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prostratedragon commented on the blog post Pentagon Has CNN Interview Female Guard on How Detainees are Abusing Guards at Guantanamo
Truly a Very Special CNN report.
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prostratedragon commented on the blog post The Roundup for May 14, 2013
Nice video with which to recover from a quasi-death experience.
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prostratedragon commented on the blog post The Roundup for May 12, 2013
The governor, the cook, the governor’s wife, the attorney general, and the CEO.
Who’s for dinner?
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prostratedragon commented on the blog post The Roundup for May 8, 2013
From Sun Ra and in NSFW language, some home truths —one could say, the only ones that matter— about
(By the way, it is not nu-cyu-ler, but nuckle-er.)
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prostratedragon commented on the blog post Niall Ferguson (Sort Of) Apologizes For Claiming Gay People Don’t Care About The Future
One would think that all we had of Keynes were just enough scratchings and fragments to make it seem that there was a particular person who wrote them, with no idea of what that person’s mind more comprehensively might be like. Old photo albums and such might then take on a greater significance in trying to explain the person, if one really thought explanations were important. (I’m less sure by the day that they are.)
However, there is no need for idle speculation with Keynes, much of whose policy starting from his first major public policy essay, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, is directly concerned with taking the present into the future partly by means of economic mechanisms. One of his essays is even titled “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren.” Better to look to his own works and then decide whether knowing the transients of his mental state matter.
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prostratedragon commented on the blog post The Roundup for May 5, 2013
“Mayor Michael Bloomberg and police commissioner Raymond Kelly expand public appearances in place of testifying in court” in the on-going trial over their stop-and-frisk program.
In the pressure of other events did I miss the FBI’s rush to supply the details of Times Square’s near miss from the escaping Boston bombers that Mike ‘n Ray informed us of so breathlessly last week?
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prostratedragon commented on the blog post The Roundup for May 3, 2013
A little good news:
“The first early test for pancreatic cancer”, developed by a Maryland high school student
It faces the usual long period of testing, but looks promising and should be relatively inexpensive.
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prostratedragon commented on the blog post The Roundup for May 2, 2013
From Hitchcock’s sixth season,
Program note: aired in 1961, the year of the Congo.
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prostratedragon commented on the diary post Sunday Water Cooler: Happy Birthday Blossom Dearie, Oliver “Bops Junior” Jackson, Fantastic Johnny C, and Eddie Jobson (Roxy Music) by dakine01.
Blossom Dearie —part of Jazz Appreciation Month’s big finish. (It started with Billie Holliday, and today the 29th is Duke Ellington.) Ms. Blossom was one of Miles Davis’s favorite singers.
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prostratedragon commented on the blog post FDL Live Blog: White House Correspondents Dinner Swag
Hmm. The article about the thinning effects of medical education accreditation curtailment on rural birth control sent me looking, but what I found also works here, only aimed in a different direction:
Big Bill Broonzy and his Chicago Five singing “I’m Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town”
You never can tell who you’ll find on those outskirts.
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prostratedragon commented on the blog post Austerity Economics Takes A Major Blow As Key Research Paper Discredited
Anyone still here? Japan leads the way in debt-gdp ratio, and has for a number of years. In the table at the link, clicking on the little arrows in the heading boxes gives re-sorts of the table by the header. Japan is well ahead of Greece, Italy, Portugal, Ireland, not to mention the US, etc.
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prostratedragon commented on the blog post BREAKING: Explosion at Boston Marathon
Part of the extra strain on the social fabric, worth noticing and not negligible at all.
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prostratedragon commented on the blog post BREAKING: Explosion at Boston Marathon
So many maimings—perhaps a device of this type, which is hardly exclusive as one can see from the articles. Bet you can find them at some of these munitions shows. A Vietnam vet told me about them years ago.
What a world!
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prostratedragon commented on the blog post North Korea Claims lt Will Launch A Pre-Emptive Nuclear Attack On America
Maybe this on the heels of the last visit makes it plain to the world that the kid’s a puppet.
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prostratedragon commented on the blog post Yesterday’s News Is Today’s Attention Whore
Hmmm. Surely someone can do something with the “Anchor Baby” tag and this.
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prostratedragon commented on the diary post Obama’s Right-Hand-Man Offers Social Insurance Program Cuts, Again. by TomThumb.
On the word “entitlement” I think the Luntzes of the world have won a round. To many of us, the word sounds like a grant of an unfair privilege, being created a Duchess or something. But as near as I can tell, having looked into the matter only a bit of late, the word “entitlement” came [...]
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prostratedragon commented on the blog post The Roundup for March 1, 2013
Oh my, I’ve never heard of that one! From pole to pole, we cover it all here.
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prostratedragon commented on the blog post The Roundup for March 1, 2013
A response to the Arpaio story:
The 1080HD version strongly recommended.
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prostratedragon commented on the blog post Wall Street Bonuses Rise To $20 Billion
“The fleecing class.” Excellent.
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prostratedragon commented on the blog post The Roundup for February 22, 2013
If you need a little help after “The Area,” try the first video in the series, “Market Fisheries.” Having shopped there for years, I can vouch for the product. The customer who comes in from South Holland —that’s a bit like a Zabar’s run from Hempstead.
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