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10/23/08 The Things He Carried

Jeffrey Goldberg writes about the “hopelessness” of airport security in The Atlantic:

During one secondary inspection, at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, I was wearing under my shirt a spectacular, only-in-America device called a “Beerbelly,” a neoprene sling that holds a polyurethane bladder and drinking tube. The Beerbelly, designed originally to sneak alcohol—up to 80 ounces—into [...]

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Filed under I Hate Politics, Life, Transit on October 23, 2008, 'The Things He Carried' has comments numbering merely 0.
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10/14/08 Important ALCS on TBS question

Why does Buck Martinez sound like a bicycle horn?

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10/11/08 Voter registration deadlines in California

Just so you know, California voter registration deadlines are coming up. Here’s what I posted at work yesterday (yes, this is shameless):

It’s a critical year for environmental voters to get out and vote on November 4th! Here are this year’s voter registration deadlines in California, which are coming up soon.

The big one: You must register [...]

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Filed under I Hate Politics on October 11, 2008, 'Voter registration deadlines in California' has comments numbering merely 0.
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10/10/08 Thank God for Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald is doing some incredibly important reporting on Salon.com — keeping the federal government accountable in a way that more reporters should be doing.
Guess what? What a surprise: The feds have been eavesdropping on (from the article) “American citizens who had absolutely nothing to do with terrorism.”

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Filed under I Hate Politics, Recommendations on October 10, 2008, 'Thank God for Glenn Greenwald' has comments numbering merely 0.
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Angry, self-centered power monger John McCain

“After a week of bile”
“Is McCain serious about Ayers… No” and a response from Time
Etc., etc.
It’s incredible to me that the McCain campaign would sink this low. I shouldn’t be surprised, because this is the Republican party we’re talking about, and it’s just gotten worse and worse in my lifetime.
I guess the illusion that John [...]

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Filed under I Hate Politics on October 10, 2008, 'Angry, self-centered power monger John McCain' has comments numbering merely 0.
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“The Dangerous Panic On The Far Right”

via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan (October 10, 2008) – The Dangerous Panic On The Far Right:
This is a moment of maximal physical danger for the young Democratic nominee. And McCain is playing with fire. If he really wants to put country first, he will attack Obama on his policies – not on [...]

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Filed under I Hate Politics on October 10, 2008, '“The Dangerous Panic On The Far Right”' has comments numbering merely 0.
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10/8/08 McCain really CAN crash and burn

“My fellow prisoners”???

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Filed under I Hate Politics, Picky, picky., Rants on October 8, 2008, 'McCain really CAN crash and burn' has comments numbering merely 0.
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