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It’s amazing to me that places like this still exist:
Women at the [Phoenix Country Club] are not permitted to have lunch in the men’s grill room with their husbands after a round of golf; they have been barred from trophy ceremonies after tournaments, even ones they have sponsored…As teenage boys saunter into the sumptuously appointed [...]

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“The water in our state is not sufficient to add more demand…and that now means that some large development can’t go forward. If we don’t make changes with water, we are going to have a major economic problem in this state.”
That’s a quote from the director of the California Department of Water Resources. With temps [...]

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From a credit card offer, which includes 0% APR on transfers until 2009: “We may change your account terms, including rates, at any time for any reason. This means that your account rates, including any promotional rates offered, are not guaranteed.”
In other words: whatever we promise you today, we could be lying through our teeth [...]

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“Mission Accomplished”
What kind of bullshit was that?
Lying piece of shit

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While most of the country has weighed in on the party primaries, North Carolina has yet to vote. The linked article may be interesting reading for some of my out-of-state readers who are still scratching their heads wondering how a couple of unreconstructed lefties like Barry and myself are surviving life in a red state.
The [...]

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An article in the New York Times states:
The United States has a long history of separating the treatment of mental and physical illnesses, dating back to the days when the severely mentally ill were put in poorhouses, jails and, later, public asylums. That ended after the deinstitutionalization movement of the 1960s, but mental health experts [...]

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Bill Clinton came the the Triangle to stump for his wife.

He went to Cary.
Now I’m not a placist myself, but to many of my friends, choosing Cary over Durham is the moral equivalent of parking your Hummer with the “I (heart) Republicans” bumper sticker in front of your McMansion that has five bathrooms with [...]

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“In reality, you cannot pick and choose only the conclusions you like of this National Intelligence Estimate,” Gates said. “Since that government now acknowledges the quality of American intelligence assessments, I assume that it also will embrace as valid American intelligence assessments of its funding and training of militia groups in Iraq.”
Cognitive psychologists speak of [...]

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If you read my previous post, you’ll understand why 9/11/2001 has a more personal than political meaning for me.
9/11/1973 is the opposite. It was a day that was critical in forming my political sensibilities.
By 2001, my sense of How the World Works was pretty well established. But in September of 1973, I was just starting [...]

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I was waiting for a blood test when I heard the radio at the nurses’ station. They were talking about evacuating Congress in case there was another attack. I asked the nurse if this was some kind of a joke on the radio. She said “Haven’t you heard?” No. I’d been in the doctor’s office [...]

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