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From the monthly archives:
Here are 10 Good Things to think about as we ring in the New Year. May they warm your heart, inspire you, and be harbingers of better things to come in 2010. 10. Sonia Sotomayor becomes the the third woman to serve on the Supreme Court. 9. Half the Sky is published — in its 16th printing [...]
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10. That the government didn’t just buy all the failing banks with the TARP money. 9. Having an inexperienced flim-flam master as Commander in Chief. 8. Suicide rates skyrocketing during the Great Recession. 7. Iran going postal. 6. The Puma PAC Woman Lynching Forum. Of course, we sweep out these outrages of 2009 only to make room [...]
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Speaking of Sarah Palin, check THIS out, from the New York Times no less! “Mrs. Obama’s choices are all insider, apart from her shorts and those strategically worn plebe numbers from Target and Talbots. If she got any more insider, she’d be backing down a runway. She wears Rodarte, Jason Wu, Sophie Theallet,Narciso Rodriguez, Thakoon, Isabel [...]
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Why is it that all these supposedly brilliant people were so fricking STUPID about obama? THIS ARTICLE is excellent, but, really Nat? You are JUST BEGINNING to think that obama might be a phony?!? “I try to avoid hyperbole, but I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had. [...]
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News and views that struck my fancy today: Puma-SF on the Year of Living Fecklessly. A knitting group for the homeless. A test for whether you have an eidetic (photographic) memory. And related: Do you have synaesthesia? One of my girls does. It’s very odd. Burka banned in Texas. Notable deaths of 2009. I was [...]
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Also known as Boxing Day in the UK, Saint Stephen’s Day in Ireland is the day to visit family and friends, give to your favored charitable organizations, and sing this song for your supper wherever you go: The wren, the wren, the king of all birds, St. Stephen’s Day was caught in the furze, Although [...]
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Welcome Puma Friends old and new, and Merry Christmas! Here at Chez Murphy we celebrate the spirit of Christmas as the day for gratuitous giving (i.e., you give presents (and get them!) for no reason other than being you!). Drop in for some eggnog, spiked or not according to your taste, though I must admit [...]
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Early this morning the Senate did its craven work under cover of dawn and distraction. Overtired Americans who woke this morning with overdrawn bank accounts and credit cards are too overwhelmed to pay any real attention. “They passed that health care thing this morning? Yeah, but do I really have to go back to Walmart [...]
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Not Your Sweetie has a great round-up of the broken hearted obot club’s pinings and gnashings of teeth. Uppity has Uncle Jay’s Hi-LAIR-ious Singing the Year In News. I recommend reading everything at Puma Eyes. Is Avatar anti-American? I plan on seeing it this week, along with Holmes (yeah, Baby!), and (ahem) Alvin and the [...]
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“The real battle in Washington is seldom between conservatives and liberals or the right and the left or “red America” and “blue America.” It is nearly always a more local contest, over which politicians will enjoy the privilege of representing the interests of the rich.” – by Luke Mitchell in the Atlantic, via Violet Socks. [...]
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