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Sisters

Office Depot to recycle old PCs for free — other vendors are following a good business and PR move.

Nigerian email scammers — in your face!

“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty… We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine and remember that we are not descended from fearful men – not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular… We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.”

Edward R. Murrow, excerpted from Reason by Robert B. Reich

The Lynne Cheney torrid sexual coming-of-age novel: sadly, out of print.

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The Progressive Case for Patriotism

Colin Powell does a disco number. The US isn’t the only nation having a problem with guns – Brazil’s gun ban goes into effect.

Marlon Brando moves to the big gig in the sky.

“There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size.”
The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean, from Adaptation

Utah Boy Scouts sell $250 glasses of lemonade to defray likely arson charge for state Scout Council.
Students start to worry about a possible draft next year.

Great article on AlterNet: The Progressive Case for Patriotism.

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The medium-sized American Dream

Tracy and I moved in together today, unofficially. Officially, though, we were able to tell the family and friends at a welcome barbecue that night that Tracy and I are expecting… with an expected delivery date of January 2, 2006, if all goes well.

I haven’t really lived in a house since 1990, back in Dekalb, Illinois, with six other college students. The house was dubbed “the house of spackle”. Despite $20K in renovations, it still looked like the beacon for keg parties in Dekalb County. When I moved to Seattle in 1994, I lived in a communal house for 3.5 months, but that felt like an apartment.

This new house is a medium-sized palace… after 15 years of one-bedroom houses. Like all couples do, we’re setting the place up especially for us, and thinking about the next six months and all the preparations that need to be made.

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Fahrenheit 9/11 tops docu box office

Fahrenheit 9/11 tops box office records for a documentary. I certainly helped, by seeing it twice. Could Hannah Storm on CBS’s The Early Show have been more angry with Moore in her interview with him? Moore was able to get in valid points about American media self-censorshp as she glared.

Guantanamo detainees, many held without charge, can finally see a lawyer and defend themselves.

An Irish reporter asks Bush tough questions, the kind US media simply don’t touch — this made Bush very uncomfortable several times during the interview.

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The ban on… low-slung pants?

A Louisiana state representative wants to ban low-slung pants in his state. Meanwhile, a CIA career officer says the U.S. is fighting the wrong war.

“F*ck you.”
Dick Cheney to Patrick Leahy, on Senate floor

Behavioral scientists in the UK are attempting to find the stimuli to promote the green consumer lifestyle.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Maybe that’s why Lee Iacocca has thrown his support to the Democrats?

Fahrenheit 9/11 might convert some swing voters, but it’s energized the Democratic base like no one’s business.

Tom Harkin wants to politically balance American Forces Radio with a liberal viewpoint, to counter Rush Limbaugh.