Jerry Garcia’s Name-Claiming Journey Beyond the Grateful Dead
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Cool
h/t: Drum.
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Who is the Real Turkey?
Juan Cole on “Who Lost Turkey?” via Drum.
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Note to self
Use this when talking about states and communications.
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Kid Fishing
With friends from Germany, at Brainard Lake near Ward. Great place to take kids fishing because the brookies are hungry! This was in July 2007.
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“Belgium”
Always struck me as a fictional place, especially after having lived in Brussels for a year. Ingrid Robeyns has a great analysis.
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About freaking time.
In an interview with the BBC, Professor John Marburger, Bush’s chief science adviser, said it was an “unequivocal” fact that climate change is man-made and that greenhouse gases emitted by human activity are to blame. h/t: Think Progress.
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An American Hero …
… who shall remain nameless. And a few buddies. The Shadow Warrior says this: “it is very bad here on all levels from the highest policy levels to the guys with boots on the ground”. Come back safe and soon, my friend. Godspeed.
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CU as “public authority”
From the Colorado Daily: CU may take yet another step to free itself from controls imposed by the state of Colorado. The university may file to become a “public authority,” a public corporation contracted by the state to fulfill a public benefit or service. CU is currently an “enterprise,” a governmental organization that executes state…
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Delicious Beer Alert
West Coast IPA from Green Flash Brewing Co. in San Diego is deliciously hoppy. That is all.
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Summer Surge Data
Nice job, Kevin Drum. Violence Metrics June/July2006 June/July2007 Change Iraqi Military and Police Killed 349 429 Up 23% Multiple Fatality Bombings 110 82 Down 25% # Killed in Mult. Fatality Bombings 885 1,053 Up 19% Iraqi Civilians Killed(All violent causes) 6,739 5,300 Hard to say1 U.S. Troop Fatalities 104 187 Up 80% U.S. Troops Wounded…