Items by Jeff Hess

• FROM MY DAD…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
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  Posted: December 11, 2009, 6:30am EST
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• FROM MY CHAPBOOK…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  Found in my electronic chapbook. [I]t was ever so clear to me that I would in due course produce a Great Novel of my own. I’d go to college first, naturally, where I might get a somewhat clearer idea of what constituted a Great Novel. Then I’d emerge from college into [...]
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  Posted: December 11, 2009, 12:30am EST
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• GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  Despite the attacks on her in recent days from the military dictators of Myanmar, the generals appear still willing to speak with Aung San Suu Kyi, at least through Myanmar’s labor minister. Suu Kyi appears encouraged by the international interest in her and her country over the past few months. From [...]
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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 9:30pm EST
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• ROLDO RIGHTS…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  Roldo Bartimole writes: The flow of federal stimulus money into Cleveland makes me wonder why Mayor Frank Jackson and his merry elves at City Council need to burden residents with a garbage tax. City Council members authorized Mayor Jackson to begin collecting $8 a month for garbage collections. Having been elected for [...]
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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 8:00pm EST
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• THE ART OF THE INTERVIEW…

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  Marc Pachter has conducted live interviews with some of the most intriguing characters in recent American history as part of a remarkable series created for the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. He reveals the secret to a great interview and shares extraordinary stories of talking with Steve Martin, Clare Booth Luce [...]
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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 6:30pm EST
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• BIKERS AND BIKES DON’T COUNT IN CLEVELAND…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  I bike. Not a tremdous amount, but I get around Cleveland Heights under my own power when the weather is reasonable. Maybe that’s why I was on the email list (see below for my illustrious company) for a news conference tomorrow. I won’t be able to make it, I have [...]
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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 5:08pm EST
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• GET YOUR BUTT TO MAC’S AND WRITE A LETTER…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  Seriously. [...]
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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 2:00pm EST
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• RALPH’S SKETCH ‘N’ KVETCH…

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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 1:34pm EST
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• WHAT THEY SAY…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  Michael Fox writes: But with unsteady employment during difficult economic times raising the threat of default, many Uruguayans risked losing their newly-acquired homes and ending up right back where they started. The answer: housing cooperatives, that could take out loans collectively, minimizing the individual risk while building solidarity among members. “Collective property [...]
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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 7:45am EST
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• FROM MY DAD…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 6:30am EST
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• MY COMMENTS…

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  0625: Shawnee! [...]
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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 6:25am EST
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• FROM MY CHAPBOOK…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  Found in my electronic chapbook. The cartoon showed a sullen eight-year-old boy facing an earnest principal. “It’s not enough to be a genius, Arnold,” the man was saying. “You have to be a genius at something.” I recall identifying very strongly with Arnold. I had known early on that I wanted [...]
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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 12:30am EST
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• GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

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  Tomorrow, from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. Mac’s Backs on Coventry will host an Amnesty International Write-A-Thon in an effort to free political prisoners around the world as part of the UN’s International Human Rights Day. There is a long list of political prisoners, but I’m particularly interested in Aung [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 9:30pm EST
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• GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  The reporting from Myanmar by the New York Times that the State Peace and Development Council, aka, the country’s military dictators, are upset that Nobel Laureate and detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi hasn’t decided to roll over and endorse their phony election next year should surprise no one. Myanmar’s [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 9:30pm EST
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• SOCRATES CAFÉ: THE MORNING AFTER…

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  Tuesday evening our Socrates Café met at the Mayfield Road Phoenix Coffee House and the question we pulled from the box was: Is our ability to reflect upon our actions pointless and even detrimental? The initial reactions were no, reflection often offers benefits. Upon further reflection, however, we discussed instances where instinct [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 4:41pm EST
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• A UNITED STATES THAT NEVER EXISTED…

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  Number of comments: 1
  This is what self-delusion and revisionist history looks like. [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 3:31pm EST
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• MY COMMENTS…

