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Yes, I took a season off and didn’t watch the 12th season of Amazing Race. At all. Can you believe it? All because we were out of town or something the night of the premiere, and even though it was on TiVo for a couple of weeks, I never got around to watching, and didn’t [...]

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Udder Chaos: Middletown Woman Arrested In Cow Suit
Police in Middletown [Ohio] made a rather bizarre arrest Monday night, taking into custody a woman dressed in a cow suit who was seen acting erratically.
Michelle Allen of Middletown was arrested on one count of disorderly conduct for allegedly getting in the way of traffic on Wilbraham [...]

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The TV Watch - A Question Reprised, but the Words Come None Too Easily for Palin - NYTimes.com
I couldn’t bear to watch the video, but ran across this summary of the Katie Couric interview with Sarah Palin. It’s painfully obvious that without a teleprompter, she fails miserably. No wonder they’ve kept her away from the [...]

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Read the whole thing. Tomorrow is going to be a very ugly day in the markets and in the press.
Talks Implode During Day of Chaos; Fate of Bailout Plan Remains Unresolved - NYTimes.com
When Congressional leaders and Senators John McCain and Barack Obama, the two major party presidential candidates, trooped to the White House on [...]

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Yesterday, it was my birthday. The story of Margriet Oostveen, the Dutch writer who volunteered for both US Presidential campaigns to gather insight and material for her column broke, and what keen prezzie! She claims she was taught how to write “letters to the editor” that would be signed by real McCain supporters in [...]

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