Lucky for me I stopped off at our friend Bruno Giussani’s Lunch over IP, or I might have missed Pangea Day, which is Saturday, May 10th, 11 AM Pacific (if I am reading the times correctly). You can watch the stream here, but it takes a new computer and a fairly fast connection. Read Bruno [...]
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Friday Cat Blogging Heidi in alert mode George with one of his smoldering looks
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on the plane waiting for boarding to finish, reading a real copy of saturday review from aug 29, 1970 that i bot online. in an article about the first hundred days after kent state it quotes the new democrat: "our...
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AP/Jeff Chiu Nice healthy glow you got goin' on there, Magoo.
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one of the "100 Crankiest Geezers in the World". AP/Jeff Chiu Even the smile looks painful.
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-Diane
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The movements of the Euro over the last weeks have been puzzling. It hit 1.60 to the dollar, then plunged to 1.53 before having a bit of a bounceback. This is high volatility in a major currency and small changes in currencies have very large consequences in the real world. MacroMan asked: Now, what’s peculiar [...]
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Sweet baby jesus with carmelized apple sections. I went looking for this interview because as a fangirl, I wanted to see what Heather sounded like in real life. As I watched, though (and envied her haircut), I was overwhelmed with...
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An Iraqi military doctor looks at one of the amputated legs of Shahad Abbas Aziz as doctors prepare her prosthetic legs in a hospital in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone May 9, 2008. Shahad, 12, lost both her legs and her brother was killed when a roadside bomb exploded as they and other school children made their way to school two months ag
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Lieberman: ‘I Personally Checked John McCain’s Bearings’ It's just more information than I wanted, I think... -Diane
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The River of Death. -Diane
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Atrios has a terrific post up that concludes thusly: I'm not sure why so many online Clinton supporters seem to be lashing out angrily at Obama supporters, instead of at the people who ran Clinton's campaign. If they'd just done...
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by Scott Bateman. -Diane
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A secretive, militaristic government refusing foreign aid after a natural disaster, and seemingly incapable itself of offering any real aid to its citizens? Wow. Good thing that would never happen here, huh? And if it did, we wouldn't stand for it! We demand our government be responsive to the needs of its people! Democracy is a beautiful t
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Global Warming Headline of the Day. -Diane
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A Special Mother's Day Video from John McCain and his mom, Roberta. Released by the McCain for POTUS campaign... Just struck me as kinda odd is all. -Diane
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This charming fellow seemed to make his home in the gardens of Dublin Castle.
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House Republicans vote against Mother's Day. No new word yet on the GOP's plan to criminalize baseball & apple pie. .
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Timely Thank goodness the government moved so swiftly to reinforce our vehicles in Iraq: The U.S. military is reinforcing the sides of its topline mine-resistant vehicles to shore up what could be weak points as troops see a spike in armor-piercing roadside bombings across Iraq , The Associated Press has learned.
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Everything Old Is New Again Lovely : Russia showcased its military might and youthful new president to the world Friday, as heavy tanks and missile launchers rumbled across Red Square in a Victory Day parade for the first time since the Soviet era.
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Obama Forges Ahead Another victory over Clinton : Barack Obama all but erased Hillary Rodham Clinton 's once-imposing lead among national convention superdelegates on Friday and won fresh labor backing as elements of the Democratic Party began coalescing around the Illinois senator for the fall campaign. Obama picked up the backing of ni
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Not really sure what they were thinking here… On Wednesday afternoon, the House had just voted, 412 to 0, to pass H. Res. 1113, “Celebrating the role of mothers in the United States and supporting the goals and ideals of Mother’s Day,” when Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan.), rose in protest. “Mr. Speaker, I move to reconsider
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This is the image of a sculpture in Crawford, TX that locals have adorned with a veil in honor and aniticipation of Jenna' Bush's impending nuptials. Jenna and Henry coffee mugs...it's a good thing they're such a down-to-earth kinda couple. You guessed it. 'Nother Crawford gift shop, more Henry and Jenna mugs. Of course, not to worry if you
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Michelle and Jim-Bob Duggar expecting their 18th child.
