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14 Mar 2010 20:46

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World: Did the drug war lead to the slaying of a U.S. official in Mexico?

  • We take very seriously when our employees are harmed, whether the intention was to harm U.S. employees or not. The question of whether this represents some ratcheting up of the drug war will depend on the reason behind the killings.
  • Deputy assistant Secretary of State in charge of Mexico Roberta S. Jacobson • Regarding the killings of a U.S. consular aide (along with her husband) in Mexico. Another consular employee’s husband was also killed and her children wounded. If it turns out that this killing was a conscious attempt to ratchet up the drug war in Mexico, we could be seeing some crazy stuff going down. source
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14 Mar 2010 20:33

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Tech: Digg’s upcoming redesign: Necessary, but fundamental?

  • Everybody knew it. The second Oprah said the word “Twitter” on her show, Digg looked old hat. It lacked the decentralized social spark other, more recent social media options had perfected. But – lucky us – the site hasn’t taken the passing of time lying down. Coming soon is a top-down redesign that slickens up the look and personalizes the results. Maybe with more personalization and social functions it might be able to solve our fundamental problem with the site. Will Digg get more substance with the changes? source
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14 Mar 2010 12:14

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Culture: The year’s first $200 million movie: “Alice in Wonderland 3D”

  • $62 million in its second week alone; not bad source
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14 Mar 2010 12:09

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Politics: Andrew Sullivan on homosexuality: Intelligent and well-reasoned

  • “There is so much emotion around this subject that thinking about it is actually hard.” Here’s a two-part talk our boy Andrew Sullivan gave about homosexuality and politics at Princeton. He gave the speech based on a 1993 article he wrote, and it’s pretty smart, actually. For those who know Sullivan from his blog and writings alone, hearing him speak about a subject passionately is a treat. Second part is at the link. source
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14 Mar 2010 11:57

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Music: Acrassicauda: Yes, there is a heavy metal band in Iraq

See these dudes here? They’re the only band in Iraq that plays heavy metal. You know you have to be hard and heavy if you can avoid IEDs. source
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14 Mar 2010 11:50

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Offbeat: Today is Pi Day, and Twitter’s all over it like a massive number



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14 Mar 2010 11:46

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Politics: Keep America Safe isn’t exactly winning fans of its Eric Holder rip

  • Top sign your political ad isn’t as effective as you think it is: It gets criticized by your own side. This commercial, by Liz Cheney’s Keep America Safe organization, has been criticized by at least one former Bush staffer as being “unfair” for its lack of disclosure of attorneys who dared help Al-Qaeda detainees (despite working pro bono), and the subject of a letter from the non-partisan Brookings Institution criticizing it. Keep America Safe isn’t backing down, though. source
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14 Mar 2010 11:30

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World: Benny Netanyahu: We done (#^&(@ up that settlement thang

The Israeli Prime Minister admits it was a bad idea – “It was hurtful and certainly it should not have happened” – but won’t back down in the row with the U.S. source
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14 Mar 2010 11:19

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World: A color-coded history of national protest movements

  • red The newest movement, in Thailand, is trying to push out prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva; the red team gave him a Monday deadline to resign.
  • orange Ukraine’s Orange
    Revolution     took place
    after a 2004 election
    marred by massive
    corruption – but protests
    eventually won out.
  • green The Green Movement, still strong in Iran, gained strength after president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad unexpectedly won reelection last year.
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14 Mar 2010 11:04

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World: Jihad Jane not an isolated incident. Just ask Jamie Paulin-Ramirez.

  • He said that Christians will burn in hellfire. That’s what they are teaching this baby.
  • Christine Mott • Grandmother of a boy whose mother, Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, fell in with an Islamic terrorist cell that was plotting to kill a Swedish cartoonist. Paulin-Ramirez, who’s from Colorado, was arrested in Ireland on Tuesday along with a bunch of other members of that group, which also included “Jihad Jane” among its membership. She was later released. When you’ve lost housewives from Colorado and precocious six-year-old boys to radical Islam, much is wrong with this world. source
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