The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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Danke Schoen

The following is a romantic tale involving Chipper, the triple dipper and Katy, the sailor and the United States Army that keeps us safe 'over there' so we do not have to fight 'them' over here. The United States...
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Sir Lancelot, Sir Gore & The Damsels in Distress

So Sir Lancelot and Sir Gore were notified that Lady Lee and Lady Ling were being held by King John Ill in a dungeon and that the intent of the evil king was to feed them to the dragon...
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Wyeth Oh Wyeth HAST THOU FORSAKEN ME?

  Here is one more example of how badly the pharmaceutical companies need to be reined in. The New York Times is reporting that Wyeth hired ghostwriters to pen 26 articles that endorsed the use hormone therapy in women,...
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DEPRESSION

LIMBAUGH: "But Rush, why would somebody want to harm America?" Because he doesn't like it. He thinks it's unjust and immoral and unfair. The people that have wealth in this country have come by it ways that he thinks...
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MARGARET & HELLEN: GHOSTBUSTERS

I was kind of lost today. But you know I am not the only one to have focus problems: The fearless Clark Hoyt, public editor of The New York Times, casts a rather disapproving eye against his own paper...
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Cannot we all just take five minutes and wish the other person well.

Over the last year, only one person has indicated to me that they would rather I not quote them or cite them in any of my blogs or comments.  Amazing that so many people have no self respect!!!  ...
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SATAN NEVER SLEEPS

Titles: Satan Never SleepsIf you recall Clifton Webb and William Holden are priests attempting to spread Christian Truths to the Chinese Barbarians in 1949 China while Holden battles his...er...manhood.Now you might ask, what has this to do with anything?...
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FANNING THE FLAMES OF POPULIST IRE

The storming of the Winter Palace, St Petersburg, Russian I would tell you to take the following with a grain of salt. I am out of tobacco for the next 36 hours and it has been a little blue...
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Chinese Checkers

Between 1947 and 1967, this was a somewhat accurate image, as the distribution of income made the population look more and more like a bell curve with each passing year. Yet since 1967, this story has reversed course. For...
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LIE TO ME

TPM PIX: VOX INSANITUS POPULIOnce upon a time, an eighty-two year old American Nazi walked into the Holocaust museum out of the blue, opened fire against an innocent guard: This afternoon, a gunman apparently shot at least one person...
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Alexis de Tocqueville and Prison Reform

Alexis de Tocqueville just touched on America's penal institutions in the first half of his work Democracy in America:   A few years ago some pious people undertook to make the state of the prisons better. The public was...
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IF I ONLY KNEW THEN, WHAT I KNOW NOW

  Mating with  a cuddlefish is a strange affair, Nova (7/26/09--up here anyway)   Charley Brown: If I only knew then what I know now. Charley Brown: If I only knew then what I know now. Charley Brown: If...
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When Those Tanks Come Marchin' In

Bonus Army Conflict Shacks, put up by the Bonus Army on the Anacostia flats, Washington, DC, burning after the battle with the military, 1932. Rutherford B. Hayes kind of out maneuvered poor Tilden in the presidential election of 1876. There...
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It Aint Necessarily So

Okay folks!  All I got is snippets and a song today. TPM: In that spirit, take a look at this new Web video from Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), attacking his potential opponent Charlie Melancon, a Blue Dog Democratic Congressman,...
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STAR TREK: THE LANDING PARTY

The scene  was in Bobby's basement. He was a resident of the west side of our little white suburb. The only one of two in the gang to have a furnished basement. Carpet and color TV and a stereo...
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THE SACRED HALL OF RECORDS

Daily Beast: The "birther" movement got a boost Tuesday evening, as Liz Cheney, the former vice president's daughter, appeared sympathetic to the conspiracy theory that President Obama is foreign-born. Appearing on Larry King Live, the host pressed Cheney on...
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HEY HEY WE'RE THE MONKEYS

I was impressed by TPM and this article today: h So I thought I would review on of MTP's most recent interviews:And now, for Meet The Monkeys, here's moneyface Gregory and his band of merry men:THEME SONG: Here I come,...
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THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

The phrase "Ten Commandments" is generally used to refer to similar passages in Exodus 20:2-17 and Deuteronomy 5:6-21. Some scholars distinguish between this "Ethical Decalogue" and a different series of ten commandments in Exodus 34:11-27 that they call the...
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Exclusive Free DD Book Offer W Your Rec & Donation for SINGLE PAYER RALLY!

Healthcare Rally Update - Paying It Forward! PLEASE REC! Thanks!And free book for your recommendation and support.It's time to do something!!!  UPDATE on the July 30 Single-Payer Healthcare Rally in DC, The purpose of this recurring/shared blog is to share information...
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THE SOUND OF ONE HAND CLAPPING

Benedict XVI First we must begin this Sunday's prayer session with somewhat of a caveat. El Papa cannot pray for a while. He cannot pray for world peace. He cannot pray for the hungry children across the globe. He cannot...

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