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I’ve been meaning to get to this for days.

The Telegraph - Katie Couric is right to criticise sexist US, by Catherine Elsworth

Katie Couric, America’s highest earning television news anchor, has whipped up quite a storm with her comments that she, like Hillary Clinton, is a victim of sexism. The presenter [...]

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What is up with the medical research industrial field lately?

This time about mass spectrometers.

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Fox News - Tony Snow, Former White House Press Secretary and FOX News Anchor, Dies at 53

So, what? Huh? What?

All the stories about his health end in 2007. So, uh, what?

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I love medical automation systems manufacturing companies.

eppendorf - epMotion

Yes, it’s real.

Update:

Here’s just the video, but for the love of all that’s holy, go look at the webpage.

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…With comic!

Wheat & Weeds - “Radio Drama”

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Now this is how you quit a job:

Valleywag - Stewart Butterfield’s bizarre resignation letter to Yahoo

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The Times - Weddings: fashion’s control-freak evil sister The bridal industry is a bloated £5bn business. No wonder fewer people are choosing to get married, by Janice Turner

The key word of the modern wedding is unique. It is the bride’s right, even her duty, to create a day that is a manifestation of every [...]

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Here’s the video of Mark Steyn forcing the “sock puppets” into finally actually debating him (on live TV!). And yes, though it took till nearly the end, they did generously say that they wouldn’t say Adolf Hitler was representative of Christians. Ah, that notable Christian-gone-wrong, Adolf Hitler…

Anyway, it’s truly hilarious. But he says on his [...]

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On a whim, I bought shoes to go with a dress I haven’t bought yet. Yesterday at about 4:00 I placed the order. At about 6:00 I got an email about shipping that I glanced at but didn’t actually read since they all say the same thing. This morning I got an email that had [...]

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The Times - Poor Paraguay The new President needs to co-operate with and emulate his Brazilian counterpart

I bring this up because McDonalds has the funniest ad. I flipped on the TV last night, and apparently all the rich people with senses of humour watch Seinfeld reruns at 10 and 10.30. Anyway, it’s not online yet, but [...]

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Macleans - Free to speak Human rights commissions are undermining the fundamental Charter rights of all Canadians. Protest while you still can. FROM THE EDITORS

We published that story because we felt it was a compelling perspective on significant world events, from one of Canada’s most interesting and celebrated journalists. Besides Maclean’s, Steyn’s work has [...]

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Hmm:

Telegraph - Why Time featured Britian’s violent youth, by Catherine Mayer (London bureau chief of ‘Time’)

Interesting. And explains all the headlines I’ve been seeing.

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I am outraged, outraged! that Disney is using my trade name to market their cheesy merchandise to the Asian market!

Curtsy: Vanderleun (speak of the devil, RC2, and he shall email you!), who just emailed it to me. Because I can’t reply: No, I haven’t seen it.

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Telegraph - Sooner Fed bail-outs than the 1930s revisited, by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Most would rather relish the delicious moments of Schadenfreude as the bailiff’s gavel falls on their Gulfstream IVs. Yet we must forbear. It was such sentiments that turned the 1930 recession into a slump. “Liquidationists” prevailed: they insisted with [...]

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Top comment on this story about the clever call girl uploading an extra song in the opening hoopla over the gold medal governor:

to Paul in London. the porn industry in the US is protected under our 1st ammendment right to free speach and freedom of expression. [...]

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