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Another letter to Richard Baker
Representative Baker ( Read more... ) -
The Mythical Chat Gap
Via the Boston Globe
This story began as an attempt to put a number on the chat gap between men and women. One pop psychologist after another claimed a gap of immense proportions. They said that women used 20,000 words per day to men’s 7,000. Or 7,000 words a day to men’s 2,000. And James Dobson, the family values guru, even claimed that God gave ( Read more... ) -
ROFLin' the Apocalypse
Al Queda may use Iraq operatives to attack U.S.
Al Qaeda will try to tap its allies and resources in Iraq in its efforts to exact another terrorist attack on U.S. soil, according to a top government intelligence report released Tuesday.
That's from the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), which is the composite estimate of the varying intelligence ( Read more... ) -
Necessary Viewing on Independence Day
Bill Moyer's Journal: Buying the War
Charlie Rose with Thom Ricks, author of Fiasco
CBC New: Fifth Estate
Uncovered: the Whole Truth about the War in Iraq, a movie by Robert Greenwald released in 2004.
Slightly less necessary:
Bill Moyer's Journal: Faith and Reason -
Not-So-Daily Dose
Bush Spares Libby From Prison Term
WASHINGTON, July 2 - President Bush spared I. Lewis Libby Jr. from prison Monday, commuting his two-and-a-half-year sentence while leaving intact his conviction for perjury and obstruction of justice in the C.I.A. leak case.
Mr. Bush’s action, announced hours after a panel of judges ruled that Mr. Libby, Vice ( Read more... ) -
Not-So-Daily Dose
And Snowclones and Snowclones and Snowclones and Snowclones
I came across an interesting post arguing that there are more synesthetes than previously shown experimentally. I was reminded of Emily Dickinson's I heard a fly buzz when I died as it was the first time I had been introduced to the idea of synesthesia ( Read more... ) -
London Default
Explosives-Packed Car Defused in London
The bomb near Piccadilly Circus was powerful enough to have caused "significant injury or loss of life" _ possibly killing hundreds, British anti-terror police chief Peter Clarke said ( Read more... )
