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ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

• A star athlete in the making (by Suzie)

  
  
  Echidne pointed out this news story. I think it's hard for her to take time off. Rest, goddess, rest.

  AUSTIN, Texas -- Bonnie Richardson ran. She threw. She jumped.
  And when it was time to hand out the team trophies, Richardson accepted the 1A team championship for [...]

  
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  Posted: May 13, 2008, 4:53pm Eastern Daylight Time

Dependable Renegade

• It's official: John McCain is now whiter

  Number of comments: 5
  

  than Michael Jackson.

  
  Craig Mitchelldyer/Getty Images

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  Posted: May 13, 2008, 4:36pm Eastern Daylight Time by watertiger

cab drollery

• One Step Back From Atrocities

  The charges against Mohammed al-Qhatani are that he was intending to be among the 9-11 crew flying airplanes into U.S. buildings. The evidence against him was obtained by torture, which our officials have called "harsh interrogation". He can probably never be freed, in the opinion of U.S. officials.
  
  

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  Posted: May 13, 2008, 4:00pm Eastern Daylight Time

First Draft

• Today On Holden's Obsession With [Yesterday's] Gaggle

  Dana Says Bad Poll Numbers Are Due To War In Iraq -- And What About Those Gas Prices!

  Q Yes, Dana, a new ABC News/Washington Post poll says that 82 percent of Americans believe the country is heading on the wrong track; that's up 10 points from a year ago. [...]

  
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  Posted: May 13, 2008, 3:10pm Eastern Daylight Time by Holden Caulfield

Blast Off!

• A bucket of warm piss

  The Hill asked all 97 U.S. senators not running for president whether they would accept the vice presidential nomination ... and their responses are, in a word, revealing.
  
  Here's an intriguing sample of what some senators had to say about the prospect of taking on the job that [...]
  
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  Posted: May 13, 2008, 2:54pm Eastern Daylight Time

Mercury Rising 鳯女

• Primary Predictions

  
  

  Hillary Clinton will win the West Virginia primary, and pundits will tsk-tsk and cite it as proof that Barack Obama can’t get white people to vote for him.

  Then Obama will win the primary in Oregon, which is lily-white like West Virginia, and pundits will say nothing.

  [...]
  
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  Posted: May 13, 2008, 2:39pm Eastern Daylight Time by Phoenix Woman

The Ptarmigan Nest

• The photo’s once more

  As I said earlier, geotagging photo’s has just past the corner. Cool stuff, but I urge everybody to be very VERY careful. The privacy implications are massive. Wired probably has it right although [...]

  
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  Posted: May 13, 2008, 2:25pm Eastern Daylight Time by yoh-there

Blast Off!

• Another casualty of the Bush economy: charitable giving

  As a professional fundraiser, I'm often asked whether the economic woes caused by the Bush crime syndicate have an adverse effect on donations. My general answer is that people tend to give out of a sense of commitment to a particular program or charity, regardless of the economic situation; for [...]
  
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  Posted: May 13, 2008, 2:15pm Eastern Daylight Time

Bouphonia

• Stopping Everything

  
  When your circular path deepens into a trench, you know you're making real progress.
  
  Kevin Hassett of the American Enterprise Institute explains that there are people out there who actually want to put an end to this sort of progress, just when [...]
  
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  Posted: May 13, 2008, 1:41pm Eastern Daylight Time

Dependable Renegade

• "Do I have to go back to work?"

  Number of comments: 2
  

  

  It's a spectacular spring day in NYC.

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  Posted: May 13, 2008, 1:38pm Eastern Daylight Time by watertiger

First Draft

• Arrrrrrrrrrrghhhhhhhh

  
  No, I'm not fucking feeling fucking lucky.  Just fucking shoot me already, would you?

  Hate grading. Hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it .

  Someone please put me out of [...]

  
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  Posted: May 13, 2008, 1:15pm Eastern Daylight Time by Jude

ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

• Another video on campaign sexism (by Suzie)

  
  
        The video below is partisan, but I'm posting it because, believe it or not, there are still plenty of people who don't know the extent of the sexism in this presidential campaign.
         I think reasonable feminists can discuss 1) whether some statements or [...]
  
