Does this thing work? Where’s my coffee? Edit–so who among you won the MegaMillions lottery? I know that I didn’t.
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Open Thread: Good News
From constant commentor Yatsuno (aka Yutsano): Yatsuno says: December 17, 2013 at 7:04 pm (Edit) For those interested: I am not dead. Pretty much stoned out of my gourd though. Explanation here, for those who missed it this morning. *********** If that is insufficient for your entertainment needs, genuis snarkster Alex Pareene is doing this …
Open thread
Everybody get up.
Jon Swift memorial round-up
Batocchio is continuing the tradition of Jon Swift/Al Weisel. Why nominate one of your posts? Here’s his blurb. ——————————- It’s that time of year again to continue a tradition started by Jon Swift/Al Weisel, the “Best Posts of the Year, Chosen by the Bloggers Themselves.” Jon/Al left behind some wonderful satire, but was also …
This is interesting
Only got a few minutes here so I’ll make it quick. Pope Francis has removed the conservative US Cardinal Raymond L. Burke from the Congregation of Bishops in Rome. Cardinal Burke was taken off the Congregation for Bishops, which is the group most responsible for deciding who becomes a bishop in the future. He is being …
Tuesday Morning Open Thread
. Spare a postive thought for faithful commentor Yatsuno (aka Yutsano): At 10 am on December 17th, 2013, I go in to surgery at Swedish Orthopedic Institute to have my left hip replaced. This is to correct a disease called avascular necrosis, caused by steroids. And no I didn’t use them like Pay Fraud. :) …
Long Read: “The Fall of the House of Tsarnaev”
Rather a grandiloquent title for what’s presented as a sad band of feckless dreamers and failed hustlers, but full marks to the Boston Globe for putting in the time and effort and money that led to this report: … Federal investigators have suspected that Tamerlan, the 26-year-old boxer from southern Russia who is believed, along …
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