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Monthly Archives: June 2010

Is she trying to tell me something?

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Sent to me by my sister (should get bigger if you click on it):

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Your tax dollars at work.

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Must avoid Nazi comparisons. Bush-era CIA medical personnel conducted experiments on detainees in CIA custody to provide legal cover for torture as well as to justify and shape future torture techniques, a just-released report from the Physicians for Human Rights alleges. “The CIA appears to have broken all accepted legal and ethical standards put in […]

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Weekend events

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Yesterday I was attending reunion activities at Swarthmore, my wife’s alma mater. She was there in the halcyon days of the sixties. Just after lunch the class met with a retiring philosophy professor, who had over the years, transformed from a fire breathing SDS advising radical to a far more conservative and clearly conflicted individual. […]

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Truly Sick

Friday, June 4, 2010

A school in Arizona orders the faces of real HIspanic and black kids on a mural painted white. We appear to be heading into an era when racism is once again considered respectable; or, perhaps even worse, where offending racists is considered unacceptable behavior.

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Intelligence test

Friday, June 4, 2010

This post at firedoglake pretty much sums it up. Apparently 22% of the American people have warm and fuzzy feelings for BP. Whoever could these folks be? There shouldn’t be that many delusional people in the country, should there? Well, surprise, it’s the usual suspects. Those most likely to view BP favorably are, respectively: Republicans, […]

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Friday Night Music-Cab Calloway

Friday, June 4, 2010

I came upon this while free associating on youtube, and I set it aside for some future time, which time has now arrived. Reefer Man:

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Drinking Liberally tomorrow

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

A reminder that the storied SE CT chapter of Drinking Liberally will meet again tomorrow night at 6:30 at the Bulkeley House, Bank Street, New London. So far as I know, there will be no top drawer special guests tomorrow, although there is a slight chance that Denise Merrill might stop by. If she does, […]

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Well, aren’t we lucky

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

It is a fairly common dodge for corporate con artists: whatever they are doing to garner huge sums of money is actually in the larger public interest. That’s why, for instance, it’s important that hedge fund managers pay lower tax rates than those of us who get to live with the results of their malfeasance. […]

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