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  Posted: May 13, 2008, 12:35pm Eastern Daylight Time by Suzie

Rising Hegemon

• Behold, the Great Idiot

  
  Visiting Isreal, while chearing on the 'rapture' our Designated-in-Chief stated:
  
  

  'I'm a peace man'

  
  
  Suddenly, he thinks he's the Big Lebowski.
  
  

  
  
  
  (top picture from youoweadam) [...]
  
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  Posted: May 13, 2008, 12:35pm Eastern Daylight Time by Attaturk

Hecate

• Native Plants

  
  Many, many heartfelt thanks to all who responded in comments to my question about Wiccan landscaping. I've really enjoyed following links to altars and articles, and I've jotted down a lot of good ideas and book titles.
  
  One point [...]
  
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  Posted: May 13, 2008, 12:34pm Eastern Daylight Time

Mercury Rising 鳯女

• Bush’s Legacy

  Number of comments: 1
  Sadly, No sums it up. [...]
  
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  Posted: May 13, 2008, 12:16pm Eastern Daylight Time by MEC

cab drollery

• Despoiling the Earth

  The attack on America launched by oil interests centers on ANWR. As Sen. Bryon Dorgan has pointed out this morning on CSpan, there isn't a real reason for this being the target. Oil reserves in the Gulf of Mexico are larger.
  
  Incidentally, world shipping patterns are such that the [...]
  
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  Posted: May 13, 2008, 12:00pm Eastern Daylight Time

PowerPop

• No Fat Chicks!*

  Courtesy of the corporate weasels at Sony/Columbia, I got Gossip's Live in Liverpool CD/DVD package in the mail last week, and I've been checking it out.
  
  
  
  My immediate short take (as per a discussion with our pal the incomparable Virgotex):
  
  I have no doubt that [...]
  
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  Posted: May 13, 2008, 11:53am Eastern Daylight Time

First Draft

• Crack Van Tonight

  Be here. 5-ish, Central.

  A.

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  Posted: May 13, 2008, 11:49am Eastern Daylight Time by Athenae

Plush Life

• Oh noes! iz another primary dai

  Number of comments: 6
  Iz another primary dai. Ehn.
  
  Oh noes! we haz to heers dat Tweety. He iz teh suxxor.
  
  Tweety? ON NOES!
  
  We plai fetches instead.
  
  Dat plan [...]
  
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  Posted: May 13, 2008, 11:43am Eastern Daylight Time

Multi Medium

• Equal Time For Peter O’Toole

  Well, since I already did a post on Richard Burton’s rugby reminiscences, I think it’s only fair that Peter O’Toole should get a post as well.  (Hey, if the LAT can write about the candidates’ handwriting, I can write about Peter O’Toole reattaching his own finger.) I was perhaps most [...]
  
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  Posted: May 13, 2008, 11:37am Eastern Daylight Time by Eli

Old Fashioned Patriot

• Holy Joe Takes It On The Chin

  The Bush junta announced their official delegation to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the creation of the state of Israel. The delegation does not include the guy on the left: [...]
  
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  Posted: May 13, 2008, 10:55am Eastern Daylight Time

Blast Off!

• They walk among us

  Every so often, even in a land of relative sanity like Palm Beach County (yeah, I know, but remember, I lived in batshit-crazy wingnutty Brevard County before this, so it's all truly relative), you find people who have no fucking clue. One of them got a letter to the editor [...]
  
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  Posted: May 13, 2008, 10:46am Eastern Daylight Time

Adventus

• Send in the Clowns

  
  

  Futility, utter futility, says the Speaker, everything is futile. What does anyone profit from all his labour and toil here under the sun? Generations come and generations go, whil the earth endures forever.
  
  All things are wearisome. No one can describe them all, no [...]

  
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  Posted: May 13, 2008, 10:12am Eastern Daylight Time

First Draft

• Reasons to Believe?

  NO REALLY.

  Man. If you tried ...

  For their next re-branding effort, the Republicans begin Operation Never Gonna Keep Me Down:

  A.

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  Posted: May 13, 2008, 9:21am Eastern Daylight Time by Athenae

ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

• Nonprofit, online journalism (by Suzie)

     
           I wonder where journalism is headed, with the rise of the Internet and the slide in profits for print. That’s why I’m intrigued by the St. Louis Beacon, a nonprofit, online news site edited by a longtime journalist, Margaret Wolf Freivogel, whom I know [...]
  
