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Commerce Dept docs: Cheney and the Oil Execs
via BoingBoingThe Commerce Department has been forced by Judicial Watch to turn over records of spring, 2001 meetings held between Dick Cheney and execs from global oil giants, records that suggest that the group decided months before September 11th that the US energy policy would center on taking ( Read more... )

The Best Dude Ever

Tonight Finger on the Pulse and a few friends are putting on a Dance Party Memorial for our friend Craig Murphey, who was struck down last Wednesday. Not only was Craig a volunteer for Right Rides, an organization dedicated to ensuring that women get home safely at night, but he also worked for the West Harlem Action Network ( Read more... )

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A while ago, my best friend Susan and her then-boyfriend Arin made a film about their relationship and expressionism and the struggles of it all. Since then it's snowballed through film festivals and gathered national attention. The above trailer is a glimps into the film itself. And from there (or here) you can view the film in its entirety- the ( Read more... )

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I've been in and out of writing- deleting sentence after sentence and flipping the structures on their head only to wipe the slate clean near completion. It's a rather odd head space I'm sitting in ( Read more... )

My nephew, Cade, whom is 7 years old has epilepsy. He was obviously born with it. And lives with it. And we deal with it. And he has semi-retardation. It's something I speak very little of out of respect to my brother and his son ( Read more... )

Occam's razor:
The principle attributed to the 14th-century English logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham. The principle states that the explanation of any phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible, eliminating those that make no difference in the observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis or theory.

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