Keith Olbermann on Gingrich:

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It was 71 today, and 66 tomorrow. Then the big storm system from the midwest moves in - we’re supposed to have thunderstorms with wind gusts as high as 70 mph. Snow expected next Friday. Oy.

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Rolling Stones:

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Fenton Robinson with the song that was later covered by Boz Scaggs:

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Pretty interesting, don’t you think?
PHILADELPHIA - Nine unions at Philadelphia’s two largest newspapers agreed Thursday to extend contract talks by another week and are prepared to cross picket lines if editorial employees strike before then, a union leader said.
“We think a strike is really going to hurt us,” said Joe Lyons, president of the Philadelphia […]

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From Not Larry Sabato:
A lot of people think Jim Webb may have overreacted to the President Bush when he asked about his son Jimmy at a recent White House function.
I’ve gotten a tip on the background to this confrontation, and it appears that Webb may have under reacted.
As President Bush is well aware, a couple […]

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Sy Hersh’s latest in the New Yorker:
A month before the November elections, Vice-President Dick Cheney was sitting in on a national-security discussion at the Executive Office Building. The talk took a political turn: what if the Democrats won both the Senate and the House? How would that affect policy toward Iran, which is believed to […]

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Well, duh.

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For those readers in the Harrisburg area, one of my friends is featured in this show Dec. 10th and you should go see it. (Art makes a nice gift!) As you can see, she does some nice stuff:

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The reason I have so little respect for free market fundamentalists (and by that, I mean those who see it as an ideological, one-size-fits-all solution) is that reality has no effect whatsoever on their beliefs. When their policies fall short, as they inevitably do, they fall back onto the frat-boy “bad sex” solution: Why, we […]

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My old friend, Philadelphia rock legend Kenn Kweder (with Mike “Slo Mo” Brenner on slide). And no, the song isn’t about me:

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Just what we need - another Republican-owned media monster:
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Maurice Greenberg, the former head of insurer American International Group Inc. (AIG.N: Quote, Profile, Research) is interested in launching a takeover for all of New York Times Co. (NYT.N: Quote, Profile, Research), CNBC television reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed sources.
The report came after […]

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Way to go, guys:
Under pressure from Democratic senators, the Bush administration has modified its proposal to ease public reporting requirements for companies that handle or release toxic chemicals.
The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed new rules for the Toxics Release Inventory, an annual accounting of more than 650 chemicals that industry releases into the air, land […]

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And yet, Bubble Boy is normally so thoughtful and caring:
Britain’s relationship with America is “one-sided” and Tony Blair is routinely ignored by President George Bush, a senior US official has said.
Kendall Myers, a senior analyst at the State Department, described Britain’s attempts to influence US policy as a “sad business”, the Times reported.
Mr […]

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If you live in India, that is.
Hey, they better watch it. Soon they’ll be too expensive for American outsourcing.

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George Will:
That was certainly swift. Washington has a way of quickly acculturating people, especially those who are most susceptible to derangement by the derivative dignity of office. But Jim Webb, Democratic senator-elect from Virginia, has become a pompous poseur and an abuser of the English language before actually becoming a senator.

I just spit my granola […]

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I’d put the odds of BushCo following their recommendation right up there with the odds of “>finding a pony under your Christmas tree:
The Iraq Study Group, which wrapped up eight months of deliberations yesterday, has reached a consensus and will call for a major withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq, shifting the U.S. role […]

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Interesting news:
A federal agency is set to recommend significant changes to specifications for electronic-voting machines next week, internetnews.com has learned.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is recommending that the 2007 version of the Voluntary Voting Systems Guidelines (VVSG) decertify direct record electronic (DRE) machines.
DREs are currently used by more than 30 percent of […]

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Nick Drake:

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I had dinner at Cos’s house tonight, and while her husband finished putting up drywall in the living room, we were off to the laundromat (the one with the world’s best jukebox).
When we were folding the dry clothes to take home, I stopped to put a few quarters in the jukebox. I was taking too […]

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Sometimes it’s just too easy to prove how stupid they are.

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Kenn Kweder at the Tin Angel with the old Beru Revue’s Greg Davis on lead guitar:

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I’m so surprised:
“NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Oil prices rose Wednesday after the government said supplies of distillates and gasoline showed a surprise decline and cold weather looked set to bear down on the U.S. Northeast, the world’s largest home heating oil market. . . . .
In its weekly inventory report, the Energy Information Administration said […]

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I thought this was pretty funny:
Lohse, a social work master’s student at Southern Connecticut State University, says he has proven what many progressives have probably suspected for years: a direct link between mental illness and support for President Bush.
Lohse says his study is no joke. The thesis draws on a survey […]

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I was watching “Fried Green Tomatoes” this morning and saw the scene where Idgie and Ruth are throwing canned food off the side of a freight train to poor people running alongside the train. I loved their joyous expressions as they threw the cans, knowing how much it meant to these people - and I […]

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