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[Time pressure: high.]

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Holy crap, guys, Hillary Clinton doesn't need to demand a recount.

Jill Stein can demand a recount. Remember her? The other, other, other candidate? Who also has standing to take issue with the results?

She is.

The Stein/Baraka Green Party Campaign is demanding a recount in MI, PA, & WI! BUT they need help. The ( Read more... )

More from this on the Ravensbrück concentration camp, from the part contextualizing it in history: Hitler’s ‘respect’ for family life had never fooled Lina Haag, wife of a communist state parliament member in Württemberg. As soon as she heard on 30 January 1933 on the wireless that Hitler had been made chancellor, she felt sure that the new ( Read more... )

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I have not the art to write the drinking song of sufficient magnificence this event so clearly demands.

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Maybe something punning on ifrits and spirits.

Oh, my: In Canada, the government has figured out a surefire way to slash red tape with a law that eliminates one regulation for every new one that's created. The One-For-One Rule was adopted last month in a nice Canadian way, without political warfare ( Read more... )

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YES!

Federal judge declares Utah polygamy law unconstitutional Waddoups' ruling attacks the parts of Utah's law making cohabitation illegal. In the introduction, Waddoups says the phrase "or cohabits with another person" is a violation of both the First and 14th amendments. Waddoups later writes that while there is no "fundamental right" to ( Read more... )

The Boston Globe today just broke the news that Tamerlan Tsarnaev had been heading voices -- command hallucinations.I'm still reading it. Maybe more later ( Read more... )