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Tom W posted a blog entry

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:23:10 -0800

Healthcare 'Reform' - Sand Between the Fingers
We're not changing our health-care system very much at all, in fact. Nothing happens in 2010. Or in 2011. Or in 2012. In 2014,...
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Kathleen M posted a blog entry

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:53:00 -0800

Sabrina Who Always Believed
The ever-changing light, time, and temperature enthralled Sabrina. She marveled at the vibrancy of everything alive and...
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Tom W posted a blog entry

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:28:01 -0800

Support the Filthy, Wild-Eyed Bloggers
Sure, they may despise the feckless healthcare deal. Yeah, the villagers hate 'em. Yup, so-called Democrats run the other way....
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Tom W posted a blog entry

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:38:34 -0800

Mad Men Mets
I love this video - the 1963 Mets promotional video, featuring Casey Stengel, Ed Kranepool, Duke Snider, Lindsay Nelson, Ralph...
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Tom W posted a blog entry

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:02:38 -0800

Mad Men Mets
I love this video - the 1963 Mets promotional video, featuring Casey Stengel, Ed Kranepool, Duke Snider, Lindsay Nelson, Ralph...
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Kathleen M posted a blog entry

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:00:00 -0800

Flayed Alive (again)
My original post called “Flayed Alive” is almost as consistently popular as the pictures from “The Land of Oz,” by L....
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Kathleen M posted a blog entry

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:00:00 -0800

Justifying My Existence (again)
From my lost novel, “Diary of a Heretic,” a writing prompt: For years I adhered to the idea that if I lived spartanly and...
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Tom W posted a blog entry

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:43:24 -0800

Yessika Hoyos Morales: Fighting Violence in Colombia
It was a very great honour to meet Yessika Hoyos Morales of the Corporacion Colectivo de Abogados for lunch today. Yessika is a...
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Tom W posted a blog entry

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:43:24 -0800

Kathleen M posted a blog entry

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:10:00 -0800

Guaranteed Happiness (again)
Here’s Diary of a Heretic’s all time readers’ favorite: My family called me, “Pris,” which I hated. It bothered me...
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Tom W posted a blog entry

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:47:30 -0800

Obama: Make Deal With Lieberman
One thing to keep an eye on. Lieberman has made some specific demands, which he insists have to be met. But what's to stop...
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Tom W posted a blog entry

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:47:30 -0800

Obama: Make Deal With Lieberman
One thing to keep an eye on. Lieberman has made some specific demands, which he insists have to be met. But what's to stop...
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Kathleen M posted a blog entry

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:24:54 -0800

Fiction Interrupted Again
Here’s an illustration of The Crosby Street Hotel’s lobby in New York City that’s remarkably similar to the fictional...
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Tom W posted a blog entry

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:43:15 -0800

The Booklist: The Man With No Soul
My vast pile of bedside noir was dominated earlier this year by one of the most soul-less characters in literature: Donald...
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Tom W posted a blog entry

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:40:47 -0800

The Booklist: The Man With No Soul
My vast pile of bedside noir was dominated earlier this year by one of the most soul-less characters in literature: Donald...
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Kathleen M posted a blog entry

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:31:11 -0800

Temporary Lover
Tara’s pleasure in getting the better of Matthew King—leaving him to contend with her gaga mama, refusing to take his note...
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Tom W posted a blog entry

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:30:07 -0800

Punting on the Public Option...But Expanding Public Healthcare?
WASHINGTON — The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, said Tuesday night that he and a group of 10 Democratic senators had...
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Tom W posted a blog entry

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:30:07 -0800

Kathleen M posted a blog entry

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:42:13 -0800

Heroin-Flavored Bananas
Alone with Matthew and his children, Brooke and Tara’s mother Connie acted like a flighty teenager compared to her splendidly...
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Tom W posted a blog entry

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:19:22 -0800

Elizabeth Warren: Killing the Middle Class
Today, one in five Americans is unemployed, underemployed or just plain out of work. One in nine families can't make the...
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Tom W posted a blog entry

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:19:22 -0800

Elizabeth Warren: Killing the Middle Class
Today, one in five Americans is unemployed, underemployed or just plain out of work. One in nine families can't make the...
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Kathleen M posted a blog entry

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:17:27 -0800

How to Audition
Cleaving a chubby, thrashing four-year-old girl to her chest, thirty-eight-year-old Connie Logan gazed at Matthew King in...
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Tom W posted a blog entry

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:26:12 -0800

Social Good, Social Contests
Online giving contests such as the Case Foundation's America's Giving Challenge are offering nonprofit groups new...
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Tom W posted a blog entry

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:33:19 -0800

New Media, No Media
Back in the late 90s, Jason Chervokas and I briefly worked on a book proposal we tentatively entitled "No Media." Our...
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Kathleen M posted a blog entry

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:52:04 -0800

Cannonball
By the time Matthew stood up, Brooke’s little black shoes were already disappearing into the water that rippled outward,...
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