September 2009
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Brooklyn Church Offers to Help Synagogue Protested... →
Heartwarming story alert!: After Congregation Beth Elohim, one of the synagogues targeted by Fred Phelps’s anti-semitic hate protests, found on Thursday that their roof had collapsed, Rabbi Andy…
A luxury car for the environmentally enlightened... →
White House hosts farmers market →
one more reason to love Miss M
The Lucrative Business of Israel-Bashing - Jeffrey... →
France mulls health warning for fashion photos |... →
PARIS (Reuters) - French politicians want to stamp a health warning on photographs of models that are altered in order to make them more appealing; part of a campaign against eating disorders.
White House: Tripartite meeting to take place on... →
US announces surprise tripartite meeting despite Mitchell’s failure to break impasse over settlements; Palestinians play down meeting.
Personas | Metropath(ologies) | An installation by... →
Toxic Waters - Clean Water Laws Are Neglected, at... →
Social Responsibility Is Dead →
Rights Group Assailed for Analyst’s Nazi... →
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Eat it, Human Rights Watch.
A leading human right group has suspended its senior military analyst after revelations that he is an avid collector of Nazi memorabilia.
Dubinsky must wait to hit Rangers paydirt →
By the winter of 1998, Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera had established themselves as integral parts of what was then the Yankees’ embryonic dynasty. Jeter had won Rookie of the Year and Rivera had
Good Night and Tough Luck →
Usually the trouble starts with my having to use the bathroom. Even though I am 38 years old, I still find myself hoping the urge will just pass. Which it doesn’t.
Another…
The American Experience | Reagan | People &... →
Reading about the sad life of John Hinckley Jr. Holy crap.
Wells Fargo exec used Malibu Colony home lost by... →
Bernard L. Madoff’s massive fraud stunned some of the wealthy denizens of Malibu Colony, especially when a couple devastated by the scheme surrendered their oceanfront home to Wells Fargo Bank.
"Should I Buy It?" Flowchart Helps You Make... →
Advertisers would have us believe that we need a lot of things that we really only want, and that brand names are always better. This simple purchasing flowchart walks you through your…
Reefer Randomness: Pot Plants in Municipal Flower... →
Residents of Millville, New Jersey, a small town an hour from Atlantic City, are mystified as to how marijuana started growing in a parks department flower basket hanging from lamp posts on…
Eight Years On →
It’s the eighth year after the Islamic terrorist attacks that ripped a hole in downtown Manhattan and murdered almost 3,000 people. Today, I’m remembering the children who were killed that day, who…
Lobbying: Can farm groups kill the climate bill?... →
Despite a much-publicized deal struck for agriculture in the House energy and climate bill, many farm groups are lining up against the legislation emerging from Congress. The reluctance of groups…
H1N1 Swine Flu Facts Regarding Pork →
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hahaha, desperate pork lobby
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Americans Slacking on Volunteerism →
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step it up!
A survey undercut anecdotal reports that volunteers had flooded nonprofit groups as unemployment had increased in the current recession. - NYTimes
Woman receives a PhD ... in Texting →
Text Researcher Caroline Tagg, Phd in Texting
The First Amendment Is About To Be Redefined. -... →
Holocaust Denial Finds Place at Harvard Paper →
Temptation More Powerful Than Individuals Realize →
Could social media games revive local businesses?... →
my new online addiction. yum.
Laura Ling and Euna Lee: Hostages of the Hermit... →
The two American journalists released last month after being imprisoned in North Korea tell their story — and remind people of the story they wanted to cover.
Russia and Poland trade insults on 70th... →
The dignity of ceremonies to mark the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War in Poland is being marred by furious spats between Russia and Eastern European states over their…
Asia Times Online :: Middle East News, Iraq, Iran... →
Tintin 'to be sued' for Congo book -... →
A Congolese accountant is to launch a lawsuit in France against Tintin for racism, accusing judges in the cartoon hero’s native Belgium of trying to bury his case to protect a “national symbol”.
The pleasure of reading stories that don't bore →
“A good story is a dirty secret that we all share,” Lev Grossman writes in “Good Books Don’t Have to Be Hard, his essay in the August 29 edition of The Wall Street Journal. Grossman, the book…
Did Google Street View spot rapist/kidnapper... →
A followup on this earlier BB post about the wacko blog and gadget hallucinations of kidnapper/rapist (now also a murder suspect) Phillip Garrido.
Weighing in on that post, an astute…
Twitter 'Investigative' Journalism 101:... →
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whatever happened to good old fashioned Philosophy, Ethics, or Literature classes?
When we read this morning that a Chicago Tribune intern would be teaching a journalism school…
Disinfo.com - The Four-Day Workweek Is Winning... →
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if you don’t subscribe to Disinfo, do so now.
Bryan Walsh, TIME: In an era when most of us seem to be working more hours than ever (provided we’re still lucky enough to have jobs),…
Windows Mobile 7 to be a premium, multitouch beast... →
hmmmm
Union Square Ventures: A New York Venture Capital... →
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Anyone have any contacts here?
Union Square Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm based in New York City. The partners invest in young companies that use information…
Kurt Vonnegut explains drama →
The pleasure of reading stories that don't bore →
“A good story is a dirty secret that we all share,” Lev Grossman writes in “Good Books Don’t Have to Be Hard, his essay in the August 29 edition of The Wall Street Journal. Grossman, the book…
Witness Speeds To Nab Suspected Hit-And-Run Driver →
WCBS 2 spoke to a tow truck driver who decided to chase down a Nissan Maxima driver who apparently hit a pedestrian and left the scene. Peter Dinome said, “The pedestrian was crossing…
Did Google Street View spot rapist/kidnapper... →
A followup on this earlier BB post about the wacko blog and gadget hallucinations of kidnapper/rapist (now also a murder suspect) Phillip Garrido.
Weighing in on that post, an astute…
How Facebook Can Ruin Your Friendships - WSJ.com →
All this online social networking was supposed to make us closer. And in some ways it has. But some people just won’t shut up online—while others reveal far too much. As one exasperated user puts it,…
Best Buy Slashing HDTV Prices This Week →
Best Buy must be getting ready for Football season as the electronics retailer has “announced” plans (through a leaked flyer) to cut prices on their HDTV’s this coming week. The cuts…
FT.com / UK - Hachette chief laments digital... →
