Organizing for America has announced the winner of its Health Reform Video Challenge, and it's terrific. Hope the Senate's watching.
Topics: Politics, Reality-Based

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What was with last night's Season 6 finale of Project Runway? It was as if a bolt of bad news had been delivered backstage to which the audience wasn't privy but which left the judges lachrymose and shaken. First Coach...

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Tower of Chiesa di Ognissanti, originally uploaded by Tom Watson. Another photo from Florence, from the balcony of my hotel room. I loved the light in this shot - the 13th century church is where Botticelli is buried and includes...

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Here's a great Los Lobos cover from the early 80s of the traditional Mexican revolutionary ballad Carabina .30-.30:
Topics: Music

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There is nothing like a preemie Nobel Peace Prize to set the polity ablaze. I'm sure Barack Obama smelled the political smoke when awakened with the news this morning that the Nobel committee had essentially named him "Worldwide Statesman Most...
Topics: Politics

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