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Assorted Links 3/31/09

CPSIA chronicles, March 30, 2009

• Writing Refresher: Critical Thinking and Writing, April 1, 2009
• Writing Congressional Correspondence, April 1-2, 2009
• Congressional Dynamics and the Legislative Process, April 22, 2009
• Media Relations for Public Affairs Professionals, May 5, 2009
• Advanced Media Relations, May 6, 2009
• Asus Eee PC 1000HE review
• Netbook with Optical Drive Arriving from Asus
• The Ugly--Part Two
• Is The Bible Top Shelf ?
• Are You a Crazy-Ass Racist?
• Arab League to Israel: 'It's now or never'
• Hyperbaric Oxygen for Autism? Not so fast
• UC ‘diversity’ means more whites, fewer Asians
• Larry vs Harry Meets Colville
• Fetus-Hating Screws Up Your Brain
• Lawyers, Dominatrix Whip Up Mortgage Scam
• Managing the Fed's new balance sheet
• Credit Crunch: Is it Real?
• How Bailouts Are Messing with Capitalism
• How GM Became Uncle Sam’s Bitch
• The People's Pottage
• House Prices: Round Trip to 1990
• How I Got Started on a Fitness Plan and Lost 70 Pounds
• Ocean's Five
• Glad There's Someone In The World With True RC Airplane Skillz
• Hotelicopter Hoax Flies Over Bloggers' Heads
• "Bias at the Bar"
• The Good--Part III

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March 31, 2009 07:47 AM   Link    Caught Our Eye    Comments (0)

Assorted Links 3/30/09

To Pay for our Debts

• Writing Refresher: Critical Thinking and Writing, April 1, 2009
• Writing Congressional Correspondence, April 1-2, 2009
• Congressional Dynamics and the Legislative Process, April 22, 2009
• Media Relations for Public Affairs Professionals, May 5, 2009
• Advanced Media Relations, May 6, 2009
• "Oil comes not only from the ground, but ultimately from the mind. It takes human ingenuity, innovation, foresight to see that this gunk can be transformed into a productive resource to serve human needs."
• Markets in everything, gypsy threat point edition
• Hope Was Never a Strategy
• "But when Freddie Mac's executives concluded a few weeks ago that they had to disclose that the government's management of the McLean company was undermining its profitability and would cost it tens of billions of dollars, the firm's regulator urged it not to do so, according to several sources familiar with the matter."
• Bailout Watch 463: Detroit: “Just Shut Up and Give Us the Money”
• Let’s Talk About Tax Cheating: A Freakonomics Quorum
• California Association of Realtors (CAR) March 2009 Analysis
• High Woo-Woo at Work - House selling edition
• Faulty House Wiring Activates ICD (implanted cardiac defibrillator)
• Costco

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March 30, 2009 07:27 AM   Link    Caught Our Eye    Comments (0)

"Common Sense" by Thomas Paine - Sparked the Revolution

"Published in 1776, Common Sense challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. The plain language that Paine used spoke to the common people of America and was the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain."

"Common Sense," by Thomas Paine

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March 28, 2009 12:37 PM   Link    Caught Our Eye    Comments (0)

Assorted Links 3/27/09

"Say what you will about Britain’s financial health, the daily rough and tumble of their parliamentary system prepares a pol to think on his feet."

• Writing Refresher: Critical Thinking and Writing, April 1, 2009
• Writing Congressional Correspondence, April 1-2, 2009
• Congressional Dynamics and the Legislative Process, April 22, 2009
• Media Relations for Public Affairs Professionals, May 5, 2009
• Advanced Media Relations, May 6, 2009
• Toyota Planning Yaris-Based Hybrid
• This Just In . . .
• Sun packs 150 billion web pages into meat locker: Getting your arms around the internet
• Rebecca Kysar on Earmark Rules and Statutory Interpretation
• The Biology of Creativity - Right Hemispheric Thinking, Problem Solving by Insight, and Diffuse Attention
• "Has the Gaming of the Public-Private Partnership Begun?"
• Shell Game - "If you don't know who the sucker in the room is, you're the sucker."
• Roubini Says Stocks Will Drop as Banks Go ‘Belly Up’
• If REITs Predict the Market, from Phil McDonnell
• The Death of Equities: Part of a Never-Ending Series
• Bad Chinese Drywall
• "Why is the pot and cocaine business heavily armed and violent, but the beer and tequila business is not?"
• "Why has Obama suddenly turned into the Paris Hilton of teachable moments?"
• Resignation
• "I wonder if Kindle advocates are underestimating how important it is for people to show those around them not just that they like to read, but also what they like to read?"
• Mahogany Hall Stomp - Part 2
• A memo to prospective students -- If you have the choice, I think that you should attend W&M over UVA.

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March 27, 2009 07:47 AM   Link    Caught Our Eye    Comments (0)

Assorted Links 3/26/09

Watch This Video, Order This Set And Go To This Concert!

• Writing Refresher: Critical Thinking and Writing, April 1, 2009
• Writing Congressional Correspondence, April 1-2, 2009
• Congressional Dynamics and the Legislative Process, April 22, 2009
• Media Relations for Public Affairs Professionals, May 5, 2009
• Advanced Media Relations, May 6, 2009
• The perfect time to backpack: now
• Ratcheting Spring Clamps
• The future of immigration
• Which Came First, the Lobbyist or the Company?
• The Gods of Retail: Ten companies with faith in their business models.
• Report: Asus takes most reliable computer title from Apple
• The Petraeus Model Won’t Work for Israel
• "It is rich that Congress, which ran up an $11 trillion deficit, bankrupted the country and then raised its own pay, tells others how to run their financial affairs."
• The Maryland Tradition in American Catholicism
• Test Ride: Even in New York, the Aptera Stops Traffic
• Man Beats Speeding Ticket After Pointing Out It Was For 50 mph Faster Than His Car Could Go
• VA Breathlyzers Under Fire
• Shanty Towns
• America's Abandoned Cities
• Here’s A “Toxic Asset” for You…
• As Long As People Keep Buying, Scams (and Spam) Will Keep On Coming
• Cholesterol effects of carbohydrates
• How to become Jason Bourne
• How people think
• Seeing Red - "The Archives of Internal Medicine reported that a new study confirmed previous studies that showed a correlation between consuming a large amount of red meat and a shorter life."
• The Real Systemic Risk
• Mums - on bicycles

