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Mar
31
Thank you!

Thank you all for your birthday well wishes yesterday. Thirty-four feels very similar to thirty-three so far, which is nice.
That being said, no matter how you slice it this …

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Mar
31
Missing Sheikh Screws Up TV Schedule

On Sunday I mentioned how one of Abu Dhabi’s Sheikhs has gone missing in a glider accident (see UAE President’s Brother Missing).
The search in Morocco is still on, but now …

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Mar
30
LHC Works; We’re All Going to Die

I feel the New York Times is missing half a headline today: “Large Hadron Collider Finally Smashing Properly; Black Hole Imminent.”
Ten bucks says they create a strangelet and we all …

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Mar
30
Blergh!

Articles like this make me want to throw up: “Overqualified? Yes, but Happy to Have a Job.”

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Mar
29
Milbank on Reform

Dana Milbank has a good column in last Sunday’s Washington Post: “Health reform and the specter of Alf Landon.”
Landon, you might recall, ran against FDR in 1936’s presidential election – …

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Mar
28
UAE President’s Brother Missing

Sheikh Ahmed bin Zayed al Nahyan, the Managing Director of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and younger brother of HH Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE …

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Mar
26
None Too Secure (part 3)

I talked about Social Security’s woes back in January and August of last year (None Too Secure and None Too Secure (part 2)).
But it’s a whole lot worse now: “Social …

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Mar
25
Cool Michigan Logo

I saw this logo for the Michigan Economic Development Corp in Fortune magazine the other day and it really appealed to me:

Clever, eh?

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Mar
25
Never Be President

So I was just re-reading the Fourteenth Amendment (what, you don’t read the Constitution for fun?) and I came to a horrible conclusion – it’s possible I won’t be able …

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Mar
24
Who Broke Wikipedia?

Awww, who broke my favorite website!
In case you haven’t been to Wikipedia lately, well, it’s all jacked up.
Check out: “Wikipedia Site Fails After Servers Overheat.”

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Mar
24
Lincoln Pierce

Apparently Lincoln Peirce, the guy who writes and draws the comic strip “Big Nate” lives in Portland, Maine.
Add him to our list of famous Mainers that we started back in …

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Mar
24
98 Years of Health Care

I love the New York Times interactive timelines. Here’s one that’s just fantastic: “A History of Overhauling Health Care.”

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Mar
23
What’s Wrong with WDFA?

I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention this two part article “What’s Wrong with [Walt] Disney Feature Animation?” – part 1 and part 2.
I’m not sure who Ed Liu is, …

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Mar
23
Jefferson on Liberty

In the John Lewis piece the other day I quoted Thomas Jefferson, his “tree of liberty” quote. I mentioned how the militias and the other hate groups of our …

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Mar
22
Word Cloud

I found this website, Wordle.net that builds word clouds out of text files.
So I uploaded the 380 pages of my Newlywed in Dubai: Best of the Blog book and came …

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Mar
21
John Lewis

Have you seen this yet: “Spitting and Slurs Directed at Lawmakers?”
Tea Party protesers apparently spit on House of Representative members, yelled gay slurs at Barney Frank and the “N-word” at …

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Mar
19
National Education

I’m still mulling over Susan Jacoby’s Op-Ed from yesterday’s New York Times: “One Classroom, From Sea to Shining Sea.”
Jacoby’s The Age of American Unreason is a brilliant book, but I’m …

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Mar
19
No Census Online

I love the decennial census, but you know this (see Census Fun).
We got our form in the mail the other day and I was confused to see you couldn’t fill …

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Mar
19
Inernational Politics … and Zombies

Apparently international politics must be quiet at the moment; Foreign Policy had a lengthy piece on zombies this week: “Dawn of the Theories of International Politics and Zombies.”
Lots of research …

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Mar
19
Burj Khalifa Construction Marvel

I missd this from last Friday, the New York Times has an op-ed about Dubai and specifically the Burj Khalifa: “The Age of Concrete.”
Key quote:
From a technological standpoint, it’s profoundly …

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