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By Degrees - A Plugged-In World, With a Hunger for Electricity - Series - NYTimes.com: "the nation’s gaming consoles, like the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the Sony PlayStation 3, now use about the same amount of electricity each year as San Diego, the ninth-largest city in country."
She posts from the laptop that she only sometimes remembers to switch off the power strip at night.
She posts from the laptop that she only sometimes remembers to switch off the power strip at night.
Saturday
The Columbus Dispatch : FORECLOSED: high-end homes
The Columbus Dispatch : FORECLOSED: high-end homes: "Mr. Means, 52, is a managing director with Amherst Partners, a mergers-and-acquisitions company based in Birmingham, Mich. Mrs. Means, also 52, is a real-estate agent with Street Sotheby's International Realty in Upper Arlington; she specializes in million-dollar-plus homes." AKA "the losers" in Santelli''s rant.
Friday
Christian attorney: Why I think Rifqa Bary's mother is in the right - St. Petersburg Times
Christian attorney: Why I think Rifqa Bary's mother is in the right - St. Petersburg Times: "the Lord is not so powerless as to need people to hide information, to embellish facts, or to give false witness in order to advance Christ's kingdom."
Thursday
Books - One Injury, 10 Countries - A Journey in Health Care - Review - NYTimes.com
Books - One Injury, 10 Countries - A Journey in Health Care - Review - NYTimes.com: "A person’s last days can be spent in any number of ways. But on the phone pleading with an insurer, that’s only in America."
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The Associated Press: Police say syringes will help stop drunk driving
The Associated Press: Police say syringes will help stop drunk driving: "he tries to search for a plump, bouncy vein."
Friday
The Washington Independent » Whistleblowers Unveil More ArmorGroup Allegations
The Washington Independent » Whistleblowers Unveil More ArmorGroup Allegations: "recurring evidence that ArmorGroup employees continued to solicit prostitutes and perhaps even run their own prostitution services. A trainee boasted to Gordon “that he could purchase a girl for $20,000 and turn a profit after a month."
Law.com - Arraignment Scheduled for Former Pa. Judges on Racketeering Charges
Law.com - Arraignment Scheduled for Former Pa. Judges on Racketeering Charges: "funneling money from Robert J. Powell, the co-owner of two private juvenile detention facilities, and Robert K. Mericle, the builder of those facilities"
Middle East Online
Middle East Online "Institutional Islamophobia and the Politics of a Minor's Choice"
Law.com - SEC Attacked for 'Colossal Failure' Over Madoff
Law.com - SEC Attacked for 'Colossal Failure' Over Madoff: "Inexperience. Incompetence. Laziness."
Thursday
FT.com / In depth - Viewpoint: three commentators on the legacy
FT.com / In depth - Viewpoint: three commentators on the legacy: "At the top of my list was policy failure – reckless and irresponsible conduct by the US Federal Reserve."
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Our take on: Fathima Rifqa Bary & Labor Day blues -- OrlandoSentinel.com
Our take on: Fathima Rifqa Bary & Labor Day blues -- OrlandoSentinel.com: "If not for the intervention of opportunists in Florida, this case would've been turned over weeks ago to Ohio, where it belongs."
Law.com - 9th Circuit Blasts Feds for Post-9/11 Detention of 'Material Witness'
Law.com - 9th Circuit Blasts Feds for Post-9/11 Detention of 'Material Witness': "Ashcroft does not enjoy prosecutorial immunity in the case"
Friday
Op-Ed Contributor - Ike’s Other Warning - NYTimes.com
Op-Ed Contributor - Ike’s Other Warning - NYTimes.com: "dictatorial systems make one contribution to their people which leads them to tend to support such systems — freedom from the necessity of informing themselves and making up their own minds"
Thursday
LIVE BLOG: Rifqa Bary hearing - WDBO Local News on wdbo.com
LIVE BLOG: Rifqa Bary hearing - WDBO Local News on wdbo.com: "there's nothing in this (FDLE) report that supports the girl's claim"
Wednesday
Fathima Rifqa Bary: Runaway Ohio teen goes back to court on Thursday -- OrlandoSentinel.com
Fathima Rifqa Bary: Runaway Ohio teen goes back to court on Thursday -- OrlandoSentinel.com: "the Lorenzes kept her for two weeks without notify authorities."
Tuesday
Defense Contracting in Afghanistan at Record High | Secrecy News
Defense Contracting in Afghanistan at Record High | Secrecy News: "abuses and crimes committed by armed private security contractors and interrogators against local nationals may have undermined U.S. efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan"
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This Week In Depressing Polls - Birthers - Gawker
This Week In Depressing Polls - Birthers - Gawker: "6% of poll respondents think that Hawaii is not part of the country and 4% are unsure."
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Paul Krassner: On the 40th Anniversary of Woodstock
Paul Krassner: On the 40th Anniversary of Woodstock: "It's not that we hate America, it's that we feel the American dream has been betrayed, and we will live our alternative."
Grand Junction a microcosm of efficient healthcare -- latimes.com
Grand Junction a microcosm of efficient healthcare -- latimes.com: "'The interesting thing about healthcare,' ErkenBrack said, 'is quality costs less.'"
Op-Ed Columnist - Republican Death Trip - NYTimes.com
Op-Ed Columnist - Republican Death Trip - NYTimes.com: "an unending procession of wild charges and fake scandals, dutifully given credence by major media organizations that somehow can’t bring themselves to declare the accusations unequivocally false."
