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Bah humbug (sort of)

Tuesday, December 23, 2008 7:53 PM
I love many aspects of Christmas, but I completely fail in selecting gifts, shopping for them, and especially wrapping them. I can never pick out the right gift, I completely despise shopping, and my gift-wrapping looks like it was done by a blind orangutan
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Nationalizing the banks, regime change, and William Jennings Bryan

Wednesday, October 08, 2008 10:24 PM
Just a few short years ago, no one would have thought this sentence even a remote possibility : Having tried without success to unlock frozen credit markets, the Treasury Department is considering taking ownership stakes in many United States banks to
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Google Chrome released into the wild

Tuesday, September 02, 2008 8:56 PM
Today's tech buzz has been all about Google's release of its very own web browser, Chrome . I've seen tons of breathless blog posts, comments, and Twitter updates about this over the last 24 hours; hordes of people were eager to start downloading it the
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Paris responds

Tuesday, August 05, 2008 8:08 PM
Via Rex Hammock , Paris Hilton responds to McCain's recent sleazy ad depicting Obama alongside her and Britney Spears: Maybe I'm showing my age, but it seems like every presidential campaign becomes ever more surreal than the last one. Share this post:
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Marsha Blackburn and other wingnuts sign off on theocracy

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 10:50 PM
Thirty-one members of the US House of Representatives seem to think the establishment of an American theocracy is a more urgent matter than any of the economic, military, or environmental problems we face. Those 31, including Tennessee's own resident
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Knox County Commission admits to breaking the Sunshine Law

Monday, March 24, 2008 11:40 PM
As a consequence of this debacle in our local government, Knox County Commissioners are under a court order not to violate the Sunshine Law again, under penalty of fines and possibly even jail time. Given the events of the last year and a half in this
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Pentagon buries report showing no links between Saddam and al Qaeda

Thursday, March 13, 2008 10:09 PM
Up until yesterday, the Pentagon planned to release a landmark survey of over 600,000 seized Iraqi documents that showed conclusively there was no connection between al Qaeda and the regime of Saddam Hussein. At the last minute, the Pentagon decided to
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Is it irony, or is it karma?

Thursday, March 06, 2008 9:42 PM
I'll bet Dick Cheney's head is about to explode : Iraq and China are close to re-signing a $1.2 billion oil deal that was called off after the 2003 U.S. invasion, an Iraqi Oil Ministry official said Thursday. [...] Saddam Hussein's government signed a
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White House email: my dog ate it

Friday, January 18, 2008 11:42 AM
First, there's this : The White House possesses no archived e-mail messages for many of its component offices, including the Executive Office of the President and the Office of the Vice President, for hundreds of days between 2003 and 2005, according
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FBI wiretaps canceled for not paying the phone bill

Thursday, January 10, 2008 6:10 PM
This is just too funny : Telephone companies have cut off FBI wiretaps used to eavesdrop on suspected criminals because of the bureau's repeated failures to pay phone bills on time. [...] In at least one case, a wiretap used in a Foreign Intelligence
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