Archive for August 2nd, 2009
QOTE
Is their anything preventing from buying a POS car for $500 privately and then driving the car to a dealership to get my $3500 off a new car?
Newport Folk Festival
It is their 50th anniversary AND it’s Pete Seeger’s 90th birthday. And the whole thing is being streamed via NPR of all places. I had no idea until just now, but Pete Seeger is up at 6PM, and other sets from earlier in the weekend are being archived here.
The C Street “Family” or, How To Understand Right Wing Hypocrisy
Jeff Sharlet wrote a book called The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, which expands on an article he wrote for Harpers called Jesus Plus Nothing. Sharlet actually had a chance to live with these guys for awhile and has an amazing (and chilling) story to tell about this group that is apparently Ground Zero for Christianists in power or who want to be in power.
When You Mess with the Delaware Majority Leader, You Get the Horns
I wish I had thought of that title first, but it is the title of a blog post over at The Sporting Blog, part of The Sporting News. But Rep. Pete Schwarzkopf is shaping up to be something of a hero among some sports blogs.
Read All About It In the Sunday Papers-Aug. 2 Edition
LEAD STORY-The (UK) Independent: Secret Life of Sperm–Do Eggs Have a Built-In ‘Loser’ Code? While definitive ejaculations on this story might be premature (and might cause the ink to run), this scientific theory causes ‘bulo’s, uh, brain to shift into overdrive: Thousands of infertile couples could be spared the pain, anguish and expense of fruitless […]
Best Health Care System In The World!
Newsweek‘s Jonathan Alter channels his inner blogger to defend our current health care system: Why should I be entitled to the same insurance that members of Congress get? Blue Dogs need a lot of medical attention to treat their blueness. I’m just a regular guy and definitely deserve less. I had cancer a few years […]
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