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• Christmas Song of the Day

  Snoopy has his own Christmas song. How did I live this long and not hear about this until today? It's both uplifting and kinda creepy: the Red Baron let's Snoopy live on Xmas, but they both know they will meet again and try to kill each other. ... [...]
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  Fetched: November 30, 2009, 7:45pm EST
  

• Derek Jeter, Success, and Ayn Rand Fantasies

  Take it away, Paul! [...]
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  Fetched: November 30, 2009, 4:45pm EST
  

• Teabaggers in All Their Glory

  This is not how you handle this situation: At a town hall held by Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.) on Nov. 14,, Dan and Midge Hough spoke about how they believed the death of their daughter-in-law and her unborn child were caused, in part, by a lack of health insurance. Twenty-four-year old [...]
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  Fetched: November 29, 2009, 10:43am EST
  

• Christmas Lyric of The Day

  Rudy is an example of my favorite genre of music: songs with an upbeat tempo and depressing lyrics. 99 Red Ballons, of course, is the canonical example. No, this is not a happy song. But it is a very good song, and Christmas needs sad songs. ... [...]
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  Fetched: November 29, 2009, 10:43am EST
  

• Christmas Lyric of the Day

  This one seemed appropriate for Thanksgiving weekend. Cause, really, who hasn't had a Thanksgiving feast so bad that they dreamed of poisoning all of their relatives. Or is that just me? I knew of two sisters whose name it was Christmas And one was named Dawn of course, the ...' [...]
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  Fetched: November 29, 2009, 10:43am EST
  

• Christmas Lyric of the Day

  It's a bit odd to start out with such a irreverent tune, but I went out to the mall today, Black Friday, for the first time in years, so this seems somehow appropriate: It's Christmas at ground zero There's music in the air The sleigh bells are ringing and the carolers are singing While [...]
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  Fetched: November 28, 2009, 7:43am EST
  

• The Turkey Holocaust is Upon Us

  Can't say it any better than I did last year. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Time-wasting video of the day: ' [...]
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  Fetched: November 26, 2009, 10:43am EST
  

• All Linky, No Thinky: Health Care Reform Addition

  This pretty much sums up the conservative opposition to health care reform. [...]
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  Fetched: November 26, 2009, 10:43am EST
  

• Sarah Palin

  Her fans have all kinds of goofy reasons why they think liberals and many conservatives don't like her. Jon Stewart does a fine job of explaining the real reason: The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c' [...]
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  Fetched: November 23, 2009, 7:45am EST
  

• Noted (Belatedly) Without Further Comment

  This sounds about right. [...]
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  Fetched: November 17, 2009, 7:43pm EST
  

• Not What I’d Hoped

  Let me just say that I was impressed and enthusiastic when I first saw the headline on this story: Irish Priest Kidnapped in Philippines Released by MILF It turns out there's something called the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, and it is not, apparently, populated by the kind of badass soccer mom hotties [...]
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  Fetched: November 12, 2009, 10:43pm EST
  

• I’m On Vacation

  Off for some New Orleans debauchery. In the meantime, enjoy Jon Stewart's brilliant send-up of Glenn Beck: The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cThe 11/3 Projectwww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorHealth Care Crisis [...]
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  Fetched: November 11, 2009, 7:43pm EST
  

• QOTD: Armistice Day

  From Jacob Levey: A Veteran's/ Armistice/ Remembrance Day observed on November 11 in particular shouldn't just mean a gauzy and somber honoring of live veterans and fallen soldiers. It should be in part a day of anger and horror about the particular war that ended on this day, the stupid brutality [...]
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  Fetched: November 11, 2009, 7:43pm EST
  

• Let’s Have Term Limits Where They Belong

  Senator Jim DeMint (Asshole - CSA) has proposed a Constitutional amendment to impose term limits on federal officeholders (3 terms for Representatives, 2 for Senators). Leaving aside the convenient fact that this gives Senators twice as long in office as Representatives, the proposal is not the craziest thing DeMint has [...]
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  Fetched: November 11, 2009, 7:43pm EST
  

• The Libertarian Solution to Poverty

  Mr. Judd, the floor is yours. No threadjacking necessary. [...]
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  Fetched: November 06, 2009, 1:43pm EST
  

• Wait Your F*cking Turn

  Oh god, this is terrible: The CDC is distributing the much sought-after vaccine to Wall Street firms despite reports of vast shortages. In fact, just yesterday CDC Director Thomas Frieden informed Congress that only 32.3 million doses are available, far less than the 159 million needed to cover those at the [...]
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  Fetched: November 06, 2009, 10:47am EST
  

• Ft. Hood

  I don't have much to say about this other than my thoughts and best wishes are with the families of all involved. It is a horrible tragedy and I hope everything possible is being done to help the families and the victims, as I am sure it is. Part ...' [...]
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  Fetched: November 06, 2009, 10:47am EST
  

• Number of the Day: 3.59

  That's the average number of seasons between Yankees' World Series titles over the course of their existence (not counting the early years when the team existed, but were not yet called the "Yankees"). Now I understand why Yankees fans were impatient with having to wait nine whole years for ...' [...]
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  Fetched: November 05, 2009, 10:47pm EST
  

• What the Maine Vote Really Means

  As you no doubt know by now, the voters of Maine have voted for bigotry and overturned a legislatively-enacted recognition of same-sex marriages in that state. What does this mean, really? Clearly, it means that we're not there yet. As a friend of mine wrote this morning, ...' [...]
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  Fetched: November 04, 2009, 1:42pm EST
  

• Elections: Teabaggers and Decency Lose

  So the local issues -- the two governorships -- went the way of local issues, the two national races both went for the Democrats. The teabaggers, in all of their ludicrous glory, managed to lose a seat that had been in Republican hands for almost 160 years. That ... [...]
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  Fetched: November 04, 2009, 10:43am EST
  

• Election Day: What’s to Think About?

  So it's Election Day tomorrow, if you haven't noticed, which it's easy not to in an odd-numbered year with (almost) no federal offices on the ballot. I've been reading about some of the hot state races around the country, particularly the District-23 soap opera here in my home state, but [...]
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  Fetched: November 04, 2009, 1:44am EST
  

• Are There No Workhouses?

  This is horrible: Nearly half of all U.S. children and 90 percent of black youngsters will be on food stamps at some point during childhood, and fallout from the current recession could push those numbers even higher, researchers say. And remember, that number comes before the effects of the Great Recession have [...]
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  Fetched: November 04, 2009, 1:44am EST