The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    YOU'VE NOT SEEN NOTHIN LIKE THE MIGHTY QUINN

    By Richard Day on Sun, 10/04/2009 - 9:54pm |
    "Mighty Quinn" Q IS BACK   Quinn the Eskimo comes back with his own blog; his first in four months or so.  http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/quinn_esq/And the best part of course is that no one, I MEAN NO ONE is ever going to...
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    More Wonderful Food to Make Hard Times Better

    By we are stardust on Sun, 10/04/2009 - 5:09pm |
    These are recipes to keep you healthy, save you money, and provide comfort for the winter.  One even uses all those bloomin' green tomatoes your neighbors keep trying' to give you!...
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    Because it is right

    By Barth on Sat, 10/03/2009 - 2:20pm |
    Forty-six years ago, the President of the United States, the youngest ever elected as President, addressed the civil rights issues facing the nation and explained the core reason why they had to be resolved:We are confronted primarily with a moral issue....
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    MANY ARE COLD BUT FEW ARE FROZEN

    By Richard Day on Fri, 10/02/2009 - 10:05pm |
    I was not going to blog today. But I came across articles that knocked my socks off. I thought cryogenics was the field of science dedicated to freezing humans just prior to death so that somehow the specimen could someday...

    "...because I want your Conscience to bother you..."

    By letthesunshinein on Fri, 10/02/2009 - 6:15pm |
    In a singular moment, and with an honest, from the gut comment, Helen Thomas codified, that which I hope all politicians feel, when they so glibly say they are acting in the best interest of the American people.From todays Washington...
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    Great Resource--horrific topic

    By amike on Fri, 10/02/2009 - 2:44pm |
    I'm in the mini-Apple, attending my 50th high school graduation reunion, which, if nothing else, will confirm that the old guy I see in the mirror is as real as the young guy looking from behind the eyeballs at him.I...
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    THE APOLOGY

    By Richard Day on Thu, 10/01/2009 - 8:00pm |
    Ancient philosophy As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.SOCRATES (Please note in my defense, that no Athenians were hurt during the creation of the post, but if your eyes and ears are sensitive today, please...

    Can This GOP Representative Get Any More Sleazy?

    By azpaull on Thu, 10/01/2009 - 6:07pm |
    Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) continues to amaze me - this time with his unethical slicing-and-dicing of Pres. Barack Obama's words in his book, The Audacity of Hope.  I clicked on an ad which brought me to the "Right To Work...
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    The Vogelkop Bowerbird: artiste extraordinaire; a truly amazing mental health break

    By we are stardust on Thu, 10/01/2009 - 12:53pm |
    David Attenborough did a video series called The Life of Birds.  One section is called Finding Partners, and shows and desribes the mating plumage, gift-giving and rituals of different male birds in efforts to entice the females, and convince them that they are Superior Mates. ...
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    Parental spanking, forbidden by 24 countries, shown to lower kids' IQ; Why are American parents still slapping the smart out of our children?+

    By jollyroger on Thu, 10/01/2009 - 6:15am |
    From the University of New Hampshire, a profound study. Corporal punishment is an appropriate form of discipline only if one intends to diminish the child’s intellect.and as much a double the chance of diagnosing PTSD in adulthood. Prof. Murray Straus...
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    THIS LAND WAS MADE FOR ME AND MINE

    By Richard Day on Wed, 09/30/2009 - 10:34pm |
    Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.   "The fact of the matter is, he encouraged me to give him my view on a whole range of issues. I did," Cheney said in an interview broadcast on "Fox News Sunday." In the end,...
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    Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump

    By quinn esq on Wed, 09/30/2009 - 2:01pm |
    They were rivers of fur, pouring over the grasslands. Until the ground just                  fell                 away  beneath their feet.  And after that, all that was left to...
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    THUS SPAKE GERRY THUSTRA II

    By Richard Day on Tue, 09/29/2009 - 9:08pm |
    Zaraθuštra Spitāma O man, take care! What does the deep midnight declare? "I was asleep-- From a deep dream I woke and swear:-- The world is deep, Deeper than day had been aware. Deep is its woe-- Joy--deeper yet than...
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    You Can Help Democrats Take A Republican District In Florida

    By oleeb on Tue, 09/29/2009 - 6:48pm |
    This is an unusual request but I'm making it on behalf of a friend who I strongly believe in. Russ Patterson is running for the Democratic nomination in Florida's 60th legislative district.  The election isn't until next year of course...
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    This is about cooking food, which is Good for the Soul. Or: Put your hands up, and step away from the computer.

