Sicilian police arrest Mafia boss
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A Mafia boss is arrested after 15 years on the run, in what police describe
as "one of the hardest blows" to the Sicilian crime group.
Debate on 9/11 trial follows partisan divide
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Washington (CNN) - Fearlessly demonstrating the majesty of U.S. justice or
acquiescing to terrorists by giving them undeserved rights and a public
platform...
How fast can you pack for Milan?
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Dear TJX,
Remember when I interviewed for the Buyer Program at your Headquarters 3.5
years ago? And I was crushed when I got that rejection email? BTW, it ...
Ayn Rand: The Bitch is Back
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There is a substantial take-down of pedantic bore Ayn Rand in GQ. They tease
it thusly: 2009’s most influential author is a mirthless Russian-American
who ...
Curbside Consult: Who's Winning the War on Drugs?
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*Harold Pollack is a professor at the University of Chicago School of Social
Service Administration and Special Correspondent for The Treatment.*
**
Ame...
2012 Destroys the Box Office
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Though John Cusack's disaster epic 2012 received mixed reactions from
critics, it earned $160 million worldwide and $65 million in North America
this weeke...
On the Road
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Apologies for the lack of activity here; I'm traveling on business. Regular
posting should resume in a few days, hopefully with an announcement about
2009'...
Wow. -- By: Jonah Goldberg
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Codepink:
The recent shootings at Ft. Hood and the resignation of top Foreign Service
officer Matthew Hoh demonstrate how even our military officers are op...
Sunday Happenings
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*Knife Play*
Japanese punk band Shonen Knife has been offer...
November Pain
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Everytime I turned on a radio this week, all I heard was
BradyManningBradyManningBradyManning. True, the Patriots and the Colts are
playing Sunday night. ...
Matchups Of The Week – Patriots at Colts
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By Dan Zeigarnik, Patriots Daily Staff The annual mid-season throw-down is
upon us once again. This game has big implications for postseason home field
adv...
Scared Of Planet Nibiru? NASA Would Like To Help
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According to numerous sources on the Internet, three years from now a planet
called Nibiru will collide with Earth, resulting in the extinction of the
huma...
Sunday Secrets
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PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people
mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard.
-----Email Message-----
I w...
The week ahead
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Finding a president and a foreign-policy chief for Europe, at last
• THE European Union at last holds a special summit on Thursday November
19th to selec...
Arts & Letters Daily (15 Nov 2009)
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Some of Shakespeare's plays, in the view of Edward Albee, could do with a
bit of a trim. Just don't suggest that to Albee about his own plays... more
Ro...
Where is Your Loyalty, Sarah Palin?
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As more bits from Sarah Palin's memoir trickle out, The Huffington Post
reports:
In the acknowledgments section of her book "Going Rogue", obtained by th...
Celebrations
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There are so many good things happening - lots of celebrations to share.
Firstly, the BloggerAid Cook Book is available for purchase on Create Space,
an a...
Ombudsdouche: Berman the AC-DC of announcing
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The Cold, Hard Football Facts are among the long list of stupid and/or jaded
knuckleheads who criticize ESPN broadcaster Chris Berman. The truth is that
Bo...
Dock Ellis And The LSD No-No
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On June 12, 1970, Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis took the mound in
San Diego while high on LSD.
A video from No Mas and James Blagden.
Ellis:
I ...
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One Million
Sometime last night this site got it's one millionth page view. I think
that's pretty cool. I know that number isn't that great when compared t...
Who’s Afraid Of A Falling Dollar?
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This guest post was submitted by Joe Gagnon, a senior fellow at the Peterson
Institute for International Economics. Joe is an expert on international
econ...
Tragedy or Scandal? -- By: Mark Steyn
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Shortly after 9/11, there was a lot of talk about how no one would ever
hijack an American airliner ever again -- not because of new security
arrangements ...
Pasta with Butternut Parmesan Sauce
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[image: Pasta with Butternut Parmesan Sauce]
One of the best things about fall is the abundance of pumpkins and hardy
winter squash. Ever wonder why winte...