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March 26, 2009 07:07 AM   Link    Caught Our Eye    Comments (0)

Assorted Links 3/25/09

The Presidency and The Politics of Emergency

• Writing Refresher: Critical Thinking and Writing, April 1, 2009
• Writing Congressional Correspondence, April 1-2, 2009
• Congressional Dynamics and the Legislative Process, April 22, 2009
• Media Relations for Public Affairs Professionals, May 5, 2009
• Advanced Media Relations, May 6, 2009
• Do It Yourself Volunteering
• My Husband's Insatiable Mistress, Built Like a Brick House
• Investing Without Political Risk
• "The Treasury today unveiled a fourth pillar in the battle to re-inflate the bubble to provide us with the asset prices to which we have grown accustomed."
• America’s Problem: Too Little Government Lending!
• The Braying Yahoo Crew
• Report: China Suggests New Reserve Currency
• "What do you call a bunch of liar loans packaged into toxic assets and placed on the balance sheet of the Federal Reserve as collateral for rescue loans?" fuffle
• Oligarchization
• On the Intelligence of Politics and Politicians
• How To Deny Employees Free Choice
• Congress Forced To Watch Training Video About Bipartisan Cooperation
• Worm breeds botnet from home routers, modems: More than 100,000 hosts invaded
• No License? Chinese Police: “We’ll Teach Ya”
• Review and Contest: Ipevo Wi-Fi Phone for Skype S0-20
• Skype Takes Aim At Business PBXes
• Rawvolutionarily Different: Healing Diabeties and More with Green Smoothies and Raw Foods
• Two Current TV Reporters Still Being Detained In North Korea
• "Disparities Seen in Federal Securities Fraud Sentences"
• Seasteading: Homesteading the High Seas for Liberty
• Election Fraud in Kentucky
• Cities Upset That Increasing Yellow Light Time Length Reduces 'Revenue'
• How to Avoid Overreacting and Acting like a Juvenile
• Park and hide: Sales double of Thunderbirds-style pop-up garage that sinks into your drive

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March 25, 2009 07:47 AM   Link    Caught Our Eye    Comments (0)

Assorted Links 3/24/09

African Albinos Become Prey to Witchcraft

• Writing Refresher: Critical Thinking and Writing, April 1, 2009
• Writing Congressional Correspondence, April 1-2, 2009
• Congressional Dynamics and the Legislative Process, April 22, 2009
• Media Relations for Public Affairs Professionals, May 5, 2009
• Advanced Media Relations, May 6, 2009
• Congress's `Hypocrisy' on Corporate Trips Ban Angers U.S. Hotel Industry
• Reasons for Optimism, from Gregory Rehmke
• Populist Outrage Over AIG Bonuses Scaring Private Investors Away From Buying Toxic Assets
• Understanding Lehman & AIG
• Gaming the Geithner plan?
• Gold Against Stocks
• Headlines showing how a down economy is a downer for prisoners, too
• "The practical implications of [Obama’s budget] is bankruptcy for the United States."
• The AIG Bonus Tax and the Spending Clause
• Buying REOs to Rent
• When Satellites Collide! How to Avoid.
• Bandwidth Demands Crowd Military Needs
• Does This Guy Even Begin To “Get It”?
• Online Monoculture and the End of the Niche - ht Marginal Revolution
• TT: Fifteen keepers: "Time was when the American musical looked and sounded very different from the Disney-style shows that now dominate Broadway."
• Lives “Hidden” & Suppressed
• Sweet Home Alabama: 1935
• My Sony Reader, one week in
• Zoom H4n review
• Airbike Provides A Pedal-Powered Boost For Hang Gliders
• Was General Sherman Catholic?
• A Big List of Sites That Teach You How To Do Stuff

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March 24, 2009 07:37 AM   Link    Caught Our Eye    Comments (0)

Assorted Links 3/23/09

The Credit Card Song by Old Man Pie

• Writing Refresher: Critical Thinking and Writing, April 1, 2009
• Writing Congressional Correspondence, April 1-2, 2009
• Congressional Dynamics and the Legislative Process, April 22, 2009
• Media Relations for Public Affairs Professionals, May 5, 2009
• Advanced Media Relations, May 6, 2009
• The specialty-honey business is inherently inhumane; only so-called “wildflower honey” is reliably cruelty-free.
• Our House of Representatives
• A Paycheck Away From Ruin
• Fiber Optics Activate Neurons, Axons to Answer Parkinson's Questions
• Against breast feeding
• Apply New Lobby Rules Across the Board
• How to travel to Europe after college
• Minnesota: Slap on Wrist for Cop Who Rammed Minivan Full of Kids
• More on AIG Bonus Tax as Bill of Attainder
• Why Do Newspapers Keep Publishing Bogus Piracy Numbers From Lobbyists As Fact?
• Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable
• Fascinating To See How Journalists React To Clay Shirky's Thoughts On Journalism
• Stuff Journalists Like: #121 furloughs Banks Leaving Money on the Table "All Day Long"
• Who is susceptible to Obamalove, and why?
• "the Russians make very good ejection seats."
• Experimenting with Classes
• Contrail - Biking Community Tool
• The Roar of the Crowd: Sports fans' primal behavior - ht ALD
• Science's 10 Most Beautiful Physics Experiments

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March 23, 2009 07:27 AM   Link    Caught Our Eye    Comments (0)

Dr. Fuhrman's Famous Anti-Cancer Soup

Dr. Fuhrman's Famous Anti-Cancer Soup, modified

2 cup dried split peas and/or beans
4 Medium onions
6-10 zucchini
3 stalks leek
2 lbs carrots
2 bunches celery
1 cup raw cashews
3 tbsp vegetable base stock (Vege Base by Vogue)
2 pkg mushrooms
6 oz texturized vegetable protein (TVP)

Simmer beans in covered pot in 12 cups of water.
Put onions and zucchini in covered pot, uncut.
Add Vege Base.
Cut bottom and tops off leeks and thoroughly clean, put in covered pot.
Juice the carrots and celery (or blend them into a whole juice in BlendTec) and put juice in pot.

After vegetables are soft, with a bit of stock completely blend them together with the cashews in a BlendTec. Leave beans in pot.

