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Just Jared (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
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Gas guzzler Jamie Lynn Spears fills up her Range Rover yet again as she heads to her second baby shower at a family friend's house in Liberty, Mississippi on Saturday. Last Friday, big sister Britney and mom Lynne threw the 17-year-old Zoey 101 star a baby shower. But this weekend, baby shower #2 is being [...]
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Art in NYC (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
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Here’s some more drawings I did this week in San Francisco or on the way to Emetrics Summit - or while I was just looking around -Here is a drawing I did on the 757 Jet on the way to SFOHere’s another drawing I did outside of the SF MOMA museum on Friday, shortly before [...]
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Celestial Junk (Free subscription) | yesterday
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Five hundred years from now, who will be lionized : "We sleep peaceably in our beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on our behalf." ( George Orwell ) It has always been so. Civilization and the ability to inflict violence go together, are inseparable. Our pampered elites cannot understand this and have no ability to understand this. They look upon men with guns like apes...
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Money Smart Life (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
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What college student do you know that isn't cheap? When you're in school every penny counts and you learn to manage your money on a very tight budget. Saving money simply becomes second nature to you. I was so cheap in college I used to: -Wear every last piece of clothing to delay paying for the laundry [...]
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Neatorama (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
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Some of NYPD's finests are in trouble: two undercover police officers ordered a black man out of his parked car with guns drawn … without realizing that the guy's an off-duty NYPD chief! "How you can not know or recognize a chief in a department SUV with ID around his neck, I don't know," a police [...]
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ShysterBall (Free subscription) | yesterday
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Pardon the politics for a moment, but reader Howard Horn writes in with a link to a choice story . Howard writes: Maybe this is beating a dead horse, but at least this has more practical implication to many of your readers than soccer or cricket. Apparently, Obama has a person on his team who applies an almost sabermatical analysis for courting delegates. The general parameters of the story -- a quiet...
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Gristmill (Free subscription) | yesterday
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By David Roberts Though the nation's pundits have decided that the primary race is over , someone failed to get Clinton the memo -- she is determined to stay in to the bitter end . The next primaries are in West Virginia and Kentucky, states where the number of poor whites is high and consequently the Obama campaign expects to get crushed ; there's a good chance that even if Clinton dropped out tomorrow,...
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Knowledge Problem (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
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Michael Giberson The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is thinking about prediction markets and is inviting public comments on several questions as it attempts to sort out questions of public interest and appropriate regulatory treatment. (Now that I've mentioned that...
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Saffron Trail (Free subscription) | yesterday
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To all Mothers, Soon-to-be Mothers, Mother-in-laws, Happy Mother's Day . I am spending the day at my mom's place today, eating Keerai Kootan for lunch. Recommended reading for today: Usha's It's Mother's Day at every meal - which completely reflects my own thoughts Shilpa's Black Forest Cake for Mother's Day Also, would like to congratulate my friend Raaga, her blog The Singing Chef has got rave reviews...
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THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS (Free subscription) | yesterday
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From the Independent : More than seven in 10 voters insist that they would not be willing to pay higher taxes in order to fund projects to combat climate change, according to a new poll. The survey also reveals that most Britons believe "green" taxes on 4x4s, plastic bags and other consumer goods have been imposed to raise cash rather than change our behaviour, while two-thirds of Britons think the...
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Dispatches from the Culture Wars (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
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Apparently from a real protest against the Beijing olympics, someone holding up a sign that says "Would we have allowed Nazi Germany to host the olympics?" Well, yes, we did. Thank you for playing. Read the comments on this post...
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Furious Seasons (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
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There's an interesting piece in today's New York Times discussing how some writers with serious mental illnesses--bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, according to the paper--have taken their writing online. That's of course nothing new to readers of this site which has...
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BrothersJudd Blog (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
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Nixonland: How The Right Stole Populism What: Panel and Book Signing When: Tuesday, May 20 5:30-7:30 PM Where: National Press Club 529 14th Street NW Washington, DC 20045 Who: Rick Perlstein, Campaign for America's Future Helen Thomas, Hearst Newspapers Chris Hayes, The Nation Ross Douthat, The Atlantic Moderator: Robert Borosage, Campaign for America's Future E Pluribus Nixon : A sweeping new social...
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Semicolon (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
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The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Welcome to this week’s Saturday Review of Books. Here’s how it works. Find a review on your blog [...]
