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  Syria: A car bomb killed 17 in Aleppo.
  
  The vice president of Iraq has been sentenced to death; violence erupts.
  
  New York and Washington, D.C. are cleaning up after weekend storms.
  
  President Obama campaigned in Florida this weekend.
  
  Mitt Romney slammed [...]
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• A Little Night Music

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  I was at a classic car show today, and the DJ popped this one on the turntable (or whatever it is they use nowadays) and was instantly transported back to the summer of 1961 when a lot of AM radios in the cars at the show played this hit.
  
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• Held Hostage

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  Bob Woodward, who has always had an inside scoop on the machinations inside the Beltway, is out with a new book on the negotiations last summer over the debt ceiling crisis. The excerpt in the Washington Post details how the House Republicans basically held the president hostage over what [...]
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  Born to Run -- Hendrik Hertzberg on Bill Clinton at the DNC.

  On Fox News, after Bill Clinton’s speech, Brit Hume, while admitting grudgingly that it was “convincing” and “able to deal with facts,” dismissed what he had just heard as “wonky,” “self-indulgent,” and “thirty per cent too long.”
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  Two tornadoes touched down in Brooklyn and Queens.
  
  Heavy weather hit Washington, D.C.
  
  A volcano rumbled to life in Nicaragua.
  
  Poll: Obama widens his lead over Romney.
  
  The Miami Hurricanes got walloped by Kansas State. I know a lot of Wildcat [...]
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• A Little Night Music

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  This song was a big hit forty years ago around this time of year when I was heading back for my sophomore year of college. It reminds me of moving into my very first apartment in Coconut Grove, where I shared a 2BR place on Virginia Street for $205 a [...]
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• Quite A Kick

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  Baltimore Raven player Brendan Ayanbadejo expressed support for Maryland's referendum on marriage equality, much to the ire of Baltimore County state delegate Emmett Burns (and a Democrat, oy), who wrote a letter to the Ravens owner, basically telling him to shut his team member up.
  
  That got the [...]
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• There'll Be Some Changes Made

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  As some of you have noted, the commenting system I use here is going to be discontinued as of October 1. It's provided us with the opportunity to make even more changes. My brother, who is a world-class programmer and technical wizard, has been working very hard to come up [...]
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• You Were Saying?

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  Jon Stewart on the short-term memory loss suffered by Fox News from one week to the next.
  
  

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  At least 80 are dead after earthquakes in China.
  
  The U.S. declares the Haqqani network of Pakistan a terrorist organization.
  
  The Eurozone plan hits some bumps.
  
  The monthly jobs number report was tepid.
  
  Three states have joined the case to repeal [...]
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