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Free Stuff
We have a bunch of stuff to give away:
- 1 box of Brita filters, some number remaining
- 1 queen size mattress pad
- 3 old, yellowed pillows
- 1 interpad for a card table, to put between the table and a tablecloth
- 3 old pillowcases
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Senator Kerry responds
While Senator Kerry has yet to respond to my own note, he has responded to the question in general. That's 40 senators on record as supporting a robust public healthcare option, now ( Read more... ) -
open letter to Senator Kerry
Senator Kerry ( Read more... ) -
pondering a new phone
I'm currently thinking about getting a new phone. My current phone, a Treo 700p, is feeling a bit creaky. I've lost the antenna cap (tiny little radome!), so it's just wrapped in tape now to protect the antenna. Plus it's also just *old*. It feels slow compared to all of the other tech I interact with on a daily basis. I don't think it's gotten any ( Read more... ) -
The lack of decent rebuttals
One of the most frustrating things about watching politics is the complete lack of decent rebuttals. Watching Hardball right now, a guest from the right is repeatedly claiming that drilling in ANWR will make us energy independent, while the guest from the left doesn't point out that the oil in ANWR could, at best, provide a few percent of our ( Read more... ) -
Good news
I want a blog which only has posts about news which I consider good. Paying attention is way too depressing as it is - a boost would be nice. -
Italian man held in US jail for 10 days for no good reason
An Italian man was held in a Virginia jail for 10 days after arriving in the US to visit his girlfriend.
But on April 29, when Mr. Salerno, 35, presented his passport at Washington Dulles International Airport, a Customs and Border Protection agent refused to let him into the United States. And after hours of questioning, agents would not let him ( Read more... ) -
Letter to John Olver about Teen Challeng
To the Honorable John W. Olver ( Read more... ) -
David Stout responds
I received a response from David Stout to my earlier message regarding his unskeptical reporting of claims that Iran is funding Hamas and the Taliban. In this first message, Mr. Stout appears to be referring to an op-ed piece by Roger Cohen from November 2007: Afghanistan at the Brink.
I appreciate your thoughtful note, and I concede that I should ( Read more... ) -
An open letter to David Stout of the New York Times
I am disturbed by your reporting, on April 26, in the article "Joint Chiefs Chairman Assails Iran’s Role in Iraq". In particular, you repeat, without comment, Admiral Mullen's claims that Iran is funding Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Taliban. While Iran funding Hezbollah is reasonable, both of them being Shi'a groups, the other two groups are Sunni - ( Read more... )