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.