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• A Great BBQ Joint

  Yet another reason why 12 Bones in Asheville, NC, is one of the greatest BBQ places in the USA.

  (Spotted via the great Slacktivist’s TMI, barbecue and other people’s sex lives.)

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• Enabling Florida’s DINOs

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  DINOs — Democrats in Name Only — are a resurgent species in Florida. DownWithTyranny!: The Tarnished Brand (Florida Episode) takes a look at their enablers:

  Florida has 27 congressional seats. You might think from Nelson’s 55-52% statewide win or Obama’s 50-49% statewide win that the districts are a little over [...]

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• Law.tm Got Hacked – Via DNS?

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  Starting sometimes late Friday, my personal web page at law.tm stopped returning my boring homepage, and instead produced this:

  There was also a sound track, produced by embedding this youtube video of “Epic Anonymous Rap song – Hackers” several screens below the main image:

  Naturally, I wasn’t pleased, even [...]

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• Please Use Alternate Email to Reach Me

  UPDATE 3pm 1/27/13: The problem, which I’ll say more about in my next post, seems to have been resolved. If you sent me any mail between Friday evening and early Sunday afternoon, it’s nearly certain that I didn’t get it, so please resend.

  My main email account is down until [...]

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• Justices Sotomayor, Kennedy to Speak at UM

  Justice Sotomayor will be speaking at UM next Friday as part of her book tour. She’ll be interviewed by President Donna Shalala.

  And, on Feb. 11 Justice Anthony Kennedy will be speaking here as part of the Robert B. Cole Distinguished Jurist Lecture Series. I gather our own [...]

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• More on the Temporary Debt Limit Waiver

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  The House duly passed the debt limit waiver bill 285 to 144, with 33 Republicans and 111 Democrats voting no. House GOP leaders duly made statements about what a great achievement ‘no budget no pay’ was, perhaps an attempt to distract from how great a climbdown the main part [...]

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• Is There a Poison Pill in the Debt Ceiling Bill?

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  The House GOP leadership introduced its 3-month debt limit increase yesterday and plans to vote on it tomorrow. As a sweetener to paper over their turnaround on the debt limit, the GOP attached a “no budget no pay” provision to H.R. 325 that could change the payment of Congressional [...]

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• Disgusting Antics in Virginia

  Holding session on MLK Day is a distasteful thing for any Southern legislature to do — it’s about not treating the day as a holiday in order to disrespect Dr. King’s memory not to mention what he stood for. Adjourning at the end of the day to celebrate General [...]

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• The Science Behind Making Me Feel Bad at Malls

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  I hate shopping in malls and giant department stores. One reason is that I always feel like they’ve dialed back on the oxygen.1 Another reason is that large shops are usually [...]

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• The Optimist

  Cool story in the WaPost today about a man who rode an elevator with Candidate Obama in 2008 and gave him something: Earl Smith is the man behind a military patch that President Obama prizes.

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