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  Posted: May 13, 2008, 9:18am Eastern Daylight Time

First Draft

• 'What Was So Honest About It?'

  "Errors are not lies," says Feith, and that's the last sentence before he starts stammering.

  I like Stewart's comparison of errors vs. lies to manslaughter vs. homicide. Either way, somebody's dead at the end, so somebody else should GO TO JAIL.

  Thanks to jjj.

  A.

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  Posted: May 13, 2008, 9:10am Eastern Daylight Time by Athenae

Dependable Renegade

• "I'm ready to fight aliens, J.

  Number of comments: 11
  

  Huh?  What do you mean 'extraterrestrial'?"*

  
  AP/Jeff Chiu

  *Don't make me explain this joke.

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  Posted: May 13, 2008, 8:31am Eastern Daylight Time by watertiger

ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

• Well, mark me down for the geezer ...

  Well, mark me down for the geezer I am, but I’d not known about Somi before looking for a You Tube of Abby Lincoln singing “African Lady” to the jazz genius of Eric Dolphy. I didn’t find that great recording from 1961 but I found this song of the same [...]
  
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  Posted: May 13, 2008, 8:16am Eastern Daylight Time

Rising Hegemon

• Like Kelsey Grammar teaching you to Drive

  Nobody could have failed to anticipate:
  
  

  The Bush administration repeatedly ignored corruption at the highest levels within the Iraqi government and kept secret potentially embarrassing information so as not to undermine its relationship with Baghdad, according to two former State Department employees.
  
  Arthur [...]

  
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  Posted: May 13, 2008, 8:00am Eastern Daylight Time

Multi Medium

• Great Moments In Campaign Journalism

  This… is a joke, right? Now that the presidential contest is looking ever more like a two-man race, the country can’t help but marvel: John McCain, once a longshot, wouldn’t lie down. Barack Obama, the new kid, charmed voters. And Hillary Rodham Clinton, an early favorite, has yet to surrender. But Arlyn [...]
  
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  Posted: May 13, 2008, 7:15am Eastern Daylight Time by Eli

cab drollery

• Welcome To America

  Some foreign graduate students in the US got quite a shock, courtesy of TSA. They had applied for a newly required ID card which would allow them to work around ships and docks and received letters refusing them the cards which contained some really interesting language. From today's NY [...]
  
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  Posted: May 13, 2008, 6:54am Eastern Daylight Time

Rising Hegemon

• Congrats

  [UPDATE] This story is true, but having gotten the news from some other blog (I don't remember, it was early) there's a very relevant fact that I missed when I posted the story. It's six years old. It's stupid but I missed that fact when I posted it in the [...]
  
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  Posted: May 13, 2008, 6:36am Eastern Daylight Time

• Madness, Madness

  The tough, long, Bataan Death March to the Democratic Nomination (credit Jon Stewart & the Daily Show) is really starting to go off to a new level bat-shit level of nausea-induced yet understandable frustration.
  
  This blog is not one of those "giant" blogs that has 10,000 or more [...]
  
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  Posted: May 13, 2008, 5:54am Eastern Daylight Time

ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

• Life Is Real Words Can Be Cheap by Anthony McCarthy

  but they can get people killed.
  
  Suzie’s post yesterday is about one of those first level issues that are much more important than the election campaign squabbling I’ve been dealing with. If you haven’t read it yet and donated, it’s very important and is a chance to do [...]
  
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  Posted: May 13, 2008, 5:46am Eastern Daylight Time

Mercury Rising 鳯女

• Res Ipsa Loquitor

  Number of comments: 4
  
  

  Jack Gillis, via e-mail, on the men George W. Bush entrusted with our lives, fortunes, and sacred honor –and the media supposed to be the watchdog set to monitor them:

  “On April 20, 2008, the New York Times published an
  expose, “Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand,”
  by David Barstow, [...]

  
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  Posted: May 13, 2008, 4:43am Eastern Daylight Time by Phoenix Woman

Bouphonia

• In Muslim Eyes

  
  Previously, those of us whose opinions count were horrified to learn that Barack Hussein Obama is a secret Muslim, whose very first act of office will be to lop off our heads and wallow in our gore.
  
  Since then, we've found out that he's [...]
  
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