Our sister site, DocuDharma is down for some reason I’m unlikely to be able to correct until Monday. Unless things fix themselves, it happens.

Netroots Nation puts me in mind of the days when I was racing Elise for 10th place in Yearly Comments by volume. Confronting me was my current average which, based on thousands of samples over the course of years, was hard to move in tangible ways and required discipline to achieve the necessary rate. My …

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Truth is you used to be able to get a week of stories about something like this. Now we are so hypnotized and jaded that it’s just noise.

Ok, so maybe taking the DNA of the greatest economic predators of the Reagan era and cloning their steroid and coke addled replicants as freeks and geeks for a dystopian 80s themed carnival was not such an outstanding business concept as I thought it was, at least I cured boneitis. Ok, so maybe I didn’t …

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Why is it always about bees? When did that stop being funny? It’s both homophobic and a rape fantasy at the same time! Rational Thinking, Optional You know, like those ‘naughty’ Mediterranean sea sides. Other Things To Do With Russian Billions

Ok, so $15,000 for a ostrich jacket (sigh, Gingham). First of all it’s not a lot for ostrich- Paul Manafort’s $15,000 jacket? That’s nothing, says ostrich expert by Luke O’Neil, The Guardian Wed 1 Aug 2018 On Tuesday the trial for Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s campaign manager, began in Alexandria, Virginia. Facing a bevy of …

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Jury, Opening Arguments, First Witness. That was quick. Bottom line- blame it all on Gates who signed everything too and was skimming more than his share. Tad Devine is best known as a Democratic operative for Bernie Sanders and like many political professionals took advantage of the United States’ inflated reputation as some sort of …

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Just how long have we been receiving these mysterious signals from outer space? Look up! Mars is closer to Earth than it’s been in 15 years By Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times Jul 31, 2018 Heads up, sky watchers: Tonight, Mars is going to be closer to Earth than it has been in 15 years, …

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No, it isn’t. Though it is defined as a criminal conspiracy. Criminal Conspiracy is conspiring, that is acting and advising with a group, to commit a crime, like say money laundering or election fraud. I’ve always felt the corporatist buy in to the bowlderized “collusion” complicit but this very public abandonment of that story line …

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As fabric always cotton. As a pattern colored on the warp yarn along the weft, this usually manifests as small square checkerboard rather than a stripe (vichy). Why would I know? Fabric is a near universal trade good (normally stores value a little better than food) and the adoption of mass production economies based on …

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