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Study shows iPhone users are deviant egomaniacs | BlackBerry Cool

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:47:50 -0500

Study shows iPhone users are deviant egomaniacs | BlackBerry Cool

Volunteers are too expensive for cash-strapped legal aid agencies

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:45:51 -0400

Volunteers are too expensive for cash-strapped legal aid agencies

"Ronald Reagan was fond of saying, “Don’t just do something, stand there.” While..."

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:46:44 -0400

“Ronald Reagan was fond of saying, “Don’t just do something, stand there.” While this may sum up the approach of a certain kind of complacent, anti-government conservatism, the sentiment is not only politically suicidal but also unethical in a country where mass unemployment and mass foreclosures have littered the landscape with rotting houses and rotting lives. Like the New Deal Democrats, today’s Democrats need to experiment ceaselessly, trying and abandoning programs until they find some that succeed in putting Americans back to work in a productive economy.”

- That sound you hear is the social fabric about to snap | Salon

Pete Campbell Is A Rapist

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:07:28 -0400

Pete Campbell Is A Rapist

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Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:23:06 -0400

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We’re Number 37 (via paulhipp)

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:41:53 -0400

We’re Number 37 (via paulhipp)

Republican politicians have no empathy | Salon

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:30:44 -0400

Republican politicians have no empathy | Salon

"In the past 18 months, California’s five largest insurers paid almost $19 million in fines for..."

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:27:14 -0400

“In the past 18 months, California’s five largest insurers paid almost $19 million in fines for marooning policyholders who had fallen ill. That includes a $1 million fine against Health Net, which admitted offering bonuses to employees for finding reasons to cancel policies, according to company documents released in court.”

- As ‘Rescissions’ Spawn Outrage, Health Insurers Cite Fraud Control - washingtonpost.com

"New Hampshire residents pay the third highest health insurance premiums in the U.S. It hasn’t always..."

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:19:11 -0400

“New Hampshire residents pay the third highest health insurance premiums in the U.S. It hasn’t always been this way. The numbers are simple and stark: individual health insurance in New Hampshire costs about $5200 a year.”

- State Health Insurance Rates Among Highest, Fastest Growing in the U.S. | New Hampshire Public Radio

"Well, the real Death Panels want to make sure that the disenfranchised, the poor, the people of..."

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:45:05 -0400

“Well, the real Death Panels want to make sure that the disenfranchised, the poor, the people of color, and anyone else they fear remain cut off from decent health care. These Death Panels want to have health care only for those who can afford to pay, the best money can buy, if you have it. They want the health care insurance industry to turn a profit for their investors by un-enrolling persons with life-threatening “pre-existing conditions”, and limiting the care of those who they deign worthy of keeping on their rolls. Who are the real Death Panels? They are the obstructionist groups that are using doublethink to ascribe evil motives to those who are working hard for health care reform. These obstructionists are the very people who want to decide who will live and who will die by denying access to health care to ALL Americans.”

- Blue Hampshire: Politics ::: The Real Death Panels

The iPhone Ad You’ll Never See : Living the...

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:12:46 -0400

The iPhone Ad You’ll Never See : Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)

Daily Kos: State of the Nation

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 10:42:34 -0400

Daily Kos: State of the Nation

"I hate my iPhone too! It does everything except basic phone functions well. Try making a call or..."

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:01:36 -0400

““I hate my iPhone too! It does everything except basic phone functions well. Try making a call or sending a text, or even just typing on the thing,” writes “Chase T.” The comment gets right to the heart of the collective annoyance: This allegedly revolutionary item, this magical gadget that promised to change our lives, fails at even the most elementary tasks.”

- My evil iPhone | Salon Life

"True, fear is partly a confidence issue. A horse that trusts its rider is far less skittish. Over..."

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:06:50 -0400

“True, fear is partly a confidence issue. A horse that trusts its rider is far less skittish. Over time, we learned to take care of each other. But nothing could keep Rusty calm around anything resembling a whip; I’m sure he had his reasons. Fear is, of course, largely a confidence issue among human beings, too. Anybody who’s watched flash mobs shouting down Senate and House members over the Obama administration’s health-insurance reforms ought to see that. For every dogmatic tough guy who’s channeling some talk-radio blowhard, there are many citizens who give every outward indication of being scared witless.”

- You won’t win the healthcare debate by calling people stupid racists | Salon

Free mp3 of one of my favorite songs at Last.fm = This Heart is...

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:45:05 -0400

Free mp3 of one of my favorite songs at Last.fm = This Heart is a Stone

This Modern World via salon.com

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:10:15 -0400

This Modern World via salon.com

UnionLeader.com - Manchester man sets record for largest cupcake...

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 08:21:52 -0400

UnionLeader.com - Manchester man sets record for largest cupcake - Sunday, Aug. 16, 2009

BBC NEWS | Bald penguin gets sunburn wetsuit

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:10:49 -0400

BBC NEWS | Bald penguin gets sunburn wetsuit

AFP: Pirates flee with million dollar booty, and toothbrushes

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:29:34 -0400

AFP: Pirates flee with million dollar booty, and toothbrushes

"The recent attacks by Republican leaders and their ideological fellow-travelers on the effort to..."

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 22:24:33 -0400

“The recent attacks by Republican leaders and their ideological fellow-travelers on the effort to reform the health-care system have been so misleading, so disingenuous, that they could only spring from a cynical effort to gain partisan political advantage. By poisoning the political well, they’ve given up any pretense of being the loyal opposition. They’ve become political terrorists, willing to say or do anything to prevent the country from reaching a consensus on one of its most serious domestic problems.”

- Steven Pearlstein - Steven Pearlstein: Republicans Propagating Falsehoods in Attacks on Health-Care Reform - washingtonpost.com