Heh
This’ll cheer you up:
This’ll cheer you up:
I’m not going to ruin this by pulling an excerpt. Just go read Fred Clark’s essay about Ebenezer Scrooge – and Jamie Dimon. Bookmark It
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Beginning 5pm pacific, 8pm eastern Hour 1: Stuart Zechman and Jay Ackroyd discuss this week in movement liberalism. Hour 2: CW Anderson, an ethnographer who studies the news, and how changes in technology, culture and economics are shaping journalism, will join us to discuss the concept of Hacking Journalism. You can find Chris at http://www.cwanderson.org/ or follow @chanders Link: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/virtuallyspeaking/2011/12/23/virtually-speaking-with-jay-ackroyd-c-w-anderson Bookmark It
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David Roberts of Grist does a nice job of summing up the importance of the new EPA rule regarding the emission of mercury and other toxins from coal- and oil-fired power plants: … This one is a Big Deal. It’s worth lifting our heads out of the news cycle and taking a moment to appreciate that history is being made. Finally controlling mercury and toxics will be an advance on par with getting lead out of gasoline. It will save [...]
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The only Christmas album you’ll ever need! A Phil Spector Christmas: Bookmark It
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And it was Jane who spoke she said, it’s true, your cousin’s not a Christian “But we love trees, we love the snow, the friends we have, the world we share And you find magic from your God And we find magic everywhere.” “The Christians and the Pagans,” Dar Williams. A very happy holiday season to everyone who’s celebrating. I dedicate this song to you and yours: So the Christians and the Pagans sat together at the table Finding faith [...]
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A romantic comedy set at Christmastime and starring Robert Mitchum in a more-or-less wholesome role, wooing a very young Janet Leigh. The role seemed a good career move at the time (1949), as Mitchum was still trying to recover from bad publicity regarding a marijuana bust. More here. Bookmark It
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OK, but it’s still unclear what effect this will have on the law regarding detention of American civilians: Attorney General Eric Holder confirmed speculation Wednesday that President Barack Obama would issue a signing statement when he makes the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and its controversial detention provisions law. “We made really substantial progress in moving from something that was really unacceptable to the administration to something with which we still have problems,” Holder said in response to a question [...]
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10:25 pm
hysterical!