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More Family Values Yet another anti-gay bigot proves exactly how much he reveres the sacred institution of marriage: Rep. Vito Fossella of New York ran a red light, and wrecked his life. A drunk-driving arrest last week led to talk of an extramarital affair, and then finally Thursday, an admission of a child from that affair.
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Chained up between gold and oblivion: Hermissenda crassicornis . Both reached out to seize her. Both she left to their ways. (Photo by tzargregory .)
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We'll start out this week with a timely message from my pal Chicago Dyke : While we all tear each other apart, millions are dying, millions more are going to die, for no good reason. As an American, like it or not, you have an incredible responsibility to do what you can to make sure your power isn’t used for evil, oppressive reasons. Turn o
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As Always The women will bear the brunt of this war, in some ways, for decades: Violence in this country creates more widows by the day, and some members of parliament and women's advocates warn of a growing class of poor, single mothers unable to raise Iraq's next generation. They say the situation has been made worse by U.S.-backed con
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Spent a very enjoyable evening on Wednesday at this, listening to the brilliant and hilarious First Draft Krewe alum Mike D. talk shit about the Cubs and bemoan the unfairness of the Sun-Times splashing the slump-busting controversy all over its...
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Misery Just horrendous : THE death toll in cyclone-ravaged Burma could hit 500,000 – more than TWICE the total killed by the Boxing Day Tsunami.
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We got a little basket to hold all Puck and Riot's toys when, you know, company comes over or we need to use part of the floor to walk on ourselves. As with most things we bring into the house,...
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About half the time I think the deciderers in the current administration are just plain stupid-to-the-bone. The other half the time I'm convinced that they aren't necessarily stupid, just incredibly arrogant. This article in today's NY Times doesn't really determine which of my theories is correct, but it certainly does support both of them. ..
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ST. PETERSBURG - Students this morning reacted in disbelief and horror at the news three Dixie Hollins High School football players were arrested Thursday in connection with the molestation of a 15-year-old girl on a school bus. They also thought the suspects used poor judgment because a school bus videotape was running at the time of the sex
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This week's UK edition. Aside from the fact that one doesn't want to think too much about Gordon's body, the image of himself as a saint (Sebastian) and martyr might be comforting to him. Albeit an allegedly gay saint .
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While I don't think that Barack Obama is an elitist, America-hating negro the fact remains that Barack Obama is an elitist, America-hating negro. .
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This is the Republican Party’s idea of good governance. If the Democrats had dared to do this during their twelve years in the minority, you know full well that the press led by FOX would have been playing it up big-time: On Wednesday afternoon, the House had just voted, 412 to 0, to pass H. [...]
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I had a dream last night that Jenna Bush married Pete Wentz. And that she had some serious ink on her right shoulder. And that she was a cool person. No more spicy food for me after 7 p.m.!
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Gosh, it's a good thing that St. John hates lobbyists: Sen. John McCain championed legislation that will let an Arizona rancher trade remote grassland and ponderosa pine forest here for acres of valuable federally owned property that is ready for...
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Because, y'know, he's the bad guy we should be focusing on. first up, via The Shrill One, one reason why I hate economists: Almost half of the economists in the latest Wall Street Journal forecasting survey decided against answering a...
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God, I hate these people: A small group of fiscally conservative Blue Dog Democrats is threatening to block the emergency war spending bill over a program for veterans’ benefits not offset with tax hikes or spending cuts. Because of that problem, and the efforts by House Republicans to stall floor action with procedural motions, the vote on [...]
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Getting a Chihuahua has made me think of feminist philosophy. OK, everything makes me think of feminist philosophy. But Ginger makes me think of what it means to be strong, and how we share power. Some would call Ginger my companion animal. I wouldn’t. (I planned to quote a sociology text on “pet or slave,” but when I searched the In
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“Our catstaff spends so much time here, but I really don’t see the point.”
