The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    At Night, The Ice Weasels Come.

    Friedrich Nietzsche: "The economy is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."Ok, Matt Groening only said Nietzsche said that, so we can't be 100% sure, even if...
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    American Consumers Need Look into the Mirror

    "The Idiot American worker only has himself to blame. Cutting his own throat, and then crying about it." And don't forget about the American love affair with cheap gas and more horsepower. I'm hardly sympathetic to the management decisions...
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    November 22

    Those who believe that "9/11" will always stop traffic should note how little is said of its predecessor date of significance, the date on which the President of the United States was murdered in Texas....
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    Culture Wars and Labels

    This post was born of a comment I made on Orlando's post about what being a progressive means to her, and Jason's post about the culture wars.Personally, I don't know what I am anymore. This place and this election have...
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    Pilates Class Punishment For Joe?

    Breaking Lieberman expelled from Pilates class in Senate gym. --Josh Marshall ************************ I'd say that's a stretch....
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    Just exactly what would it take for the Democrats to grow a pair?

    Headlines on TPM as I write this indicate that Democratic leaders will recommend a slap on the wrist to the vile and reprehensible Joe Lieberman and that Obama will not pursue any sort of meaningful investigation or prosecution of the...
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    What is FireFox and Should I Download It?

    I saw the advert on this site, and I've heard good things about FireFox, but I am pretty illiterate on this subject, so I am asking my friends here for advice.  I just got my first MacBook, so I have...
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    Affirmative action for right-wing hacks!

    Last week, I berated Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell for her flawed conclusion that her newspaper had a pro-Obama "tilt": http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/acanuck/2008/11/washington-p... She follows up today by doubling down: not only is the tilt a problem, part of the solution is...
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    Driving With Mr. Death

    Couple of years ago, I had this dream about death. Death. I was walking down a street in London in this dream, up it, actually, it was uphill. Saw Bono standing outside this cool car. Bono. Really. But as I...
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    Obama's First Weekly Address to Our Nation

    Transcript as follows Today, the leaders of the G-20 countries -- a group that includes the world's largest economies -- are gathering in Washington to seek solutions to the ongoing turmoil in our financial markets. I'm glad President Bush...
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    Brainwashed

    The first Romney campaign for president, that of Mitt's father, George, famously started on a downward spiral when he tried to explain his changing views on the Vietnam War by claiming: "I had just had the greatest brainwashing that anybody...
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    That was Obama's brushback pitch, Hillary. What you have to worry about is his fastball

    Hillary. Hillary. Hillary. Will you never learn? President-elect Obama meets wirh her, and floats the idea of Secretary of State. So she tries to lock that "offer" in with a couple of well-placed leaks. There are no immediate denials from...
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    The Last Will and Testament of Ripper McCord

    Come gather 'round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon You'll be drenched to the bone. If your time to you Is worth savin' Then you better start swimmin'...
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    Can You Feel It, Too?

    This election has done something to me.Ever since 8pm pacific time, November 4th when he went over 270, and it became real, life has been different. I spent several days in a high emotional state, breaking into tears over nothing...
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    This is normally the community post for links that deserve more time up, but don't make reader rec on their own. During the election when there were a gazillion posts that were flying by, Raider99 designed it as a means...
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