Put blended mixture back in pot.

Add the TVP and the mushrooms.

Simmer additional 20 minutes.

Serves 10.

From Dr. Joel Fuhrman's book, Eat to Live. Original recipe here - see "High Cruciferous Soup Recipe" in comments.

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March 22, 2009 08:57 AM   Link    Dining    Comments (0)

The United States Army. Then - Now - Forever

This is a WWII poster from the Northwestern University archives.

The United States Army. Then - Now - Forever

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March 21, 2009 10:17 AM   Link    Art    Comments (0)

Glossary of Legislative Terms: "Law/Public Law/Private Law"

Law/Public Law/Private Law: Act of Congress signed by the president or passed over his veto.

This definition is from the Glossary in our Congressional Deskbook. Perfect reference tool of Congressional jargon and procedural terms. Congressional Deskbook: The Practical and Comprehensive Guide to Congress, by Michael Koempel and Judy Schneider.

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March 20, 2009 01:07 PM   Link    Tips and Terms    Comments (0)

Assorted Links 3/20/09

What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong

• Writing Refresher: Critical Thinking and Writing, April 1, 2009
• Writing Congressional Correspondence, April 1-2, 2009
• Congressional Dynamics and the Legislative Process, April 22, 2009
• Media Relations for Public Affairs Professionals, May 5, 2009
• Advanced Media Relations, May 6, 2009
• Credit Card Cancer
• Obama, Democrats Disrespect Mexico and Brazil--Where Are the Bush Critics?
• Selective Taxation Is Tyranny
• Didn’t know it was unsafe to dance on bar, cont’d
• Cheating Goes Global as Essay Mills Multiply: From Virginia to Manila: on the trail of papers for cash
• Louis Armstrong's Greatest Broadcast?
• I Am an Air Traffic Controller, from Christopher Tucker
• A Close Call
• U.S. Dollar Has Third Biggest One-Day Decline Ever
• 2007 Data: Record Number of Babies Born in U.S.
• AIG: Political Three Card Monte
• CIA Awkwardly Debriefs Obama On Creation Of Crack Cocaine
• Sign of the Times? UAW Votes Itself Out of a Job
• Large Corporation Gives Massive Bonuses! Shocking stories of massive amounts of bonus money hit the news wires today.
• Obama Stimulates the Economy...If You're in the Gun Business
• Dubai: New Rules to Reign In Behavior
• The Happiness of the People: The 2009 Irving Kristol Lecture - ht ALD
• How far will mortgage rates fall?
• After Being Educated About Negative Effects, Students Stop Using Laptops In Class
• Why teachers can’t get no respect
• Hose Bib Lock
• Ghost Repeller Now Available
• Sony Reader gets 500,000 public domain e-books thanks to Google

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March 20, 2009 07:37 AM   Link    Caught Our Eye    Comments (0)

Assorted Links 3/19/09

Jet Blue Pokes Fun at CEOs

• Writing Refresher: Critical Thinking and Writing, April 1, 2009
• Writing Congressional Correspondence, April 1-2, 2009
• Congressional Dynamics and the Legislative Process, April 22, 2009
• Media Relations for Public Affairs Professionals, May 5, 2009
• Advanced Media Relations, May 6, 2009
• When is Warren Buffett going to fix Moody’s?
• The Onion: U.S. Economy Gunned Down In Gas Station Robbery
• The rule of men
• In Defense of Distrust in Government
• Government and Moral Hazards
• TT: The house that Satchmo built
• Overview of the smartphone market - will Android succeed?
• Telcos Resisting Broadband Stimulus Because They're Worried It Might Force Them To Compete
• Will Barack Obama Be a One-Term President?
• Golden State-icide
• Ode to Trader Joe’s: Update
• Five-Milers: 1914
• New ethics rules for judges
• Only in England
• Teaching financial savvy
• "He insists their real news is fake, they insist his fake news is real"
• Hefty 'battle strength' electro-laser breaks 100kW barrier
• Mexican Drug Smugglers Try Flying the Unfriendly Skies
• Wednesday Podcast: ‘The Science of Medical Marijuana’

March 19, 2009 06:07 AM   Link    Caught Our Eye    Comments (0)

Assorted Links 3/18/09

For parents with teenagers ... how to handle road rage ... Teenager Driving Contract
Teaching Teens To Drive

• Writing Refresher: Critical Thinking and Writing, April 1, 2009
  
• Writing Congressional Correspondence, April 1-2, 2009
  
• Congressional Dynamics and the Legislative Process, April 22, 2009
  
• Media Relations for Public Affairs Professionals, May 5, 2009
  
• Advanced Media Relations, May 6, 2009
  
• I'm glad St. Patrick's Day happens during Lent.
  
• Housing Starts: Is this the Bottom?
  
• The Obushma Spending Record
  
• The Subway Business Administration
  
• More nastygrams over anonymous blog comments
  
• In New Terror Video, AIG Demands Huge Ransom from U.S.: Shadowy Group Seeks Bonuses, Golf Retreats
  
• A.I.G. bonuses
  
• Common sense and the economistic worldview
  
• Judge Rules [City of] Vallejo [Calif.] Can Void Union Contracts
  
• The “Depression” for Us Idiots
  
• "The level of violent crime in Guatemala remains high."
  
• What a hedgehog looks like without any spines
  
• Bucket Boss Bag
  
• Anti-Palestinian Fliers Lead to Calls for Police Investigation; Police Say The Fliers Are Free Speech

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March 18, 2009 07:17 AM   Link    Caught Our Eye    Comments (0)

Assorted Links 3/17/09

Shortcomings of [James] Madison's Federalist 10

• Writing Refresher: Critical Thinking and Writing, April 1, 2009
• Writing Congressional Correspondence, April 1-2, 2009
• Congressional Dynamics and the Legislative Process, April 22, 2009
• Media Relations for Public Affairs Professionals, May 5, 2009
• Advanced Media Relations, May 6, 2009
• “Crumbled lives and shredded families”
• This Small Town Ain't No Mayberry
• Take Off Pounds Sensibly - TOPS
• Clay Shirky's "Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable"
• Out Of The Ashes Of Newspapers...
• The future news ecosystem
• Daily News Habit Doubles Among U.S. Mobile Users
• "It's very hard to take risks at Google."
• Ben Bernanke Is Still Stuck in the 1930s
• On the Street....Patagonia, Milano
• Advanced Fashion Quiz
• Trade Policy Stinks (and Not in a Good Way)
• Finger pointing
• Time Machine Radio: Enter the past
• Do influential people develop more conventional opinions?
• Just Say No to College
• Threats to a Free Society, Small and Large

