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smays.com  //  My name is Blanche. I'm a 12-year-old girl living in Karachi where I am forced to maintain this website for a wealthy American who has too much time on his hands but not enough to maintain one more blog. Please help me.

Nov 6 / 3:50pm

Abbi

No idea how he spells his name.

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Nov 6 / 3:47pm

Chow!

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Nov 6 / 5:29am

Unhealthy America

The United States ranks 31st in life expectancy (tied with Kuwait and Chile), according to the latest World Health Organization figures. We rank 37th in infant mortality (partly because of many premature births) and 34th in maternal mortality. A child in the United States is two-and-a-half times as likely to die by age 5 as in Singapore or Sweden, and an American woman is 11 times as likely to die in childbirth as a woman in Ireland.

Filed under  //  Health Care  

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Nov 6 / 5:23am

Hollow Victory

The real tragedy of Vietnam is not that the United States lost, but that it became involved in the first place. It pains me to say this as someone who served in the American military from 1965 to 1975, but the anti-war movement was right: It did not matter to U.S. security whether North Vietnam conquered the south and unified that country under communist rule. More than 58,000 American soldiers and more than 2 million Vietnamese died in an unnecessary and foolish war.

John Mearsheimer, a West Point graduate, is a political science professor at the University of Chicago.

Filed under  //  Foreign Policy  

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Nov 5 / 12:12pm

24-Year Army Veteran Delivers Impassioned Call To End Afghan War

Filed under  //  Foreign Policy  

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Nov 5 / 5:58am

"Let The World Change You"

Change is made by all of us, over many generations. The best we can do is make a few other people happy for a while, make ourselves happy, and if you do that, and leave the place a little nicer for having been here, I say -- Job Well Done! Maybe instead of changing the world, relax, and Let The World Change You. That's closer to what actually happens in life, no matter how rich or famous (or not) you are.

Dave Winer scripting.com

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Nov 5 / 5:21am

Are journalists who tweet value for money?

Media people are using Twitter as an instrument for sharing and crowdsourcing, for networking and live-reporting. A journalist with a popular blog or social media presence can only be positive for the publication’s brand. If Twitter is a waste of work time, time has never been so well wasted. Furthermore, if a journalist is creating content while simultaneously publicising the content carrier, isn’t that doing two jobs for the price of one?

Filed under  //  journalism  

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Nov 5 / 4:33am

One-Term President?

I have great hopes for the Obama presidency, even in his first term, and especially if he could have two terms to realize the exciting new things he aspires to do in the White House. But I would rather see him a one-term president than have him pass on another unwinnable war to the person who will follow him in office.

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Nov 4 / 5:51am

Palinoia

Palin defied rational analysis by making a primal connection with the subterranean resentments of white middle America, which is apparently so pissed off now at the rest of the planet for not coddling its hurt feelings in the multicultural age that it is willing to embrace any politician who validates its insane sense of fucked-overness.
Matt Taibbi on trueslant.com

Filed under  //  Matt Taibbi   politics   Sarah Palin  

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Nov 3 / 8:24am

First pix of new iPhone 3GH

Sent from my iPhone

Filed under  //  iPhone  

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