This would be really interesting:
Fresh from winning the Nobel Peace Prize for his climate change evangelism, Al Gore is apparently considering an invitation from a prominent environmental group to engage in civil disobedience against the construction of new coal-fired power plants.
Rainforest Action Network issued the invitation to the former Vice President, according to RAN executive […]

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Rudy tries to make us go “Ooo, I didn’t know that!” as he uses bogus and misleading info to make people think national health care will make you die of prostate cancer!

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Maybe my new neighborhood isn’t so conservative after all. I dropped something off today and I saw a car with this bumpersticker: “I’d rather be smashing imperialism.”

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Krugman has some not-so-pretty housing charts.

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This is an interesting study. I don’t think the central question is quite as confusing as they make it out to be - the standard media treatment has simply trained the casual news reader to react to the media’s cues. Also: People are simply too busy to make political choices a priority. Hence, the effectiveness […]

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Krugman:
In the wake of 9/11, the Bush administration adopted fear-mongering as a political strategy. Instead of treating the attack as what it was — an atrocity committed by a fundamentally weak, though ruthless adversary — the administration portrayed America as a nation under threat from every direction.
Most Americans have now regained their balance. But the […]

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Sibel Edmunds says she’ll name names for any network that will air her interview without editing:
“Certain officials in this country are engaged in treason against the United States and its interests and its national security,” she said during an interview an August 2005 interview on Democracy Now. That comment followed 60 Minutes’ revelation years before […]

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Just keep cutting those budgets to give tax cuts to the wealthiest:
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Two Tampa Bay veterans hospitals turn away critically ill patients for huge chunks of the year because of an overloaded veterans’ health care system.
James A. Haley VA Medical Center in Tampa and Bay Pines VA Medical Center in St. Petersburg […]

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You can’t blame us - they all look alike!
LONDON – Britain’s first Muslim government minister was disappointed after being pulled aside for questioning at a U.S. airport for the second time in a year, he said today.
International Development Minister Shahid Malik said he was detained for about 40 minutes at Dulles Airport in Washington on […]

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Fred Thompson: Help, help, there’s a Social Security crisis!
Dear God, these Republicans are so predictable. Why, when even the Washington Post admits otherwise, it’s time to get a new line.

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No surprise here on Bush’s lack of action on Darfor:
Many of those who have tracked the conflict over the years, including some in his own administration, say Bush has not matched his words with action, allowing initiatives to drop because of inertia or failure to follow up, while proving unable to mobilize either his bureaucracy […]

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Red Sox, world champs.

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I’m not hopeful. It’s my opinion that the cable industry is so thoroughly corrupt, it doesn’t matter what the FCC does or does not. Somehow, cable prices will continue to rise:
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 —The Federal Communications Commission, hoping to reduce the rising costs of cable television, is preparing to strike down thousands of contracts this […]

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The Hacienda Brothers with Dan Penn:

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PJ Harvey:

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Randy Newman with a selection of his tunes:

Sail Away:

Louisiana 1927:

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Apparently it’s spreading in ways BushCo didn’t anticipate:
New Delhi, Oct. 28: Select US corporate giants — long viewed as symbols of America’s military-industry complex — have run into an unlikely hurdle in their plans to recruit and research at the Indian Institutes of Technology.
Across the IITs, students and professors do not want companies like Halliburton, […]

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Anti-war protesters gather at Independence Mall in Philadelphia, Pa. on Saturday Oct. 27, 2007, as part of an 11-city rally calling for support for U.S. troops and a swift end to the war in Iraq. (AP Photo/ Joseph Kaczmarek)

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Don’t read German, but this sure looks interesting, doesn’t it?
Ein unappetitlicher Skandal rollt auf die britischen Royals zu: Zwei Männer sollen versucht haben, ein Mitglied der königlichen Familie mit einem kompromittierenden Oralsex-Video zu erpressen. Der Prozess beginnt kurz vor Weihnachten und dürfte ein gigantisches Medienspektakel werden.
Something about a scandal involving the British royal family and […]

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A Republican leader, perhaps taking bribes?
Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is pushing $25 million in earmarked federal funds for a British defense contractor that is under criminal investigation by the U.S. Justice Department and suspected by American diplomats of a “longstanding, widespread pattern of bribery allegations.”

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Big Star’s Alex Chilton back in the day of the Box Tops:

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A friend who shall remain nameless gave me a bunch of Rolling Stones CDs he burned for my birthday and I didn’t realize it until this morning, when I looked in the bottom of the gift bag. Woohoo!
While I’m listening to those, you can listen to this from my fave Stones album, “Beggar’s Banquet”, or […]

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Glenn Greenwald explains to Fred Hiatt why telecoms certainly can afford to litigate the wiretapping charges:
In the NSA cases, AT&T is being represented by Sidley & Austin (.pdf), a large, fairly standard corporate law firm. Because there are multiple telecoms as defendants in these suits, the litigation costs, in some respects, end up being shared. […]

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Food for thought:
NUTLEY, N.J., Oct. 24 — Jodi Weiner, an electrician from Montclair, said that when she tried to get health benefits for her partner of nine years, she was told that her union’s plans did not cover civil unions. It was only when she mentioned that they had been married in Massachusetts that her […]

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Carrie Underwood:

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