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  Number of comments: 2
  1123: Tough Acts to Follow [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 11:40am EST
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• RALPH’S SKETCH ‘N’ KVETCH…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 8:09am EST
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• FROM MY CHAPBOOK…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  Found in my electronic chapbook. From the preface: I read every letter I get, and I reply to most of them. I almost always reply to those accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope. A word to the wise… p. 13 From Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers by [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 12:30am EST
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• GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  My family has been Chrysler/Dodge/Plymouth/Mopar devotees (my dad sold his 1968 Dodge Charger before I got my learner’s pemit) for a very long time. My first two cars were Plymouths and my brother races a 1973 Plymouth Challenger. I’ve diverged in the ’90s, but after seeing this ad, I have [...]
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  Posted: December 08, 2009, 9:30pm EST
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• SORRY, EXTREMISM IS A VICE…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  Do you remember all the shouting and finger pointing at ACORN after some young Republicans decided they were going to to get the goods on the evil, communist, Jihadist organization masquerading as community organizers? It turns out — why am I not surprised? — that an independent report, led by former [...]
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  Posted: December 08, 2009, 4:32pm EST
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• WHAT THEY SAY…

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  Ta-Nehisi Coates writes: The writer is a species of God–they create our world. There will always be limits on what we can experience and truly understand. We turn to writers to fill in the gaps. I trust, for instace, that India exists, but what I know of it has largely been [...]
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  Posted: December 08, 2009, 10:16am EST
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• FROM MY CHAPBOOK…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  Found in my electronic chapbook. [Block] too, has suffered resistance, bewilderment, occasional lapses in faith. He has begun and abandoned manuscripts, been blocked, given up all hope, has returned to half-finished books with puzzlement about why he broke off the writing, turning them into some of his most accomplished published works. [...]
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  Posted: December 08, 2009, 12:30am EST
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• ROLDO RIGHTS…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  Roldo Bartimole writes: The highly-subsidized Hyatt Regency Cleveland and the historic 1890 The Arcade “may go up for auction at a Cuyahoga County sheriff sale,”, according to an article today in Crain’s Cleveland Business by Stan Bullard. Failure of the Cleveland’s architectural gem points to continued economic problems in downtown Cleveland. This [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 12:30pm EST
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• CAN WE STOP CALLING THEM SCEPTICS…?

  —Have Coffee Will Write

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  Science is central to humanity’s response to our role in altering Earth’s climate via global warming. Those who argue that either a. global warming does not exist (this group has pretty much gone the way of the anti-evolution folks) or b. global warming is taking place, but it is a [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 10:15am EST
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• YEAH, THAT’LL WORK…

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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 9:24am EST
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• MY COMMENTS…

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  [Update @ 1843] 0903: Republican Seven Hills mayor Dave Bentkowski’s 9 page discussion of his penis size 1302: Tea Party Outperforming GOP on Generic Ballot [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 9:06am EST
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• RALPH’S SKETCH ‘N’ KVETCH…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 8:33am EST
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• FROM MY CHAPBOOK…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  Found in my electronic chapbook. [Block] seemed amused by the question. “So what if someone else does well? That doesn’t affect me or my work. p. 10 –from the introduction by Sue Grafton From Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers by Lawrence Block. I took the morning off yesterday [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 12:30am EST
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• FROM MY CHAPBOOK…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  Found in my electronic chapbook. I made a point of reading Telling Lies For Fun And Profit before beginning each new book. p. 9 –from the introduction by Sue Grafton From Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers by Lawrence Block. I took the morning off yesterday and so my [...]
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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 12:30am EST
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• FROM MY CHAPBOOK…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  Found in my electronic chapbook. I sat up, amazed to find that in the chapter called “Opening Remarks,” Lawrence Block had written about the very frustration I was experiencing with K Is For Killer. Furthermore, his advice about openings was right on the money. I set the book aside and went [...]
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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 12:30am EST
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• ROLDO RIGHTS…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

