The biggest screw-up in family law in a generation was corrected by the California Supreme Court yesterday, in the Marriage of LaMusga case. The court ruled that a long-distance moveaway by a custodial parent may not be in the child’s best interests, depending on all the circumstances. Now this doesn’t sound like much (it’s pretty [...]
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I for one, think that Keane’s genius has always been as stealth propagandist, with “Ida Know” and “Not Me” the Republican Dirty Tricksters we’ve all grown to know and love. Billy, of course, plays the unsuspecting bourgeois here, with PJ [...]
See Dean’s World for info on the Spirit of America Challenge and give (in case you live under a rock and didn’t know about this already.)
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This is lovely:
Citing concerns about plastic disposable diapers clogging landfills and the amount of washing and detergents that cloth diapers require, many environmentalists are taking a page from tribal cultures and seeking to eliminate the use of the baby diapers altogether.
Save the endangered E. Coli!
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Since you can’t smoke on airplanes any more, we don’t need “No-smoking” lights. Why not make them ready to roll lights, for situations like this one:
A plane carrying sexy Broadway star Rachel York back to New York was forced down in Salt Lake City Tuesday after an agitated Egyptian man started flicking a butane lighter.
Quick-thinking [...]
Check out this eBay auction. It’s guaranteed to warm your heart.
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This is true patriotism. (hit reload if you get an error message).
Read more at the generally evil Boing-Boing.
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From The Australian:
Documents found in Iraq’s old ministry of oil reveal that hundreds of prominent individuals received vouchers to buy Iraqi oil at cut-rate prices and sell it on the open market — at tremendous, often seven-figure, profits.
Those named include not just Sevan but a vast array of Russian politicians, close friends of French [...]
The LA Times book festival has held a little panel discussion on the liberation of Iraq for a couple of years now featuring Mark Danner, Christopher Hitchens, Michael Ignatieff, and Robert Scheer, moderated by Times Book Review editor Steve Wasserman. Hitchens and Ignatieff, both of whom were pro-liberation, offered arguments based on fact and [...]
A reader emailed this to me:
API Report
The Associated Press reports that New York junior Senator Hillary Clinton narrowly escaped injury in the aircraft that she was piloting when she was forced to make an emergency landing in Southern Texas because of bad weather.
National Transportation Safety Board officials have issued a preliminary determination [...]
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