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Fear of loss is one reason my cell phone pretty much never leaves my person when I’m awake, but, I must say, nothing in my phone is very interesting:

A US couple is suing McDonald’s for $3m (£2m) after nude photos of the woman, which were on her husband’s mobile phone, ended up on the internet.

Phillip Sherman says he accidentally left his phone, with the photos, at a McDonald’s in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

He says staff promised to secure the phone until he could retrieve it.

. . . read this.

Via Phillybits.

Via Mithras.

I was hungry, and you did not feed me:

A program that provided 30-pound boxes of food to poor families across the state became a victim of the sagging economy when the Food Bank of Delaware ceased operating its emergency feeding program.

The decision to close the seven-month program, which provided food to people who showed up at one of two warehouses, came when the Food Bank ran out of grant money just as it was seeing an increase in demand.

The Bush Midas touch.

Matthew 25: 35-40

The Somali pirates, renegade Somalis known for hijacking ships for ransom in the Gulf of Aden, are negotiating a purchase of Citigroup.

The pirates would buy Citigroup with new debt and their existing cash stockpiles, earned most recently from hijacking numerous ships, including most recently a $200 million Saudi Arabian oil tanker. The Somali pirates are offering up to $0.10 per share for Citigroup, pirate spokesman Sugule Ali said earlier today. The negotiations have entered the final stage, Ali said.

“You may not like our price, but we are not in the business of paying for things. Be happy we are in the mood to offer the shareholders anything,” said Ali.

Via Delaware Liberal.

Reuters:

NASA is having problems with a $250 million system it just delivered to the International Space Station to recycle urine and other wastewater into drinking water for astronauts.

But the glitches were not unexpected and will hopefully be ironed out in time for the visiting shuttle Endeavour crew to bring home its first samples, the U.S. space agency said on Friday.

Hope they have a couple of bags of lime.

. . . comes around.

The one at Marsh and Silverside.

It’s a TD Bank.

I don’t think I’ll ever see the inside, though.

Not after reading this.

John Cole:

Kevin Drum asks who should replace Bill Kristol at the NY Times. My first thought was a steaming pile of dog leftovers, then I moved on to Otto from Airplane, both of whom are on equal intellectual footing with Kristol, and probably cost less to pay.

I think Otto from Airplane has a bone to pick with Mr. Cole.

Otto is nowhere near the airhead that Bill Kristol is.

The major topic of conversation when we broke up at DL tonight was “what other venues can we try?”

Maybe it was just the waitress who had our area.

But Plough and Stars massive fail.

I set myself a two-drink limit (after all, it is Drinking Liberally); I never got the second one, not 45 minutes after ordering it.

I was there two weeks ago, on election night, when it was packed.

It was not packed tonight.

The service was nowhere near as bad then as it was tonight.

Two different worlds . . . .

Rox, what were you thinking?

Free Credit Report dot com is not free.

It may have cute commercials, but it’s not free.

Chris, how quickly can you get here?

Simulate a burning cross for Christmas.

John Cole has the skinny.

I am so sick and tired of those who sell hate in the (dis)guise of love.

I’m going to curl up and read my murder mystery and listen to KCEA now. Murder mysteries: where evil is clearly evil and evildoers actually get punished in the end.

Thursday, 7 p., Bellefonte Cafe, 804 Brandywine Blvd., Bellefonte, Del.

Maps and directions here.

Latest blog post here.

And, thanks to Bushonomics, there’re plenty of reasons to drink. Liberally.

According to FL, we will be at a new venue, the Plough and Stars on 2nd between Market and Chestnut, Center City Philadelphia, still starting at 6 p.

There’s ample street parking and pay lots for folks like me, who really have no reasonable choice but to drive (drive=30 mins.; SEPTA=1 1/2 hrs. and a transfer each way, not counting the drive to the train station at this end and the walk from the Gallery Station to the venue at that end).

James Wolcott nails it.

Her neanderthal political views notwithstanding, she just grates.

Fixed.

Chalk up another win for the good guys:

The Southern Poverty Law Center sued the nation’s second-largest Klan outfit on behalf of a Latino teen severely beaten in 2006 by two Klan members. The Klansmen were convicted and served two years in prison.

A jury on Friday ordered Imperial Klans of America grand wizard Ron Edwards and two former lieutenants to pay 19-year-old Jordan Gruver $1.5 million for lost wages and medical expenses and Edwards to pay $1 million in punitive damages.

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