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  Roldo Bartimole writes: Do you think we have the right to ask Sen. George Voinovich to speak out against the ugliness of the Republican Right? I think we do. Ask him why he’s silent on this issue. Republican forces have been waging an ugly war against President Barack Obama since his election. [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 12:30pm EST
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• MY COMMENTS…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  1102: Jennifer Brunner wants troops to build bridges 1051: An Afghanistan surge is precisely what you voted for. Yes you. 0949: 5,000 Strong! [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 9:52am EST
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• FROM MY CHAPBOOK…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  Found in my electronic chapbook. I tried an opening or two, but I couldn’t hit a vein. p. 9 –from the introduction by Sue Grafton From Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers by Lawrence Block. I wrote 1,505 words yesterday morning and my total word count is now 12,003. [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 12:30am EST
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• MY COMMENTS…

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  1530: Should Powerful Men Not Get Married? [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 3:30pm EST
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• PHOENIX COFFEE MAY WANT TO HIRE YOU…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  From Superbarista… Dear Friends of the Phoenix, Happy Holidays! Just wanted to reach out to all of you to let you know that Phoenix is hiring a foodservice professional to help us redo our menus at our five cafés. We are excited to serve food that will complement the quality of our coffee [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 9:35am EST
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• FROM MY CHAPBOOK…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  Found in my electronic chapbook. Give writing top priority. Make it the first thing you do. p. 89 From Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers by Lawrence Block. I wrote 1,577 words yesterday morning and my total word count is now 10,498. [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 12:30am EST
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• ROLDO RIGHTS…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  Roldo Bartimole writes: The Call & Post has always been used as a political tool. It has a great history of standing up for blacks, especially when white newspapers didn’t give a shit about blacks. That’s why it’s troubling to see a racist stereotype used to attack a black person in the [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 12:30pm EST
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• MY COMMENTS…

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  1216: A Visual Tale of Two Speeches 1207: The Cleveland racial circus goes big time – pull up a chair 1147: In praise of cockfighting… [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 12:00pm EST
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• FROM MY CHAPBOOK…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  Found in my electronic chapbook. I’ve found a couple of things I can do to make my writing life as guilt-free as possible, and I pass them on for whatever they’re worth. First, I make writing the first thing I do. Second, I try to work seven days a week. Third, [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 12:30am EST
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• GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  Can Nobel Prize Laureate Joseph Stiglitz leverage his knowledge in economics to move the State Peace and Development Council (aka, Myanmar’s military dictators) to policies that would stop the systematic destrcution of their country’s rural rice farmers? He’s travelling to Myanmar in two weeks to at least explore the question. From [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 9:30pm EST
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• RALPH’S SKETCH ‘N’ KVETCH…

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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 8:00pm EST
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• ROLDO RIGHTS…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  Roldo Bartimole writes: The Plain Dealer is playing games with us about “Progress.” The paper wants to make us feel good. So Good News makes for good Page One copy. It also makes for misleading information. It’s important to keep Progress reality based. If you raise expectations too high and don’t produce [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 6:30pm EST
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• MY COMMENTS…

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  1028: Huckabee’s Pardon Problem [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 10:28am EST
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• JULIAN SOLONITZ, 1914-2009…

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  Zikhrono livrakha… [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 9:46am EST
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• FROM MY CHAPBOOK…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  Found in my electronic chapbook. I don’t structure my work in terms of hours, finding it more useful to aim at producing a certain amount of work, usually somewhere between five and ten pages depending on the sort of material I’m working on, the deadline I’m facing and the phases of [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 12:30am EST
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• GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  While news from Myanmar flows much more freely than the country’s military dictators would like, there is a surfeit of photographs and video. That’s one reason I’m looking forward to the return of Bangkok-based photographer Andrei Pistolesi in two weeks when he returns from Myanmar. From Pistolesi’s blog: Time to head to [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 9:30pm EST
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• RALPH’S SKETCH ‘N’ KVETCH…

