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What you would have seen, if you were my friend on Facebook
You would have just seen me pose the following question to my friend Scott, the founder of Baltimore’s Atomic Books: Do you wear your snuggie to the movie theater, or change into it there? I find Snuggie culture absolutely fascinating. I’...
Riots at UCLA over 32% tuition hikes
The regents of UCLA today voted to raise tuition by 32%, and the students - at least 500 of them - responded with extreme displeasure. ...
Why cover the elderly and not the newborn?
Nicholas Kristof raises a really interesting question in today’s New York Times. Here’s a clip. …Yet although America’s elderly are now cared for, our children are not. A Johns Hopkins study found that hospitalized children who a...
H1N1 clinic on Sunday in Ypsilanti
I don’t want to freak people out, but this afternoon Washtenaw County had its first H1N1 death. And, that’s not the worst of it. According to AnnArbor.com, the person who died wasn’t someone in one of the so-called high-risk groups&...
Free healthcare clinic draws thousands
While Glenn Beck and the folks over at FOX News were busy promoting their Tea Parties, giving their more rabid viewers an opportunity to scream, red-faced about Socialism and wave around Hitler posters, Keith Olbermann’s crew at MSNBC decided t...
The “Tell it to Sara Jessica Parker’s severed HEAD!!!!” open thread
I wanted to blog tonight, but I’m having too much fun listening to my friends Vanessa and Michael guest DJing on the University of Georgia’s student radio station, WUOG, so I’m just going to make this an open thread. So, if you hav...
