So this op-ed piece was in my daily e-delivery of the NYT:

Divided We Thrive, by Jonathan Rauch.

Rauch's contention is essentially that Americans like divided government, "when one party controls the White House and the other controls either or both chambers of Congress." He argues that the problem with unified government is this:

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It's time for you to go to the farm.

Yes. I'm shocked too.

The article.

The study.

The background: A friend sent this to me for comment. It's from one of the medical blogs he reads - he's become obsessed with doing so and he's developing a real 'doctors are ferpect' attitude that is, admittedly, irritating me just a tad. So I did a break-down of the bits I thought were dodgy and ( Read more... )

Oh, Georgia, you so crazy!

...that America scares me

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From the SMH:

The US President, Barack Obama, would be granted powers to seize control of and even shut down the internet under a new bill that describes the global internet as a US "national asset".

a US "national asset"

a US "national asset"

a US "national asset"

A US "NATIONAL ASSET"

( FROM A GAS STATION OUTSIDE PROVIDENCE )

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

CFV 426 - Avatar/Pocahontas Mashup FINAL VERSION from Randy Szuch on Vimeo.

I added a plagiarism tag just for this post.

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