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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 12:30pm EST
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• MY COMMENTS…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  1639: Kyle Sisk whitewashing his “Willie Horton”-attack of Governor Strickland after reports of Kasich’s pal releasing an alleged police killer and child rapist. 1130: “Success” in Afghanistan means the end of Bin Laden – see Brunner’s Kos diary [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 11:32am EST
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• FROM MY DAD…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 6:30am EST
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• ROLDO RIGHTS…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

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  Roldo Bartimole writes: Joe Cimperman started his campaign to be the first Cuyahoga County Executive today. If you don’t think so, you don’t know the ambitious Joe Cimperman. Cimperman at a meeting with MMPI’s Mark Falanga a week ago asked Falanga if he would commit to having four meeting on the Medical [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 3:30am EST
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• GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  Many people, both citizens and those visiting the country, took extraordinary steps to help those oppressed by Myanmar’s military dictators during the 2007 Saffron Revolution and the 2008 Cyclone Nargis, often at their own peril. At least one such person has sought and received aid in New Zealand. From Radio New [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 9:30pm EST
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• FROM MY DAD…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 6:30am EST
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• GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  Clearly Myanmar’s Senior General Than Shwe has an attitude in line with that of Faux News head Rupert Murdoch, the complete misunderstanding of the English word fair. In the case of Faux News it is misuse in that network’s Fair And Balanced tag. For the senior general the abuse of [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 9:30pm EST
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• FROM MY DAD…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 6:30am EST
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• GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  One of the tactics to control dissent in Stalin’s Soviet Union was the institutionalization of political dissidents in mental hospitals. Clearly the State Peace and Development Council has taken notes on Uncle Joe’s methods as hidden camera video from one of Myanmar’s prisons mental hospitals shows. From the Australia Network News: Many [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 9:30pm EST
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• FROM MY DAD…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 6:30am EST
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• AN IDEA ABOUT IDEAS…

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  With all the intensity and brilliance for which he is known, Alan Kay envisions better techniques for teaching kids by using computers to illustrate experience in ways -– mathematically and scientifically -- that only computers can. [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 6:30pm EST
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• HAPPY THANKSGIVING, TAKE 2…

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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 10:30am EST
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• FROM MY DAD…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 6:30am EST
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• HAPPY THANKSGIVING, TAKE 1…

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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 3:30am EST
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• A FUTURE FOR SPACE EXPLORATION…

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  In this passionate talk, legendary spacecraft designer Burt Rutan lambasts the US government-funded space program for stagnating and asks entrepreneurs to pick up where NASA has left off. [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 6:30pm EST
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• MY COMMENTS…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  1151: Nothing like making the next 346 days even tougher than they have to be [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 11:53am EST
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• WHAT THEY SAID…

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  Ta-Nehisi Coates writes: This puts me in the mind of the early 90s when Negroes were running around parroting that Menace II Society line, I’m white America’s worst nightmare: Young, black and just don’t give a fuck. I was kid, but even then I used to think, No you’re not. You’re [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:39am EST
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• I KNOW WOMEN WHO’D QUEUE TO FLIP D’SWITCH…

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  From Haaretz… [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:31am EST
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• WALMART WEDNESDAY…

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  It’s been a busy week in Wally World: the Universe’s source of cheap plastic crap. On The Writing On The Wal — the blog USA Today says should be on its readers’ radar — Jonathan Rees and I continue our work dedicated to drawing back the curtain on the Bentonvile [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:30am EST
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• HUH…?

