This is what they’ve been

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One prominent figure is calling for a Hollywood boycott of Mel Gibson after his drunken anti-Semitic ravings.
Defamer comments:
All over town, agents, studio executives, and other power players are nervously eyeing one another, wondering if this indeed a time in history for standing up against bigotry and racism, or a time during which they can obtain […]

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Remember the “principled” Republicans blathering on about the Sacred Rule of Law - because Bill Clinton lied about a BJ?
Good times!

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Boston Globe series on debtors continues:
The line for the metal detector crept slowly at Brockton District Court on the morning of April 12, 2005. Peter Damon waited anxiously. He didn’t want to be late.
Finally, he hoped to face down for good the debt collector who had been hounding him and his mother for more than […]

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What he said.

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I’ve probably said it before, but Duncan writes so very intelligently and clearly about Democratic and media issues, he’s a pleasure to read.
Except for Threadbot. Hate fucking Threadbot…

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I seem to have set off an intellectual flame war over at Jay Rosen’s place. The regulars there seem to think it’s impossible to be a partisan news editor and still produce factually correct, credible work that readers will support financially.
It’s hot, I’m cranky and frankly, these arguments bore me. If you do good work, […]

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Because they’ve never lied and we should believe what they say about everything. Now go back to your morning cup of coffee:
July 31,2006 | JERUSALEM — The Israeli air force carried out strikes Monday in southern Lebanon despite an agreement to halt raids for 48 hours after nearly 60 Lebanese civilians were killed in an […]

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Can’t these Bush boys do anything right?
The number of poor kids getting dental care plummeted 40 percent in the first year of a Medicaid pilot project in Miami-Dade, according to a study released this month by the University of Florida.
The program was intended to improve about 200,000 children’s access to dental care, reduce fraud and […]

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I doubt this’ll get much play in the national media, because the narrative is that Michael Moore is a perpetual pariah, shunned by all decent Americans:
TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan (Reuters) - Michael Moore — gadfly filmmaker, liberal activist and political lightning rod — says he finds himself being hugged by a lot of Republicans these days.
On […]

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Can we please stop the bullshit about the “pinpoint precision” of these weapons and how they’re designed to prevent unnecessary civilian casualties? Because they don’t.

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Via Driftglass. Dear God, make it stop:

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From a columnist in the St. Pete Times:
Al Gore, where have you been all my life?
Oh, I don’t mean the alpha-male wanna-be, that scripted, stiff, uninspired candidate for president in 2000. I mean the self-effacing movie star with man-of-steel conviction from An Inconvenient Truth, who is trying to shake this country by the shoulders over […]

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This David Sirota piece explains a lot:
I’ve documented repeatedly how New York Times columnist Tom Friedman parrots the propaganda of Big Money, using his column to legitimize some of the worst, most working-class-persecuting policies this country has seen in the last century - all while bragging on television that he doesn’t even bother read the […]

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Just go read Matt Stoller.

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Three press room operators at the Wilmington News Journal hit the Lotto.
If it were me? I’d start my own paper, a little alternative weekly.
Anyway, Fred explains why it’s all relative.

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Neil Finn:

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Oh, great. We’re sending people to India for surgery because their employers can’t afford it here? No reflection on India, but the last thing I’d want after surgery is the stress of a transcontinental flight:
Some medical tourism agencies are preparing to offer health insurance plans that outsource all major surgeries abroad. IndUSHealth — a medical […]

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Shorter Teddy Kennedy: We were right about Alito and Roberts.

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To Volker Rademacher, longtime reader and supporter…

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1. Oh My Love - John Lennon
2. Break Up to Make Up - The Chilites Stylistics
3. Wall of Death - Richard and Linda Thompson
4. Thanksgiving - Ray Davies
5. Gotta Get Back - Shelby Lynne
6. Evangeline - Emmylou Harris and The Band
7. I’ve Got You Under My Skin - Frank Sinatra
8. Ball and Chain - Big […]

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The Boston Globe’s doing an excellent series on the obstacles faced by today’s tapped-out consumers:
Outside, a tow truck blocked her driveway and her 1996 Chevy Blazer. A man and a woman with a court order told the single mother they had come to take her car for nonpayment of an old credit card debt. With […]

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After all, they’re only in politics to make money:
Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.) dramatically slashed the salary of a top aide in 2002, dropping the aide’s pay low enough for her to evade federal conflict-of-interest laws when she became a lobbyist in 2003.

Aww. Wasn’t that sweet?

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Sounds like they’ve already learned the Republican form of democracy and even outstripped it. Perhaps American evangelicals could do work-study abroad:
BAGHDAD, Iraq — A Shiite Muslim political leader said Friday that rumors were circulating of an impending coup attempt against the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and warned that “we will not allow […]

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More self-defense:
BEIRUT, July 30 — Israeli warplanes seeking to destroy Hezbollah rocket launchers blasted a group of houses in a southern Lebanese village Sunday, killing more than 50 people, most of them women and children, according to Lebanese officials and on-scene interviews by Lebanese television reporters.
Coming at a particularly sensitive point in negotiations to end […]

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