The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    HOW TO BLOG GOOD, Craig Crawford's Second Rule For Bloggers

    By Richard Day on Fri, 12/04/2009 - 4:42pm |
    Okay, so I thought, hell, let us continue to take a look at blogging from a 2009 point of view.Now Missy would tell me that I am simply seeking to get attention. That is that I am only seeking...
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    HOW TO BLOG GOOD; A REEXAMINATION

    By Richard Day on Thu, 12/03/2009 - 8:15am |
    File links I lost everything about ten years ago. And then, I lost everything...only this time it was everything. That was five years ago. HaI decided in 2008, I would see if I could rehook up into the Web again....
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    Another Requiem for Detroit

    By Ramona on Wed, 12/02/2009 - 9:31pm |
    Bob Herbert took a tour of Detroit's ruins and wrote an important piece about what he saw, but I hope he goes back sometime soon to take a look at the beauty of Detroit. There is still much to be said for that battered, bloodied but not totally bowed town.
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    This is The Answer

    By CVille Dem on Wed, 12/02/2009 - 9:14pm |
    Okay.  I have my own suggestion to end war (all war):Who can argue with this?When you see all the chickenhawks who promote war despite its costs in lives and money while they remain niggardly in their "care" for our very...
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    TIGER & HIS WOODY

    By Richard Day on Wed, 12/02/2009 - 8:35pm |
    All right, the way I heard it Jack Nicklaus' wife got on Johnny Carson. Carson inquired if she did anything for her husband by way of preparing for a tourney.Oh, I wash his balls. Boy, I bet that makes...
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    Prez to Mullah Omar & Osama: "Get a job! Troop safety requires legalization of Heroin. Compete with Walmart"

    By jollyroger on Wed, 12/02/2009 - 2:01pm |
    Do I alone find it odd that as he gropes about for the elusive path out of the Pashtun thicket, Prez sees no contraindication to a drug policy that amounts to the expenditure of 80 billion public dollars to keep...

    "The Nation I Am Most Interested in Building Is Our Own"

    By AmericanDreamer on Wed, 12/02/2009 - 1:07pm |
    (edited, from a comment bslev requested that I post as a blog) Ok, that sounds good. How about a large public jobs bill, focusing on (green, of course) infrastructure upgrades, to reposition our country to better compete globally going forward,...
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    Rabbit Holes, Reality and Crap Sandwiches, revisited after the freeze

    By stillidealistic on Wed, 12/02/2009 - 3:13am |
    For nearly a year and a half TPM has been my sanity. My place to go when none of the rest of the world is making any sense. But more and more I'm feeling like I've fallen down the rabbit...
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    SAILIN' THRU PALIN: A Cafe Contest of Quotes

    By Richard Day on Tue, 12/01/2009 - 11:33am |
                                                                                           PATTON OSWALTGeoffrey Dunn, who is making a fifth career off of the Palin memoirs (?) put it this way: But perhaps the most embarrassing gaffe so far is her mis-attributed quote to UCLA basketball legend John Wooden....
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    NORTHCO-17: The Attack of the Armadillos

    By Richard Day on Mon, 11/30/2009 - 2:30pm |
    Samuel L. Jackson Mortimer Young awoke pissed off. He was used to greeting Rosy Fingered Eos in that manner; had been for years. Angela was used to it. Frisky at night, pissed in the morning. That was her mate...
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    Why Have We Subjugated Ourselves?

    By oleeb on Mon, 11/30/2009 - 1:29pm |
    I posted a comment a few days ago that Ramona and Flowerchild both requested I post on it's own so I am doing that here.  In the original post about the different approaches of the two political parties the following question was...
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    LET'S REALLY PISS THEM OFF: A Proper Curriculum For the Budding DUDE

    By Richard Day on Sun, 11/29/2009 - 1:08pm |
                                     THAT'S WHAT I SAY: Welcome to Med Grow Cannabis College, a new institution of higher learning where, for $485, you can receive a six-week education on medical marijuana--a curriculum combining law, horticulture, and history. "This state needs jobs, and...
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    GUNS & BITTER

