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December 12, 2008

Redistribution [Dan Collins]

Los Tigres [Dan Collins]

An Inconvenient Find [Dan Collins]

You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell! According to the BBC’s Tom Housden, reporting on the Cambay find: map showing siteThe vast city — which is five miles long and two miles wide — is believed to predate the oldest known remains in the subcontinent by more than 5,000 years. The site was discovered by chance last year by oceanographers from India’s

Reverend Jeremiah Wright Takes Job as Info Minister for Zimbabwe [Dan Collins]

UK responsible for cholera epidemic.

I Don’t Think It’s Tragic, Either [Dan Collins]

It’s a bathedy. Meanwhile, Illinois is PLUNGING INTO CHAOS: Illinois plunged deeper into turmoil Friday over disgraced Gov. Rod Blagojevich as the attorney general asked the state’s highest court to strip the governor of his powers, billions of dollars in bills went unpaid and lawmakers moved closer to impeaching the scandal-plagued politician. But Blagojevich showed no sign of backing down. He took time to pray with ministers at his home

What Do Republicans Want? [Dan Collins]

Well, according to Hale “Bonehead” Stewart, it seems that those corporate stooges want . . . a depression! The truth is that we want an Official Seal.

British Archaeologists Discover 2000-Year-Old Brain [Dan Collins]

Big deal. We’ve got Robert Byrd.

This Isn’t Going to Put Organically Grown Fruit on Rahm’s Kids’ Table [Dan Collins]

Emanuel turned testy and declined to talk with a reporter who approached him Thursday at Chicago City Hall, where he was watching his children perform in a concert. The Chicago Sun-Times reporter pressed him to comment about whether he was the emissary named in the criminal complaint. “You’re wasting your time,” Emanuel said. “I’m not going to say a word to you. I’m going to do this with my children.

Stoking the Economy [Dan Collins]

In addition, a proper internal investigation could be a huge undertaking – not the work of a few days, Brand said, asserting “it’s a great project for some lawyer. It’s a lot of billable hours.” I found this story via Hot Air Headlines, but apparently the Chicago local Fox affiliate has pulled it down: Rahm Emanuel Reportedly Spoke with Blagojevich About Senate Seat The firestorm surrounding Governor Blagojevich is putting

The Importance of Blowing Ernesto [Dan Collins]

David Thompson: A while ago, I posted some extracts from Alvaro Vargas Llosa’s article on Ernesto “Che” Guevara: In April 1967, speaking from experience, he summed up his homicidal idea of justice in his Message to the Tricontinental: “Hatred as an element of struggle; unbending hatred for the enemy, which pushes a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him into an effective, violent, selective and cold-blooded killing machine”… In