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Thursday, May 23, 2013

sweet thursday

limbaugh whining over blame for millions in losses

no, millennials aren't lazy entitled slackers

tell abc news to correct their false benghazi report

world fish migrating to escape global warming
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

ruby wednesday


18 year old science student invents device to charge cell phones in seconds, not hours

the consequences of weak regulation

the cost of blocking gun control in congress

wealthy democrats are saving the american economy
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

today tuesday

u.s. hospital billing varies wildly

alarming trend: military family survivors committing suicide

secret service is looking into right wing internet host who said he to shoot hillary clinton in the vagina

6 facts about mr. rogers you'd love to know

posted by skippy at 10:08 AM | 1 comments

Monday, May 20, 2013

rip ray manzarek

it's a sad day on the sunset strip, ray manzarek, keyboardist for the doors, has died



light my fire - the doors live
posted by skippy at 10:58 PM | 1 comments

bien enseigner à vos enfants



stephanie et melanie boulay - teach your children well
posted by skippy at 12:30 PM | 0 comments

come monday night

insecticide linked to invertibrae deaths

marijuana use tied to reduced bladder cancer

it's time for retirn of the 17 year cicadas!

river otters are making a comeback in the bay area
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Why Did North Carolina Hate the Troops?

My father volunteered to fight in the Korean War. He was never stationed there, but that clearly doesn't mean he wasn't under attack from hostile forces:

The U.S. Marine Corps maintains that the carbon chloroform extract (CCE) test would not have uncovered the carcinogens that fouled the southeastern North Carolina base's water system from at least the mid-1950s until wells were capped in the mid-1980s. But experts say even this "relatively primitive" test — required by Navy health directives as early as 1963 — would have told officials that something was terribly wrong beneath Lejeune's sandy soil.

A just-released study from the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry cited a February 1985 level for trichloroethylene of 18,900 parts per billion in one Lejeune drinking water well — nearly 4,000 times today's maximum allowed limit of 5 ppb. Given those kinds of numbers, environmental engineer Marco Kaltofen said even a testing method as inadequate as CCE should have raised some red flags with a "careful analyst."

"That's knock-your-socks-off level — even back then," said Kaltofen, who worked on the infamous Love Canal case in upstate New York, where drums of buried chemical waste leaked toxins into a local water system. "You could have smelled it."
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Sunday, May 19, 2013

sunday in the south



conservatives can't name one reality-based example of obama tyranny

joe scarborough wrote bush admin. to audit naacp

only 4 companies process 80% of the beef in this country

the march on monsanto is next saturday, may 25
posted by skippy at 10:09 AM | 1 comments

Saturday, May 18, 2013

saturday night twist

5 major scandals the press isn't obsessing about

california sues chase over credit card collection abuses

why animals adopt other animals

don't make fun of renowned dan brown
posted by skippy at 12:32 PM | 1 comments

Friday, May 17, 2013

good mourning, black friday

meet the michael moore of grade-school lunchrooms

interactive map of racist and homophobic tweets

when the irs targeted liberals

how long has longest-burning light bulb been burning?
posted by skippy at 10:37 AM | 0 comments

Thursday, May 16, 2013

suite thursday

that terrible irs scandal targeting griuos for political purposes? back in 2004?

western black rhino declared extinct

the anti-vax movement: a terrible track record

7 weirdest conspiracy theories now taken seriously by the gop
posted by skippy at 9:09 AM | 1 comments

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

resolution wednesday

christian metal rocker arrested for murder-for-hire attempt

is impeachment only a matter of time?

an itty bitty pity party for the ap

irs sent letter to democrats that the tea party is upset about



posted by skippy at 11:59 AM | 1 comments

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Now with More Canadian Content

Chris Hadfield's cover of Space Oddity is the prohibitive favorite for next year's Hugo for Best Dramatic Presentation. (Sorry—well, really not—J. J. Abrams.)

But Hadfield is more than just a dilletante, or even the guy who exchanged Tweets with fellow Famous Canadian William Shatner. He is a Pure Canadian Dilletante, as he demonstrates:


QOTD: "Picture...five guys traveling with me for six months, playing that up in orbit."

posted by Ken Houghton at 6:52 PM | 2 comments

sweet tuesday morning

u.s. ceos make 357 times the average worker

animal activists destroy years of research in italy

1/3 of u.s. honeybee colonies died last winter, threatening food supply

and rip dr. joyce brothers
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