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Feb 20

Percy Jackson time

Michelle Obama's anti-obesity initiative generates a childish pushback

Why Obama needs Rahm at the top

Let us now praise Rahm Emanuel . No, seriously. It is the current fashion to blame President Obama’s disappointing first year on his chief of staff. “First, remove Rahm Emanuel,” writes Leslie Gelb…

The torch has been passed. Elliot bought more books at the library used book sale tonight than I did.

Feb 19

disappointed by the ricky gervais show. same audio podcast i’ve already heard (and loved) but with cartoon visuals

Health care proposal for Obama to bring to summit: Cadillac tax stays, no public option, aides say: http://bit.ly/cJ4aH1

RT @ProFootballTalk: At some point, Tiger drifted from "buddhism" to "booty-ism."

Liz Cheney Loves Torture, Doesn’t Understand Interrogation

Why Obamacare won't do much to stop the premium increases the president deplores.

Feb 18

Posters on Online Political Forums

Posters on Online Political Forums

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RT @mmcauliff: Lloyd Doggett, on Austin plane: “Like the larger-scale tragedy in Oklahoma City, this was a cowardly act of domestic terrorism. "

The American Conservative -- His-Panic

Talk TV sensationalists and axe-grinding ideologues have fallen for a myth of immigrant lawlessness.

Bereans

Feb 16

What Do Liberals Want?

Feb 15

Favorite Customers #4 – Gorilla Lady

Arizona school bus gains WiFi, students suddenly chill out and get productive

Feb 14

Why Obama can't fire anyone

Cheney Struggles To Explain Terror Contradictions; Endorses DADT Repeal

Feb 13

A new Buzz start-up experience based on your feedback

Posted by Todd Jackson, Product Manager, Gmail and Google Buzz
We’ve heard your feedback loud and clear, and since we launched Google Buzz four days ago, we’ve been working around the clock to…

Will health-care insurance save your life?

Megan McArdle’s column questioning the link between insurance coverage and mortality (researcher speak for “dying”) is interesting, but ultimately misleading. At its base, it takes a…

Feb 12

Millions of Buzz users, and improvements based on your feedback

Feb 11

NFL Films withholds post-interception talk

Reggie Wayne was wired for the Super Bowl and mostly didn’t say much. But as I watched parts of the game for an obsessive third time, I knew that Wayne’s mic’d up segment would pay off huge in…

BlueCross BlueShield of Texas' blueprint for denying health policies.

It’s difficult to appreciate the stakes in health care reform if you receive health insurance through your employer. About 59 percent of Americans do, and while they are paying more and more for…

RT @SPINmagazine: Free Download: New @Japandroids song! http://su.pr/6TsSN8

Feb 10

Sarah Palin’s Secret hand Notes - Tom Toles Editorial Cartoon on GoComics.com

Feb 09

gal328: Frequently Raised Objections

Republicans -- Not Obama -- More Often on Wrong Side of Public Opinion

One of the more commonplace assertions among pundits on the center-right — made rather carelessly by Victor Davis Hanson and more thoughtfully by Jay Cost, is that agenda put forward by Obama…

Condescending Liberals

“[I]n the end the bedrock common sense of the American people will prevail,” wrote conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer Friday in the Washington Post. He was crowing over Scott Brown’s…

No Fussin’ and Fightin’: Let’s Try Dialogue Instead

Much is said about the “culture wars” in the US—especially every four years at election time. And much was said leading up to yesterday’s Super Bowl concerning an ad from Focus on the Family, the…

poopy. lala.com is blocked at work again.

Feb 8

Elliot’s final tally from last night’s party was 26 adults and 25 kids.

Feb 7

Today Elliot was watching ESPN while Finn was in bed. There was bleeped profanity. Finn walked in and said "The swearing attracted me."

Finn just said "Elliot, I know how to get a girl when you are teenager. Give her a compliment and then walk away." - Too much iCarly!

