Salt Lake Tribune – Tot from large family left behind in morning rush A 2-year-old girl from a family of about 15 children was misplaced Monday morning before a Salt Lake County deputy found her crying and alone in the family’s backyard. The mother of the little girl had apparently assumed her older children had put the toddler in the family van earlier that morning. The mother then dropped off her other children at her sister’s home on her way to work, Lt. Paul Jaroscak said. About 9 a.m. neighbors in an area near 8500 South and 1500 East heard…
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NYT: Here’s a whole new meaning for the phrase “phony war:” we started under a fake pretext, we celebrated a fake victory, and for quite a while now, we’ve been chasing after a fake insurgent leader. Add this to the litany of failure. BAGHDAD, July 18 — For more than a year, the leader of one the most notorious insurgent groups in Iraq was said to be a mysterious Iraqi called Abu Omar al-Baghdadi. As the titular head of the Islamic State in Iraq, Mr. Baghdadi issued incendiary pronouncements. Despite claims by an Iraqi Interior Ministry official in May that…
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It’s been a busy couple of weeks around here and my blogging has dropped off by quite a bit – not that there’s anyone making note of that or anything, but some spammers may be slightly disappointed. Nyah, etc. I’ve read 3 books in the last week or so, and hope to get around to reviewing them. I’ve been busy being team leader of something called “Inviting Team” at Holy Moly. More on that later. I’ve been keeping an eye on the news, but not blogging about it. There’s a lot going on at worked – swamped, job task list about…
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Judge continues to press pants suit – Yahoo News …because it’s perfect.
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Nominee: Politics wont trump science | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle WASHINGTON — President Bush’s nominee to become the next surgeon general said Thursday he would resign rather than allow politics to push aside science.
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WGN Weather Center Blog Monday afternoon’s thunderstorms brought an abrupt end to a hot, steamy day here. Outflow from the thunderstorms brought a rush of dense cold air to the surface dropping temperatures nearly 30º in less than an hour’s time. The heat relief is only temporary, however, with heat and humidity expected to return Tuesday, along with more thunderstorms. Here are some of the largest temperature drops as recorded on our WeatherBug network. Hoffman Estates 93º down to 64º a drop of 29º Wilmette 94º down to 66º a drop of 28º Algonquin 92º down to 67º a drop…
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kink.fm – Homepage Portland, OR’s FM stalward KINK-FM finally gets their broadcast streaming – I’ve been emailing them off and on for… well, years now, begging them to stream their stuff. I used to listen when I lived in Oregon – one place I lived was particularly good for listening to their distant signal from Portland, because it was a third-floor apartment in an old boarding house in Eugene, with a northward facing window and nearly direct line-of-sight. Ah, it’s good to hear this station again.
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A Hipper Crowd of Shushers – New York Times ON a Sunday night last month at Daddy’s, a bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, more than a dozen people in their 20s and 30s gathered at a professional soiree, drinking frozen margaritas and nibbling store-bought cookies. With their thrift-store inspired clothes and abundant tattoos, they looked as if they could be filmmakers, Web designers, coffee shop purveyors or artists. My friend Debbie will probably have seen this, but I’ll send her a link anyway – she’s a librarian, and once did a paper on the stereotype of the be-bunned, shushing librarian in…
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CORRECTED: Estonia dominates wife-carrying championship – Yahoo! News It’s not just funny that there’s a wife-carrying championship, or that Estonia is the powerhouse in the sport of wife-carrying, but that somebody cared enough to CORRECT this particular news item. And it keeps showing up in my feed, like it’s undergoing continuous tweaking.
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Tour de France Prologue 2007 » The Cartoon Blog by Dave Walker Check out the terrific photos Dave Walker took of the London prologue of the Tour de France.