links for 2008-07-17
•17 July 2008 • No Commentslinks for 2008-07-02
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If anything highlights that there’s a whole segment of modern men in American society seriously fucked up about their identity, it’s this knee-jerk reaction to currying favor with the cool jock who’s got the testes-cred they feel they lack.
links for 2008-06-20
•20 June 2008 • No Comments-
National Dump the Pump Day today. This may explain the crowded buses this morning.
links for 2008-06-15
•15 June 2008 • No Comments-
Late last month, Dallas-based Kimberly-Clark Corp. said it will raise prices 6 percent to 8 percent on Huggies diapers, Kleenex tissue and other items starting in July. Procter & Gamble and Colgate-Palmolive also have raised prices on some products, and o
links for 2008-06-13
•13 June 2008 • No Comments-
Memo to the Pentagon: if a soldier cannot hold their weapon, then they really do need to come home. Now.
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Heckuva job, Dubya.
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John Scalzi brings it.
links for 2008-06-11
•11 June 2008 • No Comments-
Nice. He didn’t even bother to show up for the vote. See, he knows what it is like to be a soldier. Like most soldiers, he returned home, divorced his model wife because she had become fat and married a multi-millionaire. Now he collects a sweet 58 thou
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By instituting a pol-icy of torture in the years following 9/11, we have recruited thousands to al-Qaeda’s side. It has been a tragic waste.
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For the first time ever, MSNBC’s “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” was the #1 show at 8 p.m., out-drawing Fox News’s “O’Reilly Factor” head-to-head among Adults 25-54.
links for 2008-06-10
•10 June 2008 • No Comments-
SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS!
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I guess it was too much to hope that this guy was living under a bridge somewhere.
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The rush to mass transit is accentuating what has been plain for years — that America’s investment in its public transportation infrastructure is glaringly, perilously inadequate
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The top executives of two national organizations warned that a severe federal funding shortage for roads and bridges is imminent.
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In 2000, yellow grease was trading for 7.6 cents per pound. On Thursday, its price was about 33 cents a pound, or almost $2.50 a gallon.
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I worry about Joel and Ruth when I read articles like this.
