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A very sensible decision was made by skippy the bush kangaroo to go to the Madonna concert instead of listening to that man on television. A poinient account: one of the more touching moments was when madonna, in army fatigues, sang a rendition of john lennon's imagine. in a flashback to times so reminiscent of today that no flashback was needed, the audience held aloft flaming cigarette

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New film by Jehane Noujaim, an Egyptian-American documentary filmmaker who spent a month with Al Jazeera at the beginning of the current war in Iraq. "Control Room" reviews, via mediacritic.com: The Christian Science Monitor "Control Room," a riveting new documentary about the Arab-run Al Jazeera network, reminds us that news programming can vary so widely from place to place that journalistic

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This post at Kitten of Doom inspired the purchase of this* so that we could make these: Trilobites are extinct marine animals which lived gazillions of years ago. Real trilobites may or may not have tasted like chicken. (who knows?) These cookies are the result of my most recent research into what ancient trilobites would have tasted like if primitive biochemical processes were based on jam/

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Scout at And Then... has a first-hand account of Day 1 of the Maine State Democratic Convention, plus political commentary. Here's some insider info for potential Nader voters on how not to count: Campaigns look at those who are registered to vote to trim down the number of people (and amount of money) they have to spend. Following this cut, they then look at people who actually voted. These are

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Today on NPR's Science Friday biology teacher Robert Dennison made a point which can't be stressed enough: the "debate" about evolution vs. creationism (recently redubbed the more palatable "intelligent design") is a social debate, not a scientific one. Scientists recognize that the understanding of evolution informs the basic understanding of biology. There is no debate among scientists about

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Good short fiction at Positive Liberty. I don't know why I swoon over subversion architects, but as it turns out, I do.* In those days, Thomas Frage was a subversion architect; quite possibly he was the best that ever lived. Frage's work cropped up anonymously, uninvited, all over the duchy. Usually no one noticed until it was entirely too late. Oh, yes, a good read. *Perhaps because

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Some good news for a change: Making Drugs, Not Profits: A married couple attacks neglected diseases of the developing world To make drugs affordable in places where annual family incomes were often less than the cost of an MP3 player, the first thing that would have to be jettisoned was the profit motive. ... The first obstacle was bureaucratic: getting Internal Revenue Service approval for a

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The Brick Testament: the Bible illustrated with Legos. Little Lego people star in stories about prostitution, incest, violence and other old-fashioned family values. (And that's just Genesis!) Via Jason Kuznicki at Positive Liberty and his plague-based post about the brood-x cicadas. (That's an Exodus story!)

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Just a little bit anti: Democrat John Kerry said Wednesday he's open to nominating anti-abortion judges as long as that doesn't lead to the Supreme Court overturning the landmark 1973 ruling that made abortion legal. ... Kerry said he has voted in favor of "any number of judges who are pro-life or pro-something else that I may not agree with," some of whom were nominated by Republican

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Did Peter Kenyon report on NPR today that the Iraqi wedding bombing story had pushed the Sivits court martial sentencing story "out of the lead" in both US and Arab-language news today? I do believe that is just how he ended his lead news report on the wedding bombing today. (I was driving and most certainly not taking notes.) The next news story was, yes, the Sivits court martial. So,

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The European Union lifted the ban on the sale of BT-11, a sweet corn produced by Syngenta, a Swiss biotech company: The European Commission defied public opinion and environmentalists on Wednesday by giving the go-ahead to a Swiss company to import the genetically modified sweet corn BT-11, effectively lifting a five-year ban. ... Wednesday's decision will certainly please the United States,

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As with my first post, filed under let's see what happens.

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Why has Sonia Gandhi declined to become prime minister of India? She led her Congress Party to a decisive upset victory against the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party. Manmohan Singh, the father of Indian economic reforms will become prime minister with Gandhi's full support. Gandhi will remain president of the Congress Party. There were a number of concerns about Sonia Gandhi as prime

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Just added these links to the sidebar: Alas, a Blog And Then... Echidne of the Snakes Galios John and Belle Have a Blog Language Hat One Good Thing Pandagon Respectful of Otters skippy the bush kangaroo Suburban Guerrilla TalkLeft This Modern World Next, actual content.

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Let's see what it's like to have a blog.

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