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    If aliens don't exist, does God?

    By Deadman on Wed, 04/22/2009 - 3:28am | Personal, Religion, Technology

    First of all, let me just say how awesome dagblog has been of late. In the past few days, we've had fascinating posts and reader discussions about Sri Lanka, California healthcare, incipient deflation, Twitter's raison d'etre, NSA wiretapping, CIA torturing, etc. etc.

    I often wish we had more bloggers, a larger audience and even more active commenters, but the folks we do have are so good I worry that if that were so all we'd end up with would be a disappointing dilution in the strength of our output and our community.

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    You Just Can't Make This Stuff Up

    By DF on Wed, 04/22/2009 - 1:16am | Politics

    Submitted for your approval is this footage of Jane Harman on MSNBC:

    Seriously, I'm crying over here.  This is thoroughly magnificient stuff.

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    Deflation Looms, Parte Dos: European Edition

    By Michael Wolraich on Tue, 04/21/2009 - 3:08pm | Business

    Last week, I wrote about the threat of deflation after the news that U.S. consumer prices dropped last year, the first time since 1955. Dagblog's Deadman played down the risk, and I agreed that current deflation levels were not a threat. But now it seems that deflation is knocking a bit harder at Europe's door, particularly Spain's.

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    Tamil Tigers: Let Your People Go

    By Michael Wolraich on Tue, 04/21/2009 - 2:02pm | World Affairs

    Sri Lanka stands on the edge of a massacre. After 26 years of civil war, the Sri Lankan army has ousted ethnic Tamil separatists from vast territories they once controlled and trapped the remaining fighters on a 6-square mile strip of beach. With the fighters are an estimated 60,000 human hostages.

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    I am a Monster

    By Orlando on Tue, 04/21/2009 - 9:00am | Social Justice

    I don’t support torture. I think that the fact that the United States rationalized and engaged in torture is sad and disgusting. I wouldn’t mind seeing the so-called architects of these policies brought to justice.

    However…

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    Healthcare San Francisco Style

    By HSG on Mon, 04/20/2009 - 9:40pm | Politics

    I just returned to Carmel after a lovely weekend in the city by the bay.  From a gastronomic standpoint, this may have been the best three days I have spent in San Francisco as meals at Hunan Home in Chinatown and Luna Park in the Mission District were outstanding and very reasonably priced.  Both were identified via patient (but not time-consuming) sifting of online reviews.  Even the brat at AT&T Park as well as (of course) the Anchor Steam on tap there were excellent, although neither was reasonably priced.

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    MOFT: Episode 13 (Scramble on Facebook)

    By Deadman on Sun, 04/19/2009 - 3:27pm | Arts & Entertainment, Personal, Technology

    My One Favorite Thing this week is Scramble, an anagram word game on Facebook that is basically the online equivalent of the old board game Boggle.

    For those of you unfamiliar with the concept, the basic idea is you are given a bunch of letter tiles laid out on a square board and you must string adjacent letters together to form words of at least three letters long, racking up more points for longer words.

    It's quite the simple premise ... and also dangerously addictive.

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    Welcome to the Roland Burris Fundraising Jugger-NOT

    By Orlando on Fri, 04/17/2009 - 2:20pm | Politics

    When we last left our hero, Roland Burris had submitted amended testimony to indicate that he maybe did have those conversations about fundraising for Rod Blagojevich that he had previously adamantly denied. He got confirmed anyway and the people of Illinois moved on to bigger issues, like which shade of green to dye the Chicago River for Saint Patrick’s Day.

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    Another one (Obama nominee) bites the dust?

    By Deadman on Fri, 04/17/2009 - 1:25pm | Politics

    All alleged misconduct right now, but it appears Obama auto czar nominee Steve Rattner could be in some big trouble due to a potential NY pension kickback scandal related to the private equity firm Rattner ran. Some really damaging allegations in here, most notably an inexplicable investment in a DVD distribution plan.

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    The dagbuzz for 3/17/09: (Ashton, Oprah and Generation Twitter)

    By Deadman on Fri, 04/17/2009 - 11:51am | Business, Arts & Entertainment, Personal, Technology

    I AM DEADMAN. HEAR ME TWEET!

    Big news today. Ashton Kutcher just attracted his one millionth follower on the microblogging service Twitter, a milestone which has generated a fair amount of fanfare, but it's only the beginning as cult leader Oprah is going to feature Twitter on her talk show today and send her first tweet over the air.

    Oh, how wonderful.

    Excuse me if I don't join in the celebration - if I'm not all, ahem, atwitter with the news - but I have very mixed feelings here.

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