Feb 6

family movie night = Coraline

Feb 5

New Palin e-mails reveal 'First Dude's' influence in Alaskan government: Nearly 3,000 pages of e-mails th... http://bit.ly/bu6pjt

Content of our character: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid stirred up lots of controversy recently when ... http://bit.ly/b6Wf4U

Feb 4

AT&T Finally Lets You Use SlingPlayer with Your iPhone Over 3G - http://bit.ly/cy7rgs

Feb 3

Fists for Jesus - THE WEEK: A small but growing number of evangelical churches are using mixed martial ar... http://bit.ly/c9I8HN

824,000 Jobs Will Disappear on February 5th - Bloomberg.com: TV and Radio: http://bit.ly/drUerB

Websense fail. http://www.tentsandtarps.org/ "This Websense category is filtered: Potentially Damaging Content." #tentsandtarpsforhaiti

Left-right want Obama 'question time': Group launches campaign for regular, televised conversations like ... http://bit.ly/9KfaLJ

BBC News - France refuses a citizenship over full Islamic veil: The French government refuses to grant ci... http://bit.ly/dxqVlc

Obama Acts to Engage G.O.P., Testing Party’s Intentions: The outreach is a marked shift in White House st... http://bit.ly/dlIxcd

1 argument vs "we must do wrong since right doesn't work" is to show that doing right works http://nyti.ms/cLOSll http://bit.ly/a7yeu5

The Greatest of These is Love: Another thought on faith, doubt and Christianity.In I Corinthians 13, the ... http://bit.ly/94dCsw

Feb 2

Getting real about Congress: "No single vote by any single senator could possibly illustrate everything... http://bit.ly/95UPxi

How Reaper would have ended, straight from the creators  http://bit.ly/bO23VN

Feb 1

"Velvet Elvis" by @realrobbell is free for Kindle (or kindle app for iphone or your computer) today: http://bit.ly/cMI2qK

Poll: Republicans Think Obama Is A Socialist, And Palin More Qualified To Be President: A new Daily Kos/R... http://bit.ly/bd44FW

Faith and Doubt After "The Cognitive Turn": In my second class on doubt at church I focused on what I cal... http://bit.ly/9FoCCn

Palin PAC Spent More On Books Than Candidates: Ex-AK Gov. Sarah Palin's (R) PAC spent more money buying c... http://bit.ly/aFlIeJ

watching Big Love jump the shark. too many wacky plot threads this season

Jan 30

The Visitor

Jan 29

time to get our Freeland Dairy on

Jan 28

Palin fans attack Obama’s narcissism. Hmm.

I Just Remembered Chris Matthews Was White

one dude I follow seems to think climate change is bogus and $trillion surplus to $trillion deficit from 2000 to 2008 is Obama’s failure

Jan 26

Bob Dylan to Perform at White House for First Time

Jan 25

freshman basketball Nouvel at Bay City Central

Andre Bauer equates ‘stray animals' to people on government aid | The Greenville News

Pass. The. Damn. Bill.

Project for a Healthy American Future - Steve Benen

dedication sunday

Jan 24

Finn says that he likes Sprint because they don’t say they’re better than someone else in their commercials.

Finn says that if he can’t play pro football he wants to be a Walmart cashier because their commercial says “Save money. Live better.”

Finn says “I know what God’s favorite animal is. Dog. It’s the backwards of his name.”

Jan 23

at a lacrosse practice with the boys who are trying it out

Lacrosse practice - http://twitpic.com/zfbkg

Greatest Finale Ever?

Maybe so. In case you missed it, check out the performance of “Freebird” from Conan O’Brien’s final Tonight Show last night. It features Will Ferrell on vocals along with Ben Harper, Billy Gibbons…

Time-lapse video depicts Flight 1549's days in icy Hudson

Jan 22

Saginaw activists outraged by Delta cartoon but newspaper adviser says it's not racist

Jan 21

The “Never Takes Responsibility for Anything” Wing

Brown Didn't Get Many Votes Because Of Health Care, According To Pol

NC State scores rare victory over No. 6 Duke

Jan 20

Is health-care reform stabilizing?

maybe we can?

Brown is pro-choice, voted for RomneyCare (roughly = to ObamaCare), and posed nude in Cosmo. an unlikely hero for social conservatives

Demoralized Democrats

Jan 19

TiVo Party Tonight: The Swell Season, Spoon, The Mountain Goats, The XX

Jan 18

Hoover: Present events similar to past» Abilene Reporter News

Jan 17

New York Times Ready to Charge Online Readers