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From Jon Weisman's Dodger Thoughts:

One of the victims of the tragic shooting in Arizona on Saturday was the daughter of Dodger scout John Green and granddaughter of former Phillies manager Dallas Green ( Read more... )

The high school in my town has been closed because a student there showed flu symptoms today after returning from a vacation in Mexico. Let the hysteria commence!

According to a report from China’s official news agency Xinhua, “thousands of dolphins” recently prevented an attack on Chinese merchant ships by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden.


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(Unfortunately, I can't take credit for the tinyurl tag. That belongs to Dodger Thoughts commenter Humma Kavula.)

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With all due respect to certain nimrods in the House, it seems to me that the best way to support our troops would be to get them the hell out of harm's way.

Ya know, I really liked the CBS Evening News when Bob Schieffer was the anchor. He was great. Things over there have gotten seriously fucked up. Tonight, Katie Couric introduced a very special "Free Speech" segment in which CBS invited the father of one of the Columbine victims to share his thoughts about today's school shooting in Pennsylvania. He ( Read more... )

Previously in the Plentiful Vintage...

There was a very loud noise [scene one]. The earth cooled, and primitive life crawled out of the ooze onto dry land [scene two]. Shortly thereafter, folks started hitting round objects with sticks. More recently, life has day after day of sheer boredom [scene three], punctuated by moments of financial terror ( Read more... )

Google is by all accounts a lovely place to work, with lots of perks, including world class cuisine in their free cafeterias. The cafeterias are so good they were profiled on the food network. Now, to maintain all those lovely perks, Google has decided to screw over 100 million users.

What's Chinese for "You can make money without doing evil"I am ( Read more... )

Cafe du Monde set to reopen.