The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    Hold the Presses! Stilli is Frustrated With the Prez!

    By stillidealistic on Mon, 05/10/2010 - 4:50pm |
    This is something that doesn't happen every day, so read and either talk me down, or gloat...I love my Prez. I won't go into all the reasons. You either know already (I haven't been shy on the subject) or you...
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    Honor thy mother (and grandmother)

    By wws on Sun, 05/09/2010 - 6:31pm |
    I was thinking about my mother last night and today, and it occurred to me that -- at least here at TPM --  I have dropped more criticisms than praises of her in various comments -- comments that may have...
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    HAPPY MOTHERS' DAY!!!

    By Richard Day on Sun, 05/09/2010 - 4:12pm |
                                           ONE BIG HAPPY  FAMILY Verily at the first Chaos came to be, but next wide-bosomed Gaia, the Earth Mother, the ever-sure foundations of all... And Earth first bare starry Heaven, equal to herself, to cover her on every...
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    Before I was a Mom...

    By stillidealistic on Sun, 05/09/2010 - 12:57pm |
    This tribute to Moms has found its way into my inbox a number of times. I have no idea who wrote it, but I thought today was a good day to pass it on to you guys.Before I was a...
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    Obama Trades Rule Of Law For Easy Confirmation Of Kagan

    By oleeb on Sun, 05/09/2010 - 12:19pm |
    By his nomination of Solicitor General Kagan to the SCOTUS, the nominally Democratic President of the United States has closed the door on restoration of our republic dashing the hopes of millions who had voted for him precisely because he...
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    Are They Selling Us Out Wholesale Because They Are Unattached Sociopaths?

    By we are stardust on Sat, 05/08/2010 - 5:07pm |
      [Substitute your favorite metaphor: smashing us like bugs; walking over our backs on the way to the top; raping the planet and its resources....(don't be shy...)]   A theory has been percolating its way up in me over the...
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    Fear

    By Barth on Sat, 05/08/2010 - 2:44pm |
    We all remember these lines spoken by the President who had come to rescue the nation, though most of us were not born then and our parents not yet even 10 years old. the only thing we have to fear...
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    Ernie Harwell - In Remembrance of You

    By Ramona on Fri, 05/07/2010 - 11:04pm |
    Baseball is the President tossing out the first ball of the season and a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm. A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout....
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    K-PAX

    By Richard Day on Fri, 05/07/2010 - 4:01pm |
                                                    THE DOGON K-PAX is one of my favorite films.  One day this rather disheveled but amiable man (who looks an awful lot like Kevin Spacey) shows up out of nowhere at JFK International.  The alien with no papers or...
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    Margaret and Charlie.....a Vignette

    By we are stardust on Fri, 05/07/2010 - 12:55pm |
    We lived in an apple orchard.  Dozens and dozens of apple trees surrounded the house, and in the spring upon every breeze rode the soft sweet perfume of their blossoms, a gentle, clean scent tinged with the tiniest bit of...

    Audit the fed debate in process.

    By kgb999 on Thu, 05/06/2010 - 7:13pm |
    In a bit of a surprise (to me), the Audit the Fed Amendment debate has been called to the floor.CSPAN-Coverage here.Sanders just introduced the bill with some amendments, and Dodd rose as a cosponsor to endorse it. Now Grassley is...
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    CHENEY'S ENERGY POLICY

    By Richard Day on Thu, 05/06/2010 - 3:50pm |
                                                                                   La Vérité ("Truth") by Jules Joseph LefebvreBeware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.  Mathew 7:15 Once upon a time, the Vice-President of the United States met with over...
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    Soaring the Flatirons

    By we are stardust on Tue, 05/04/2010 - 10:57pm |
      Over the years, I lived in Boulder several different times; almost as though I were Metal to its Magnetic Forces.  It's a college town, so there are bucket-loads of young people, and so many activities it can make...
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    THANATOS

    By Richard Day on Tue, 05/04/2010 - 7:00pm |
                                                                         THANATOS And now, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened: --Behold! human beings living in a underground cave, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all...
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    Do We Need to Audit the Fed AND the "Powerful People" Whose Ire We Will Raise If We Do?

