March 2012
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Will Independents Return to Obama in 2012? →
In recent years, independents have made up about 30 percent of the electorate. Republicans and Democrats split most of the other 70 percent, leaving a little room for minority parties.
February 2012
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"I can’t believe I burned down a tree older then... →
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motherjones:
26-year-old Sarah Barnes’s alleged response to allegedly burning down the fifth oldest tree in the world—a 3,500-year-old, 118-foot-tall bald cypress—while (allegedly) on meth. Barnes is allegedly from Florida.
Reminds me of this Radiolab story.
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Surveillance of Muslims in New York Sparks New... →
The White House helped fund a police surveillance effort of Muslims in the New York City area after 9/11, The Associated Press revealed Monday. The operation, part of a monitoring story that emerged last summer, triggered immediate criticism from civil rights groups.
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Watchwgbhnews:
Urban chicken farming: Still hard to do in Boston, but maybe not for long. This family’s already … we’re sorry for what we’re about to say here … egg-gaged. (Story.)
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Watchkpseesee:
Marisa Tellez is the world’s only crocodilian parasitologist. What does that mean? It means she’s pretty hardcore.
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“Look who they are giving us now. What do they think, we’re stupid?”...”
– WARREN, Mich. | If you want a sense of the challenges Mitt Romney and the GOP have in Michigan, you could learn a lot from standing on the corner of Mound and East 9 Mile roads in suburban Detroit, Dante Chinni reports.
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Submit your art to SFMOMA →
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sfmoma:
Submitting to SFMOMA’s Tumblr
We’re trying something new: Submission Fridays! We get a ton of really great original artwork submitted to our Tumblr, and we’d like to share more of it. SO, now we’ll be taking some time on Fridays to share a few of our favorite submitted works from the past week. Thanks to everyone who makes great art and shares it with us!
You can submit your...
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Anonymous asked: WOULD LIKE TO FAX TO PAUL SOLMAN
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“All of us who care about a free press can look to Colvin to remind us why it...”
– Judy Woodruff on Marie Colvin
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An updated list of journalists killed covering the... →
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“Once at the top, feel the wind race across your face as you are propelled...”
– (Disney’s description of Space Mountain, the ride.)
Newt Gingrich compares the GOP race to ‘Space Mountain’
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