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• Vacation!

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  I’m off to a secret undisclosed location that we’ve rented sight unseen, save for a few photos online. The photo to the right is not one of them — there are tools out there to track back photos — but we hope the scenery in the neighborhood might be [...]

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• No Kidding

  Local politics gadfly, “Ladra,” in the course of fulminating about voter suppression in Hialeah, turns to fulminating about people surprised at voter suppression in Hialeah:

  Hellllooo? Do you not read Political Cortadito? Do you think I’m kidding? I’m not even exaggerating most of the time.

  via Intimidation at JFK starts early [...]

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• More Downtime Tonight 7:30

  Seems that the first attempt did not go according to plan, so we’re trying again tonight, a bit earlier in the evening (US east coast time).

  Things could be weird (or offline) for an hour or two.

  Update: Well, that went better!

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• “Worried” – Obama for America TV Ad – YouTube

  By contemporary standards, this Obama TV ad is actually substantive, but it falls down a bit on the web backup. "Worried" – Obama for America TV Ad:

  It also has a link to www.barackobma.com/plans where you are invited to go for more details. Although extant, they are rather scant:

  FORWARD

  President [...]

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• Coal as Contraband?

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  Juan Cole is shrill about global warming:

  One obvious lesson of Muller’s study is that coal should be banned immediately and its mining and distribution should be criminalized. We put people in prison for a little pot, but let the coal industry destroy the earth. A few brave souls [...]

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• Pitching Statistics

  Blenderlaw takes aim at misleading advertising for 5 Hour Energy. The ads, it says, throw around numbers that are designed to mislead without outright lying:

  The latest … begins with the statement that they asked over 3000 doctors to review 5 hour energy. … And the ad does not state [...]

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• Some Planned Downtime Tonight

  The blog will be down for maintenance some amount of time Wednesday evening. IF all goes well, we won’t have to do it more than once, for an hour or two.

  This is the first of a series of renovations designed to fix stuff under the hood.

  Step one is to move [...]

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