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• Talk Radio is as Real and Honest as Professional Wrestling?

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  Continuing today’s theme of me discovering things everyone else already knows, I just learned that there’s an entire industry devoted to providing actors to be fake call-in guests to talk radio shows. If I read Daily Kos more regularly, I would have learned this back in July.

  Of course, [...]

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• Not Nuns

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  Maybe all Catholics know this, but I’m not Catholic and I was surprised to learn that the groups of women you see at airports in habits are not nuns, nor were the women who traditionally wielded rulers in parochial schools. It seems all nuns are sisters, but not all sisters [...]

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• Legal Proceedings So Weird We Need Hunter Thompson to Cover Them

  The first story, about proceedings in District Court in Tampa, FL was pretty weird and blackly funny, as lawyers scrambled to disassociate themselves with the proceedings in Porn trolling case thrown out for “attempted fraud on the court”.

  Now Ars Technica ups the ante with the Minnesota sequel, [...]

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• Please Help a Conservative Escape Epistemic Closure

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  I went to have my routine eye exam today, and the ophthalmologist, an educated man and small-business owner (he runs his practice with his son), was — as he often does — channeling the Wall Street Journal editorial page’s view of the world. Today the heartfelt worry was that the [...]

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• Stuff that Doesn’t Exist (and Stuff that Does)

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  First we learn that 49% of the Republicans polled think ACORN stole the election for Obama and we also learn this great fact:

  …most Americans don’t have an opinion about [Bowles/Simpson]. 23% support it, 16% oppose it, and 60% say they don’t have a take one way or the other.

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• Shopper Boehner’s Mistake

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  House Speaker John Boehner acts like he’s a customer at the Obama Emporium of Budget Plans. Shopper Boehner doesn’t like the wares he offered. “Bring me a better one,” he commands. Strangely, this is more or less how negotiations between the Obama administration and the GOP used to work. Now, [...]

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• MIA Customer Response In Action (Not)

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  Back in October I wrote about how I was emailing the honcho at MIA who seemed to be responsible for kicking Boingo out of the airport (See And Another Thing (No Boingo Wifi at MIA).)

  For the record, MDAD Deputy Director of Business Retention and Development Miguel Southwell never [...]

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• Nothing is Ever Simple

  Naked Capitalism has more about Why Strike Debt’s Rolling Jubilee Puts Borrowers at Risk. Serious tax stuff. Not only isn’t this simple, but it actually does seem to carry real risks all around.

  Previously: Tax Risks in Occupy Wall Street’s Debt Jubilee (11/18/12) and OWS to Buy, Forgive [...]

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