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March 17, 2009 07:47 AM   Link    Caught Our Eye    Comments (0)

Assorted Links 3/16/09

John Williams and Julian Bream - Spanish Dance No.1

• Writing Refresher: Critical Thinking and Writing, April 1, 2009
• Writing Congressional Correspondence, April 1-2, 2009
• Congressional Dynamics and the Legislative Process, April 22, 2009
• Media Relations for Public Affairs Professionals, May 5, 2009
• Advanced Media Relations, May 6, 2009
• Roubini: "Reflections on the latest sucker’s rally"
• The Roubini Portfolio
• Real Regulators: Madoff’s Accomplices
• Mark-to-Market: The Bogeyman of the 1930s Is Back
• Recovery Transparency Stories and Recommendations
• AIG, moral hazard, and “depression economics.”
• End of the Honeymoon
• Ghost Towns Dot Finland as Forestry Collapse Threatens Growth
• Electronics vs. The Old Way, RE: Madeoff, from Douglas Dimick
• The success of drug decriminalization in Portugal
• Studio portraits of Mumbai's itinerant nomads
• Traffic Stripes Get A Brighter Future
• Avoid sterol-added "heart healthy" products.
• College admissions is a lottery
• Resignation letter on cake
• You Are What You Don't Eat

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March 16, 2009 07:47 AM   Link    Caught Our Eye    Comments (0)

Assorted Links 3/14/09

Traditional Franciscans - I Didn’t Even Know They Existed!

• Writing Refresher: Critical Thinking and Writing, April 1, 2009
• Writing Congressional Correspondence, April 1-2, 2009
• Congressional Dynamics and the Legislative Process, April 22, 2009
• Media Relations for Public Affairs Professionals, May 5, 2009
• Advanced Media Relations, May 6, 2009
• Stuff Journalists Like: #85 abbrvtns
• Glenn Loury's Sermon
• Read the Bill: Spending Bills Rushed
• Summary Post: Household Wealth, Retail Sales, and more
• Dog sledding (pictures)
• Falling in love all over again! (Green Smoothie Goodness Rediscovered with Oranges, Spinach, Celery, and a Banana)
• Decisive arguments for and against multilateralism
• Like Busting Potheads at a Phish Concert
• [University] Endowments Are Still Massive--So Spend
• Zoom H4n audio take 2 - second time not so charming
• Downhill Tilt
• Auntie Beeb’s Anti-Car Crusade Continues
• A Week Without Groceries, Part II

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March 14, 2009 02:57 PM   Link    Caught Our Eye    Comments (0)

Glossary of Legislative Terms: "Conference Committee"

Conference Committee: Temporary joint committee created to resolve differences between the chambers on a measure. Contrast to Amendment between the Houses.

This definition is from the Glossary in our Congressional Deskbook. Perfect reference tool of Congressional jargon and procedural terms. Congressional Deskbook: The Practical and Comprehensive Guide to Congress, by Michael Koempel and Judy Schneider.

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March 13, 2009 04:47 PM   Link    Tips and Terms    Comments (0)

Assorted Links 3/13/09

Ten Credit Score Myths Dispelled in 60 Seconds

• Writing Refresher: Critical Thinking and Writing, April 1, 2009
• Writing Congressional Correspondence, April 1-2, 2009
• Congressional Dynamics and the Legislative Process, April 22, 2009
• Media Relations for Public Affairs Professionals, May 5, 2009
• Advanced Media Relations, May 6, 2009
• Texas Has Foreclosure Lessons, Especially for Nevada, Arizona, Florida, California
• What happened to Iceland?
• Rival Thoughts: I'm reading about Abe Lincoln
• And now for a change of pace: Giselle through the ages
• Fresh Oil Supply Data and Potential Market Impact
• According to Goldman Sachs, we’ll soon need bigger wallets.
• Embryonic stem cell study promises cure for global warming
• S&P: Delinquencies Surge for HELOCs and Jumbo Prime Loans
• GrandCentral Reborn as Google Voice, a Suite of VoIP Services
• GrandCentral To (Finally) Launch As Google Voice. It’s Very, Very Good.
• No Wonder the GOP Has No Credibility on Spending
• So Long Risk Premium
• The Future of Macroeconomics
• TARP Recipients Discover One of Many Conditions
• The Obama Rosetta Stone
• SWATS That Sniper!
• Don't Sweat Inflation: Deflation "In the Cards" for 2009 and Beyond, Shilling Says
• Smoking Cessation by Warranted Efficacious Method
• What your doctor doesn't know about heart disease
• Vanity Fair and the Cowardly, Fatuous Mr. Langewiesche (Part I)
• Introducing the Eee PC-in-a-Keyboard
• End Drug War and Save $77 Billion
• Hawaiians Irked Over 'SNL' Skit
• Luckily for you, the various governments of the United States seem to have acquired the reputation of being run by the kind of people PT Barnum would have loved.
• School shooters are crazy

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March 13, 2009 07:57 AM   Link    Caught Our Eye    Comments (0)

