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some light reading....
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If you're not drinking, you're not paying attention.
Reagan's '80s
(some of us remember)
Pol-ly-an-na
The Literate Electorate
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Tuesday's The Big Day In Wisconsin-- Will Women Rescue The State? - About a million people signed petitions this year demanding Scott Walker be recalled. And Tuesday's the day. It's Walker versus a so-so Democrat, Milwauk...
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Sunday Late Night: “Let’s hurl some acid” means “Let’s hurl some acid….” - Violence. Against women. Who are Senators.1 hour ago
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This Exists and a Challenge! - Wonkette Lordy, you can buy a copy for just shy of $4k, but being thrifty Scissorheads I know we can do better. After all, MPS is not known for being the H...1 hour ago
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What is the matter with the DOJ - As a local prosecutor there was always a certain envy of our Federals counterparts. That envy was due to several factors (1) the fact that while local pr...1 hour ago
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May unemployment, april’s LPS mortgage monitor & personal income & outlays, march case-shiller, GDP revision, et al - [image: Payroll jobs added per month]a dismal employment report ended a week of generally weak economic data; according to the BLS establishment survey, ...
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YAF Camping Trip Pictures - The Friends Meeting of Washington YAF (Young Adult Friends) camping trip pictures.6 hours ago
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Stupid Rethug Voter Suppression Tricks - Who's the fascist here, Jonah? Any wonder why you and your ilk are referred to as Rethugs?7 hours ago
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"Urinetown" opens June 7th - What would it be like if a private corporation ran public toilets where you HAD to pay to use in order to take care of your private business? Find out when ...
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ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT PROGRESSIVE ERUPTIONS - *Progressive Eruptions [and its blog hostess] is pleased to report that it got a very nice shout-out in About.com's Business and Finance/Women in Business ...7 hours ago
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every day is like sunday - romney's health care plan would result in 58 million people losing their health insurance nevada gop officials resign after ron paul supporters take over s...9 hours ago
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Once more into the breach dear friends - If you thought that religious based homophobia among what are supposed to be the most learned among us was dead, then you'd be dead wrong. It's been repor...12 hours ago
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Surely a Little More Bombing Would Get Me the Love That's Rightfully Mine - So Gallup has discovered that majorities or pluralities in every Arab country they polled (Algeria, Comoros, Palestine, Mauritania, Egypt, Lebanon, Yemen...13 hours ago
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I lie, I owe, so off to jail I go. - Before I drop this next post I want to acknowledge all the beautiful people I met at the* Blogging While Brown* conference over the past two days. *( Ansle...
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Randomness: Capitalism’s a Bitch - Advertising, the last frontier of fresh ideas and art in America. Capitalism has left us a whole lotta' shite, but you have to admit...sometimes it's funny...16 hours ago
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Sunday Open Thread - *Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision. * [image: Marion Zimmer Bradley] Marion Zi...17 hours ago
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You Don't Get to Talk About Plantations - Look. You don't get to do this. You just don't. I know it's some kind of intolerable burden on my fellow white people, not being able to say shit that can ...22 hours ago
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Professional Left Podcast Bonus Edition - [image: ProfessionalLeft] In which Blue Gal interviews Mr. John Fugelsang for Crooks & Liars. driftglass
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George Thorogood and the Destroyers, Massey Hall, Toronto, ON - George Thorogood and the Destroyers were in town tonight at Massey Hall and Gord and I were there. We saw them four years ago. The first time I saw them w...
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Caturday; Guest Species Edition - At least the camel was smart enough to point its ass into the slipstream.
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Secret ‘Tea Party’ Money Slushing in Wisconsin - A Sacramento California political consulting/media circus company running a completely opaque astroturf operation in a Wisconsin recall battle? A group not...1 day ago
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The OB Rag Did NOT Endorse Scott Peters for Congress – Peters’ Flier Tries to Trick Voters - Candidate Scott Peters has been blanketing his expensive, slick fliers all over the 52nd Congressional District. Today, his latest flier arrived, and lo an...1 day ago
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Bank of America is anti Gun. Turned dowmed McMillans business!!! - After doing business there for years BOA has turned down McMillans business because they are no longer just a parts company They make Guns! After all the ...1 day ago
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Post #419: Six Years and Counting - Early on the morning of 2 June 2006, I received an e-mail from a woman who had read some of the comments I had been making on the deliciously subversive w...
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Favorite Things - Beech trees and purple flowers! Walks in the park--right park but that's not me!Birdwatching--this is not me! Reading books--again, not me in this picture! ...
