Breaking: Lieberman tries the smear | TPMCafe (tags: DINO Lieberman Lamont Politics) Playing politics on public television Mayor William Shaw and brother Robert use Dolton’s cable station to harass rivals without rebuttal | Chicago Tribune Badly written, worse edited, but still interesting reading about how a cable access show is used to play dirty politics in South Chicago (tags: Chicago Politics CorruptDemocrats) TIME.com: A Mixture of Regret and Resolve in Israel — Page 1 (tags: Israel MiddleEast) CNN.com – Blair, Arnie ‘global warming pact’ – Jul 31, 2006 End run around Bush (tags: GlobalWarming ClimateChange SwelterAge) AP Wire | 07/31/2006…
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I read something online recently about how “climate change” and “global warming” just don’t cut it as sufficiently frightening metaphors for the rising sea levels, melting ice caps and glacierrs, unusually hotweather in summer, unusually mild weather in winter, alternating deluges and droughts depending on which part of the country you live in, and unusuallydevastating seasonal storms. As in, “hello, Katrina and Rita.” It made me wonder what better handle there might be for all of this weather-related irregularities. So I started thinking about all the different eras we humans have named in our journey from the past to the…
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David and I tried a couple of times to see Syriana – both times we weren’t able to get tickets and left rather than wait around for the next show. Then, we ended up missing it because it wasn’t playing the next time we felt like seeing a movie. I think we’ll end up renting it – we haven’t gotten into Netflix yet, so Blockbuster is fine for now.
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BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Glasgow and West | Airport handling more US flights (tags: Bombs WarByProxy War MiddleEast) BBC NEWS | Middle East | Dozens killed in Lebanon air raid Women and children killed in raid on Qana (tags: Lebanon Israel War Bombs) Many wave off heat warnings | Chicago Tribune We saw the signs on the tollway that said “drink water” and “check on your neighbors.” Still, we saw plenty of people out in the parks and attending a big car show festival. (tags: Chicago HeatWave) Deadly Israeli Airstrike Sparks Fury | Chicago Tribune (tags: Lebanon…
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Did these guys call each other before they got dressed for their big day out going to Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry? Here they are, purchasing transit cards, which probably means they’re tourists. Their caps are all perfect fits for their perfectly round heads – they looked like a set of bobbleheads that decided to go on a spree. I’d like to know why the guy onthe far left broke the fashion rules and isn’t wearing a white shirt though. He’s too matchy! And yes, I’ll probably regret trying to use yet another beta upgrade of ecto, because every…
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Deadly Israeli Airstrike Sparks Fury | Chicago Tribune When I head the news this morning, I was shocked, saddened and outraged. Then, I was ashamed, because the Secretary of State is still holding back from urging an immediate cease-fire. Why? Because the Israelis have told her they need a couple more weeks to drive out the Hezbollah from Lebanon. Meanwhile, planes carrying our bombs to Israel so they can do this are on the way. And some of the British people aren’t going to be happy that Prestwick, Scotland, is a refueling stop for these flights. I’ll state here for…
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Seeing the Forest: Republican Says We Need A Dem Congress Pete McCloskey speaks out – the Revolt of the Elders, he calls it. I’m sure the Repugs call it something else. (tags: Republican CorruptRepublicans DeLay Abramoff) Bush Sees a Chance for Change to Sweep Mideast – New York Times “This is a moment of intense conflict in the Middle East,†Mr. Bush said. “Yet our aim is to turn it into a moment of opportunity and a chance for broader change in the region.†Shit, does he think we’re fools? Doesn’t he know we don’t see Regi (tags: MiddleEast Israel…
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I started a really, really long post about our visit to the Museum of Science and Industry‘s Leonardo da Vinci exhibit, but then ecto and I had a parting of the ways and my post got totally messed up. I had a ton of links that were all formatted incorrectly, and then my attempts to add text got formatted all wrong because ecto does not play well if you switch between “Rich View” formatting and “HTML View” formatting. Plus, the backspace key behaves oddly in ecto, and I over-deleted a bunch of critical text. Bad, bad things happen. For instance,…
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My husband David and I met up with parents Shel and Leah, siblings Mitch and Gloria, and also Aunt Gwen for a day at the Museum of Science and Industry. Mom Leah had gotten tickets to the Leonardo Da Vinci exhibit, but the real reason for the outing was the annual family celebration of Hannukkah in July. We picked a perfect day for it; there were record temperatures, crazy drivers on the tollway and downtown, a huge car show on the lakefront, and of course people were already staking out spots for Venetian Night tonight, which seems to involve boats,…
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SojoNet: Faith, Politics, and Culture: Blistering Hope Meditations on perseverance from a stonemason’s perspective (tags: Poem) Boing Boing: Babies good for two things: poo production and marketing (tags: Childfreedom Breeders PooProduction Marketing) Nevada Thunder » Blog Archive » Reign of Error 50 percent of all Americans are misinformed, and content to reamin so. (tags: Krugman) The Blog | Robert J. Elisberg: George Bush’s Gut Goes AWOL | The Huffington Post (tags: HeckuvaJob Malicki Iraq WheelsComingOff) News roundup: Mike Leavitt’s family business combines tax dodgery and slum lording. (tags: NPR MixedSignals) NPR : John McPhee: A Reporter’s Reporter (tags: JohnMcPhee Writing…