The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    A Valentine's Day Card--no sloppy poetry, guaranteed

    By amike on Fri, 02/13/2009 - 5:37pm |
    At 9:00 sharp this morning my blood pressure returned to normal and my mood improved considerably.  My local NPR station's Valentine's Day Fund Drive was over.  It would be a year until I would be urged to send a significant...

    My New York Story

    By GaryBelsky on Fri, 02/13/2009 - 3:33pm |

    So here's my story:

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    Arthur of the Roundish Table (Ch-XVIII)

    By Richard Day on Fri, 02/13/2009 - 10:20am |
    A MYSTERY PART DEAUX    The morning always comes sooner when you cogitate through most of the night.  Sir Rathbone really attempted to fit all the clues into some paradigm over his favorite scotch and this new vice from Asia he...
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    Doubts about evolution? Surrender your registration--you are too dumb to vote.

    By jollyroger on Thu, 02/12/2009 - 10:19pm |
    This is so profoundly depressing. As a special cultural event co-incident with the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birth, we are treated to a veritable blizzard of news so disturbing as to beggar belief. Reading the instant report, purporting to show...

    We Need to Fix The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) BEFORE We Develop a National Electronic Medical Records Database UPDATED!

    By Wordie on Thu, 02/12/2009 - 9:30pm |
    We need to move carefully in establishing a national electronic medical records database, since there really are serious problems as it stands now with healthcare records privacy. The fairly recent Privacy Rule (2006) established under The Health Insurance Portability and...
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    A Bicentennial Minute

    By oleeb on Thu, 02/12/2009 - 2:22pm |
    Today marks 200 years since the birth of Abraham Lincoln.  Quite a milestone.  What a happy coincidence that this great American's long shadow casts itself on the American scene at this time!  Our country could do much worse than to always...
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    Arthur of the Roundish Table (Ch-XVII)

    By Richard Day on Thu, 02/12/2009 - 10:14am |
    THE DEATH OF LAGAMOR, A MYSTERY IN PARTSSnerf was walking his rounds again with Macaca, his trusty monkey.  I wish I was back with the peasantry. I so dislike the aristocracy. The peasants are revolting, the peasants are revolting.I am...
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    Why Are the Democrats Letting Franken Twist in the Wind?

    By CVille Dem on Wed, 02/11/2009 - 9:41pm |
    The election took place on November 4th, 2008.  It was always close.  It remains close, with about 200 votes out of MANY still in Franken's favor.  Weekends passed with normal people checking out ballots.  Their conclusions were evaluated by a...
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    THE CASE FOR THE DEFENSE

    By Richard Day on Wed, 02/11/2009 - 1:53pm |
     One day, after meandering the forest to find scrub wood from its plentiful floor, I looked down and espied a small toad clinging for life next to a tree.  It was the last month of winter and I could hear...
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    Arthur of the Roundish Table (Ch-XVI)

    By Richard Day on Wed, 02/11/2009 - 11:01am |
    THE TRIAL OF KAYProceed with jury selection counselor, said the King.You are Sir Lagamor of Caerleon? Asked Bedivere, chief prosecutor.Yes, Sir.Do you know Sir Kay, the defendant in this matter?I know of him.  That is, ten years ago I challenged...
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    Hillary's role at State at stake

    By acanuck on Wed, 02/11/2009 - 5:41am |
    Dick Morris may be, as some suggest, a dick. But in this item, he rightly points out how Hillary's role at State is being circumscribed. http://thehill.com/dick-morris/hillarys-incredible-shrinking-role-2009-0... I'd add in the fact that, after leaking repeatedly that he was going to...
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    Poor, Poor, Rich Folks (Really)

    By amike on Tue, 02/10/2009 - 6:03pm |
    Reading TheraP's most interesting post, "how much is too much" the other day reminded me about something I've felt nearly all my life.  Rags to riches stories have never inspired me.  Sorry Horatio Alger, not a single one of your...
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    Arthur of the Roundish Table (Ch-XV)