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Drowning Our Troubles At The Brewery - Burnside Brewery Goddess Molly Fox Dave called me on his new Mobile Cellular Telephone the other day while he was on a walk and I was home writing. I was at ...
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New Memes In Old Bottles 11 - The Official Portrait - [image: The Official Portrait] Apparently, my favorite muse has returned to the site of his misdeeds long enough to commemorate his presence in *some* sort...2 days ago
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"A Critigue of The New York Times 'Secret Kill List' Article" - If you have not seen this exceptionally well written response on Extreme Liberal's Blog to a recent New York Times article, it is a must read. With enviable ...2 days ago
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storyboarding myself - Along with running with them another thing we're not supposed to do with scissors is cut our own hair. I'd been meaning to find somebody new to cut mine...
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Interview with John Fugelsang for Crooks and LIars - Curse you, phone connection with Blue Gal! It took a couple of tries, and do you KNOW how hard it is to find an actual working land line in California t...
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Tommy - [image: http://lifeofdad.com/] Life of Dad There are plenty of websites about motherhood. Like Babble, I suppose, which likes to pretend it's inclusive, bu...
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Man Kills roomate and ate the victim’s heart and part of his brain - video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player zombie apocalypse2 days ago
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Getting better huh? - HP laid of 27,000 . Research in motion is laying off 5000. That is Real people who no longer have jobs.32,000 people. Recession huh? Get a sideline. Everyb...2 days ago
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The Masses Are Asses: Financially Struggling White People Support Mitt Romney? - During every presidential election campaign in recent memory the pundit classes have tried to figure out the riddle of the white working class (male) vot...
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Never surrender - EDIT: False alarm. Must have been a gremlin in YouTube’s tubes. Filed under: General Blogging3 days ago
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Loving vs. Being Love - There is a difference between Loving and being love. When you are loving like when you are sending love. There is you and the object of your love, and ther...5 days ago
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in a nutshell - Whenever I get annoyed with someone -- workmates, bosses, teachers, students, friends, whoever -- I play a little mental game with myself; I call it "in a ...5 days ago
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I’m not surprised, shitheads !!! - so why should you be ! people in the U.S. are so stupid when things turn for the worse they act like “gee whiz” I never thought it would turn out this bad ...5 days ago
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twenty six years - Twenty six years ago.... my boy Bubba bounced into my life. It has been interesting ever since... ...... even though he has changed a bit. *HAP...
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A glimpse into reality with Angela Merkel - *IT'S FACEPALM TIME* Politicians.. They just can't keep it to themselves. Sometimes the matrix glitches and during this opportunity we get to peek into the...
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War Criminal Hypocrite - President George W. Bush and seven of his administration's top officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and ...
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We Have Been Flooded Out of Our Home.....( and do see the Posts and photos below...) - Ok...so you all know that 6-6 and I were trying to get to Brooklyn, and we had started to pack. And we were still looking, and that even our Landlord was ...
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Precious Knowledge: Movie to move America - The film *Precious Knowledge* airs on PBS's Independent Lens on May 17. I've seen the movie, and it is a knock-out. Don't miss this show on Thursday at ...
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The US Postal Service Needs You - It really annoys me to hear people speak disparagingly of the United States Postal Service. The post office is specifically authorized in Article I, Sectio...3 weeks ago
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NYAN CAT 2012 - Nyan Cat has worked tirelessly these past four years to deliver the hopey change he promised and you demanded. There have been victories along the way, ...
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You Are Here But I Am Not Anymore - In case you missed it, I am done here and have moved to Wordpress. Please adjust your Bookmarks and head on over to this link for your usual dose of outrage...5 weeks ago
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This and That in Troubled Times - Fair warning... this post rambles...:-) I started writing about something very practical...A prep that is easy, cheap and works for people as well as chick...5 weeks ago
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A Very Telling Quote - McDonough manages to say *exactly* what is wrong with Big Food, Big Pharma, Big Medicine in America in 81 words. Good job! So here's where I get radical. ...5 weeks ago
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Racism I Found Today: Non-Black Version of “The Talk” - I’m late hearing about this terrible and blatantly racist article. It’s written as a response to recent articles about “the talk” that black parents have ...5 weeks ago
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Casino Movie Marathon! - I've been working on an art commission that has a kind of retro casino feel so I've been watching some gambling movies to kind of get in the mood... The fi...
