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Might be easier if you and her and I met for lunch in FG...? Then you could go to the bathroom or something.

( a picture of our office cat! )

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I heard this debate on the radio last week:

( Democracy Now transcript - Patrick Moore and Harvey Wasselman discuss nuclear power )

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Today I'm sharing one of my recent finds - Beethoven's 7th. Specifically, the fourth movement, which was featured in Legend of the Galactic Heroes as the backdrop to a battle between opposing factions within the Free Planets Alliance.

You can see the battle itself here.

As for the movement, that's available as a high-quality download here, ( Read more... )

Christmas Day looks to be dismal and dreary this year thanks to a handful of Americans that decided, for reasons that remain clear only to them, to alter the tradition of leaving milk and cookies for Santa to consume on Christmas Eve. Santa Claus had just completed his Asian and European rounds, and he had begun his deliveries in the Eastern United ( Read more... )

( This one's cut since it's not as important )

By Joseph E. Stiglitz:

No. 1: Firing the ChairmanIn 1987 the Reagan administration decided to remove Paul Volcker as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board and appoint Alan Greenspan in his place. Volcker had done what central bankers are supposed to do. On his watch, inflation had been brought down from more than 11 percent to under 4 percent. In ( Read more... )