    By stillidealistic on Tue, 05/04/2010 - 4:33pm |
    The article on TPMDC about the White House opposing the provision in the financial reform bill to audit the Fed has me concerned.Now I realize that there are probably many pros and cons to auditing the Fed. It seems a...
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    GOODBYE MR. MOYERS

    By Richard Day on Mon, 05/03/2010 - 2:04pm |
                                 Taoism Journalist Bill Moyers retires from PBS and his weekly show, the Bill Moyers Journal, on Friday. In honor of the public broadcasting legend, Fresh Air is rebroadcasting segments from several...
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    Will Someone please tell me....What is the Purpose of Life?

    By we are stardust on Sun, 05/02/2010 - 9:44pm |
      I must ask this question out loud once every week or two (yeah; I'm sorta odd; shut up, ;-}); sometimes to probe the Universe for a response, sometimes to see what answer my hubby will come up with on...
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    PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY

    By Richard Day on Sat, 05/01/2010 - 7:10pm |
    This is the worst trip I've ever been on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdov2UIjUpY The path of the wicked enter not, walk not on the way of evil men; Shun it, cross it not, turn aside from it and pass on. -- Proverbs...
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    May Day: Workers of the World, Hang in There

    By Ramona on Sat, 05/01/2010 - 6:22pm |
    In a proclamation printed just before May 1, 1886, one publisher appealed to working people with this plea:•Workingmen to Arms!•War to the Palace, Peace to the Cottage, and Death to LUXURIOUS IDLENESS.•The wage system is the only cause of the...
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    100% Failsafe Protection Is Available Against Future Offshore Drilling Oil Spill Catastrophes

    By oleeb on Sat, 05/01/2010 - 1:17pm |
    Ban all offshore drilling forever! It is the only way. We cannot afford to damage our environment with any more catastrophic oil spills.  We simply can't.  Our environment is already under siege as it is.  The Gulf of Mexico...
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    JUSTICE DELAYED

    By Richard Day on Fri, 04/30/2010 - 9:24pm |
     :                                       THE TRIAL, By Franz Kafka   Housing the approximately 500,000 people in jail awaiting trial who can't afford bail costs $9 billion a year.[47] Most jail inmates are petty, nonviolent offenders. Twenty years ago most nonviolent defendants...
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    THE PLAIN LANGUAGE DOCTRINE

    By Richard Day on Thu, 04/29/2010 - 9:15pm |
    Brat Hume probably said it best when he noted his position vis-a-vis  profiling: "Some people are going to have to endure inconvenience as opposed to everybody." It is redundant but let us take a look at similar views concerning...
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    Revisiting: Does Race Matter?

    By we are stardust on Thu, 04/29/2010 - 6:20pm |
      Someone recently had a blog up entitled Does Race Matter.  (My apologies I can't remember whose it was.)  I checked the time stamp, got twisted around about what it meant, and spent an hour composing a reply.  About...
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    Don't take your guns to town, boys. There's nobody out to get you and you're just going to look silly

    By Ramona on Wed, 04/28/2010 - 10:09pm |
    So what's the natural progression, considering that the New World Order in all its blackness is honest-to-God almost almost here. Well, if you've got any brains at all, you strap on your guns and saddle up and then you go to wherever the President of the United States happens to be, or at least to wherever a prominent Democrat happens to be, because. . . . Because you have guns and you know how to show them.
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    Sundance and Other Things on the Sleeping Ute

    By we are stardust on Wed, 04/28/2010 - 6:32pm |
      Far in the southwest corner of Colorado rests the Sleeping Ute.  His head is to the north, his feet to the south, his toes a volcanic outcropping.  Legend has it that when he is angry, puffs of cloud...

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