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Corporate Statism Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Lottery
I like this idea, a lot. It’s very popular on Reddit right now: It’s clear most Americans hate Congress, big corporations, the wars, etc… Still, it seems our will never gets done. Why? My view of it is, although we have the power to effect change near instantaneously on any matter we agree upon en masse, we dilute our strength when we attack anybody and everyone we percieve to be responsible for our dissatisfaction. Victory will never come to us [...]
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Corporate Statism Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Politics As Usual
Bacteria 1, FDA 0
I’ve never bought prepackaged meat, and here’s a good reason not to start. Maybe someone should do something? Again? A study earlier this year by a nonprofit research center in Phoenix analyzed 80 brands of beef, pork, chicken and turkey from five cities and found that 47 percent contained staphylococcus aureus, a bacteria that can cause anything from minor skin infections to pneumonia and sepsis, more technically called systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), and commonly known as blood poisoning — but no [...]
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Arts & Music
I am a rock
A winter’s day/ In a deep and dark December… Bookmark It
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Arts & Music Class War
Joe Bageant
A new collection of his essays. Proceeds to go to his favorite charities. He was a good one. Bookmark It
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Humor
Comedy stylings
Of Arlen Specter: Bookmark It
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Class War Featured
The entitlement society
Where does he get the energy? Charlie Pierce, as usual, continues to be The Man: Willard Romney has never known a day of peril in his life. He grew up with a silver spoon lodged so deeply in his gums that he had his baby teeth until he was 25. He did his Mormon mission in Provence, for the love of god. He moved onto a lucrative career in predatory capital. If, as was said, George W. Bush was born [...]
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Blogosphere Media
Last night
Lots of fun with Digby and Stuart Zechman last night — so much fun, we kept talking for two hours! You can listen here. Bookmark It
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Geek Stuff
Wide load
So I’m guessing this means people were more advanced than they give them credit for? Fascinating: Some of the volcanic bluestones in the inner ring of Stonehenge officially match an outcrop in Wales that’s 160 miles (257 kilometers) from the world-famous site, geologists announced this week. (See Wales pictures.) The discovery leaves two big ideas standing about how the massive pieces of the monument arrived at Salisbury Plain: entirely by human hand, or partly by glacier. As it looks today, [...]
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