tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41317572009-07-13T21:50:27.562-05:00<i>Skinner: would you be willing to pay an extra dollar twenty in taxes to fund them? Homer: No way! I'm saving for a speedboat!</i>Jonathan Versenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17920597011270157903hugozoom@yahoo.comBlogger1151125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4131757.post-15509206019131354502009-07-13T21:46:00.003-05:002009-07-13T21:50:27.672-05:00

via Hugh Manatee(?) at Wikipedia

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artist: Amanda MoeckelSteve Gimbel in Philosopher's Playground, a new blog(well, new to me), notes that the World Health Organization recently assessed the healthcare systems of most member countries and ranked the US 37th. Behind virtually all Western European countries, but also behind Costa Rica, behind Chile, even behind Morocco and war-torn Colombia.From his essay:...insecurity is the most

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"Нехороший мальчик" Олег Ужиновvia "Pavlovich 74"

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Mark Sanford: OK, I'm not going to say, I don't know what the big deal is, because I know it IS a big deal. Cheating is wrong, darn wrong. I let my wife down, I let my adorable children down, I let the employees of the state of South Carolina down, the voters, even the reporters who heard about the emails but were forced to behave as if they didn't know where I was. I let all of you down, and I'm

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from the Real News.cross-posted at Dead Horse.

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You and I and billions of others already know that Michael Jackson died Thursday, aged 50. But before today I hadn't heard of young guitar phenom Sungha Jung, who recorded this performance back in February(via Oyster).

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via Christy Hardin Smith, and Avedon Carol, who writes: It's not just the uninsured; it's the outrageous fraud that people who think they have health insurance are faced with: companies that take your money knowing they will do their damnedest not to give you what you think you are paying for.cross-posted at Dead Horse.

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via Abdusalaam al-Hindi, who hasn't posted for a while.

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Retired Auto Workers have their say, pt 1.Part two is here; Part three,Part four, andPart five.

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from The Real News:Is TV news one-sidedly in support of Israel? cross-posted at Dead Horse.

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This recent al Jazeera video (via Juan Cole) seems to partially confirm what I wrote earlier this week about Ahmedinejad's support among rural voters.cross-posted at Dead Horse.

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Green may be the current cool color in Western pop culture, but it seems the Mousavi-ites dubbed their movement the green revolution because green is the color is of Islam(!). Or maybe that's just an explanation for global public consumption, so that we don't get too suspicious of all those Iranian young people holding up signs in English. Members of the Anglo press are always flattered when

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Watch When Abortion Was Illegal: Untold Stories in Entertainment | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.comI saw this at the internet archive(here), but I find their embed protocol is a bit buggy when you re-write the html to prevent it from going into auto-play, so here it is via Veoh instead. Then again it may just be my html skills are the problem. Anyway, the disgusting murder of George

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photo courtesy Dead Malls dot com. According to Wikipedia, Big Town Mall was the first fully-enclosed air-conditioned mall to be built west of the Mississippi when it opened in 1959. It was mostly torn down in 2006.

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Dana Nelson is a professor at Vanderbilt, and I believe Bad for democracy is her second book. Her publisher sent me a copy some time back, and unfortunately I've been busy with other matters, so I've just started on it. It does look promising, discussing the history of popular representations of the role of the president in US society, which she regards as generally anti-republican, in the

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Empires, race and power: Yale prof Amy Chua on "strategic tolerance"from the UC Berkley youtube channel.cross-posted at Dead Horse.

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Mimi writes:It seems the evangelicals enjoy fertile proselytizing ground in the U.S. Army, according to an article by Jeremy Scahill in Common Dreams. Org:"New video evidence has surfaced showing that US military forces in Afghanistan have been instructed by the military's top chaplain in the country to "hunt people for Jesus" as they spread Christianity to the overwhelmingly Muslim population.

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Arthur Silber "The Power of Narrative" has a new series going, but he is also in bad shape financially, and has called out for assistance from his readers, so I'm noting this to encourage you to help him if you are in a position to.

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from tubefilter: " Strike.TV has finally launched. It’s been a while since the picket lines of striking WGA writers last winter where the idea of a video portal for professional writers (read: WGA writers) could have a place to showcase their original web series while also owning the rights to all content. The idea seemed simple enough. Writers would head out and rally together resources —

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Polish folk instrument sees revival(01:47) ReportApr 30 - A Polish artisan has reconstructed the prototype of a cord instrument used in the Middle Ages, but long since disappeared.Proof of massive sea monster:(02:13) Rough Cut; Peter Parker reports.Apr 3 - Just 800 miles (1287 km) from the North Pole, paleontologists believe they have found the fossilized remains of a massive sea monster that

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Because I'm always trying to improve my happy brain. (I don't know why these guys didn't win the Klondike Bar© video contest.)

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