    By we are stardust on Tue, 09/29/2009 - 1:19pm |
    I'm going to take a chance here, and offer some cooking ideas.  Yep, I know it's a political blog, but I have had extra time in the past few years to learn a lot about cooking, and it's something I...
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    A Contest For Favorite Words & Phrases

    By Richard Day on Mon, 09/28/2009 - 8:15pm |
    I was speaking with some friends the other day and they thought a little words and phrases game might be fun. And, as everyone here knows, I am a lotta fun until I hit my seventh beer.   My...
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    Attack Iran? HELL NO! Another Reckless, Stupid Idea Brought To Us By The Folks Who Sold Us A Bill Of Goods On Iraq

    By oleeb on Mon, 09/28/2009 - 12:45pm |
    Since 1979, when the Shah of Iran finally lost his grip on power and the American CIA that controlled him was run out of Tehran, the elite power structure of our government has been engaged in one long, sustained...
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    Prez to Bibi: "I will shoot your shit right out of the sky"++BREZINSKI:go up and confront them

    By jollyroger on Mon, 09/28/2009 - 4:35am |
    Prez knows that only under the whip will Bibi curb his zeal for showing Achmadinajad what a holocaust really looks like. Therefor, Bibi needs to internalize the truth that Prez is serious about forbidding a bomb run and will prevent...
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    THUS SPAKE GERRY THUSTRA!!!

    By Richard Day on Sun, 09/27/2009 - 5:15pm |
    Donatello The Thustras were your normal inner burb people. That mysterious group of post war America whose biggest aim in life was to own their own home far away from the city (well six or seven miles was pretty far)...
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    Drowning in Delusions

    By Barth on Sun, 09/27/2009 - 2:55pm |
    Something is very wrong. You know it and, as Senator Robert Dole used to say in another context,"the American people know it." We no longer sound like the people of the United States. We are not the country of hope...
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    From the GOP Bully Pulpit: No Health Care for Illegal Aliens

    By SleepinJeezus on Sun, 09/27/2009 - 12:59pm |
    "Illegal aliens" are a pretty easy target in these times of economic insecurity that affects all Americans.And the Democratic Leadership - never ones to stand up to demagoguery when a simple "bi-partisan" weak-at-the-knees surrender will do - recently caved to...
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    It's A Hard Rain A Gonna' Fall

    By Joe Wood on Sun, 09/27/2009 - 3:41am |
         What happens to a dream deferred?Does it dry upLike a raisin in the sun?Or fester like a sore -And then run?Does it stink like rotten meat?Or crust and sugar over -like a syrupy sweet?Maybe it just sagslike a...
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    A CONTRAST AMONG DOOLITTLES

    By Richard Day on Sat, 09/26/2009 - 6:47pm |
                           Alfie DoolittleJohn Doolittle Once upon a time there was there was a Mormon attorney who wished to make a difference, strive for change and make America a better place for rich white people to live and thrive. In...

    Attack on Zelaya: toxic gas or hot air?

    By kgb999 on Sat, 09/26/2009 - 1:00pm |
    Another day another murder attempt on Honduras' Manuel Zelaya. The embassy in which he is sheltered was attacked with potentially deadly gas ... or was it? Catholic priest Andrés Tamayo who is with Zelaya and his supporters in the Brazilian...
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    WATER ON THE MOON

    By Richard Day on Thu, 09/24/2009 - 10:21pm |
    I do not know exactly why, but this little bit of info from BBC News and The Daily Beast really got to me: A fine film of water coats the particles that make up dirt on the Moon, and...

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