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Andy W posted a blog entry

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:50:23 -0800

Dowd on Crotchbomber
Every so-often Marueen Dowd makes sense: If we can’t catch a Nigerian with a powerful explosive powder in his oddly...
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Andy W posted a blog entry

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:40:58 -0800

Why Candidate Lou Dobbs Would Be a GOP Nightmare
From Salon: [Dobbs] has poured scorn upon the GOP and its free-market idolatry. His skepticism of open borders has long...
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Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:34:53 -0800

We’re All Ready in Yemen
Awesome: In the midst of two unfinished major wars, the United States has quietly opened a third, largely covert front against...
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Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:52:47 -0800

Science Toys for Girls Pink, Weaker
From science blog Pharyngula: Here’s another odd pink phenomenon. This is a page from a Toys’R Us catalog,...
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Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:47:47 -0800

Ben Stein Calls Ron Paul Anti-Semitic
RON PAUL: If you dismiss motivations for why they hate us, we can never resolve this. There’s hate on both sides. You...
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Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:42:46 -0800

‘Poltergeist’ Actress and Gay Activist Zelda Rubinstein in Failing Health
This makes her even more badass: Zelda Rubinstein, who made a name for herself starring in the Poltergeist films [as the...
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Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:20:18 -0800

Police Tased Man in Diabetic Coma 11 Times
From reddit: A suburban Chicago police officer Tasered a man 11 times while he was having a diabetic seizure, and the 56...
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Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:10:50 -0800

The Bechdel Test
From TV Tropes: The Bechdel Test or the Bechdel-Wallace Test is a sort of litmus test for female presence in movies and TV. In...
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Mon, 28 Dec 2009 09:58:34 -0800

Your Odds of Being in a Airplane Terrorist Attack
Over the past decade, according to BTS, there have been 99,320,309 commercial airline departures that either originated or...
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Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:21:00 -0800

Hollywood Sets $10 Billion Box Office Record
But if there was no piracy maybe they could have hit $20 billion: Claims by the MPAA that illegal downloads are killing the...
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Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:10:22 -0800

Berkeley High May Cut Out Science Labs
It is awful there’s no way to fund both: Berkeley High School is considering a controversial proposal to eliminate...
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Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:59:12 -0800

Tiger Woods, Blackness and Blame
More from Racialicious: But while it was clear before his philandering scandal that Woods was seen as black more than he was...
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Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:52:38 -0800

Gaga and Beauty
From Racialicious: There is something extremely generic about the woman who incidentally is Lady Gaga. She’s blonde, thin and...
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Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:36:33 -0800

Xenolinguistics and the Na’vi
A linguist blog gives the detail of the langauge of the Na’vi from Avatar and the thought behind the language created for...
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Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:38:58 -0800

You Have No Right Not to Be Tortured
The Supreme Court refused to hear a case of four detainees bringing suit against Rumsfeld, et al: Obama’s Justice...
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Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:11:07 -0800

How to Deal With Cellphone Talkers During Movies
Love this! Do you want to do something really, really nasty and evil to the person with the lit up cell phone? Get up count...
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Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:53:53 -0800

Ezra Klein on What Lieberman Wrought
From WaPo: Single payer became a strong public option, a strong public option became a weak public option, a weak public option...
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Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:45:47 -0800

Why He Quit Working at the Casino
From Metafilter: I quit for a lot of reasons, but one of them will always stick out in my head: the woman who came to me crying...
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Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:44:39 -0800

419 Million-Year Old DNA Found
It won’t make Jurassic Park a reality, but scientists have discovered 419 million-year-old DNA intact inside ancient salt...
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Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:42:44 -0800

CDC Failed in Vetting Vaccine Advisors
Great: Most of the experts who served on advisory panels in 2007 to evaluate vaccines for flu and cervical cancer had potential...
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Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:40:30 -0800

Power Law Explains Insurgent Violence
From ScienceNOW: First, the timing of attacks in each conflict proved to be remarkably similar. Rather than occurring randomly,...
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Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:24:36 -0800

Sigourney Weaver Interview
From Esquire. Gems: I changed my name when I was about twelve because I didn’t like being called Sue or Susie. I felt I...
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Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:03:48 -0800

Obama’s Tepid Leverage
From Glen Greenwald: Why didn’t they [the White House] do any of that to the “centrists” who were supposedly...
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Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:02:46 -0800

Millions of Missing Bush Admin. Emails Found
Burn it to a CD, mail it to your grandma: “The liberal groups CREW and National Security Archive litigate for sport,...
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Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:34:56 -0800

Blair on Iraq: WMD Weren’t the Point
More revelations from the UK: Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said he would have found a justification for...
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