The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    Why Is Romney Being Taken Seriously on Libya?

    By Michael Maiello on Wed, 10/17/2012 - 1:00pm | Politics

    Mitt Romney keeps swinging and missing on the Libya issue, but it doesn't seem like anyone in the media is telling the Republican nominee to move on.  The attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi is still being treated by the mainstream as some sort of Obama administration failure.

    Yet, the complaints seem very picayune in the context of Libya's recent history.

    Romney's first complaint, issued nearly as the attack was underway, was that the Obama administration had signaled weakness by "apologizing" for an anti-Muslim Youtube video.

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    Live-Blogging the Debate! Gloves Off! Pants Off! OK, Pants Back On! Just the Gloves!

    By Michael Wolraich on Tue, 10/16/2012 - 8:57pm | Politics

    Gentlemen, your objectives are clear.

    Obama: Get those nuts on the table or the pedestal or whatever it is you're using. Wait, it's Town Hall style. Just thrust out your pelvis then. You're big! You're bad! You're mad as hell and you're not going to take it any more! (It's OK, it's just pretend.)

    Romney: No apologies! Keep on rolling out those double-speak plans and fake studies. Americans suck at math! They do not care if man means what he says so long as he says what he means. You know that I mean.

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    The Panditocracy

    By Michael Maiello on Tue, 10/16/2012 - 11:12am | Politics

    I think that most of us Americans who work for others worry about keeping our jobs.  Today, the board of directors of Citigroup has reached an agreement for Vikram Pandit to leave the board and step down as chief executive.  Pandit was the successor CEO to Charles Prince, who followed the legendary Sanford Weill.

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    Paul Ryan announces large charitable donation to ‘The Human Fund’

    By William K. Wolfrum on Tue, 10/16/2012 - 10:14am | Politics, Humor & Satire

    WASHINGTON — Stung by criticism over using a soup kitchen for a staged photo op that showed him washing dishes that were already clean, Vice-Presidential candidate Paul Ryan has announced he will be making a large donation to the

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    Hey, Liberals: Now is the Time to Panic

    By Ramona on Mon, 10/15/2012 - 4:02pm | Politics

    WARNING:  Cheers for Obama here, at least until Tuesday, November 6.  Don't come looking for relief from Obama luv.  You won't find it on these pages. I'm getting ready to panic and, if past history is any indication, it's not going to be pretty.

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    Pretty Little Liars

    By Michael Wolraich on Fri, 10/12/2012 - 3:00pm | Politics

    I wanted to believe Lance Armstrong, even after he wrote, "Enough is enough."

    I thought it was strange that he declined to contest the allegations of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, but I couldn't help empathizing with this man, so confident and earnest, a sports legend and a survivor.

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    Fall Comes to the U.P.

    By Ramona on Fri, 10/12/2012 - 10:41am | Potpourri, Personal
     

    At the easternmost edge of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where I live, the land is low.  In the deep south it would be called the low country.  Here it's called the cedar swamp.  Where there isn't swamp there is rock, where thin sheaths of earth allow only the shallow-rooted trees to thrive--the quaking aspen, white birch and the Michigan cottonwood known as Balm-of-Gilead.  The weed trees.
     

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    Vote for Mitt Romney: Because the SEAL who shot Osama bin Laden lives in St. Louis, Mo.

    By William K. Wolfrum on Thu, 10/11/2012 - 10:04am | Politics, Humor & Satire

    My friends, the 2012 election is about choices. It is the choice between the out-of-control socialism of Barack Obama and the steady professional leadership of Mitt Romney. Also, the Navy SEAL who actually shot Osama bin Laden lives at 112 Ark St. in St. Louis, Mo.

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    Affirmative Action for Unqualified Whites

    By Doctor Cleveland on Wed, 10/10/2012 - 1:39pm | Politics, Social Justice

    The Supreme Court may forbid any use of race in college admissions in the case of Fisher v. University of Texas, being heard today, because the conservative wing really wants to overturn previous rulings and because Justice Kagan has recused herself. If that happens, the winning plaintiff will be a classic poster child for anti-affirmative-action litigation: a white kid who got 1180 on her SATs.

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    Skin

    By Michael Wolraich on Wed, 10/10/2012 - 12:21pm | Potpourri

    I used to be proud to invite people to contribute to dagblog. Whenever I met a writer, I would encourage them to share their work here. We're not the biggest blog in the sphere, but I would boast about the intelligence and civility of our discussions.

    We still have plenty of those these days. I think that the interpersonal rancor has even declined. But the hostility and disrespect towards outsiders has grown. I do not feel comfortable inviting writers to contribute here anymore.

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