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    ThinkGeek :: Slurm (tags: Futurama) Blago's book deal targeted :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Gov. Blagojevich (tags: blagojevich) Gov. Quinn asks: 'Have you no decency?' :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Politics Still cleaning out the crap and deadwood and political favors left behind by Blagojevich (tags: Illinois Quinn blagojevich)

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    links for 2009-04-03

    Facebook, YouTube at work make better employees: study (tags: Internet WorkLife) free hand …hold on…reach: Doing Picasso at the Lapin Agile, part 2…show times (tags: Drama) Bicycle cabs could be rolling through Naperville next month — chicagotribune.com (tags: Bicycle) Fun with Radiohead on IFC.com – Boing Boing (tags: music Radiohead)

  • Blogs Wot I Read - Politics, Schmolitics

    Why Melissa Bean Trashed TARP

    As I suspected when I Twittered about it at the time , she’s a creature of the insurance and banking lobbyists. I am SO DISAPPOINTED in her. She replaced the worse do-nothing doddering Republican Congressman then in the House, and for this? Ugh. I hope some good people gear up to give her a primary challenge. And she still doesn’t have a Twitter account or a decent email system.  Her canned responses via email take forever. Jane Hamsher: Melissa Bean Helps Banks Gut Bill to Limit TARP Bonuses It looked like it was going to be smooth sailing for Grayson’s…