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From FishBowl LA : Sources close to Ryan Seacrest have confirmed to FBLA that Ryan Seacrest is in talks with CNN to shimmy into Larry King's chair. Now "talks" can mean a lot of things, and our source also says, "I don't think it's going to happen." From Larry King to Ryan Seacrest... brrrrrrrr...� Maybe the most important questio
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       In the We Hate Hillary issue of The Nation, executive editor Betsy Reed blames Clinton for dividing feminists. The article has gotten acclaim in the liberal blogosphere.        I have a few problems with the article, beginning with the idea of division. No. 1, division doesn’t seem to be Reed’s real point. She wouldn’
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Read just how in the tank your broadcast media really is. Glenzilla to the rescue.
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The pictures are hauntingly reminiscent of the Christmas tsunami that swept away flimsy houses by the millions, and ended hundreds of thousands of lives in Thailand, Indonesia and even as far away as India. The assistance of nations all over the world was mobilized, rescue missions immediately launched, and huge numbers of devastated peoples were t
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When I heard about Limbaugh's Operation Chaos, I was p.o.'d because of the rank cynicism of the idea--disrupt the democratic process and create havoc. In other words, encourage your followers to be dishonest. Talk about zombies. Limbaugh says do something, and his dittoheads do it! I've been told that the Democrats have done the same. Howe
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So for no good reason at all, I'm checking out Amazon's "Guitar Gods" contributor section, and I stumble across this happy monkey-fuck of a thread. Note how seamlessly it transitions from the initial asshole "joking" about Dimebag Darrell (who, if half of what I've heard and read about him over the years is true, was a total mensch) being shot, t
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This post at OpenDemocracy on China and the PR around the Olympics seems to be making the rounds in the Greater English-language China blogosphere. There are certain things that wholly misses or conveniently glosses over. The government can also rightly point to the fact that the whole torch-ceremony fiasco was not its idea, but a daft lef
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From the Hindustan Times comes a wire report with the statement by the Tibetan envoy: Talks with Beijing were frank frank - open, sincere, or undisguised in manner or appearance Personally I'm not seeing the statements made by the PRC's negotiators as open or sincere or undisguised. I have a hard time believing that the PRC's negotiator
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I've speculated that the Wingnuttosphere will be less of an asset and more of a burden for McCain in November, because those geniuses will insist on blathering loudly about all sorts of crazy shit -- and so will he, of...
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Next week's catblogging will be from PDX and involve the future additions that Lola will have to adjust to in July. ntodd
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ArsTechnica, one of the major tech blogs, covers the news that China refuses to guarantee open Internet during Olympics . They said that while the government would be able to "guarantee as much [access] as possible," there's no way that China would turn off the Great Firewall entirely during the Games. "China has always been very cautious
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You CANNOT even refer to John McCain as "The Senior Senator from Arizona" because you are being ageist. Which is unfortunate, because fuckin' A, that dude is really old.
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It's only been happening for 5 years and three months: Abu Ayyub al-Masri, the head of al Qaeda in Iraq, has not been captured, a senior U.S. military official told CNN on Friday. Yesterday afternoon: Iraqi police commandos captured the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq in a raid in the northern city of Mosul, Iraqi officials said Thursday, in
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You see this is HOW you commit journalism -- as opposed to commit journalicide: Some things about Barack Obama rub some voters the wrong way. "We don't need a Muslim," said Jannay Smith, a retiree from Kokomo, Ind. "Who's to say if he gets in there what he'll do?" Added Steve Shallenberger, a Kokomo electrician: "He's just calling himself a
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In which NTodd observes there is no hiding place for imposters. (17:39) Features: Elvis Costello. Bonus links: Elvis Costello's newest, 'Momofuku,' may be best. Subscribe, vote and donate! ntodd