The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    THE NEW AGE OF TURRETTE'S RHETORIC: Rated PG-13

    By Richard Day on Wed, 04/28/2010 - 5:45pm |
    The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.                                                                                          --A....
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    ARIZONA: ARE YOUR PAPERS IN ORDER?

    By Richard Day on Tue, 04/27/2010 - 7:19pm |
                                                              THE WARSAW ROUND-UPLinda Greenhouse seems to be a little upset over recent legislation that has been signed, sealed and delivered by the Arizona Governor recently: And in case the phrase "lawful contact" makes it appear as if the police...
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    Showdown in America Bank Protests Start Today (a cheap cut-and-paste blog)

    By we are stardust on Tue, 04/27/2010 - 6:31am |
      Is there one near you?  This is the week that may determine whether or not any meaningful financial reform is passed by Congress. Peter Drier, TPM guest blogger posted yesterday about the combined groups who will join together...
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    GEORGE W. BUSH; AN HISTORICAL NOVEL--OF SORTS

    By Richard Day on Tue, 04/27/2010 - 12:14am |
                                  ULYSSES S. GRANT WRITING HIS MEMOIRSThe very ink in which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.                                                                          Pudd'n Head WilsonSince leaving the Oval Office, President Bush has given virtually no interviews or public speeches about his presidency," Crown...
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    CONTEXT, CONSENSUS & CONFUSION

    By Richard Day on Sun, 04/25/2010 - 8:23pm |
    e                                                       By Nikolaos Gysis (1892)               I have been thinking about values lately. When I was in grammar school, I recall a teacher who must have had a bug up his arse about some political matter. God only knows what...
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    Goodbye

    By Joe Wood on Sun, 04/25/2010 - 6:35pm |
      This is going to be my last entry.  You guys at TPMcafe have really been great and wonderful kindred spirits, especially at my darkest of struggles.  Thank you for being there, all of you. I have realized that...
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    One Last Attempt to Strengthen Dodd's Bill

    By we are stardust on Sun, 04/25/2010 - 10:38am |
      (Yes; image-pun intended...)   Is there any hope that it can be strengthened?  Who knows?  All this is so fluid, and may be voted on at the first of the week.  It looks unlikely that any truly meaningful financial reform...

    What's up with the pitchforks?

    By letthesunshinein on Sat, 04/24/2010 - 10:10pm |
    After a brief sojourn, I find I have come back to a blossoming of pitchforks.  I know it is now spring in the northern hemisphere, but why the plethora of tynes on a barge pole?  Is this akin to some...
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    STRAIGHT TO HELL

    By Richard Day on Sat, 04/24/2010 - 8:39pm |
                                                             Gustave Doré The gates slam in your face Chill creeps down your spine No one will let you in Your guilty of the crimes The...
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    Hopi Snake Dance....impressions

    By we are stardust on Fri, 04/23/2010 - 1:26pm |
      Sometime in August of some year...we decided to go to Snake Dance in Hopi.  This year it would be held in Shongopovi, Second Mesa.     Howard Morgan, the then-famous Albuquerque weather man had been following the long summer...
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    Disaster In Gulf Threatens Massive Oil Spill: 300,000 Gallons/day

    By oleeb on Fri, 04/23/2010 - 1:01am |
    Burning oil rig sinks, setting stage for big spill By KEVIN McGILL and HOLBROOK MOHR, Associated Press Writers Kevin Mcgill And Holbrook Mohr, Associated Press Writers NEW ORLEANS - A deepwater oil platform that burned for more than a...
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    AN OBSCENE LOOK AT OUR FINANCIAL MARKETS

    By Richard Day on Fri, 04/23/2010 - 12:42am |
             Recently overheard at the offices of the SEC: What in the hell are you doing Amesly? Uh, nothing...I mean not nothing...I mean I dropped some coffee on me private parts Govner and I was just polishing it...er...wiping it off....
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    A Day to Celebrate the Earth. Tomorrow: Business as Usual?

    By Ramona on Thu, 04/22/2010 - 10:57pm |
    Enough had finally become enough, and under Lyndon Johnson and a congress that could see clearly now (even though the rest of us were still lost in a choking, eye-watering, salmon-colored, man-made smog), we saw a Clean Air Act, a Clean Water act, a National Wilderness Preservation System, a Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, a National Trails System Act, and, for what it was worth, a National Environmental Policy.
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    TOO MANY ANGRY MEN

    By Richard Day on Wed, 04/21/2010 - 9:34pm |
    12 5And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.  6And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and...
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    Zuni Dreamtime.....a story

    By we are stardust on Wed, 04/21/2010 - 5:54pm |
      We stopped at a trading post near Moenkopi, Arizona, at the west end of the Hopi Villages.  I can't remember why were there, nor can I remember how on earth we came to be approaching the villages from the...
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    Simple Words

    By Joe Wood on Wed, 04/21/2010 - 4:41pm |
    I was thinking that in keeping with the Cafe's more personal touch in recent days, perhaps someone should recognize that personal testaments and sharing thoughts and feelings is not an obstacle to political power--but a privileged path to it. The greatest political...

    At least 56,000 images captured from school-issued laptops.

    By kgb999 on Tue, 04/20/2010 - 8:45am |
    Gee, never been so glad you tend to sleep with your clothes on ... eh kid? Image of Blake Robinson in slumber captured by Pennsylvania's Lower Marion School District using his school-issued laptop. When a lawsuit was filed on...
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    NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON, Except For Good Old Joe Klein

    By Richard Day on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 10:37pm |
                                                             THE AR15                                      You that never done nothin'                                      But build to destroy                                      You play with my world                                       Like it's your little toy                                      You put a gun in my hand                                      And you hide from my eyes                                      And you turn and...
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    Patriots Day Guest Blogger Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    By Barth on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 5:42pm |
    Your blogging fool was born, as mentioned a thousand times before, in Boston, Massachusetts and my first exposure to the history of this country came from people with the same geographic roots. It is, perhaps, slightly different than the...
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    Why Am I So Angry?

    By Joe Wood on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 1:26am |
    Well, I'll tell you.  I should have been a pair of old shoes that you wear and then throw away so drive my weathered soul into the mud at least I'll be used I guess some shoes are never shined...
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    THE PLAY'S THE THING

    By Richard Day on Sun, 04/18/2010 - 9:54pm |
                                                                   THE OUTSIDE AGITATOR                     I am watching Righteous, a cop film starring Pacino and Deniro. If you get a chance check out Wiki on...
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    Joe . . . a sketch, not a story

    By we are stardust on Sun, 04/18/2010 - 6:02pm |
      Joe believed in UFOs.  In a weird way, it suited him.    The sad truth is that it was almost too easy to see him as a character, more of a two-dimensional being.  It might not have been altogether...
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    LINCOLN & ALEXANDER

    By Richard Day on Sat, 04/17/2010 - 10:08pm |
        A Man Reading The Presidential Proclamation by Henry Louis StephensYesterday was an important day in the history of America. Vanessa Dixon had to remind me of it as the date had faded from my senile cerebral machinery. It seems...
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    Mine

    By Barth on Sat, 04/17/2010 - 6:32pm |
    Yes, the description of one's political opponents or their tactics as reminiscent of Hitler is tiresome and almost always extreme. Hitler's rise to power in a nation that had centuries of issues relating to who its people were and what...
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    Why is Race Important?

    By Joe Wood on Sat, 04/17/2010 - 3:23am |
    The title is not rhetorical.  I have no damn idea, even as I write this, why we constantly focus on race, racism, white black, etc.  We act like we are somehow light years beyond where we once were.  But by...

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