The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    FOX: All The News That's Fit To Stink

    By Richard Day on Mon, 05/11/2009 - 10:08am |
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    What Might Have Happened: The Torture Briefing

    By Richard Day on Sun, 05/10/2009 - 7:52pm |
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    Burning the Candle at Both Ends

    By stillidealistic on Sat, 05/09/2009 - 11:53pm |
    My mother always used to say I burned the candle at both ends. I have been that way for as long I can remember, and I'm pretty sure it won't change for as long as there is breath in my...
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    Beethoven ROCKS!!!!!! Listen Live to the 9th tonight

    By oleeb on Sat, 05/09/2009 - 10:39pm |
    Last night I attended the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra's performance of Beethoven's 9th Symphony and it was nothing short of fabulous!  The St. Louis Symphony is one of the great symphonies in America and every bit of it's excellence was...
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    Life Imitating Baseball

    By Barth on Sat, 05/09/2009 - 8:59pm |
    Leaving Fenway Park after game two of the 2004 World Series and crossing Kenmore Square to retrieve my car, it was hard to ignore the young man selling tee shirts on which was written that vulgar slogan about how bad...
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    THE CRUEL AND THE UNUSUAL

    By Richard Day on Sat, 05/09/2009 - 4:34pm |
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    Wouldn't it be nice if.....

    By crazedandconfused on Sat, 05/09/2009 - 2:21pm |

    Picture it - 24 hour news coverage of the Attorney General's decision to launch a full scale investigation into the Cheney torture policies and warrantless wiretapping programs.  He has decided that if laws were broken, there will be prosecutions - and there are NONE who are above the law.  Not even Cheney.

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    SHOCKER!! GOP Christian Extremists kill efforts to bring party back to the mainstream - but STUPID people can still be DANGEROUS!

    By crazedandconfused on Sat, 05/09/2009 - 2:10am |

    OK - if you need to understand the level of disdain I have for the right wing of the Republican party you just need to take a look at a few of my previous posts.  I've called them every name - and I think they deserve everything I've leveled at them - and then some.  And in all fairness - I've tended to label all Republicans as right wing Neo-con Evangelical Christians.  But just because most of them happen to suc

    APA Psychologist's torture debate emails leaked.

    By kgb999 on Fri, 05/08/2009 - 10:05pm |
    ProPublica/Salon published a really good article on the role of psychologists in crafting the Bush administration torture policy.  This article is well worth the read and provides tons of information on many of the players and issues popping up in...
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    Arthur of the Roundish Table: The National Weapons Association

    By Richard Day on Fri, 05/08/2009 - 9:39pm |
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    A CLEARER PICTURE

    By Richard Day on Thu, 05/07/2009 - 2:03pm |
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    All You'll Ever Need to Know About Gay Marriage

    By oleeb on Wed, 05/06/2009 - 5:20pm |
    The Governor of Maine issued a somewhat lengthy statement* today upon signing Marriage Equality into law in the great state of Maine.  But near the end, in two short paragraphs, the statement lays out everything anyone really ever needs to...
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    Joy Behar advocates child abuse charges for teaching creationism over evolution - I take it one step further

    By crazedandconfused on Wed, 05/06/2009 - 12:14pm |

    I saw a clip of "The View" yesterday where the hosts were discussing darwinism vs creationism and what should be taught in our schools and to our children.  First of all - good job to Joy Behar - for not being afraid to stand up to the right wing screech in Elizabeth Hassleback, and for not beating up on Sherri Shepherd, because it would have come across as picking on the mentally challenged.  But that insults the mentally challenged - as they often have the ability to put together rational thoughts, and Sherri Shepherd is a walking ad for forced sterilization. 

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    Prayer by Numb3rs: A Breakdown of Prayer Requests on Social Networking Sites.

    By kalakitty17 on Wed, 05/06/2009 - 11:52am |
    • 25  Number of times per day I request prayers for myself.
    • 24  Number of times per day those prayers are requested through facebook.  As in, "I am having a hard time thinking of what I should make for dinner.  I could really use your prayers!"
    • 15  Number of times per day I tell someone that I will be praying for them.
    • 15  Number of times per day those promises are made through facebook.  As in, "Oh Lisa, I SO know what you are going through!  I have NO idea what to make for dinner either!  You will DEFINITELY be in
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    Quinn the Esqimo Rocks: HOW TO BLOG GOOOOOD

    By Richard Day on Tue, 05/05/2009 - 5:27am |
    I am a leftie. I do not wish to hide this. I am too old to care what others think. If I am vilified, so be it. But we had a new blogger approach us as a newbie and...
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    The Boston Globe

    By Barth on Mon, 05/04/2009 - 4:14pm |
    This is probably entitled to its own post instead of being welded onto something else, as much of what follows was when I threw this out a month ago. That was when The New York Times, its own financial distress...
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    WHEN TORTURE BECOMES TORTURE-MURDER - If right wingers can't be shocked by this - just how dark is their soul?

    By crazedandconfused on Sun, 05/03/2009 - 9:06pm |

    There are a lot of Republicans that say what we did to the detainees at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and other blacksite prisons was not torture.  That represents an increasingly small number, though, as the release of the torture memo's and the imminent release of more stomach churning photo's has made it very hard for them to argue that position and not be seen as an ignorant uninformed fool. But unfortunately - the position they are now taking further illustrates  the darkness that lies within them. If you can be for torture - your soul died a long time ago.

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    Hats Off To DonDi And Here's To Marshall Tucker

    By Richard Day on Sun, 05/03/2009 - 8:26pm |
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    Color This Purple - And Keep it Away From Children

    By Ramona on Sun, 05/03/2009 - 5:13pm |
    I have to say that even though I think using a coloring book that includes a drawing of the Twin Towers going up in flames as a tool to ease kid's fears about the crumbling world around them is...
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    Thanks, Pete. May we have 90 more, please? (And a new national anthem would be nice...)

    By jollyroger on Sun, 05/03/2009 - 5:58am |
    As we reflect upon our good fortune, viz, for 90 years sharing the planet with Pete Seeger, let us use this moment as an opportunity to begin the tortuous process of replacing the bellicose (and unsingable) S.S.B., with the far...
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    The Supreme Court

    By Barth on Sun, 05/03/2009 - 1:09am |
    Almost everyone who practices law, and particularly those who spend a fair amount of time doing appellate work, flinches a bit when the first thing discussed when a vacancy arises on the Supreme Court is some perceived need for the...

    Taking predatory lending to a whole new level

    By EmmaZahn on Sat, 05/02/2009 - 3:20pm |
    Excerpted from report by Gillian Tett of The Financial Times: As the financial crisis virus has swept around the globe in recent months, Kazakhstan's banking sector has been engulfed in turmoil. This is not just creating a headache for the...
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    Abu Ghraib: Prosecutorial Misconduct At Its Worst

    By Richard Day on Sat, 05/02/2009 - 3:16pm |
    The London Times reports through their Washington correspondent Tim Reid that: div#related-article-links p a, div#related-article-links p a:visited { color:#06c; } Prison guards jailed for abusing inmates at the Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq are planning to appeal against their convictions...
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    Rebranding "Fox News" Chapter Two

    By stillidealistic on Sat, 05/02/2009 - 6:37am |
    You may have seen the post yesterday entitled "Rebranding Fox "News" Network - Responding To Propoganda, by Synchronicity. In it she began a campaign to educate people about Fox "News" and is asking for our help. She asked me to...

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