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Second Book Give-away–Signed copy of Drift, by Rachel Maddow
I’m going to run this give away just like Anne Laurie ran hers. Post here in this thread with a valid email address in the email address block, and all posts from now, 8:00 PM Central time to 8:00 PM Central tomorrow will be eligible. Unlike AL, I don’t have a problem with long threads …
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Open Thread: “It Was the Shortest Walk I Ever Had”
Kudos to President Obama for choosing an ‘unpredicted’ World Bank nominee that’s got all the right people excited: … In 2003, [Kim] won a MacArthur genius grant. In 2004, he was named director of the World Health Organization’s HIV/AIDS department, where he ran the “3×5” campaign, which sought to put three million new HIV/AIDS patients …
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Scenes from Post-Racial America
Time to move the Ni-CLANG clock one minute closer to midnight: John Hood, president of the conservative North Carolina-based John Locke Foundation, has apologized for a very special graphic that one of his bloggers, “Hot Talk WRNN co-host Tara Servatius,” included in her post for the think tank’s blog this week. What is the controversy? …
Saturday Morning Open Thread: Pixar’s John Carter
As a fledging young sci-fi geek, when it came to Edgar Rice Burroughs, I was always a major fan of the Frank Frazetta covers. But now I’m married to another geek who actually was a twelve-year-old boy once, so of course we were going to see John Carter. Just not during the opening weekend, or …
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God and Free Gay Porn Go Together Like Racism and Tooth Decay
This will surprise NO ONE: Mississippi is a book by William Faulkner that somehow turned into a dumb reality show called Haley Barbour and Other Comical Racist White Villains With Dumb Accents vs. Poor Black People Forever. And ever since the nation’s poorest, most obese and reliably Republican-voting state got Internet access last year, the …
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My Kid
My wife got called by the junior high school my daughter attends today. Normally, one dreads calls from the school in the middle of the day. Broken bones, allergic reactions, a fight or some other problem and it ALL flashes through a parent’s mind. They wanted her to know that my daughter had talked one …