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Creative albeit criminal uses for Craigslist. And inner-tubes. I bow down in awe.

I'm not sure where the other 40% went, but I suspect this New York Times posting of a recent Gallup Poll has somehow made a mistake here that falls outside of "statistics" and somewhere between "lies" and "damn lies"..

(ETA: They seemed to have fixed it. They had Barack ranked at 4% and McCain at 44%)

....I got nothin'. It does stick in my head that Spitzer has three daughters, 18, 15 and 13, all old enough to know what the headline means.

Spitzer involved in prostitution ring?

http://www.navytimes.com/news/2008/01/navy_hormuz_iran_radio_080111/

Insane. Gulf of Tonkin insane. Bay of Pigs insane.

NY Times:

• Spending Downturn at Tiffany’s Jolts Luxury Retailing
• Stocks Drop Sharply Amid Subprime Woes
• Bank of America's Chief Makes Big Bet
• DealBook: Mozilo’s Severance | Union Opposition | Bullish Bets
• Times Topics: Countrywide | Bank of America

I am deeply upset at the death of Benazir Bhutto today at the hands of unknown assassins. Problematic as she was, she was Pakistan's best hope for a counterbalance to Musharraf's United States-funded, atom-wielding dictatorship regime.  This does not bode well for anyone who isn't a military contractor.

And while the death of a tiger in the San ( Read more... )

 Look how far we've come from 1556!
                                           or 1676!
                                       or 1902

NY TImes front page:

• Secret U.S. Endorsement of Severe Interrogations
  
• House Passes Bill to Prosecute Contractors
• On Stump, Low Key Thompson Stirs Few Sparks
• A peek inside Myanmar's New Capital
• In Ballot Fight, California Gets a Taste of '08

From jleavitt.

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I love it when the talking heads break their strings. This is almost as good as when my local CBS anchorman freaked out on sweeps-week after the rather um explicit expose of barely-mosaiced men having oral sex in the  public restrooms of Olmos Park in San Antonio. He actually came back on the air during their hasty "cut to commercial" and ( Read more... )

"I think the death toll may go into the thousands and, unfortunately, that's going to be attributable a lot to people who did not heed the advance warnings," he told CNN.
-Michael Brown, FEMA director ( Read more... )