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Dan Folgelberg:

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After simulating concern and urgency last week, apparently Bush is going to force automakers into a bankruptcy! And Obama is “strangely silent”…

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“It was great! It was like pheasant season in South Dakota. If it moved, you shot it.” - Local vigilante.
The Nation investigates vigilante justice in the wake of Katrina:
A vigilante shot Donnell Herrington twice shortly after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans.
The way Donnell Herrington tells it, there was no warning. One second he was trudging [...]

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This is good news for nurses and patients:
HARRISBURG - After years of lobbying, nurses and other medical professionals in Pennsylvania will no longer be forced to routinely work overtime.
Under a new law, which goes into effect in July, health care facilities will be prohibited, with few exceptions, from forcing nurses and certain other health care [...]

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They just can’t bring themselves to help in any way that doesn’t penalize union members, can they?
WASHINGTON — The White House said on Thursday that an “orderly” bankruptcy was one option being considered to try to rescue General Motors and Chrysler, which are seeking billions of dollars to avoid a shutdown.
President Bush’s spokeswoman, Dana Perino, [...]

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Something not right with the human race these days:
Intel came up with a novel way to show how important the Internet and computing have become in the lives of Americans. In conjunction with Harris Interactive, the company conducted a survey of adults in the United States under the prosaic banner “Internet Reliance in Today’s Economy.”
But [...]

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Should “reaching out” by the Obama administration include:
* Asking a gay-basing preacher to deliver the convocation at Obama’s inauguration?
* Putting a right-wing Democrat who’s eager to sell out our national lands to industry in charge of the Department of the Interior?
* Naming a staunch NAFTA advocate as the U.S. Trade Representative?
* Or appointing a Monsanto [...]

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That Big Pharma could fall under suspicion for such a thing:
Swedish anti-corruption agents are investigating allegations that pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca influenced the awarding of this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine.
“I have formally instigated, or started, a criminal investigation,” Swedish anti-corruption prosecutor Nils-Erik Schulz told the Star in a telephone interview from Stockholm yesterday.
Schulz’s investigation was [...]

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For Obama to invite Rick Warren to be part of his inauguration ceremony is, quite simply, disgusting. I’m so appalled, I don’t even know what to say. It would be the equivalent of John McCain asking David Duke to say a few words.

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What Glenn said.

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Last night, Mr. & Mrs. Cos accompanied me to a Jim Boggia show in Lafayette Hill that was being taped for a local TV show. It was a lot of fun, and as Cos and I kept saying excitedly to each other, “I can’t believe we’re out having a good time on a school night!”
Mr. [...]

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Who knew? Not me!
Flavor is part of the appeal of vintage candy cane. So is the size that Cooper fashions at Priscilla.
Urban Living Studio, a fashionable boutique in Boston’s South End, purchased about 90 of Cooper’s 2-foot-long canes this year. “No one can beat the size,” said Jillian Mier, a sales associate there. Urban Living [...]

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From Government Executive :
Medicare’s relatively low overhead makes it a better model for a publicly run health insurance option for people without employer-provided coverage than the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, a health care expert said on Wednesday.
“The Medicare program, as it’s currently constituted, needs reform,” said Jacob Hacker, co-director of the University of California-Berkeley [...]

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One of the reasons I was glad to leave journalism is that it’s now run by media owners who are much more interested in profit margins than in any kind of public service. Newspapers, as far as I know, are still profitable. They simply don’t make the kind of obscene profit margins demanded by Wall [...]

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Chrissie Hynde:

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Frank Sinatra:

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I was really short of breath this morning and my heart started beating really fast - you know, when it feels like a drum in your chest? Palpitations. “I’m not having a frigging heart attack, am I?” I said to myself.
Men have no idea how relatively easy they have it when it comes to diagnosing [...]

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This would explain why Blago tried to smear him:
CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) — Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who was cited in a criminal complaint against Rod Blagojevich, went to the U.S. Attorney’s office about alleged wrongdoers, including the Illinois governor, a Jackson spokesman said Tuesday.
Jesse Jackson Jr. reported in 2006 what he believed was [...]

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“George Tenet, Drunk in Bandar’s Pool, Screaming About Jews”.

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I would like to point out that only someone who has always had access to books would take libraries for granted. I would literally not be the person I am today without the Cobbs Creek branch of the Philadelphia Library and Miss Mary Fretz, our librarian.
I already loved books when I started going to the [...]

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What about me? Y’all got your degrees and suits and shit, what about kids my age? Why you gotta take away what we got?
- A high school student in Kingsessing at last night’s meeting with Mayor Nutter about his plans to shut down their local library.
Go read Brendan’s account.

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One of our favorite commenters, bloggers and friend is a local celebrity today.

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I still don’t understand why you’d cut a vital service like this:
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter seems steadfast in his plan to close 11 branches of the Free Library of Philadelphia (FLP) by the end of the year, a plan endorsed by FLP director Siobhan Reardon, but library advocates have presented another argument against the closure, [...]

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Hall & Oates cover the Stylistics:

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Just about any Republican spokesman.

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A federal court removes a major tool of intimidation used by BushCo:
A federal appeals court ruling late Monday is the cause célèbre of the American Civil Liberties Union, as another provision of the Bush administration’s Patriot Act falls to the judicial system.
Until the ruling, recipients of so-called “national security letters” were legally forbidden from speaking [...]

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What Digby said. Why oh why can’t we have a better press corpse?

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Mariah Carey live at Disney World:

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Fascinating story about the recreation of a 2000-year-old computer found in an ancient shipwreck.

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