Assorted Links 3/12/09

History of the Internet

• Speechwriting: Preparing Speeches and Oral Presentations, March 13, 2009
• Writing Refresher: Critical Thinking and Writing, April 1, 2009
• Writing Congressional Correspondence, April 1-2, 2009
• Congressional Dynamics and the Legislative Process, April 22, 2009
• Media Relations for Public Affairs Professionals, May 5, 2009
• Advanced Media Relations, May 6, 2009
• Government in Action: 1917
• Study Identifies Virus Linked to Both Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes
• Bernanke's Fix Missing Key Ingredient: Moderating Excesses and Asset Inflation
• Scamming Looks Like A Growth Industry In These Economic Times
• On the Street......Les Tuileries, Paris
• GMail’s down and out again
• After Bush, the Deficit Deluge! And the Portugese Water Dog!
• The Effect of the Internet on the Number of Withdrawn Nominees
• Oh, the Debts We Will See!
• The economics of car towing
• Screeching rails close London Tube station: 'Health and safety gone mad', thunders commuter
• More Credit Tightening
• Homeless Scare Numbers
• From Scandals to Stimulus: Visualizing Finance
• Highest-Ever NOD (notices of default) Count in San Diego County
• State Unemployment Rates
• Spend More Time Fishing, Less Time Scaling
• EveryBlock: Filtered, hyperlocal 411
• The Ara-Eaters: Tree Octopuses Of Polynesia
• A Nation of Jailers
• Homelessness Among Families
• Greenspan’s Denial
• The Joys of Global Gridlock
• Tinkerbell Returns!
• Paper or Plastic?
• Legalizing Drugs: The Least Bad Answer
• When Making Fuel From Wood, Be Sure You Have Wood

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March 12, 2009 07:07 AM   Link    Caught Our Eye    Comments (0)

Economic Stimulus? Bring back Boss Tweed

Don't misunderstand. Stealing is wrong. Graft is bad.

Still, watching today's politicians in Washington tripping over themselves trying to figure out ways to stimulate the economy, I get nostalgic for the master. Bring back Boss Tweed.

William Magear Tweed, Boss of New York's Tammany Hall machine in the 1860s and 70s, controlled mayors, governors, newspapers, and companies. He kept his power by stealing elections. He used his power to steal from the city and county -- for an astounding estimated $100 million (billions of dollars in modern money) during his relatively brief time at the pinnacle.

But Tweed also used his power to build. Talk about infrastructure? Tweed and his Tammany crowd did more to modernize New York and bring immigrants and the working poor into the social (read more here)

Post by Ken Ackerman

March 11, 2009 12:47 PM   Link    Caught Our Eye    Comments (0)

Assorted Links 3/11/09

What Are Carbon Offsets? Karma Neutral Explains

• Speechwriting: Preparing Speeches and Oral Presentations, March 13, 2009
• Writing Refresher: Critical Thinking and Writing, April 1, 2009
• Writing Congressional Correspondence, April 1-2, 2009
• Congressional Dynamics and the Legislative Process, April 22, 2009
• Media Relations for Public Affairs Professionals, May 5, 2009
• Advanced Media Relations, May 6, 2009
• The Rhythm
• Attn: Pam Cooking Spray Ad Agency
• What Happens When You String 24 Samsung 256GB SSD Drives Together?
• Harvard’s masters of the apocalypse: If his fellow Harvard MBAs are all so clever, how come so many are now in disgrace? - ht ALD
• "I will never, ever join Facebook"
• The Future of the Book Business According to Thomson Reuters Chief Scientist
• Used Vehicle Wholesale Prices Rebound
• Own a Frank Lloyd Wright home
• The Idiot’s Guide to Destroying the Economy: a 12-Step Program
• Survival, from Jim Sogi
• What is a depression?
• How the Crash Will Reshape America
• 10 Simple Ways To Overcome Depression and Sadness
• How easy is it to fill those Treasury jobs?
• Military discipline helps dropouts
• University Club [of Washington, DC] ‘Public Service’ Discount for Justices Causing a Stir
• AZ Pols Pocket $36,265,795 in Photo Radar Campaign Contributions
• Two Big Air Scoops
• Falling Dividends: Are Utilities Next?
• Causes and gifts
• The truth about transit ridership numbers
• NCAA Renames March Madness ‘March Bipolar Disorder’ - Under Pressure from National Institute of Mental Health
• Get out of jail, postage due
• Fatal Distraction: Forgetting a child in the back seat of a hot, parked car is a horrifying, inexcusable mistake. But is it a crime?

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March 11, 2009 07:37 AM   Link    Caught Our Eye    Comments (0)

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Assorted Links 3/10/09

The Crisis of Credit Visualized, by Jonathan Jarvis
What Goes Up Comes Down

• Speechwriting: Preparing Speeches and Oral Presentations, March 13, 2009
• Writing Refresher: Critical Thinking and Writing, April 1, 2009
• Writing Congressional Correspondence, April 1-2, 2009
• Congressional Dynamics and the Legislative Process, April 22, 2009
• Media Relations for Public Affairs Professionals, May 5, 2009
• Advanced Media Relations, May 6, 2009
• Rooting For Failure
• Spoof Magazine Covers and More at WriteOnIt
• Famous Last Words Revisited
• Read the Bill: Define Publicly Available
• Fiscal and monetary policy during World War II
• China Tests Obama; US Ship Threatened
• Roubini on CNBC: Could be 36 Month Recession
• The Amazon Kindle is the Great White Hope for Monetizing Print Media
• Judge Defines Douchebaggery. Really.
• Frozen Cycle Chic in Canada and Alaska
• Mexican cartels infiltrate Houston: Recent arrests in a mistaken killing point to the perilous presence of gangs
• Bridge demolitions set to opera
• Teachers misbehaving in ‘class’
• BlackBerry Curve 8900- best one yet?
• Wargaming the Worst
• Loving Cranks to Death
• CPSIA: throwing away 500 stuffed animals
• Childs Restaurant: 1917 - 1423 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC, the Willard Hotel
• Rumors Abound re: Layoffs at Washingtonian Mag
• Can Ooma replace my Vonage office line (saving $65 per month)?
• Denmark: Copenhagen’s Norrebo District Too Dangerous for Safety Group
• American Library Association Chooses Poorly
• Kingdom Of Drift

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Assorted Links 3/9/09

Video of the Week: Karen Knowler’s Green Smoothie
More on green smoothies here

• Speechwriting: Preparing Speeches and Oral Presentations, March 13, 2009
  
• Writing Refresher: Critical Thinking and Writing, April 1, 2009
  
• Writing Congressional Correspondence, April 1-2, 2009
  
• Congressional Dynamics and the Legislative Process, April 22, 2009
  
• Media Relations for Public Affairs Professionals, May 5, 2009
  
• Advanced Media Relations, May 6, 2009
  
• What is driving the eBooks boom?
  
• For Argument's Sake
  
• The Next Hit: Quick Defaults. More FHA-Backed Mortgages Go Bad Without a Single Payment
  
• Business Cycle: Temporal Order
  
• How Obama plays the pundits
  
• Touching Hearts and Minds
  
• 15 Simple Changes That Will Quickly Improve Your Health
  
• Without a real challenge that tests the limits of our creativity as individuals or as a species-civilization, we wither.
  
