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As rain shifts to snow, mushy morning rush is forecast — chicagotribune.com
Afternoon rains turned to snow Monday evening as a storm expected to bring around 6 inches of snow moved into the Chicago area.
It started snowing around 2pm today. In spite of grumbling about the cold and the piles of grey, frozen blocks of [...]

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Keith Olbermann makes it 13 times that the Bush administration used a suspiciously timed terror alert or arrest announcement to either negate unfavorable news, or neutralize positive news about political opponents.  Only thirteen times? But it’s linked at One Utah:
One Utah » Blog Archive » The Nexus of Politics and Terror (and Lying)

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Audio: Confessions: Online Only: The New Yorker
This week in the magazine, in an excerpt from her book “The Bishop’s Daughter,” Honor Moore writes about her father, the Episcopal bishop Paul Moore, his faith, and his secret. Here Moore talks about her father’s public service and private life.
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My friend Ellen’s husband runs a blog about archeology, and today it had an item about the Church of England’s current upheaval… no, not that upheaval, the one about the fancy bishop’s palaces going on the market because they’re perceived as an extravagance in an era when ordinary parish priests have trouble making ends meet.
Archaeology [...]

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