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  Number of comments: 2
  From The Washington Post: The Census Bureau employee found dead in September killed himself and staged his death to look like a homicide, state and federal law enforcement officials said Tuesday. [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:27am EST
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• FROM MY DAD…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 6:30am EST
  by Jeff Hess

• FROM MY (NANORWIMO) CHAPBOOK…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  Found in my electronic chapbook. “Telling writers how to fake,” she said, “is like teaching children how to steal. You should be ashamed of yourself.” I should indeed be ashamed of myself, and I often am, but not this time. For fakery is the heart and soul of fiction. All our [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 12:30am EST
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• GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  I have up close and personal experience with boat people. My own case involved Vietnamese fleeing their country in the late ’70s. The destination was The Philippines where the government had turned what was once a tourist island in Subic Bay into a huge refugee camp. What these boat people [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:30pm EST
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• ROLDO RIGHTS…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  Number of comments: 1
  Roldo Bartimole writes: The most reasonable tax for Cleveland City Council to raise income would be a special admissions tax on all events at Progressive Field, Quicken Arena, and Browns Stadium. Why? The reason is mainly because none of the teams pay any property taxes on their sports facilities. Not a penny. They ride [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 8:00pm EST
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• RECALLING SPUTNIK…

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  About this talk Filmmaker David Hoffman shares footage from his feature-length documentary Sputnik Mania, which shows how the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik in 1957 led to both the space race and the arms race -- and jump-started science and math education around the world. [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 6:30pm EST
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• ROLDO RIGHTS…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  Roldo Bartimole writes: Cuyahoga County expects the Medical Mart fund to be at about $80 million by the end of this year. That’s a few million dollars less than expected because sale tax revenue has been down. However, that doesn’t include investment earnings that add to the fund. The interest rate [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 12:30pm EST
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• WHAT THEY SAY…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  From David Frum: If you like Palin – well go ahead. It’s a free country. But quit saying that “the people” love Sarah Palin. They don’t. Actually, they quite dislike her. The longer they know her, the more they dislike her. And even more than they dislike her, they do not respect [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 11:13am EST
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• MY COMMENTS…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  1344: Photos For College Apps 1102: Palin Man – musta been under a tent when we were there 1045: Time to play the blame game again. And again. And again. [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 11:02am EST
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• FROM MY DAD…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 6:30am EST
  by Jeff Hess

• FROM MY (NANORWIMO) CHAPBOOK…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  Found in my electronic chapbook. There was once a school of thought in the theater that maintained that scenery should be as detailed as possible, even down to details which could never possibly be apparent to the audience. If there was a desk on stage, for example, there ought to be [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 12:30am EST
  by Jeff Hess

• GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  The military dictators of Myanmar — known under the Orwellian moniker of the State Peace and Development Council — believe that the best way to control their political opponents is to adhere to the adage: Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer, and how much closer can you keep [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 9:30pm EST
  by Jeff Hess

• SO HOW DO YOU USE AN ASTROLABE ANYWAY…?

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  Rather than demo another new technology, Tom Wujec reaches back to one of our earliest but most ingenious devices -- the astrolabe. With thousands of uses, from telling time to mapping the night sky, this old tech reminds us that the ancient can be as brilliant as the brand-new. [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 6:30pm EST
  by Jeff Hess

• MY COMMENTS…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  1012: Consensus Among Economists Says Stimulus Working 1006: Walters should’ve followed up, Palin should have boned up re: Jews “flocking” idea [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 10:12am EST
  by Jeff Hess

• FROM MY DAD…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 6:30am EST
  by Jeff Hess

• FROM MY (NANORWIMO) CHAPBOOK…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  Found in my electronic chapbook. Afterward, though, when you reread what you’ve done, you might want to see whether your modifiers , your descriptive words, do the job you’ve given them. should they be more or less specific? Should they me more descriptive? More judgmental? Are you trying to control the [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 12:30am EST
  by Jeff Hess

• GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  In the United States we are having a very long, very heated and very important political debate over ensuring that every citizen has access to health care. Imagine what it would be like to live in a country where the government spends a total of $61 per citizen per year [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 9:30pm EST
  by Jeff Hess

• MOBILES FIGHT POVERTY…

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  Iqbal Quadir tells how his experiences as a kid in poor Bangladesh, and later as a banker in New York, led him to start a mobile phone operator connecting 80 million rural Bangladeshi -- and to become a champion of bottom-up development. [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 6:30pm EST
  by Jeff Hess