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Official Flyer for MayDay - via Las Vegas May Day Coalition - May Day in Las Vegas See original post on Las Vegas May Day Coalition Blog [image: Bookmark and Share] [image: Bookmark and Share]
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Pistol Packin' Pippa - Riding the carousel of hope Celebrities are people who like to pretend that they've done something. That's a compromise between the desire to be importan...
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Chinese Chicken - In Japan they have cafes where you PAY to pet cats and drink (nonalcoholic) beverages!! BY THE HOUR! "At Calico, one of Tokyo’s most popular cat cafes, one h...2 months ago
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Rally for Religious Freedom (Wall Street) - Today hundreds of not thousands of religious folk are protesting a NYC law that forbids religious groups from holding religious services in public schools....2 months ago
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Steamed? You Bet! - The Stanley Steemer dudes: The creepy balding guy who is driving the pedovan company truck comes across as a serial killer who took that job so that he c...
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Republican’s Infighting Giving Obama An Edge - As my single cup coffee maker was churning out aromatic coffee in the kitchen, news on the upcoming US election flashed on the screen. Who is your cup of...2 months ago
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Hacked - While I was recovering from having a broken tooth (with an exposed nerve and a long and healthy root) pulled with not much more than fancy pliers (hold tha...3 months ago
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Citizens United Insures America Has the Finest Political Candidates That Money Can Buy - [image: Due to the 2010 ruling by the US Supreme court, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, corporations and unions are no longer barred from...3 months ago
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Great Depression II - From a N.Y. Times commenter: I'm... an independent who could not bring myself to vote for any of these republican candidates. In fact, I believe they would...3 months ago
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Come On Over to Our New Pad, MOMocrats.com - Hi! If you've come to us from the Washington Post article that mentions PunditMom (yay! also a MOMocrat and running the 2012 election coverage at iVillage) a...4 months ago
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Could the Beatles be saved? - The main thing that broke up the Beatles was leadership. When the Beatles first began, John Lennon saw the group as his band, and no one disputed it, at leas...4 months ago
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Politics that are fucking hilarious! - I'm in love with all these republican candidates. Really, I absolutely LOVE them. Look, they are the greatest piece of political entertainment to hit the m...5 months ago
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Maher: Indicative of an Asshole in Real Time. - Update: Thanks to reader @ribletsonthepan for tracking down the clip in question. I’ll try and find a more stable version, given that it may not remain on ...6 months ago
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Bad Habit Update…kinda sorta - Hi friends, Just to let you know that Bad Habit is not shutting down for good, but will remain on hiatus until the new year. I know I’ve been going from da...7 months ago
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What'd I say - Years later, and with new technology, we still can't make records that sound better than this:
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How To Succeed In Politics Without Really Trying - *HOW TO SUCCEED IN POLITICS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING* *A New Musical* *Act I* J Andrew Boener ("Jab"), a young member of the country club set has a mind for...
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Trying To Trap A Freeman - In the immortal words of Adm. Akbar...... And that precisely what this is: Dear Mr. Freeman, My name is Ali Akbar. I’m a 26 year-old African-American sm...
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Yeah, I am back again. But this may be the only one for a while. - Reading blogs today I found a reference to a blog post at DailyKos from 2005. Now I normally don't read much at the big orange anymore because I just can't...8 months ago
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Writing Tools: Idiots Who Think They're Great Because Other Idiots Respond to Them - I write for my local Patch*, a fun diversion that also pays a bit of extra pocket money so I can get my eyebrows threaded and keep Dilf in bon bons**. Fo...
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Get Off Mah Lawn - Lovely, lovely folks, as the head hancho of this here establishment it is with remarkable decisiveness that I announce I am closing up shop round here. ...
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It's Time for the FCC to Investigate "Fox News" for False Advertising - Now that Rupert Murdoch's neo Nazi media empire is facing controversy and criminal investigations in Britain, it's time to consider the illegal activities ...10 months ago
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Buh Bye Blogger! Moving to WordPress. - I am no longer posting to this damn Blogger blog. My new site can be foundhere, and the name is changed to *Leftwing Nutjob*..which is what it should be an...
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Bump... - I guess my link down below gets ignored... K.I.S.S. has moved: http://keepitsimplesurvival.wordpress.com/1 year ago
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Michigan my friend - the dumber you are the easier you fall Michigan my friend is the dumbest of all in these hard times who do we elect a vulturous cadre of reptilian descent ...1 year ago
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Where Have We Seen This Before? - I must admit that I'm having difficulty with this Dominique Whosis thing. On one hand, it does the heart good to see the head of the often-criminal IMF perp-...1 year ago
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Remember That Dress????? - Remember awhile back I bought this dress? I promised to put it on and show you! Well, here it is..... Not the greatest picture of me but .. when a 5 year ol...
