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jim nabors, the hawaii resident well known for his starring role in the 1960s television sitcom "gomer pyle, usmc," married his longtime male partner early this month, he told hawaii news now tuesday. nabors, 82, said he married his companion of 38 years, stan cadwallader, who's 64, in seattle on jan. 15.- hawaii news now

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Don’t let us get sick
Don’t let us get old
Don’t let us get stupid, all right?
Just make us be brave
Make us play nice
And let us be together tonight.

Warren Zevon could sit down and talk twelve-tone theory with, uh, Stravinsky. Half the cockbags who come through here barely play their fuckin' instruments.

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 waiter praised ror refusing to serve family who insults child with down syndrome - consumerist

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less than 24 hours after his appearance on pbs’ frontline, where he struggled to explain why his office had brought not one single indictment against a high-level wall street executive related to the 2008 financial crisis, assistant attorney general lanny breuer has reportedly decided to step down.- consumerist

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*It would be petty of me to note that McDonnell's proclamation conspicuously leaves the "Dr." off the front of Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. I guess a Ph.D. from Boston University isn't worth all that much.

cross-posted from AngryBear

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"...the staffers are owed a mere $5,000, and that bachmann has more than $2 million in her campaign account, but has refused to pay unless the staffers sign the (nondisclosure) agreement." - daily kos

"brett held her captive day after day, speech after speech, etc. in the back of the bus during the 99-county tour. by the end, she was broken emotionally, mentally, and slept in her private cabin in the back of the bus. i do not know if she has ever recovered," waldron said - buzzfeed

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a new report released by a british engineering society reveals that worldwide, billions of tons of food are squandered each year because of poor agriculture practices, which include inefficient harvesting and inadequate infrastructure and storage—and it's depleting earth's water supply - mother jones

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louisiana governor bobby jindal (r) recently rolled out a plan to replace his state’s personal income and corporate taxes with an increased sales tax. such a move would shift taxes from the rich to the poor, who are disproportionately hit by the sales tax.

according to an analysis by the institute on taxation and economic policy, jindal’s plan will raise taxes on the bottom 80 percent of louisianians, while cutting them for the richest 1 percent: - think progress

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@theobamadiary chuck hagel has a portugese water dog? he's following in pres. obama's footsteps. so he must hate america too.

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right-wing republicans have somehow come to believe that agenda 21 contains a secret, nefarious plot to destroy american life and society as we know it, birthing a cottage industry devoted to spreading misinformation about the un proposal. the most recent evidence of this movement’s reach is a proposal by two indiana lawmakers to ban the implementation of any agenda 21-inspired initiatives in the state. - think progress

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So I want to talk for a moment about Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time. No, really. It is very strange, but I have been having conversations about A Wrinkle in Time all year long with colleagues and friends. I’ve even gone back and reread the book. I was motivated partly by all the attention it received this year, the fiftieth anniversary of its publication. I learned only in January of this year, reading an item in the New York Times Sunday Book Review, that L’Engle’s heroine, Meg Murry, is something like the patron saint of “bookish girls” everywhere; as Anne Lamott remarked in November of this year, “A Wrinkle in Time saved me because it so captured the grief and sense of isolation I felt as a child.” And I realized that when I read it in 1972, I completely missed how anomalous it was that a speculative sci-fi young-adult novel would have as its protagonist an awkward girl who is such a science geek she can recite a good chunk of the periodic table of the elements by memory. I missed that because I identified with Meg Murry; I didn’t get the memo that boys weren’t supposed to identify with female protagonists, and I shared Meg’s sense of social anxiety and science geekdom and general outsiderness just as, a few years earlier, I had shared in Alice’s sense of bewilderment and wonder and occasional aggravation at the worlds of Wonderland and the Looking-Glass.

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australia is so hot, meterologists have had to come up with a new color.

as a record-breaking heatwave hovers over many regions and territories (which are in their summer months now), the continent’s bureau of meteorology has added two new colors to the weather map to reflect the rising mercury. the map currently shows the weather in orange tones at the top, which indicate temperatures 40 to 48 degrees celsius. but forecasts are predicting off-the-charts weather. as a result, pink and purple will now cover temperatures over 50 degrees celsius—should it climb that high. - yahoo

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he actually works with democrats...and sometimes comes out and makes reality-based statements.

“each one of us who has a responsibility of helping lead this country needs to reflect on what we think is in the interests of our country, not the interest of our party or our president.”

"i took an oath of office to the constitution, i didn't take an oath of office to my party or my president."

"our relationship with israel is special and historic,... but it need not and cannot be at the expense of our arab and muslim relationships."

re: bush's troop increase in iraq - "the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since vietnam, if it's carried out

describing the bush administration - "the lowest in capacity, in capability, in policy, in consensus—almost every area" of any presidency in the last forty years."

"people say we're not fighting for oil. of course we are. they talk about america's national interest. what the hell do you think they're talking about? we're not there for figs."

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The authors don’t intend this to mean that the shift from manufacturing to Services means that workers will never get paid their marginal product. But I think it does.

Those at the AEA—er, ASSA—meeting can ask them tomorrow: Jan 06, 2013 8:00 am, Hyatt, Manchester E.

(cross-posted, in slightly different form, at Angry Bear.

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billions is the operative word to use...

the milky way contains at least 100 billion planets, or enough to have one for each of its stars, and many of them are likely to be capable of supporting conditions favorable to life, according to a new estimate from scientists at the california institute of technology in pasadena, california (caltech). - talking points memo

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