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Interviews featured during ‘The Best of This is Hell!: 2010, Part Two,’ hosted by Spencer ‘Thunderball’ Thayer included … Harper’s Magazine contributing editor Ben Austen who wrote the June cover story, “In the loop: Obama’s hometown takes Washington” journalist Gary Rivlin, author of “Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. – How the Working Poor [...]

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“The Best of This is Hell!: 2010, Part One” featured interviews broadcast earlier this year with … art historian Simon Schama, economist Moshe Adler Atlantic writer Don Peck on “How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America’ founder and chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition Dr. Samuel Epstien Just Detention International’s Cynthia Totten Lapham Quarterly’s [...]

http://www.fourmilab.ch/ Fourmilab, not to be confused with Fermi Lab, (fourmi is french for ants) may in fact be the true beating heart of geekdom.  This vehemently old school website is the product of the the founder of the AutoDesk and co-author of AutoCAD, John Walker, and it is pure, exquisite nerdity to its core.  Plus, [...]

The Nine Circles of Hell! – all the news that gives you fits in print – for Friday, December 17, including a couple bonus links on Wikileaks, an extra report on Julian Assange, and an additional Irish story, are: Most Americans don’t think Afghan war was worth fighting Differing agendas of Obama, Pentagon, Karzai in [...]

The Nine Circles of Hell! – all the news that gives you fits in print – for Thursday, December 16, including a bonus Private Manning story, an extra link on dangerous drywall, one about Ivory Coast post-election violence, and another concerning Russia’s nationalist riots, are: Pvt. Manning’s “steady decline in mental and physical wellbeing” Government [...]

The Nine Circles of Hell! – all the news that gives you fits in print – for Wednesday, December 15, including a bonus link on the Kenyan elections, are: Democrats displeasure drives Congressional approval to record low Republican victory kills Wall Street investigations Greek wage cuts spark protests; media walks out, no reports Did Kosovo [...]

The Nine Circles of Hell! – all the news that gives you fits in print – for Tuesday, December 14, plus three bonus story on the Berlusconi victory, and three extra links on Wikileaks, are: Rome’s streets explode after Berlusconi wins Holbrooke says, “you’ve got to stop this war in Afghanistan”, dies Petraeus Doctrine increases [...]

The Nine Circles of Hell! – all the news that gives you fits in print – for Monday, December 13, including a bonus  story on Wikileaks concerning Israel, are: 50-year cholera epidemic now killing Haitians Where the ‘war on terror’ is at war with the ‘war on drugs’ US aid fails as half of Afghans [...]

http://consumerist.com/ From the folks who bring us Consumer Report, the site states, “The Consumerist empowers consumers by informing and entertaining them about the top consumer issues of the day”.  It is also mostly community powered and sometimes pretty hilarious.

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Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed … journalist Dante Chinni is author of “Our Patchwork Nation: The Surprising Truth about the ‘Real’ America and the 12 Community Types that Make Up Our Nation” (Gotham Books). Dante, since the run-up to the 2008 presidential election, has been the correspondent for the [...]

The Nine Circles of Hell! – all the news that gives you fits in print – for Friday, December 10, including three bonus Wikileaks links, are: First-hand violence from British police-student clashes Saved Iceland, Kazakhstan let banks fail; can Ireland do same? Greek workers protest government enacting IMF, EU debt fix Assange arrest is an [...]

The Nine Circles of Hell! – all the news that gives you fits in print – for Thursday, December 9, are: 9/11 first responders’ health bill costs one Bush tax cut extension US home values to lose another $1.7 trillion President Medvedev asks public, NGOs to support Wikileaks Microsoft to stop enforcing Russian laws against [...]