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From the AP : "Jacobson, who has been playing religious and patriotic music outside the hospice for the past three days, said he didn’t...

A bit too much seriousness here, so I'm going to point to an MP3 file of a funny old song. I'm Taking My Oyster For Walkies (MP3...

One more post about physicians involved in the Schiavo case, since we've covered Hammesfahr pretty thouroughly. There are two more docto...

My post about Dr. Hammesfahr below has provoked some questions via email. So, before I stop writing about him I thought I'd encapsulate ...

David Brock's Media Matters has written about some issues with William M. Hammesfah r, the MD who claims that Terry Schiavo's condit...

A former prosecutor (appointed by John Ashcroft), apparently gets heavily into drugs in his late forties and is murdered over three weeks ...

During the heated debate concerning the Missouri Compromise in 1820, Representative Felix Walker from the North Carolina County of Buncombe...

This post : features the quote: The Discovery Institute, which is ground zero for the intelligent design movement, gathered at last count th...

We're from the government --no need to mention that -- and we're here to lie to you The Bush administration, rejecting an opinion f...

Don't Carry the Union Jack at a St. Patrick's Day Parade

Smell of the Greasepaint in the Social Security lyiing tour: "The night before the event, the chosen participants gathered for a rehea...

Financial Times story on Warrent Buffett's annual letter to investors : "Mr Buffett stepped up his warning about the US trade defic...

At McSweeney's, Chris Gavaler's riff on Who's on First? Nice. Reminds me of a similar bit -- based on the names of rock bands ...

Bush today : "March 4 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush, facing a decline in public support for private Social Security accounts...

In the past couple weeks, there have been notable sighs of relief from Democrats about the Social Security debate. Frist said "maybe ne...

Recipes Of The Damned Amy Stephenson has collected "real scary recipes from real scary vintage cookbooks," including a discursive ...

This little blog-ditty titled Intellectual Diversity at Stanford has been well-linked, and it's quite clever. Here's the opening, b...

I rarely read Molly Ivin's columns, but this one from Sunday really packs a punch. There's a bill in the Texas legislature to chang...

AP writes a strange-sounding breaking story: Federal Judge Finds Two Bodies in Home : CHICAGO - A federal judge discovered two bodies in her...

I hadn't previously seen this week-old Michael Kinsley Op-Ed in the Washington Post, but he succinctly puts his finger on what bothers...