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The meaningless and pork-laden vote to end the Iraq war was something special. But then Democrats do one better by resurrecting the Equal Rights Amendment. No, seriously:
“Women’s equality has been for too long a dream deferred,” Congessmember Carolyn Maloney declared as she joined with several other House and Senate members last week to reintroduce the [...]

Hey, Sara Corbett — congratulations, you got your most E-mailed Times story. Too bad one of your three sources seems to have made shit up:
Big trouble at the New York Times Magazine this morning, as an editors’ note reveals that one of the women who appeared in last week’s cover story on female Iraq veterans [...]

This is better than a film script:
Reeling from the news that his great-grandfather was once enslaved to the family of Strom Thurmond, the Rev. Al Sharpton said yesterday he wants a DNA test to learn whether he and the segregationist senator share a bloodline.
“I’ll do it,” said Sharpton. “I can’t find out anything more shocking [...]

. . . but the only thing better would be if it was drawn by R. Crumb:
Among the unlikely superheroes to be introduced tomorrow at a comic book convention at the Javits Convention Center are a skateboarding cyborg who battles terrorism, three cutesy girls from the intergalactic military police and one high school student who [...]

And You Complain About Your Cable Service


Posted by Contrarian on February 20th, 2007

Also, what was the brand of television? I sense an ad campaign coming on:
After the discovery of the mummified body of an elderly man who died a year ago while watching television, Long Island officials are even more stunned to learn the TV was still on.
Vicenzo Riccardi, 70, apparently died of natural causes about [...]

Obama, Ubama, Who-bama!


Posted by Contrarian on February 15th, 2007

Correction of the day:
Due to an editing mistake, a small number of copies of yesterday’s Post carried a headline referring to “Osama” over a story about Sen. Barack Obama on Page 2. The Post regrets the error.

The Age of Distraction


Posted by Bruno on February 7th, 2007

New York State Senator Carl Kruger wants to fine you $100 for distractedly crossing the street while listening to your iPod. Awesome.
But why stop there? The real killer, in my mind, is electric vehicles like the Toyota Prius. With their internal combustion engines switched off, these things appear by stealth. You [...]

The Edwards Conceit


Posted by Contrarian on February 5th, 2007

John Edwards, showing some deft rhetorical skill in his New York Times profile today:
He displayed another difference from 2004 at the meeting at Dartmouth last week. A student asked him whether he would support a law allowing for full marriage benefits for gay men and lesbians.
He said he had grown up as a Southern Baptist [...]

Your Tax Dollars at Work


Posted by Bruno on January 15th, 2007

Radioactive Animal Carcasses edition:
About 95 percent of the waste dug up from the animal farm trenches was manure, and radiation checks found quite a bit of it was contaminated with radioactive strontium 90, Buckmaster said. Animal carcasses and sawdust in bags and boxes also were recovered from the trenches. Only minimal radioactive contamination was found [...]

The only thing better than burying bad news before the Christmas break is the time-honored tradition of resigning to spend more time with your family, alive and well in all corners of this great nation:
Less than three months into her three-year term as a Houston City Council member, Betty Vehrs resigned this week to spend [...]


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Obama staffs up, Detroit comes to DC and finally, Iraq and the US come to a security agreement.

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