Podcast: Did The Cash Bring The Clunkers?
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The government says cash for clunkers was a success, but not everyone
agrees. (Tony The Misfit/Flickr) var so = new
SWFObject("/player/media1/mediaplayer.s...
EconomPics of the Weeks (11/13/09)
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*Economic Data*
**
***United States
*The "Paradox of Deleveraging"
Civilian Hours vs. Real GDP
Consumers Don't Enjoy Unemployment
Trade Deficit Jumps in S...
Finest Foodies Friday – November 13, 2009
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IF YOU LIKE FOOD BLOGS, THIS IS THE PLACE TO BE EVERY FRIDAY! As always here
is what the FFF is all about. Finest Foodies Friday is a weekly Friday post
fe...
Cheerful Weekend Reading
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In a fit of timeliness, I have read the first volume of the report by the
Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Conflict in Georgia
(IIFFMC...
Oh Shit.
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Someone shit in the work bathroom at work today. We’re all assuming it’s a
client but who can really be sure? If you missed the toilet doing your
busine...
Japanese Aid to Afghanistan II
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*12 November 2009*
I asked General David Petraeus, General (ret.) Barry McCaffrey, and
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, about the Japanese decisions on...
4 Ways to REALLY Make Time Work For You
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I’ll bet you’ve got a number of started or almost-started projects that
you’d love to do. Perhaps you dream of starting your own business, writing a
novel,...
Economics focus: Secret sauce
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China’s rapid growth is due not just to heavy investment, but also to the
world’s fastest productivity gains
PRODUCTIVITY growth is perhaps the single mo...
[music] Serabee - Driving Me Stupid
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"*Like an automatic scan through FM radio at 2 second intervals,
singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Serabee’s Driving Me Stupid dips
into a variety of...
More extra storage for less
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Posted by Elvin Lee, Software Engineer
When Gmail launched five years ago, it came with a gigabyte of storage
space. A gigabyte doesn't seem like very much...
Rob Grom: John Dies @ the End
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A wonderful treat came upon me at the bookstore last week, when I saw this
book brazenly staring at me from across the room. WTF, I asked myself. Then
I p...
423 – Flow-Charting the Ring Trilogy
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Designed by J.R.R. Tolkien’s son Christopher and included in most editions
of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the map of Middle-Earth is one of the
best-k...
Good News
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Hi everyone, I wanted to take a moment to announce that yesterday was
Cassie’s last day of radiation treatments. It’s been a bumpy road since she
was first...
R.I.P. Geocities
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"Founded in 1994 as Beverly Hills Internet, what is now Yahoo GeoCities was one of the first services to offer an easy way for early Internet surfers to publ...
Roofs, Roads & Recaptures
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Over the past two weeks my hunting friends and I have pitched in alongside the landowner to reroof three of four surfaces of the the deer hunting cabin (we'l...
Hawai'i II
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This post will hopefully be more interesting than the last one (which mainly
consisted of a recitation of flight times and places). I'm now transitioning
o...
boston's 25 best
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inspired by my recent sightseeing tour of chicago (i'll tell you about it sometime), i'm setting off to see boston's 25 best (according to fodor's), the 25 m...
Seau returns to New England (again)
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The Versus Network, which is debuting a new show called "Sports Jobs with
Junior Seau," is reporting that Junior Seau has un-retired once again to
play f...
Swine flu H1N1 questions
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/10/health/10primer.html?_r=1&emc=eta1
Hi Everyone!
Here's a really great link for FAQs about the H1N1 (Swine) Flu vaccine tha...
wedding pictures
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Look what I found on that half-finished roll of film that’s been sitting in
my Leica since August!
[image: Wedding #3]
[image: Wedding #0]
[image: Wedding...
Lenka
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Here's *Lenka*, she is my family's latest favorite singer! You should see my
son's dancing with the song while my daughter's singing, and my wife's
cheerin...
What I believe.
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The humor is flying! Jokes everywhere! Some of them justified, some more
than justified, some not so much. I have zero experience in passing a piece
of leg...
