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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

The Fifth Column: Guys Are Lame

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David Ferguson (aka TRex) shows off his gorgeous voice and witty songwriting skills in a very catchy tune that you won't be able to get ...
Sunday, July 11, 2010

More on our Truly Bloody Awful mainstream media

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Driftglass has written (and illustrated) an exceptionally awesome Sunday Morning Coming Down post today. Go read it . Right now . An amu...
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Get oriented--you're working for the mainstream media now!

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If that doesn't absolutely nail it, I don't know what would. And it's got me humming this song, too: Sunday papers don't a...
Thursday, July 08, 2010

Down the rabbit hole, where things continue to get curiouser and curiouser

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Earlier this year, University of Tennessee student David Kernall was found guilty on two of four charges for unlawfully accessing, in the f...
Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Antonio Vivaldi; from the Four Seasons, Summer; with Children of Bodom

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Time to re-post this terrific version of Antonio Vivaldi's Summer , played with exquisite skill by Children of Bodom , also known as Al...
Monday, July 05, 2010

Again with a post about Sarah Palin: Responding to the Department of Disingenuously Selective Editing and Smug Name-calling

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Last week, I wrote about what I consider Sarah Palin's biggest lie and ethics violation to date and subsequently accused the media of ...
Sunday, July 04, 2010

On explosions now and nel futuro

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Fireworks over the City of St. Petersburg, Florida; July 4th, 2009 XXI KEEP, the peace, Borso!" Where are we? "Keep on with the bu...
Thursday, July 01, 2010

On Sarah Palin's falsehoods and the audacity of committing non-sexist, non-partisan journalism

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Sarah Palin, with Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell and Sandy Parnell, March 14 2008 (four weeks and four days before allegedly giving birth to a six-po...
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Monday, June 28, 2010

Sarah Palin's biggest lie and most shocking ethics violation

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Today, Andrew Sullivan of the Atlantic posted the above photograph, taken on March 26, 2008, of then-Governor Sarah Palin, just three weeks...

After last week's bloggo-journalistic dustups, I couldn't help but think of this Python sketch

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Happy Monday, everyone! Here's to a relatively quarrel-free week.
Sunday, June 27, 2010

On the "firing" of Dave Weigel and the Washington Post's disingenuousness

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This weekend I am saddened, though not terribly surprised, to learn the newspaper that broke the Watergate scandal--but which is now best-kn...
Saturday, June 26, 2010

Saturday cat blogging: An English cat named Oscar gets new feet

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Via the BBC, a happy story that certainly brightened my morning: A cat that had its back feet severed by a combine harvester has been give...
Friday, June 25, 2010

Friday Frank: Outrage at Valdez; with Ensemble Modern, Frankfurt, 1992

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Posted for obvious reasons --*sigh*--with sadness, anger, and no small sense of When will we ever learn? , this melancholy piece features a ...
Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Turns out there are many good reasons to watch World Cup Football

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USA's football playing--i.e. Landon Donovan's amazing goal --is a thing of beauty this time around. Woo-hoo! Hooray, hooray , etce...
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

GOOOOOOOAAAL! Cristiano Ronaldo's excellent World Cup adventure

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In an amazing display of ball control, Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo calls on his inner rhythmic gymnast and scores against North Korea. ...
Monday, June 21, 2010

Stop the bribes. Demand clean energy. Imprison the criminals.

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Via Power Without Petroleum (visit their Facebook page .) Vile, baby, vile : Tony Hayward will walk away from BP with a £10.8m ( USD $16.03m...
Friday, June 18, 2010

Alan Grayson is in the House

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And his whip-smart (and ever-witty) thoughts and exhortations are often appearing in my In box, too. I'm publishing his latest e-mail i...
Wednesday, June 16, 2010

My take on President Obama's Oval Office address of June 15, 2010

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(Art via Racism & National Consciousness News/Commentary ) [UPDATE: BREAKING: BP agrees to place $20B in an escrow account to handle c...
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Deborah Newell
Born in England and educated there, as well as in Barbados, Honduras, and the United States. Received a Bachelor's from the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications in 1981. Created the blog litbrit in 2006. Lives with her husband, three sons, and several large and loyal attack dogs and trained-assassin felines, in sunny Florida, USA.
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