    By Richard Day on Tue, 02/10/2009 - 11:20am |
    Senor Eduardo and the Moor arrived at Joyous Gard, in Cornwall in pretty good time and in pretty good shape. Now let me do all the talking Sir Palidan said.  Who goes there? Cried the Palace Guard from the turret....
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    Open Thread -- Obama's Presser 2/9/09

    By CVille Dem on Mon, 02/09/2009 - 8:08pm |
    So far, I am truly impressed. Comments!!!...
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    Arthur of the Roundish Table (Ch-XIV)

    By Richard Day on Mon, 02/09/2009 - 9:37am |
    Meanwhile, back at CamelotTwo lines queued to the Grand Living Room, all the way around the castle and across the moat.It was the annual, Old Stuff Road Show.  The traveling experts on old stuff came across the Channel to Camelot...
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    What the president meant

    By Barth on Sun, 02/08/2009 - 2:03pm |
    I generally put new posts here on Saturdays, the only day I can really spend writing things for which I do not get paid.  With not much time for writing here today, I will let a few presidents do my...
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    Arthur of the Roundish Table (Ch-XIII)

    By Richard Day on Sun, 02/08/2009 - 11:15am |
    Lancelot awoke on a wooden bed stuffed with straw and covered with animal skins.  His room had two beds and a window.  He attempted to rise.Ooooooh, that hurts.  He managed to get to the window anyway to peruse his new...
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    The America I Love

    By stillidealistic on Sat, 02/07/2009 - 8:59pm |
    This is not the America I love. The acrimony, the partisanship, the "I'd rather we destroy the country than see this President be successful" attitude. The America I love is not filled with people who lie cheat and steal to...
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    A-Rod Busted! Youth learn lesson: " 'Anonymous test, samples destroyed' my ass"

    By jollyroger on Sat, 02/07/2009 - 7:22pm |
    Those among us (and there are few...) who went to our *last live ball game at Ebbets Field, we who hate the Yankees more than Satan and all his works, will be rejoicing at the immanent disappearance of Alex Rodrigues...
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    The Consequences of Our Failures

    By Barth on Sat, 02/07/2009 - 12:29pm |
    In July, 2007, we watched the debates in the United States Senate over the progress in Iraq and was struck by the huge gulf between the views of the elected representatives and that of those they represented. That "disconnect" as...
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    The End of Parity

    By Richard Day on Sat, 02/07/2009 - 10:11am |
    "What executives have done is troubling, but it's equally troubling to have government telling shareholders how much they can pay the executives," said Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL). HUFPO-TODAY Why is it that every time I see an issue become part...
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    Arthur of the Roundish Table (Ch-XII)

    By Richard Day on Sat, 02/07/2009 - 8:37am |
                                              Meanwhile, back at Camelot...The King of the Roundish Table was firm enough after his catastrophe a fortnight before, to meander down to the great living room. When I say meander, I mean that he went very slowly because...
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    Centrists and Republicans to America: Drop Dead!

    By oleeb on Sat, 02/07/2009 - 5:21am |
    Now that we have seen just exactly what the influence of the centrists in the Senate has been on the stimulus bill, it is clear that the bill is much worse than when it arrived in the Senate and if...

    NIH research open access policy threatened

    By kgb999 on Sat, 02/07/2009 - 4:38am |
    Here's an interesting bit that seems to have slipped through the cracks in all this economic panic.  It seems a rather important policy is under bipartisan attack.The National Institutes of Health, which funds the majority of biomedical research in...
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    Arthur of the Roundish Table (Ch-XI)

    By Richard Day on Fri, 02/06/2009 - 10:32am |
    Introibo ad Altari DeiSo the morning Mass began. Lancelot was beside himself with a grief gnawing at his chivalrous soul.  Gwenivere had said goodby. He was now alone as he had almost always been, only this time there was a...

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