So I’m walking out of Sardi’s in NYC tonight after a nice corporate dinner and while I’m waiting near the coat check for my companion to come back from the bathroom I realize that I’m standing right next to Tom Friedman.
I know I shouldn’t say anything but I feel compelled to call Friedman out about [...]

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UPDATE II:  HERE IT IS…
Here you go: Got it…
One #$%#$^&&$%#@$%^& extremely rich Turkish cult/mafia….big big big mafia leader used his influence on court to ban all blogs based on wordpress due to bad comments about him on some blogs. Under wordpress.
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/08/turkey-blocks-w.html
This guy is one of the most dangerous guy…And unfortunately I can see he used his [...]

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h/t to suburban guerrilla
UM is the primary university providing classes for U.S. service members abroad.
a Europe-wide faculty meeting at our headquarters in Heidelberg, Germany. At that meeting, we were told that the U of MD military education contracts will be expanding soon to Iraq, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Djibouti, and other locations in the Middle East [...]

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I can’t take full credit for this, although I did edit it.  H/T Gerinomo 
WORRY
Is there a magic cutoff period when
Offspring become accountable for their own
Actions?? Is there a wonderful moment when
Parents can become detached spectators in
The lives of their children and shrug, “It’s
Their life,” and feel nothing?
When I was in my twenties, I stood in [...]

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David G. Leitch, a Gonzales friend and general counsel at the Ford Motor Co., wrote in an e-mail solicitation to potential contributors last month that Gonzales is “innocent of any wrongdoing” but does not have the means to pay for his legal defense after a career spent mostly in public service.
“In the hyper-politicized atmosphere [...]

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Starting in January kids born in 1990 will be eligible for a credit card, oh and to serve their country.  But more important is the credit card thing I’m sure

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Grrrrrrr

Bridge Players are Bad Ass!
Hey Ira? Go fuck yourself! Enough said!
oy vey…

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I found this article purely by chance. This morning I was surprised to find that access to this site was banned by a Turkish court order. Looking around, the only topic that mentioned Turkey was this one.
Wow. And all we were doing was loving on Ataturk’s rocking secularism.

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