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some light reading....
IT'S TRUE!!!
Please Keep in Mind
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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After Bibi: Maybe the solution to the Boehner Problem is to consider whether we really, absolutely need a House speaker - *Plus some thoughtier thoughts than Bibi's on Iran* *Okay, I admit I fell crazy mad in love with this "manufactured" image when our colleague Gaius Publiu...
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Bad Ads, Cont. - Barefoot, pregnant, and in the …dryer? (Hat tip: Scissorhead Patrick Bjork)Filed under: Badvertising4 hours ago
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Your Republican Congress at Work - *While everyone’s attention was focused on the Senate and the Keystone XL decision on Tuesday, some pretty shocking stuff was quietly going on in ...
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A Different Justice System for the Rich and Powerful - Gen. David Petraeus gets a slap on the wrist: He gets to plead to a single misdemeanor with no jail time. Even though he admitted to lying to Federal agent...9 hours ago
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Netanyahu Speaks To Congress Making Claims Disputed By Mossad - Despite Israel’s own intelligence agency, the Mossad, disagreeing with his assertions, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a hawkish speech to t...10 hours ago
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Eric Holder's Parting Shot - Looks like the Justice Department is going to come down hard on Ferguson.11 hours ago
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The Facts Don’t Matter if You’re Liberal, Guys! - WIN THE MORNING: The journalists who raised the red flags on O’Reilly’s statements — David Corn and Daniel Schulman, of Mother Jones — started at a disadv...14 hours ago
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Games People Play - David Brooks is writing about his divorce again: *If you are like me you know a lot of relationships in which people haven’t managed this sort of transit...
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Good Reading and Good Blogs
- Al Jazeera
- All Africa
- all kinds of stuff (JohnK.)
- AlterNet
- AP/Reuters Photo Wire
- Beta News
- Bitter Lemons (Israel - Palestine)
- Bloomberg News
- Canadian Alternative
- Common Dreams
- Crooks and Liars
- CTV News (Canada)
- Daily Kos
- Democratic Underground
- Glen Greenwald (The Salon)
- Guerrilla News Network
- Haaretz (Israel)
- Inside Iraq
- Inter Press Service
- International Herald Tribune
- Iraq Blog Count
- Meet in the Lobby
- MSNBC First Read
- New York Times Politics Page
- Political Animal (Kevin Drum)
- political zazen
- Real Clear Politics
- Reuters Iraq Summary
- Roll Call
- Samachar (India)
- Slashdot
- Some Historical Perspective
- Ted Rall online (Comics)
- The Daily Dish (Andrew Sullivan)
- The Daily Voice
- The Nation
- The Onion
- The Smirking Chimp (Matt Taibbi)
- Truth Out
- U.K. Independent
- U.N. News Center
- U.S. News and World Report
- Village Voice
- Voice of America
Get off the couch
- An Enduring Legacy
- Any Soldier
- Boycott O'Reilly
- Bring Back Arrested Development
- College Dems
- End Animal Cruelty
- End the Death Penalty
- Foundation for Middle East Peace
- New Israel Fund
- No War in Iran
- NORML (Reform Pot Laws)
- Not Your Soldier
- P.I.R.G.
- Peace Now
- Picken's Plan
- Save Africa's Children
- Save the Whales--but Kill the Seals
- Save Tibet
- Students for Sensible Drug Policy
- The Climate Project
- The Color of Change
- The Green Foundation
- United for Peace
- We Can Solve It
- Why Tuesday
- Working for Change
Stuff We've Been Digging...
- 2008 Election Videos
- A Time to Fight: Reclaiming a Fair and Just America -- Sen. Webb
- Aarting Designer Toy Competition
- Blackwater
- Body of War
- Fire Breathing Liberal (Rep. Wexler)
- Generation Kill
- The Great American Hypocrites
- The Great Derangement
- The Shock Doctrine
- Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed: A Judicial Indictment Of War On Drugs
* Another Victim of the Drug War *
(Click the photo above to find out about this senseless murder)
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3 comments:
Mmmph, deeper, deeper.
oh she can go deeper my friend... she has that big empty cavity in her head where her bbbbbraaaainss are supposed to be.
That gets me excited. Take it all Michelle. . . you hot sexy freak, you.
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