• Snipe hourly deals for adventure gear at huge discounts
  
• 15,000 At Fullerton, CA Tea Party Protest
  
• A Great Depression
  
• OLED Windshields May Provide the Evolution of the Middle Finger
  
• In Europe, VoIP Grows & Grows
  
• On the [stability] ball
  
• The secret of long life? It's all down to how fast you react
  
• Excellent public speaking advice
  
• You Eat Petroleum Every Day

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March 9, 2009 07:27 AM   Link    Caught Our Eye    Comments (0)

Assorted Links 3/8/09

Department of Banking Metaphors

• Speechwriting: Preparing Speeches and Oral Presentations, March 13, 2009
• Writing Refresher: Critical Thinking and Writing, April 1, 2009
• Writing Congressional Correspondence, April 1-2, 2009
• Congressional Dynamics and the Legislative Process, April 22, 2009
• Media Relations for Public Affairs Professionals, May 5, 2009
• Advanced Media Relations, May 6, 2009
• Leader Boehner Directs Ranking Members to Use Web
• Can millet make you diabetic?
• “worse than economists’ expectations . . .”
• Obama: Another $750 Billion Needed for Banks
• Vengeance is His
• Ode to Green Smoothies
• Eskimo ice cream
• Kitchen Cabinets the Color of Blue Jeans
• Cataloging Digital History: A New Role For Libraries?
• Too Many Kiddie Cooks Spoil the Broth: Why the child foodie movement has got to go.
• Friday Musings
• Obama and sharing the misery: planner or fool?
• 2009 Depression Will Be Nothing Like 1929
• Debt Rule of Thumb
• This Is Why Universal Coverage Is a Religion -- and Not about Compassion or Saving Lives
• As ye judge those who fund thee, ye shall be judged
• Verizon Customers - Just Say No

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Assorted Links 3/7/09

Drug Prohibition’s Role in Mexico’s Violence

• Speechwriting: Preparing Speeches and Oral Presentations, March 13, 2009
• Writing Refresher: Critical Thinking and Writing, April 1, 2009
• Writing Congressional Correspondence, April 1-2, 2009
• Congressional Dynamics and the Legislative Process, April 22, 2009
• Media Relations for Public Affairs Professionals, May 5, 2009
• Advanced Media Relations, May 6, 2009
• Are big law firms built on implicit leverage?
• A Ditch, Not a Summit
• Senate Bill Seeks $500 Billion for FDIC
• What exactly is one TRILLION dollars?
• The Unpredictability of This Crisis
• Iran is great theater
• Cheney's "Favorite Channel" Doing Just Fine in Obama Admin
• Compulsory Unionism and Public Debt
• Obama's Left Turn: Centrists fear that the president's budget reveals his liberal leanings.
• Web maven gives convicted botmaster keys to new kingdom: Mahalo.com embraces Acidstorm
• Further Down the [Chavez ] Revolutionary Road
• Pelican Makes Toolboxes Now
• Who Makes The Best Multi-Bit Screwdriver?
• Dems need do-over in spending fight
• Spring Shoes
• Linux loses more netbook market share
• Grad school and joint programs in a down economy
• Ed Secretary: DC Schools Have ‘More Money than God,’ But They’re Still Lousy
• Potomac Yard: 1925 - Potomac Yard Transfer of Density (Update-1)
• Jon Stewart Vs. CNBC
• Order Book Sagging, Gulfstream Cutting Heavy Metal -- and 1,200 Jobs
• Dancing With The Treasury Stars - "My simple test for advocates of nationalization - name the Swedish banks that were nationalized. And good luck; most people will have a better chance naming the members of ABBA."
• Good order, good reading skills
• Clearwire is still launching WiMAX, slowly
• JOURNAL: Markets Tracking Nicely to D2 Scenario
• TRIBES!
• Most Chinese Economists Favor Gold Over US Treasuries for Their National Reserves
• The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
• Evidence of Google Android powered netbooks grows

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March 7, 2009 08:47 AM   Link    Caught Our Eye    Comments (0)

Glossary of Legislative Terms: "Morning Business"

Morning Business: In the Senate, routine business transacted at the beginning of the Morning Hour, or by unanimous consent throughout the day.

This definition is from the Glossary in our Congressional Deskbook. Perfect reference tool of Congressional jargon and procedural terms. Congressional Deskbook: The Practical and Comprehensive Guide to Congress, by Michael Koempel and Judy Schneider.

TheCapitol.Net offers training and a Certificate in Congressional Operations and Federal Budgeting. We show you how Washington and Congress work. ^TM

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Assorted Links 3/6/09

James Randi exposes Uri Geller and Peter Popoff
It's Tough Being Psychic

• Confessions of a White African-American: Racism and Affirmative Action on Two Continents, March 7, 2009
• Speechwriting: Preparing Speeches and Oral Presentations, March 13, 2009
• What is exactly is one TRILLION dollars? - ht Neptunus Lex
• Saul Alinsky, Barack Obama and George Orwell
• Was the 2,000 Crash Bush’s Fault? ‘09 Obama’s?
• Plight of the Emos
• Robots (photos)
• Ed Secretary Crosses Congressional Democrats on DC Vouchers
• The True Measure of Inflation
• Healthcare Costs
• Warren Buffett's 'Fundamental Weakness'
• Don’t hate Barbie because she’s beautiful
• Cube Steak's Resurgence With Sinking Economy
• The Top 95 Lemons Of The Gator-O-Rama 24 Hours Of LeMons
• Literature for Lawyers, in Good Times and Bad
• Oh, oh, good news ahead
• Freeman ties to China, Saudi Arabia to be examined
• "Court worried about big penalty for phone buyer"
• Child Killing Biohazard Bag-Stuffer Arrested
• Squeeze Every Last Dollar Out of Your Income Tax Return
• Editorial: The Truth About Speeding Tickets and the Recession
• Every phone in your home is a Skype phone
• What to do when your BlackBerry trackball stops working
• Merging Local Governments Usually Doesn't Make Economic Sense
• Wyeth v. Levine
• Lying With Style
• Gossip Girl
• Hey How about Saving the Banks with Printed Money ?
• SuperMagnetMan
• Poor, Deluded Myrmidons
• Casio Atomic G-Shock

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March 6, 2009 07:17 AM   Link    Caught Our Eye    Comments (0)

Assorted Links 3/5/09

Oldie but goodie: Women in crosswalk hits car with her bag causing the airbag to deploy in driver's face.

