Editorial: Jurors size up Nato’s 3 stooges

Posted on February 8, 2014 by mea

People who want to attack a presidential candidate’s headquarters with a slingshot but don’t know where the building is and, heck, would rather take a nap anyway are not terrorists.

They are pathetic. They might be a little dangerous. They need to grow up.

via Editorial: Jurors size up Nato’s 3 stooges – Chicago Sun-Times.

Terrorism is a real, serious and unending threat all over the world. Trivializing that threat by roping in the likes of, ahem, the NATO 3, only makes us less safe by taking our eye off the real thing.

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The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition.

Posted on February 5, 2014 by mea

Officially, the special denaturing program ended only once the 18th Amendment was repealed in December 1933. But the chemist’s war itself faded away before then. Slowly, government officials quit talking about it. And when Prohibition ended and good grain whiskey reappeared, it was almost as if the craziness of Prohibition—and the poisonous measures taken to enforce it—had never quite happened.

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Is college football a labor of love or just plain labor?

Posted on January 29, 2014 by mea

Forty-hour work weeks; 13 or even 14 games; summer schedules; bowl seasons that take away the limited time before spring ball; TV networks; coaches making millions; the risk of brain trauma: players were consulted about none of it. And at some point, the dangling of a scholarship as appeasement — the ironic offering of the one thing the player might have little time to pursue: education — is not enough.

In fact, the argument that players are not amateurs is a false one, since it is only the coin universities use as payment — scholarships — that differs from real cash.

via TELANDER: Is college football a labor of love or just plain labor? – Chicago Sun-Times.

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MSNBC interrupts Congresswoman for report on Justin Bieber

Posted on January 24, 2014 by mea

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What your favorite drink says about your politics, in one chart

Posted on January 14, 2014 by mea

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Democratic drinkers are more likely to sip Absolut and Grey Goose vodkas, while Republican tipplers are more likely to savor Jim Beam, Canadian Club and Crown Royal. That research comes from consumer data supplied by GFK MRI, and analyzed by Jennifer Dube of National Media Research Planning and Placement, an Alexandria-based Republican consulting firm.

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