• RALPH’S SKETCH ‘N’ KVETCH…

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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 2:22pm EST
  by Jeff Hess

• ROLDO RIGHTS…

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  Roldo Bartimole writes: Ohio’s Senator George Voinovich was the only U. S. Senator to not cast a vote yesterday on moving the historic health care bill. It didn’t make a difference since his would have been the 40th Republican vote against moving the bill to a floor vote. Democrats had 60 votes [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 12:30pm EST
  by Jeff Hess

• TIM, TIM, TIM, THEY WANT WEBSITES, NOT FACTS…

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  Via Plunderbund… [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 12:25pm EST
  by Jeff Hess

• MY COMMENTS…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  0803: Consensus Among Economists Says Stimulus Working 0734: The twitching rage of the irrational Republican when you tell them they fucked up our country [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 8:03am EST
  by Jeff Hess

• FROM MY DAD…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 6:30am EST
  by Jeff Hess

• FROM MY (NANORWIMO) CHAPBOOK…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  Found in my electronic chapbook. If you’re interested in watching a master put not only verbs but all the other parts of speech through their paces, you might make the acquaintance of Pelham Greenville Wodehouse. p. 205 From Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers by Lawrence Block. I [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 12:30am EST
  by Jeff Hess

• GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  Say what you will — I do as much as possible — about the State Peace and Development Council, aka Myanmar’s military dictators, but these guys have more chutzpah than the Menendez brothers begging for mercy because they’re orphans. And speaking of orphans, the generals do love the little tykes, [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 9:30pm EST
  by Jeff Hess

• CREATING NEW CREATURES…

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  Artist Theo Jansen demonstrates the amazingly lifelike kinetic sculptures he builds from plastic tubes and lemonade bottles. His creatures are designed to move -- and even survive -- on their own. [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 6:30pm EST
  by Jeff Hess

• VOTE FOR JILL… AGAIN…

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  Number of comments: 2
  It would be nice if I got more than a t-shirt out of all this shilling. [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:11am EST
  by Jeff Hess

• YOU FUCKERS GAVE ME BAD ADVICE…

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  I’m with Ta-Nehisi on this. Ziggy and Sarah need to talk. Ziggy takes some bad advice.by bzzinglikeneon [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:03am EST
  by Jeff Hess

• MY COMMENTS…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  [1158 -- Update.] 0947: Consensus Among Economists Says Stimulus Working [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 9:50am EST
  by Jeff Hess

• FROM MY DAD…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 6:30am EST
  by Jeff Hess

• FROM MY (NANORWIMO) CHAPBOOK…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  Found in my electronic chapbook. There is no more important component of fiction than dialogue. The words your characters speak to one another do more to convey their nuances to the reader than any words you can employ yourself to sketch them. Dialogue advances and defines plot, renders complicated developments fathomable, [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 12:30am EST
  by Jeff Hess

• GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  In a vote by the United Nations 192-nation Third Committee, which focuses on human rights issues, North Korea and Myanmar were condemed for widespread and human rights violations. Sort of. The vote on North Korea was 97 yea, 19 nea and 65 abstentions. On Myanmar the vote was 92 yea, [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:30pm EST
  by Jeff Hess

• ORGANIC DESIGN…

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  Designer Ross Lovegrove expounds his philosophy of “fat-free” design and offers insight into several of his extraordinary products, including the Ty Nant water bottle and the Go chair. [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:30pm EST
  by Jeff Hess

• WHAT THEY SAY…

  —Have Coffee Will Write

  Kelley Bell-Wenzlaff writes: After a long and difficult debate on health care, The Stupak/Pitts Amendment passed The House 240 to 194 with 64 Democrats breaking from the party platform to add an amendment to the bill further restricting legal abortion. The move was underhanded, disgusting and unforgivable to the women in [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:38am EST
  by Jeff Hess