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R&BLers: Pulitzers & Publishing Trends
Pulitzer Prize winners for 2011 are. . .below the fold. The medal face you see here is the reverse side. Ben Franklin's profile from the Jean-Antoine Houdon bust is on the obverse. The whole medal...
View ArticleGUS: Silver Edition and Openthread!
Welcome, Welcome Back, or Welcome Home. GUS as you are willing and able.
View ArticleHoly Week, Holy Shariah?
I find it ironic that in his commentary “Holy Week, Holy Shariah” for Townhall.com, former action movie star turned pundit Chuck Norris (his byline says “columnist and impossible to kill”) reminds us...
View ArticleKat's Obama Administration Report, 4/19/11, Part 4
Part 4 features: - In honor of Earth Day, there will be a special Open for Questions event livestreamed from the South Lawn of the White House on April 21. - New White House phone apps to get alerts...
View ArticleI'm disappointed in what I read today.
Go to this diary by FishOutofWater to follow the major tornado outbreak happening right now across the Midwest. I'm not mad, or seething, or any of those snappy adjective that folks, including myself,...
View ArticleHelp Progressive Kick boot the Republican 8 out of office!
Unless you've been living under a rock for the past few months, you've no doubt heard about what's going on in here in Wisconsin. Republican Governor Scott Walker and his Republican yes-men (and...
View ArticleMovie Going Public Shrugged
Yes, Objectivists, the movie adaptation of Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged, Part One" opened in 299 theaters/movie screens this weekend. That is a decent number of screens for an independent production....
View ArticleFavorite Songs: Spirit Edition
Well hey there folks! It's Tuesday night so it's that time again where we leave the bad news and politics behind and escape into our favorite songs. Now I know it's Easter week and Passover as well,...
View ArticleWhy Trump Gets Traction From Trade
Donald Trump is getting traction. He is talking about trade, jobs, China, manufacturing, China, jobs, China and China -- and it is resonating with a public sick of being told to ignore what they can...
View ArticleSupport the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
I have benefited from the process. So have many other teachers. Allow me to offer once again a promotional film in which I appear. Pass it on to your schools and school systems and policy makers as...
View ArticleKnow Your Caucuses: Parsing the Budget Votes
Last Thursday and Friday were a busy couple of days in the House, with the passage of Paul Ryan’s Medicare-eviscerating budget and the defeat of a panoply of other budget options, including Democratic...
View ArticleTech Kos: Three Tools for Working with PDFs
In an increasingly Adobe PDF world -- thankfully in my view, as I don't like having to pass around Microsoft Word documents -- it's useful to be aware of some tools that make dealing with PDFs easier....
View ArticleHow to Not Reduce Your Household Debt
(cross posted at Where The Vulture Glides Descending) Deficit hawks (or “deficit peacocks” as many on the left prefer to call them, since they plainly have no actual interest in doing what needs to...
View ArticleErotic Entertainment: women beating up homeless men
I have to admit to feeling just a bit of guilt when I watch and enjoy "combat" sports such as football and boxing (I played the former and did the later in PE class). But these activities feature...
View Article#opmetalgear & The Anonymous Movement
Radio Free Kansas features a recent (April 16) interview with fellow Kossak Barrett Brown, the most visible spokesperson for those lulzcatz, Anonymous. In a listener call in format, Brown talks about...
View ArticleS&P outlook to "negative" - how will this affect your retirement?
Disclaimer: I am not a conservative, nor am I a Republican. I'm a believer that in the wingers' rush to slap Reagan's name on everything to "protect" his "legacy", they've neglected the one thing that...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court won't fix the climate.
Today, the Supreme Court held oral arguments in the only environmental case this term, American Electric Power Co. vs. Connecticut. Suffice to say that the Justices sounded downright skeptical of the...
View ArticleTampa Bay's Steve Downie and Pittsburgh's Chris Kunitz each received one-game...
Tampa Bay's Steve Downie and Pittsburgh's Chris Kunitz each received one-gamesuspensions for separate hits in Monday's Game 3 of their Eastern Conferencequarterfinals series. Burnside:Wouldn't It Be...
View ArticleDownie and Kunitz who is right?
Kunitzhit Tampa Bay forward Simon Gagne with an elbow to the head in the first periodand was given a minor penalty. "Kunitz delivered an elbow directly tothe head of his opponent," Colin Campbell, the...
View ArticleHey Birthers! Take a freakin' number and get in line.
Hey morans! You've got questions about how a black man could get in the White House? Think there's some kind of coverup, some kind of conspiracy? Think he couldn't possibly be a genuine real born...
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