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Third Coast International Audio Festival // Chicago Public Radio
This week we bring you an award-winning world premiere: Rebecca Sheirs The End as Beginning: An Audio Exploration of the Jewish View of Death. The trilogy blends interviews, personal reflections, and music, and focuses on death and the Jewish tradition. The work is an explanation, an [...]

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CES: Cheesy Finds at Innovations Plus:
 

 
A prototype hands-free mouse from Foottime, on sale in a couple of months. Simply place your foot in the slipper and trigger buttons with your other foot, leaving your hands completely free. Suggested use, says the manufacturer, includes "extra arm to shoot with. Bang"
Would that be the "short arm" [...]

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Salt Lake Tribune - Republican prepares bill for demise of Roe v. Wade

If someone directly challenges Roe v. Wade . . .
And if the U.S. Supreme Court reverses more than 30 years of legal precedent . . .

State Rep. Paul Ray wants Utah to be ready.
Ray is sponsoring a so-called “trigger law” [...]

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What I Did Over Christmas Vacation « Missed Manners
At least three. These folks need to hook up with Fellowship of the Peep for the next candy "movie," when they re-create Minas Tirith
Via BoingBoing.  

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Barbara Boxer should apologize for nothing | TPMCafe
How did I find out that Sen. Barbara Boxer is this week's right-wingnut pundit punching bag over her challenge to Condoleeza Rice's Iraq testimony? Because the scrolling underline on FOXNews in the health club yesterday was "BOXER ATTACKS RICE."
As TPM notes, Boxer was attempting to imply that neither [...]

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