August 2009 Wrap up
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There will be no running tomorrow because >100 miles this month is enough. Monthly wrap up: Month Miles # of runs Average pace Nike+ goal January '08 52.31 1...
DC Beer Week
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DCist has a great round up of the DC Beer Week events here.
I actually don't think we're going to attend any of these events...
shocking, I know.
We thoug...
Wondering why peekaboo post hack doesn't work?
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I have not been blogging for a long time and not been visiting my website
anniyalogam.com for ages. Just recently when I tried to access it, I saw
that the...
open letter to roo roo
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Amanda's recent post about not being able to write immediately made me think
of this meme that I found a long time ago. In May 2008 I started writing
this ...
that elusive "real" job.
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The other day I had my first realization that I don't want a "real" job.
Maybe ever. This both excites and scares me. Ever since I quit my office job
to tr...
Things Strangers Normally Don’t Discuss
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Dear Bachelorette Party Attendee*: Thanks for agreeing to come to the
bachelorette party. Regarding your offer of cupcakes, perhaps some
phallic-decorated...
Check Out Noam Scheiber's New Blog, THE STASH
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Dear Reader: Admit it, you’ve been quietly biding your time, waiting for the
day when politics would stop being about output gaps and credit default
swap...
The End
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It doesn't take a genius to see that this site has been on life support for
more time that I care to mention: 40 posts in the past year - including 12
in ...
excuse me
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This lends to a longer tirade in which I will engage shortly but a note on
something that really "grinds my gears"
I do not care how long you have been a r...
Get into showbiz at BollywoodJobs
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If you’ve always wanted to work on either side of the big screen, the social
network BollywoodJobs is here to help. BollywoodJobs has a forum full of job
l...
MyBlogLog: We know what’s hot
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It’s no secret that MyBlogLog has its finger on the pulse of the online
world. With over 450,000 blog communities and roughly 645,000 members, along
with t...
feelin' groovy
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Tonight I played the 59th Street Bridge Song while driving over the 59th
Street Bridge. I got no deeds to do, no promises to keep I'm doubtful and
drowsy a...
Post #1377: The Relatively Short Goodbye
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Hello, everyone.
After 21 years, and almost 40 million posts (we'll have to check those
numbers, but it's something like that), we have decided to bring F...
Heirloom Tomato, Basil and Brie Bread Pudding
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As I mentioned a few weeks ago, tomatoes have been the stars of the September CSA shares. In addition to the wonderful salsa I made with them, I was inspired...
Home again: part dos
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Before I end the night of July 4th I forgot one funny detail. There was one
too many people to sleep in the fancy condo. Solution? Put three people in
the ...
Retirement -- Full Circle
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1 March 2008 the day I was retired from the Marine Corps after 25 years. I
spent my first 8 years on active duty and the last 17 as a reservist. I have
c...
Not to be Overly Dramatic…
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But if you’ve ever commented, read, suscribed in a reader, wanted to read
but haven’t got around to it, read but hated it but loved to hate it, want
to hav...
Leave Early, Leave Often
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I love starting my days early. I try to time my morning departure so that I
can arrive at work just when the horizon is getting on its way to full
blossom....
CES is Insane
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They have a 150 inch plasma. There's a "life wall" that lets you interact with a wall. GPS devices in everything. And lamborghinis pimped until they scream (...
The Last Jews In Berlin
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Published: 1982.
This is the real-life story of some of the few of them - a young mother, a
scholar and his countess lover, a black-market jeweler, a fas...
Welcome to FeedBurner
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Welcome to FeedBurner, mrhe25. This is your personalized feed that we use to
communicate with you. If you would like to change your feed settings, just
go ...
Peg-Holed!
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Representative for geriatric psychiatric unit at unnamed mental care
facility:
" I think you are better suited to working with a population such as youth
w...
Finally!
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I've just returned home from signing a contract with a school for the
2007-2008 school year. I am officially the new Group 4 (more to come on
exactly what ...