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September 14, 2010
Headline For The Day
"Penises Grow On Female Snails' Heads After Chemical Exposure."











Animals - Snail - Agriculture - Arts - Technology


If Bibi Wants Peace
William Galston thinks Abbas will pull out of talks because of new settlements:
[A:]t some point Netanyahu will have to acknowledge that if he truly wants
peace, he'll need a different coalition—namely, the one that should
have formed two years ago. Otherwise put: The decision that the current
coalition must be preserved at all costs would represent the clearest
possible evidence that this round of negotiations isn't serious.











Marriage And Gender












Mitch Daniels, Reality-Based Conservative
And a desperately needed breath of fresh air:
Let's raise the retirement age,he says. Let's reduce Social Security for the rich. And let'sreconsider our military commitments, too. When I ask about taxes—in2005 Daniels proposed a hike on the $100,000-plus crowd, which his ownparty promptly...
Beardedness In Advertizing
Quote For The Day
"Even if you're eating delicious
chocolate cake, there are moments you feel like, 'I've had too much.' Now replace 'chocolate cake' with 'shit taco' and you
know what our day is like every day. But this is not a fragile country.
I'm not suggesting we couldn't find ourselves in deep conflict. But we
had slaves, and we fought a civil war; now we're down to Glenn Beck
being hyperbolic with his audience about nostalgia. This too shall
pass," - Jon Stewart.











Republicans Huffing Their Own Glue
Most current Republican positions are actually unpopular (although, alarmingly, the "Terror Babies" amendment to the Constitution is an exception). Repealing universal access to private health insurance is only supported by a third of Americans, which would make a veto a no-brainer. And the GOP third is increasingly white and rural, which means it represents a reactionary throwback, not a constructive move forward. Greater freedom for people to invest their social security in private markets ...
The View From Your Window Contest: Winner #15
A reader writes:
Now we're talking. This one is challenging, I suppose to balance out last week's easy one. At first glance, from the blue sky and waterfront background, I'd lean Mediterranean, perhaps a Lebanon location or Cyprus. But after careful inspection, the tractor and buildings have a Soviet feel to them. A water location that is Soviet and arid ... well, I can only make one educated guess. I'll have to say the city of Baku in Azerbaijan, along the coast of the Caspian Sea...
Why Freddie Quit Blogging
A Dish fave ends the experiment:
What I have found is that, the more I am animated by opinion that I find
truly and deeply wrong, the less and less I am capable of entertaining
the wild spaces of my mind. My opinions have become pallbearers to my
imagination, and that's poverty.
This is a real concern, hence my annual retreat. But such a retreat is not enough. The unexpressed thought, the nascent idea, the emotion that struggles to become, over time, an actual argument: these can so easily b...
Where's Dubya?
Thoreau applies Occam's razor:
[T:]he simplest explanation for why W. has stayed out of this [and said nothing about Islamophobic rhetoric by the GOP:] is that he
doesn't strongly oppose Islamophobia. He may not be an Islamophobe
himself, but he clearly doesn't get too worked up over Islamophobia.
He's also too co-opted by the far right to say anything. If the grandson of Prescott Bush treated torture of prisoners as a no-brainer, and has said in public that he would do it again, why on...
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