Author: mike

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Fear of a Black Planet

Black Man… “Looting” Black Man… “Looter” White Couple… “Finding” Black man, black woman, black baby White man, white woman, white baby Black man, white woman, black baby White man, black woman, black baby More...

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Stay The Course

Bush’s August average rating is the lowest for any re-elected president since World War II at a similar point after their re-election, with the exception of Richard Nixon. He’s now more unpopular than FDR,...

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Whitest Guy in Kauai

Just back from a mammoth holiday. Michigan, then Ohio, then San Francisco, then a big chunk in gorgeous Kauai, where I spent a lot of time swimming with the fishes. Went for a thrilling...

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Gallery!

Wanted some photo albums. Went into total geek mode and installed Gallery, which required the latest Apache2, MySQL, PHP, and a bunch of other nerd utils. To get the damn thing working, I had...

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Higgeldy Piggeldy

The urbanized area in and around Los Angeles has become the most densely populated place in the continental United States, according to the Census Bureau. Its density is 25 percent higher than that of...

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Baghdad Prophets

Iraqi investigators have uncovered widespread fraud and waste in more than $1 billion worth of weapons deals arranged by middlemen who reneged or took huge kickbacks on contracts to arm Iraq’s fledgling military …...

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Caliphate Manoeuverings

One of Iraq’s most powerful Shiite politicians on Thursday strongly backed demands for the formation of a semi-independent region in the oil-rich south … The politician, Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, a religious Shiite with close ties...

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Demographic Retreat

Non-Jews now outnumber Jews in Israel and the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, but the planned Israeli pullout from Gaza will ensure a Jewish majority in the other two areas for two decades...