Thursday
TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect
TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect: "ConAgra, Roche, Sanofi-Aventis, RadioShack, Men’s Wearhouse, State Farm, Sargent, LexisNexis-owned Lawyers.com, Procter & Gamble, Progressive Insurance, SC Johnson and GEICO have all pulled their ads from Beck's show"
Voting machine hack costs less than $100,000
Voting machine hack costs less than $100,000 You get what you pay for.
Wednesday
"Now Don't You Let the Government Get a Hold of My Medicare" : CJR
"Now Don't You Let the Government Get a Hold of My Medicare" : CJR: "Welcome to the brave new world of politics, full of rants (mostly inarticulate) and chants (mostly inarticulate) and misinformation (mostly quite articulate)"
NASA - Satellites Unlock Secret to Northern India's Vanishing Water
NASA - Satellites Unlock Secret to Northern India's Vanishing Water: "groundwater levels in northern India have been declining by as much as one foot per year over the past decade. Researchers concluded the loss is almost entirely due to human activity."
New SPLC Report: Return of the Militias | Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center
New SPLC Report: Return of the Militias | Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center: "made up of present and former police officers and soldiers."
Tuesday
FBI's investigation of Tiller killing looks at Roeder's jail visitors - Kansas City Star
FBI's investigation of Tiller killing looks at Roeder's jail visitors - Kansas City Star: "The list of those visiting and communicating with the man accused of killing Wichita abortion doctor George Tiller reads like a who’s who of anti-abortion militants."
Monday
Op-Ed Contributor - Is It Now a Crime to Be Poor? - NYTimes.com
Op-Ed Contributor - Is It Now a Crime to Be Poor? - NYTimes.com: "Maybe we can’t afford the measures that would begin to alleviate America’s growing poverty — affordable housing, good schools, reliable public transportation and so forth. I would argue otherwise, but for now I’d be content with a consensus that, if we can’t afford to truly help the poor, neither can we afford to go on tormenting them."
Saturday
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Steven Pearlstein is shrill - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com
Steven Pearlstein is shrill - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com: "Anyone who is surprised hasn’t been paying attention since, oh, 1993."
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Giant Ocean-Trash Vortex Attracts Explorers
Giant Ocean-Trash Vortex Attracts Explorers: "Pacific Ocean trash dump twice the size of Texas"
Thursday
Saving Fish is Possible, Unless They’re Past the Tipping Point | Wired Science | Wired.com
Saving Fish is Possible, Unless They’re Past the Tipping Point | Wired Science | Wired.com: "The longer you wait to fix a situation, the harder it becomes."
iFRAME | iframe, eastridge, audio - Life - Colorado Springs Gazette, CO
iFRAME | iframe, eastridge, audio - Life - Colorado Springs Gazette, CO Casualties of War, Part I: The hell of war comes home
Wednesday
Why we learn more from our successes than our failures - MIT News Office
Why we learn more from our successes than our failures - MIT News Office: "Brain cells may only learn from experience when we do something right and not when we fail."
The Columbus Dispatch : Job trend damaging Ohio's kids
The Columbus Dispatch : Job trend damaging Ohio's kids: "More than a third of Ohio's children in 2007 -- nearly 1 million -- were living in families where no parent had a full-time, year-round job." Blame Obama!
Tuesday
Books - At What Height, Happiness? A Medical Tale - Review - NYTimes.com
Books - At What Height, Happiness? A Medical Tale - Review - NYTimes.com: "One exasperated pediatrician, musing on whether outcome justified cost, suggested a clinical trial to settle the question: one group of tiny boys would get growth hormone and each boy in the other group would each get $100,000 cash. Who would be happier and healthier 20 years down the line?"
Recession hurting kids (The Daily Briefing)
Recession hurting kids (The Daily Briefing): "More than a third of Ohio children - 34 percent - were living in families where no parent had a full-time, year-round job in 2007.
That's up from 30 percent in 2000 and should come as little surprise as the state has been hemorrhaging jobs for years."
That's up from 30 percent in 2000 and should come as little surprise as the state has been hemorrhaging jobs for years."
Look out, gov - the ex-gov is comin'! (The Daily Briefing)
Look out, gov - the ex-gov is comin'! (The Daily Briefing): "It’s the southerners. They get on TV and go 'errrr, errrrr.' People hear them and say, ‘These people, they’re southerners. The party’s being taken over by southerners."
Monday
Robin Wells: Hard Truths and the Teachable Moment: The Gates-Crowley Saga
Robin Wells: Hard Truths and the Teachable Moment: The Gates-Crowley Saga: "As long as we walk around with a sense of grievance - notice the word shares the same root as 'grief' - we're going to make ourselves the victims of those who are stuck in their own ignorance and pig-headedness. The difficult fact is that to let go of grievance requires us to become generous, even when we're the wronged party. In each and every moment - and particularly in moments like these - we choose who we're going to be."
Sunday
Wayne County Star
Wayne County Star: "One post pretended to be from a woman with a Mexican boyfriend; the other two posts insinuated the boat had come from Cuba, berated farmers, accused them of breaking the law and praised the Border Patrol for doing a good job.
The posts, which were made anonymously on June 20 and 21, identified themselves on the public part of the website with fake Internet addresses: Imaapplehog2@yahoo.com, poorbabies@hotmail.com and hahaha@hotmail.com. The Star discovered they all had Internet protocol addresses that showed as originating from cbp.dhs.gov."
The posts, which were made anonymously on June 20 and 21, identified themselves on the public part of the website with fake Internet addresses: Imaapplehog2@yahoo.com, poorbabies@hotmail.com and hahaha@hotmail.com. The Star discovered they all had Internet protocol addresses that showed as originating from cbp.dhs.gov."
Wednesday
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