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Jane Harmon to step down - Jane Harmon leaving Congress to become the next President of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. I'm sort of surprised, but it's quite a ...1 year ago
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Open Thread - Well, all the goodbye posts have been made, so this is really it. Comments on articles will continue to work for seven days after the articles were posted...1 year ago
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In Memoriam...Roger Ranch - Tuesday, I saw an email pop up with the title "Great Quote." I noted the author of the email was friend and fellow Progressive, Roger Ranch. I made sur...1 year ago
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Want What - A new poem.... Want What Sometimes I just want to separate Jump out This skin Evaporate Into thin air Into ether Into another body Who's happier than me So...
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Millionaire Matchmaker’s Patti Stanger should be a spokeswoman for damaged Black hair - I enjoy the Millionaire Matchmaker as much as the next couch potato, but there’s something about Patti Stanger’s “tough love” critiquing that irks the hell o...1 year ago
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Blankie release party Oct 1st! - Join us to celebrate the launch of Blankie™! a new designer blind box series by design company Aarting. We’ll be hosting the official release party which...
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We’ve Moved! - Our new website is up and running. Check us out at http://awfullibrarybooks.net Don’t worry all of the old posts and comments moved with us!1 year ago
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Thanks for listening to The Professional Left! - We are very grateful for your listenership, readership, and moral and financial support. Driftglass and Blue Gal (The Professional Left) are award-winning b...
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Final Blog - As most of you may have already heard, TheMom lost her long health battle on July 3rd. I am sorry I couldn't post any sooner than this but there have been ...1 year ago
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In the immortal words of Jean Paul Sartre, 'Au revoir, gopher'. - I left the democratic party today and registered in the Oregon Progessive Party. I encourage anyone in the state to also join the OPP. They need to get onl...
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Sirens Chronicles bids you adieu… - We will be closing up the site this week. It has been fun, informative and interesting with all the various authors/writers we have had over the couple of ...1 year ago
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Odds & Ends Sunday - It's time to cook up a storm and restock the freezer with my homemade TV dinners...First thing this AM I made a tamale pie from a new recipe ...turned out ...2 years ago
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Politics Plus has Moved - Please join me at our new location. http://www.politicsplus.org/blog I’ll leave this site up, because it is where we have been, but I’ll be turning off com...2 years ago
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"I'll Take the Dreaded Opera Category for $500 Alex" - Turandot [The Village] must be satisfied by being begged for marriage and having her pre-requisite riddles answered and never challenged or rebuked. She’...2 years ago
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Blog is Dead. Long Live Blog. - Well, my inner defeatist has triumphed over my better intentions. Considering I have nothing to add in terms of half-enlightened commentary to this ongoing c...2 years ago
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Sweet Home Alabama: ukelele version - Go on, you know you want to hear it: Forget the uke. She’s really good. If you doubleclick on the video, you get to Hayley Legg’s Youtube page, which has a...2 years ago
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Bye to Blogger.com! - I did it - I moved to WordPress. The new digs are: http://www.justaintrightblog.com I adore WordPress and have been working in development using it for man...2 years ago
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UFC 98 Happening This Very May 23rd - ...And oh what an event it threatens to be. Tapped for May 23rd at the MGM Grand Garden Arena (you can catch it on PPV starting 10 PM Eastern), this even...3 years ago
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Happy Birthday, BAC! - Darlings, it's BAC's birthday! I almost forgot, but Dr. Zaius reminded me. You simply must *go and wish her a happy birthday!*
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Sometimes There Are No Words - One of my favorite bloggers and frequent commenters has suffered a terrible loss. Fair and balanced commentary from a modest and reasonable conservative.3 years ago
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- political zazen
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- Reuters Iraq Summary
- Roll Call
- Samachar (India)
- Slashdot
- Some Historical Perspective
- Ted Rall online (Comics)
- The Daily Dish (Andrew Sullivan)
- The Daily Voice
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Get off the couch
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- College Dems
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- End the Death Penalty
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Stuff We've Been Digging...
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4 children left behind:
Thanks for that, I laughed!
And thanks for the link!
Oh boy, I hope I grow up to be just like Betty White.
I love Betty White! I would like her to school me too.
she is the best.....
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