EDT this evening;...
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    Supreme Court Narrows Miranda, Obama Gives Legal Cover to Drone Operators

    By we are stardust on Tue, 06/01/2010 - 7:19pm |
    (In case you missed these tidbits)     In a split decision, the SCOTUS ruled that suspects must speak up in order to ensure the legality of their rights not to speak.  Anthony Kennedy wrote that a suspect who speaks...
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    Memorial Day and the Gaza Incident: A Meditation.

    By amike on Tue, 06/01/2010 - 12:05pm |
    Memorial Day has been problematic for me for a very long time.  When I was a teenager, a quartet of jet fighters performed stunts over the cemeteries of Minneapolis, which I thought a bit strange--I thought it stranger when two...
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    THE SCREAM

    By Richard Day on Tue, 06/01/2010 - 6:55am |
                                                 HISTORY CHANNEL EXECUTIVEGreat series on The History Channel this month: America; The Story of  US. I have been watching these documentaries since I was six; especially those wonderful hours about WWII. The hour on WWII in this series...
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    Wall Street Snark Alert!

    By stillidealistic on Mon, 05/31/2010 - 4:19pm |
    I don't normally like to make posts that direct you to an article without taking the time to put together a synopsis and my analysis, but I'm in a hurry this morning, and want to make sure y'all see this...
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    Cooperation for Kandahar: Ever More Orwellian.

    By we are stardust on Mon, 05/31/2010 - 10:50am |
      The 'summer offensive' (Hamkari Baraye Kandahar) in Kandahar will be the test case for US involvement in Afghanistan, according to Karen De Young at the Washington Post.  She reports that administration officials say that the results will be the...
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    HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY; GOD BLESS AMERICA

    By Richard Day on Sun, 05/30/2010 - 10:05pm |
                                   EQUITY DURING WAR TIME IN AMERICAI received this email from one of my favorite Congressmen; like Bernie Sanders Representative Grayson reaches out beyond his constituency. I just love this guy: On May 30, 2010, at 10:06 a.m, the direct...

    Update: Flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza stormed by IDF. Twenty peace activist murdered, 50 wounded.. Follow the flotilla http://witnessgaza.com/

    By letthesunshinein on Sun, 05/30/2010 - 8:28pm |
    Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have attacked the 'International Freedom Flotilla' carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza.  The flotilla was attacked by Israeli gunships and stormed by Israeli commandos while in International Waters.  The IDF have murdered 20 peace activist.  At...
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    Shades of Cambodia And Laos! Butcher McChrystal Claims Iran Trains The Taliban!

    By oleeb on Sun, 05/30/2010 - 2:33pm |
    Of all the bullshit lies we've seen justifying our unjustifiable imperialist wars in the Muslim world the latest lie being trotted out is, in my opinion, the most absurd and transparently lacking in any credibility whatsoever.  Every lie and deception...
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    LET THEM EAT CAKE

    By Richard Day on Sat, 05/29/2010 - 11:25pm |
                                                           BARBARA BUSH'S MOMWhat I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were...
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    Building on Sacrifice

    By Barth on Sat, 05/29/2010 - 4:24pm |
    It would have been a great post. It would have asked how it is possible that the President of the United States, a year and a half after replacing one whose vice president held secret meetings with oil executives to...

    Obama did nothing wrong.

    By kgb999 on Fri, 05/28/2010 - 11:30pm |
    From the moment Specter became a Democrat it was no secret that the establishment wanted Sestak to defer his own candidacy. Progressives were rather irate pretty much from the instant it became apparent this would be the case. There were...

    Update: Israeli gunships deployed to stop Humanitarian aid from reaching the Gaza. What next, nuclear weapons?

    By letthesunshinein on Fri, 05/28/2010 - 11:25pm |
    AP is now reporting the Freedom Flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza will be stopped using Israeli gunships.'Israeli gunships head to sea to block flotilla.'  http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jFki4MerB8GrGJS2hOVmY5...  '...Israeli foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, said the country was prepared to stop the...
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    DEEP IN THE FARTS OF TEXAS

    By Richard Day on Fri, 05/28/2010 - 5:59pm |
                                                                THE FIRST TEABAGGERI was thinking about the Hippy Dippy Weatherman. He would describe in great geographical detail some horrendous weather front about to deliver thunderous devastation to the relevant area where his fictional audience resides. Then he would...
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    Anthro-psyops Occupation Programs: the Wave of the Future

    By we are stardust on Fri, 05/28/2010 - 5:06pm |
      I wandered onto as Army website page last week in search of info about bunker-buster bombs, and read briefly about the Human Terrain Systems project (started in 2006), an 'initiative of the Army Training and Doctrine Command; career...

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