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Infrastructure Fail Part Deux: Trains And A Bridge In Missouri
Two trains collide and cause a highway bridge to collapseThis Just In:Two freight trains collided and derailed early Saturday in southeast Missouri, then triggered the collapse of a highway overpass...
View ArticleMemorial Day Remembrance
I. The 30th day of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and...
View ArticleWhat's For Dinner! v. 7.47 Up In Smoke
NOTE: This is a republish of an earlier diary done last year. With some new additions. Memorial Day weekend was a couple of weeks ago. For many, it is the "unofficial" start to grilling season. For...
View ArticleYour Call May Be Monitored For Quality Control Purposes
I have a friend who likes to muck about with the Google search engine, clicking random things, and random sites just so she can see what kinds of dating ads Facebook will put on her feed. She gets a...
View ArticleHow To Make The NSA Think You're A Terrorist
What you are about to view is a list of words that could potentially cause the NSA to flag you if you over use them in an email.Long story short, this list comes from Attrition.org, but it was last...
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Ohio School Bans African American Hairstyles
Recently (June 14), the Horizon Science Academy of Lorain, Ohio sent a letter home to parents about their dress code. Part of the letter read in part:Afro-puffs and small twisted braids, with our (sic)...
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Fox "News" Uses The Unabomber To Attack Liberals
There's not much to add to this, kids. Fox's resident psycho psychiatrist Kenneth Ablow wrote a column for Foxnews.com in praise of Ted Kaczynski's manifesto.This being Fox, and the fact that...
View ArticleOh Sarah, You Temptress
You know you drive us mad with the things you say. Your word salads take incomprehensible gibberish to new levels of zen. We know you secretly pleasure yourself knowing your naked hatred for so much...
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Thirty-Three MILLION People. Egypt Rises WITH UPDATES. Morsi Has 48 Hours
You think they're upset? That's an unofficial number, of course. But that's the unofficial number of people who are out protesting against the government of Mohammed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood...
View ArticleThursday Classical Music Opus 112: Music For The Royal Fireworks
Today is the Fourth of July, where fireworks are the preferred way to celebrate. Fireworks have been used for celebration since the Seventh Century, when they were invented in China.It has been a Grand...
View ArticleBush/Palin 2016
Or so says The American Thinker.Honestly, this article is too delicious not to share. I may violate some Fair Use, but it will be worth it.So the article starts innocently enough:Let's talk political...
View ArticleSan Francisco TV Station Uses Fake Racist Names To Identify Pilots
This is just...From Think Progress:In a shockingly racist move on Friday, San Francisco news station KTVU misreported the names of the pilots aboard Asiana Flight 214, which crashed at San Francisco...
View ArticleThe Rest Of His Life
Fred Merkle was a 19 year old first baseman with the New York Giants when they played the Chicago Cubs in September of 1908. A baserunning error in the ninth inning cost the Giants the game, and...
View ArticleThe "World's Most Famous Teacher" On "School Reform"
That's the gist of this interview in the Washington Post yesterday.Actually, the headline is "The World's Most Famous Teacher BLASTS School Reform" (my emphasis).The teacher in question is Rafe Esquith...
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Rahm Lays Off Over 1000 Teachers Today
Light up the phones and flood Facebook312-744-3300That's in addition to the Paras, Lunchroom staff, Security, and other workers, bringing the total to almost 2100.And most of the 1000 teachers being...
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What's Your Excuse?
Annette Fredskov is all smiles as she crosses the finish line of her second marathon yesterday (Photo: annettefredskov.dk) I am a worm. I am not worthy. I am worthless and weak. We all have things we...
View ArticleShame On JC Penney
JC Penney, which has been a Progressive Hero for its support of LGBT Equality, has lost its way.They have decided to side with Rahm Emanuel, Arne Duncan, and the corporate privatizers of Public...
View ArticleSteve King, Border Warrior.
Oy. He's at it again. Iowa Congressman Steve King (R, IA-4), not content with comparing DREAM kids to "drug mules with cantaloupe calves", and then doubling down on the floor of the US House of...
View ArticleNew Study: "Fat Shaming" Leads To Greater Obesity
" I can look at my daughter and see that she is healthy, active, and athletic; but seeing the word “obese” on the paper left me feeling like the world’s worst mother."That's the reaction a mother felt...
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