• Speechwriting: Preparing Speeches and Oral Presentations, March 13, 2009
• Confessions of a White African-American: Racism and Affirmative Action on Two Continents, March 7, 2009
• Pensions: Another Trillion Dollar Bailout?
• How much is a trillion?
• A ‘Stimulus’ Bill that Makes Us Worse Off
• "We elect public servants, not messiahs."
• Government Announcements Lead to Falling Stocks
• Two Free Website Building Platforms Compared - WordPress VS. Google Sites
• Two Ways To Keep Your Bum Warm
• Stuff Journalists Like: #119 Twitter
• Georgia: Longer Yellows Force City to End Red Light Camera Program
• Green light for super-fast broadband that could change our lives
• [Aaron and Christine Boring] Eloquently Appeal The Street View Ruling, Declaring: Google, Don't Tread On Me
• Insurgents Offer Tough Air Critique
• A Republic of Front Porches
• The end of lawyers?
• On the Street....At Marni, Milano
• In My Neverending Quest for Good New York Style Pizza
• Febreze Odor Removal Appliance = awesome
• Roku & Amazon: Cloud vs Hard Drive
• Camtasia Settings for YouTube Best Results
• T.C. Williams High School Titans Debate Team Dominates VHSL Patriot District, Continues Success
• Ayn Rand and the Tea Party Protests
• India Failing to Control Open Defecation Blunts Nation’s Growth
• Yet another sentence to ponder
• Life after dead (trees & newspapers)
• Book review: The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
• Hitler finds out about new Watchmen ending (yet another DOWNFALL remix - SPOILER ALERT)
• Mononucleosis
• LA Times: Housing Development Sites Become "Wasteland"

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March 5, 2009 07:07 AM   Link    Caught Our Eye    Comments (0)

T.C. Williams High School Titans Debate Team Dominates VHSL Patriot District, Continues Success

ALEXANDRIA, Va.--March 4, 2009--On February 28, 2009, the T.C. Williams High School Titans Debate Team competed in the Virginia High School League (VHSL) Patriot District Tournament. The debate tournament, hosted by Stone Bridge High School in Ashburn, Virginia is the first of three VHSL tournaments this season.

The Patriot District is comprised of schools in Northern Virginia including West Potomac, Thomas Jefferson, Hayfield, Lee, Lake Braddock, Annandale, South County, and West Springfield. All but Lake Braddock, Annandale, and Lee competed in the Patriot District Debate Tournament.

Titan debaters Yasmin Faruki and Saif Chames-Eddine qualified for VHSL Regionals when both won their elimination round. Elimination rounds featured the top eight debaters at the tournament and were judged by three-judge panels. Ms. Faruki won her round with a 3-0 decision and Mr. Chames-Eddine won on a 2-1 decision.

This tournament marks an important turn in T.C. Williams Debate Team history. The team has worked harder, attended more tournaments, and realized more success than ever before.

This year the team competed at invitational tournaments at George Mason University and Pennsbury High School in Fairless Hills, PA. At the George Mason University Tournament in January Titan debaters Yi Ping Caitlin Roberts qualified to octofinals and Yasmin Faruki qualified to quarterfinals—the best run at an invitational tournament in recent memory.

The Titans debate team also competes in the Northern Virginia Forensic League, a part of the Virginia Forensic League, which is in turn a part of the National Forensic League. At the four NoVaFL tournaments, T.C. qualified debaters (Yi Ping Caitlin Roberts, Yasmin Faruki, Sam Wascowicz, Saif Chames-Eddine, Kyle Stevenson, and Tiroune Oates) to the Tor Johnson Distinct Championship.

The debate team is lead by Head Coach Nick J. Sciullo, a VHSL State Champion in Debate, former college debater at the University of Richmond, former head policy debate coach at Midlothian High School in Midlothian, Virginia, and assistant debate coach at West Virginia University. Dr. Mary Downs, a speech pathologist with the Alexandria City Public School system, also coaches and helps the team.

For more information please visit http://tcdebatesociety.org.

The T.C. Williams Debate Society is a non-profit organization located in Alexandria, Virginia. The T.C. Williams Debate Society provides monetary and planning support to the City of Alexandria, Virginia’s T.C. Williams High School Debate Team. T.C. Williams High School is the home of the Titans.

The T.C. Williams Debate Society believes in the educational, civic, and societal benefits of competitive debate. The Society believes that interscholastic debate can develop advocacy skills, confidence, creativity, and research skills, which are applicable across a wide variety of academic, work, and personal situations.

Source: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20090304005999/en

TheCapitol.Net is a supporter of the T.C. Williams Debate Society.

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Assorted Links 3/4/09

Wafa Sultan - Terrorism and Islam
Gaza: We've been had

• Speechwriting: Preparing Speeches and Oral Presentations, March 13, 2009
• Confessions of a White African-American: Racism and Affirmative Action on Two Continents, March 7, 2009
• Wings of the Bullet: A Story of Young Americans at War
• [US Supreme] Court to rule on copyright settlement
• Down With Weak Yogurt!
• House "Deal of the Week"
• Holder’s “Assault Weapons” Folly
• Limbaugh: Nothing Wrong With Conservatism That Shouting Louder Won't Fix
• New York City to Install Bus Lane Ticket Cameras
• Should you go to graduate school in a recession?
• Putting the "Government" in Government Sponsored Entities
• American Express, Chase Cut Card Limits As Chargeoffs Soar

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Assorted Links 3/3/09

Slumdog Millionaire Final Dance Scene "Corrected" at last to "Peanut Butter Jelly Time" - "the 'Stairway to Heaven' of 'Peanut Butter Jelly Time.'"

