The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    CHAUCER: THE DEATH PANELS

    By Richard Day on Fri, 04/16/2010 - 11:30pm |
                 THE LADY SINGS THE BLUES! The feast was  proceeding along, swimmingly as the otters say. Lady Michele would be the last to speak at the feast. The Man of Steele noted to his companion the yeoman that the lady...
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    What Matters

    By wws on Fri, 04/16/2010 - 10:38pm |

    I saw, and appreciated Ripper's blog which asked who needed real time assistance. There are people who need that assistance. I might be one of them, if I did not suffer insuperable pride. So, because I still do, I direct your...I saw, and appreciated Ripper's blog which asked who needed real time assistance. There are people who need that assistance. I might be one of them, if I did not suffer insuperable pride. 
    So, because I still do, I direct your attention to my Posterous page:http://wendystaebler.posterous.com/

    Ripper Grants: Apply Now

    By Ripper on Fri, 04/16/2010 - 3:41pm |
    I have $100 available in $25 increments to TPM Cafe Readers who are in desperate need. I won't name names. You know who you are.Email ripperm (AT) att (DOT) net with your PayPal account and a one-paragraph explanation of your...
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    Albert the Blacksmith

    By we are stardust on Fri, 04/16/2010 - 12:09pm |
      I was already having second thoughts.  I'd been sent on an errand by The Boss; well, really she was my husband's boss, but I was a handy unpaid extra, and I got pressed into service here and there. ...
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    Could we just have the Damn Tax Day without the Rollicking Tea Party?

    By Ramona on Fri, 04/16/2010 - 2:29am |
    So when I wasn't filling out forms I was snickering at those faux-Yahoos mugging their faces off for the TV cameras, pretending that they're mad as hell and aren't going to take it anymore. Who are they trying to kid? They're mad as hell that Obama is president and then the other thing is that they're mad as hell that Obama is president.
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    GUNS & BLUSTER

    By Richard Day on Fri, 04/16/2010 - 12:28am |
                                                   FRANKENSTEINThere are government sponsored death panels installed due to recent health care legislation. If you do not procure health insurance you are going to jail. Every American's bill for health insurance will go up $2,000 a year...
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    LOVE IS HATE/WAR IS PEACE

    By Joe Wood on Thu, 04/15/2010 - 3:12am |
        If I support Gay Rights, am I being hateful to Marriage? If I am pro-black, am I anti-white? If I fly the Confederate flag, am I a racist? Well, to some people yes.  But I am guessing they...
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    A NONNES' TALE

    By Richard Day on Wed, 04/14/2010 - 10:14pm |
                 Is there no man, then, who, for prayer or hire, Will wake our comrade who's so far behind? A thief might easily rob him and bind. See how he's nodding, see, now by cock's bones, As if he'd fall...
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    European Space Agency's Herschel Telescope: Mapping the Universe's Past

    By we are stardust on Wed, 04/14/2010 - 5:41pm |
    Last week Nova aired a program on the evolution of telescopes.  Galileo and on through the ages, changes bigger and better in fits and starts: refractors, reflectors mirrors growing bigger and bigger, to Hubble, and now: The Herschel Space Observatory...

    Would Lincoln's proposal have stopped the bailouts?

    By kgb999 on Wed, 04/14/2010 - 9:53am |
    I have to admit, I'm none too fond of Blanche Lincoln. But it seems as things progress she is poised at the brink of becoming somewhat of a tragic figure - though not a particularly sympathetic one.  In addition to...

    iS cALifoRnIa NeXt?

