The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    Christians Aren't Going Away and Neither Are Gays

    By stillidealistic on Thu, 12/18/2008 - 7:16pm |
    Preface: This post was started as a comment made on another blog. At Orlando's suggestion (with a cosign from Miguel and TheraP) I am making it into it's own post. For those of you are unaware of my journey...
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    Beware The Little Fellow With An Idea

    By quinn esq on Thu, 12/18/2008 - 8:12am |
    Bumping home in the cab. Broke my toe, and since it's -40 out, no way I'm walking home. Tried that yesterday. Two & a half miles home, in that cold. Thought I'd "test the foot." Somebody should test my...
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    Josh Marshall: Progressive Queenmaker. (Who knew??)

    By jollyroger on Thu, 12/18/2008 - 12:35am |
    Any TPM afficianadi also listeners to NPR will have noticed how Elizabeth Warren (dare I say, our own Elizabeth Warren is all over (including a spot on *Fresh Air!!I) Anyway, according to Prof. Warren, it all started with a phone...
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    How's This For An "Outside The Box" Idea?

    By stillidealistic on Wed, 12/17/2008 - 4:37pm |
    Since we're in the mode of thinking BIG, and spending more magic money than will be repaid in a couple of generations, how's this for an idea?What if, instead of concentrating so much on creating new jobs, we decrease the...
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    I Swear, We'll Fight About Anything!

    By stillidealistic on Wed, 12/17/2008 - 3:19am |
    I just ran across an article in the Huff Post that has me shaking my head...I swear, we'll fight about ANYTHING!"We do not have our first black president," the author Christopher Hitchens said on the BBC program "Newsnight." "He is...
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    Bush Solely Dodges Yet One More Issue In Legacy Promotion

    By SleepinJeezus on Tue, 12/16/2008 - 9:38am |
    On the eve of President Bush's recent surprise visit to Iraq, Charles Gibson of ABC News introduced a segment including an interview with Bush by saying the following: "Much has been made of his historically low approval ratings, but Mr. Bush...
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    OBAMA 2016! Because the world needs a good president...

    By jollyroger on Mon, 12/15/2008 - 5:36pm |
    Ok, ok, I admit to residual giddyness attendant upon watching Prez announce the appointment of, inter alia a Nobel Laureate teammate. And even though there may be small-minded and carping cynics who smell a whiff of "today America, tomorrow...
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    Where are you TheraP?

    By stillidealistic on Mon, 12/15/2008 - 5:31pm |
    Thera, you're needed over at dickday's. He's laughing at burning cats....
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    Does knowing you die affect how you live?

    By oleeb on Sun, 12/14/2008 - 6:22pm |
    In another post, TheraP asked the following question:   "So, how do you value your life?   How do you value what is most precious but cannot last?  Does it affect how you live, knowing you will die?"   This is...
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    CLASS WAR: "Say, Don't You Remember? You Called Me Al!"

    By SleepinJeezus on Sun, 12/14/2008 - 5:56pm |
     CLASS WAR: Third Installment GOP Senators have all but declared outright that they will withhold any help in curing the overall economic slowdown unless they can first break the Autoworkers Union (UAW). In so doing, they have painted a picture of who are to...
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    Fewer, Better Things.

    By quinn esq on Sun, 12/14/2008 - 5:22pm |
    Fewer, Better Things Our lives are full of things. Disposable distractions, Stuff you buy but do not cherish, own yet never love. Thrown away in weeks, rather than passed down for generations. Perhaps things will be different now.  Wiser...
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    CLASS WAR: "Reaganomics? First, Bust the Unions!"

    By SleepinJeezus on Sun, 12/14/2008 - 5:08pm |
    "Ronald Reagan had shown the way (to gain dominion over the working class) in 1980 when he refused to negotiate with the Air Traffic Controllers and instead simply replaced them with cheaper labor."
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    Bush, a friend to Labor around the world ...

    By MrSmith1 on Sun, 12/14/2008 - 3:49pm |
    First, he commits to save the auto industry here, then today, he allows a representative of Iraq's shoemaker's union to demonstrate, (smack dab in middle of the MSM), the fine quality of Iraqi leather shoes with an impromptu visual display of their aerodynamics. Bush has...
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    CLASS WAR: "Whose Economy Is It, Anyway?"

    By SleepinJeezus on Sun, 12/14/2008 - 3:01am |
    "At what point did economic Darwinism within the proletariat become a fundamental principle in our economy?"
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    A bolt of cynicism ...

    By MrSmith1 on Sat, 12/13/2008 - 4:20pm |
    A bolt of cynicism struck me a few moments ago, as I read another headline about the Bush administration vowing not to let the automakers go under. How cynical is it to wonder if the whole scenario is a set-up?  Could this possibly...
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    Finding Reasons to Impeach the President-elect

    By Barth on Sat, 12/13/2008 - 1:57pm |
    Once again, poor Barth is confused. One day the Washington Post is editorializing thatThe Wilson-Plame case, and Mr. Libby's conviction, tell us nothing about the war in Iraqintentionally ignoring how much it tells us about the creation of phony justifications...
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    12,000 years ago... 12 miles from Nazareth

    By quinn esq on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 6:25pm |
     "12,000 years ago... In a cave, 12 miles from Nazareth...." I'm reading to the Ice Weasels again. Most stories, they don't like. This one, they're wearing it out. Or rather, wearing me out.  It's time-consuming, and a bit frustrating,...

    Labor Secretary Musings

    By AmericanDreamer on Fri, 12/12/2008 - 10:39am |
    What I'm hearing is Bonior declines when people push him, saying it's time for a younger generation to lead the labor movement charge for the feds.  He has reportedly been pushing Mary Beth Maxwell, about whom I know very little. ...
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    Time to party like it's 1929... cause it is

    By oleeb on Thu, 12/11/2008 - 11:58pm |
    Take a good look at the calendar folks. It's 1929. The ride has just started. Better hold on tight cause it's gonna get pretty rough. I just pray people don't wait terribly long before they realize that drastic changes...

    Obama Omnipresent

    By AmericanDreamer on Thu, 12/11/2008 - 2:05pm |
    Overheard in downtown DC this morning: "They should just put Obama's likeness on the dollar bill and get it over with."  (spoken during a conversation in which the ubiquitous presence of his likeness these days was alluded to.) ...
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    Intel failures: it's time to clean house

    By acanuck on Wed, 12/10/2008 - 10:32pm |
    From Congress Daily: The House Intelligence Committee's top Democrat said Tuesday he has recommended that President-elect Barack Obama keep the country's current national intelligence director and CIA chief in place for some time to ensure continuity in U.S. intelligence programs...
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    The Difficulties of Being Bi-Partisan

    By SleepinJeezus on Tue, 12/09/2008 - 4:59pm |
      ...although, to be fair about it,  I'm not really all that obsessed with cats!...
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    This Odd Little Family...

    By stillidealistic on Sun, 12/07/2008 - 8:23pm |
    I don't know if it is the lull after the election and the residual euphoria, the introspection that comes when suddenly I find myself with some extra time on my hands, this mushy time of year, or the number of...
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    Empty Nest

    By CVille Dem on Sun, 12/07/2008 - 10:31am |
    I have known this was coming for 23 years, and yet I am totally unprepared for this feeling.  All my children are sleeping in apartments or dormitories rather than down the hall from me.  I stayed home with them for...

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