• Speechwriting: Preparing Speeches and Oral Presentations, March 13, 2009
• Confessions of a White African-American: Racism and Affirmative Action on Two Continents, March 7, 2009
• CIA Following Bin Laden on Twitter: Hopes to Locate Madmen Via Tweets
• Sending your video camera around the sushi conveyor
• The Sizzling Sound of Music
• The Best Talk On Creativity I Ever Saw - Director's Commentary: Elizabeth Gilbert on the creative process
• Nuance
• Pelosi's list: Who's on her bad side?
• Status Affiliation Puzzles
• Obama and the Slumdog Millionaires
• The Next Bailout: Pension Funds Imploding
• Disincentives to Work -- Remember Those?
• Irrational Exuberance? We Are Now Below It . . .
• From Scandals to Stimulus: Visualizing Finance
• Wonderful Stem Cell News
• Businessman Tells [Alexandria, VA] City Bureaucrats To Go Fuck Themselves; Offers To Sell Them the Means To Do So
• Recessional
• Monumental: 1919
• Vehicle Sales in January
• What Dying Business Has Survived By Raising Prices On An Inferior Product?
• WobZip Extracts Compressed Archives Online
• Good teachers trump class size
• How Free Is Your State?
• You Walk Away LLC sued in class action lawsuit
• Libel Ruling Protects Anonymous Comments
• Uproar Over Netflix's New Instant Viewer
• Swtizerland Should Stiff-Arm the IRS
• PayPal Charges $81,400,836,908 For $26 Tank Of Gas

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March 3, 2009 07:37 AM   Link    Caught Our Eye    Comments (0)

Assorted Links 3/2/09

2008 Piaggio MP3 500 Review

• Speechwriting: Preparing Speeches and Oral Presentations, March 13, 2009
• Confessions of a White African-American: Racism and Affirmative Action on Two Continents, March 7, 2009
• How Broke Would You Have to Be to Revert Back to Dial-Up?
• Talking Shop With a ‘Vulture’ Investor
• Obamaland
• Memo to America's Irresponsible Tea Party Whiners: STFU
• Motorcycle Airbag Makes Science Fiction Real
• Piaggio MP3
  • No Age Limit: The Piaggio MP3 Lincoln Highway Ride (2008)
  • Piaggio USA
  • Arlington [VA] Vespa
  • Vespa City Manhattan [NY]
  • Vespa Jersey City
  • Vespa Bronx
  • Vespa Brooklyn
• Buffett's Letter to Shareholders
• Consumer Reports Annual Auto Report: Winners And Losers but see True Delta Car Reliability Comparisons and CR’s results misinterpreted to Chrysler’s detriment
• Automatic Garage Door Opener with German Engineering
• February Economic Summary in Graphs
• FREAK-Quently Asked Questions: Tyler Cowen
• Deep Web
• Weekend Video: Ron Paul's Position Statement Video from 25 February 2009
• How Radio Wrecks the Right
• Defeating Caller ID Blocking
• Beating caught on police video: Tape shows [King County, WA, sheriff] officer kicking, striking teenager
• To Hell with Niceness - ht ALD
• Finding the lost city: Does the Amazon jungle conceal a vanished empire? - ht ALD
• Class war: welcome to dinner at the égalité cafe
• Layoffs (short comedy)
• Ark Royal
• The Pentagon is a Money Toilet - ht 2 Blowhards. " If you knew a family that had more guns than all its neighbors put together, but was living on credit cards and cadging loans from people who hated them, what advice would you give them?"
• Just whose side is he [Chas W Freeman, Obama’s pick for the chairmanship of America’s National Intelligence Council] on?
• Free-market personality disorder
• CPSIA: How to keep current?
• Paul Harvey (RIP)
• Down the Dark Alley
• 8 Harsh Truths that Will Improve Your Life
• The National Academy of Sciences Slams Bite Mark Analysis
• New Chairman of the National Council of Intelligence
• The secret of why our hair goes grey ...and the shampoo that could reverse its effects
• The Armenian route to a cheap but prestigious diploma
• Sita Sings the Blues (wikipedia article)
• Diplomatic Pooch: 1915
• Springtime is Around the Corner

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March 2, 2009 07:57 AM   Link    Caught Our Eye    Comments (0)

Thomas Nast on Wall Street

This week, in honor of the Dow Jones Average hitting its lowest point in twelve years, I though it fitting to pull out Thomas Nast's famous 1869 cartoon tribute to Wall Street following that year's front-page financial debacle. It was in September 1869 that young Jay Gould and James Fisk Jr. perpetrated perhaps the single most audatious financial play in American history, their attempt to corner the national gold supply.

Gould and Fisk almost pulled it off after bribing dozens of (continued)

From Ken Ackerman's blog

March 1, 2009 04:37 PM   Link    History    Comments (0)

Assorted Links 3/1/09 - special "Green Smoothie" edition

How to make a Green Smoothie

• Green Smoothie Challenge
• 70 Green Smoothie Recipes
• Green Smoothie Girl
• Victoria Boutenko - Raw Family
• January Recipe - Green Smoothie with Victoria Boutenko (video)
• Green Smoothies - Yahoo Glue
• Green Smoothies - squidoo
• Vita-Mix Green Smoothie
• How to Peel an Orange in One Peel
• 12 Great Tasting Green Smoothie Recipes!
• Green Smoothie Recipe - Top 5
• Surprisingly Delicious [Gluten-Free] Green Smoothie Recipe
• Banana Strawberry Collard Green Smoothie Recipe
• Green Smoothie Recipe - Dr. Joel Fuhrman
• Emerald Ecstasy (Green Smoothie)
  • 1-2 Cups of Green Grapes
  • 1/4 of a large Pineapple or 1/3 of a small Pineapple
  • One large, ripe Banana (one and a half if small)
  • Half of an Apple (o.k. to include stem, seeds, skin, and core)
  • 1/4 of a slice of Lemon (o.k. to leave lemon rind on)
  • A BIG double hand-full of spinach (probably 4 cups)
  • 2-3 cups of ice (should reach the top of the container)
• Tropical Green Smoothie
• The Green Smoothie Blog
• Green Grow the Rushes O
• Edible and Medicinal Uses of Native Plants Found at Mound City - NPS
• Leaf vegetable - wikipedia
• How to Find Wild Edible Plants
• Edible Wild Plants - Science Tracer from Library of Congress
• Greens, Edible - from Librarians Internet Index
• North Bay Trading Company
• Barry Farm Foods

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