    By Ripper on Wed, 04/14/2010 - 5:57am |
    January 13 - The coastal city of Léogâne is the epicenter of a catastrophic 7.0 earthquake in Haiti that kills more than 200,000 people and leaves more than a million others homeless.February 27 - A magnitude 8.8 earthquake centered off...
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    My Humble Diary Entry

    By Joe Wood on Wed, 04/14/2010 - 1:53am |
    This morning, I awoke at 10 AM.  I dressed quickly, styled my hair in pigtails, and set off. Passed a bright pink tree in bloom.  Touched the petals lightly, as I would a pet dog. Arrived at thrift store #1,...
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    The Canterbury Tales: The Great Feast

    By Richard Day on Tue, 04/13/2010 - 10:10pm |
                        Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote And bathed every veyne in swich licour, Of which vertu engendred is the flour;...
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    Financial Reform: What a few outside economists are saying

    By we are stardust on Tue, 04/13/2010 - 5:55pm |
          Conventional Beltway thinking says that 'some sort of financial reform package' will be passed fairly soon.  The bill that's already been passed in the House  apparently has some strengths that Chris Dodd's Senate bill lacks, but...
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    CANTERBURY TALES

    By Richard Day on Mon, 04/12/2010 - 9:46pm |
    e             Portrait of Chaucer from the 17th centuryLo, such it is when watch and ward do cease, And one grows negligent with flattery. But you that hold this tale a foolery, As but about a fox, a cock, a...
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    Longest US War Ever: Afghanistan, Year 9

    By we are stardust on Mon, 04/12/2010 - 10:07am |
      Four Star GEneral Stanley McChrystal Friday night Bill Moyers hosted Andrew Bacevich to speak about the war in Afghanistan.  It's likely you've seen other interviews with Bacevich, a West Point graduate who served in the army for 23...
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    The Pitchfork Movement

    By stillidealistic on Sun, 04/11/2010 - 4:34pm |
    I'd like to try an experiment, for the sake of seeing if a group as diverse as this can come up with some consensus, because I figure if we can do it here, it should be able to be done...
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    "One nation ... indivisible, with liberty and justice for all"

    By Barth on Sat, 04/10/2010 - 8:51pm |
    When Francis Bellamy wrote these words toward the end of the nineteenth century, his goal was not so much to present a loyalty oath to the nation itself, as an homage to "the republic for which [the flag] stands." What...
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    YAKITY YAK, BRING NUKES BACK

    By Richard Day on Fri, 04/09/2010 - 8:59pm |
    gePresident Barack Obama:  Today, the Cold War has disappeared but thousands of those weapons have not. In a strange turn of history, the threat of global nuclear war has gone down, but the risk of a nuclear attack has...
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    The Loss of a Friend

    By stillidealistic on Fri, 04/09/2010 - 7:48pm |
    Today is the one we have been dreading for months. The one when we will lose our friend. Our companion. Our "furry" child. The one who loves us when we are our most unlovable. The one who is always there...
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    Morpheus, Morpheus

    By we are stardust on Fri, 04/09/2010 - 5:32pm |
    Painting of Morpheus,Phantasos and Iris by baron Guerin       "Mama!  Mamaaa!" he cried from the kids' dark bedroom.  I went to him; he was curled up on his knees on the top bunk bed, face streaming tears....
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    I am Become Myself

    By Joe Wood on Fri, 04/09/2010 - 2:35am |
        "I saw myself on the central mountain of the world, the highest place, and I had a vision because I was seeing in the sacred manner of the world.  But the center of the world is everywhere." -Black...
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    Keel-hauled Redemption

    By wws on Thu, 04/08/2010 - 10:19pm |
    I am not a poet; my mother was. So, I'm cautiously taking baby steps, re: poetry. To see the photograph that illustrates what I am talking about, well or badly, please link to:http://wendystaebler.posterous.com/   A fog-bound sloop, trapped in...
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    A REENACTMENT OF THE CIVIL WAR

    By Richard Day on Thu, 04/08/2010 - 6:21pm |
    ks How much do we have to pay to get out of doing all these things twice? B.Dylan Since his inauguration in January, the Republican Gov. of Virginia, Bob McDonnell, has been busy transforming the Southern commonwealth into a...
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    Eli Eli lama sabachthani?

    By Richard Day on Wed, 04/07/2010 - 5:06pm |
    s Job 19   1: Then Job answered and said, 2: How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? 3: These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make...

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