    By Richard Day on Sat, 11/28/2009 - 2:55pm |
    Every once in awhile two films greet the public around the same time concerning the same subject matter. Wyatt Earp and Tombstone were two such films. The former prepared by a fairly liberal Democrat; Kevin Costner. The latter prepared...
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    Hey Prez! Do you feel lucky? (Army Study: Pashtun men's blood testosterone levels 3X U.S. Norm! Tom Ricks: "Afghans are Clint Eastwood with a turban..." )

    By jollyroger on Fri, 11/27/2009 - 2:32pm |
    Endocrinology is destiny.(OK, I made up the part about the army study) However, I was in Afghanistan just whenTom Ricks was, and his assessment is accurate. I met 12 year old boys in the market (one sold me an ounce...
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    FUN REPORTERS: Where the Hell IS Sam Kinison When We Need Him?

    By Richard Day on Fri, 11/27/2009 - 1:50pm |
    Sam Kinison (Mary) Walsh is the co-creator and star of This Hour Has 22 Minutes -- a nightly news parody show in the same vein as The Daily Show -- and she arrived in character, as the conservative Marg...
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    Small things considered--with thanks

    By amike on Thu, 11/26/2009 - 12:25pm |
    There are times I despair of American popular culture--both  for what it is and that it wears the name American.  I support it, unwillingly, because I chat on the internet.  Here's what I'm supposed to consider of note this morning:Star...

    Some Thoughts on a Way Forward

    By AmericanDreamer on Thu, 11/26/2009 - 12:39am |
    I have more or less reached the dismaying political conclusions that, first, a health care bill which provides tangible benefits must pass (by no means is it a given that something will pass), and second, any bill that passes is...
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    No Anima, No Animus, Just Animation

    By wws on Wed, 11/25/2009 - 9:16pm |
    Tomorrow is a day to relax with friends and family. A day to give thanks for not only the basics, but also the things that make us smile.Little else makes me smile with as much simple pleasure as does clever...
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    FATHEAD DOBBS FOR PRESIDENT

    By Richard Day on Wed, 11/25/2009 - 8:45pm |
    http://www.esquire.com/cm/esquire/images/obama-joker-picture-lou-dobbs-0... Less than two weeks after his controversial departure from CNN, Lou Dobbs affirmed his intentions to run for president in 2012--"Yes is the answer," Dobbs he replied on Fred Thompson's radio show--and third-party heavyweights are right behind him....
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    SNATCH: An Existential Take.

    By Richard Day on Tue, 11/24/2009 - 9:41pm |
    Mary fucking Poppins London (Farina)   The single greatest fight film of all time has nothing to do with Rocky or Somebody Up There Likes Me or even The Great White Hope.   The single greatest fight film of...
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    Hidden Constraints on Presidential Power

    By we are stardust on Tue, 11/24/2009 - 8:16pm |
    Last week the Consortium News posted a blog here at the Cafe; it got no attention, possibly because many readers dislike cross-posts.  I found it really interesting. Grit TV's Laura Flanders interviewed John Perkins (Confessions of an Economic Hit Man...

    CBO's Analysis of Republicans' Big Healthcare Game-Changer: Tort Reform

    By azpaull on Tue, 11/24/2009 - 6:00pm |
    I just re-watched my two Senators yapping (with others) about how the Republicans have not had a chance to put their reform proposals forward, how they can "do something", etc.  And, through all of the Republican outcry, they keep coming...
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    Another Installment of "I'm a Democrat & I'm a Republican"

    By oleeb on Mon, 11/23/2009 - 2:18pm |
    It becomes clearer with each passing day that the legislation being labeled healthcare reform in both houses of Congress is really an industry sponsored special interest bill that isn't healthcare reform at all.  Reid and Obama don't even refer to...
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    THE EXPERT AS THE DANGEROUS WHORE

    By Richard Day on Mon, 11/23/2009 - 12:35am |
      I discovered the most informative time line regarding the history of tobacco litigation in this country. http://www.tobacco.org/resources/history/Tobacco_History20-2.htmlIn 1951 studies began to come to the fore demonstrating that smoking may be hazardous to your health. After a couple years...

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