U.S. Metro Home Prices Fall, But Sales Rise
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Home prices fell in eight out of every 10 U.S. cities in the third quarter
of this year as heavily discounted distressed sales made up 30 percent of
all de...
Don't Drink and Ride
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The big story up in Boston is about a drunk woman who fell on the train
tracks at North Station and, were it not for the quick thinking of her
fellow str...
First on the Ticker: Romney to speak at Reagan Ranch
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(CNN) - Mitt Romney is heading to Reagan country. The former Massachusetts
governor is scheduled to speak this Friday to the Young America's Foundation
at ...
Mad Men: Would Betty have brought sandwiches?
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Week 13: Would Betty have brought sandwiches?
[more ...]
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Add to Reddit] [im...
Those Wacky Germans -- By: Hans A. von Spakovsky
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One final (but less serious) note about West Berlin and the fall of the
Berlin Wall. One of Billy Wilder’s lesser-known movies, but an absolutely
hilario...
Sexism, Racism at N.Y. Post?
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Sandra Guzman, a former editor at the New York Post who was fired in
October, filed a complaint in federal court on Tuesday alleging systematic
racism and ...
Today in "Too Big To Fail": More Shrinkage Momentum
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Very interesting development on the "too big to fail" front today: The *Journal
*reports that Colorado Rep. Ed Perlmutter is planning an amendment to the ...
Surprise: Burglaries Down Despite Downturn
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By Daniel Costello During recessions, crime tends to rise, especially
burglaries and other financial-related offenses. In a big surprise,
burglaries are do...
Fort Hood shooter frequented strip club
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Just like Atta and Co. And the obvious conclusion is in this article:
"Hasan's presence at the club paints a starkly different portrait of the
alleged kill...
Fort Hood shooter frequented strip club
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Just like Atta and Co. And the obvious conclusion is in this article:
"Hasan's presence at the club paints a starkly different portrait of the
alleged kill...
Google to Give Away WiFi at Logan, Elsewhere
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Exciting news for those who, like us, have known the pain of a four to six
hour plane delay at Logan without the wireless access to bitch about it.
Googl...
Connecting the Dots -- By: Jonah Goldberg
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Does anyone remember the days when “connecting the dots” was considered
vital to national security?
After the September 11 attacks, we had the 9/11 Commi...
Morning News
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From ABC News
When President Obama heads to Asia later this week, he goes with a
wide-ranging agenda. White House officials said today the administrati...
Where are Long Bond Yields Going?
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The Case for Higher Rates
- Massive debt issuance (over supply)
- Central bank diversification (less demand)
- Rebounding economy will bring infla...
Move over, AP, make room for Chris Johnson
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Pigskin "pundits" always need time to catch up with reality when they
don’t have the compass called hype to guide them. So it will take time
for them...
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H1N1 and the Bubblers
In my part of the country public drinking fountains / drinking fountains are
called bubblers. In my part of the country H1N1 seems to...
Making the Grades – Week 8 vs. Miami
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By Jeremy Gottlieb, Patriots Daily Staff Nice to see things return to almost
normal, eh? The Pats played a game on American soil for the first time in
thre...
Global Bubbles: The Geithner-Brown Split
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There are two broad views on our newly resurgent global bubbles – the
increase in asset prices in emerging markets, fuelled by capital inflows,
with all th...
A developing thirst
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How demand for oil will change by 2030
GLOBAL demand for oil is set to rise from 84.7m barrels per day (bpd) in
2008 to 105m bpd in 2030, says the Intern...
Conquest of the Planet of the Wakefields!
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Bow your heads! This tribunal is in session!
Thank you, General Aldo. We have a lot to cover today. First things first,
this human. The one called Wakefi...
American TV is not popular.
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The population of Great Britain is somewhere around 60 million. In the year 2000, 19.8 million people watched a 'two-hander' episode of EastEnders on BBC One...
Back from Foodbuzz
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It's been a whirlwind few days in San Francisco finally getting to meeting
blogging buddies and just taking in the whole flavour of Foodbuzz's first
annual...
WORDS THAT OVERCOME FEAR II
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I noted the role fear plays in creating illness. I highlighted the major
role of particularly guilty industries: the pharmaceutical companies,
politicians,...
Arts & Letters Daily (10 Nov 2009)
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Should Martin Heidegger's books be pulled from the philosophy shelves of the
library and placed in history of Nazism? For Emmanuel Faye, it's a good
idea...
what philly’s got
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Every time I am even remotely close to Philly I always get an urge to take
advantage of all the things I miss while in Boston. Take for instance, Wawa.
Not...
The House Bill Is "Worse Than Nothing"? Really?
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Marcia Angell, M.D., is one of the nation's most well-respected experts on
health care issues. And with good reason. A board-certified pathologist who
al...
Dim Sum Détente
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So how do two jewish guys from opposite sides of the baseball fan universe work things out? They eat pork. Lots of it. YF and I (along with both families) he...
Miami.. get ready
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Packing & getting ready escape to Miami all week! Hubs has a conference down
there at a fun faboolooos resort, so I was beyond excited when he asked me
to ...
This Time Is Different
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Design by Karl Spurzem
Having just watched the season finale of Mad Men, it's hard not to think of
that show's opening credit sequence when looking at this...
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...
Ambush of the Common Sort
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*08 November 2009*
Got a ping today about an attack on the road between Jalalabad and Kabul.
It's a dangerous road and I don't like to drive it. The so...
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...
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.
See More Secrets...
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...
Can Modern Dance Be Preserved?
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The work of choreographers like Merce Cunningham is notoriously hard to
document and recreate. When the dancers depart, will the dances disappear?
Brussels Sprouts with Black Bean Garlic Sauce
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[image: Brussels Sprouts with Black Bean Garlic Sauce]
*Please welcome guest author Garrett McCord of Vanilla Garlic as he shares
one of his favorite quic...
Buttonwood: Exit, followed by a bear
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The dilemmas facing policymakers
WHEN the fire is raging, it is no time to worry about water damage. Central
banks and governments have flooded the syste...
Choose which messages get downloaded for offline use
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Posted by Maria Khomenko, Software Engineer
Like an increasing number of people these days, I like to stay productive
during my flights (even those without...
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 ...