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2015 archive

. . . Because It’s All about the Horse Race 0

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The Supplement Scam 0

Josh Bloom explains. Here’s a bit:

Since, by any measure, herbal supplements are intended to treat or prevent disease—something that is beyond obvious from the labels—it is reasonable to ask how this giant industry is selling drugs, the vast majority of which have never been tested, let alone even come close to the standards set by the FDA for approval of a new drug.

The industry is able to bypass the aegis of the FDA simply by using slippery language on their labels.

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Plane Truths 0

I just visited a newspaper website (no I won’t say which one; it doesn’t matter) to be greeted by a big ad saying “The F35B Is Ready for Deployment!”

No, it’s not.

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The Acme Inquiry Bureau 0

Republican Benghazi committee prepares to light fuse on

Via Job’s Anger.

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Win Some, Lose Some 0

What Noz said.

That’s pretty much why I don’t waste my time watching candidate debates. They are theatre–at this point, they are the worst kind of theatre, institutionalized kabuki theatre–not discourse.

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QOTD 0

Mary Douglas:

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

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And Now for Something Completely Different 0

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Not Your Father’s Music 0

Anything but your father’s music.

A 15-year-old in Rhineland-Palatinate scrawled a simple word across a piece of paper and placed it against the window of the cars’ rear passenger seat. ‘Help’ it read.

The teenager could no longer take the Schlager music his father was listening to on the radio and needed an out.

Luckily a concerned driver noticed the plea and called the police, as police reported on Wednesday.

The polizei were not amused.

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The Audition 0

Looney Toons Tasmanian Devil auditions for House Speaker, Tea Party finds him too moderate.

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The Candidates Debate 0

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Headline of the Day 0

Ethan Strimling unifies Portland’s only Republican.

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“The Smart One” 2

Wherever did that notion originate?

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A Nation of Immigrants 0

House surrounded by fence topped by barbed wire.  Sign says,


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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

The hunt for politeness forges on.

Davis had been wearing a .44 magnum revolver in a shoulder holster prior to the shooting. He was with a group of family and friends that had finished hunting for the day and were in the process of clearing their weapons, the sheriff said. “The victim was on the back steps to the residence taking his shoes off when the others heard a shot,” Alexander said. “They went out to find his revolver on the ground and him, shot in the chest.”

Why a pistol on a hunting outing? They’re only good for one kind of game.*

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*Long pig, in case you wondered.

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QOTD 0

John Dos Passos:

We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work.

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Facebook Frolics 0

Unreconstructed frolics.

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In the Eye of the Beholder 0

More stuff you can’t make up.

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Huckster on the Hustings 0

I must disagree with the commentator’s conclusion, to this extent.

I do not think Huckabee is out of touch. I think he’s in touch . . . with the Republican base.

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Responsible Fiscals 0

First pane:  Commentator:  Free public college!  Medicare for fall!  Family leave!  These Democrats are giving away freebies.  Second pane:  One percenter carrying big bag of tax cuts.  Reporter asks,

Via Job’s Anger.

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Immunity Impunity 0

Leonard Pitts, Jr. Just read it.

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