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Stealing Ideas

Reading about Aaron Swartz’s most recent run-in with the law dredged up all kinds of feelings. I’m a long-time admirer of his work and was obviously
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Reaction to Osama bin Laden's death runs deeper than celebration videos

Video of Americans' first reaction to the news that Osama bin Laden had been killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on May 1, depict young men and ...
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Tea Party Crashes: The Most Unpatriotic Act

by Susan Lindauer I confess that since November I've been holding my breath, watching the clock for how long Tea Party newcomers could hold out against ...
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Revolutions Know No Color

By Michael Collins The legitimate demands of the people everywhere have no color, nor do their revolutions.  These are not the revolutions arising ...
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5 reasons Mubarak can’t silence Egyptian democracy demonstrations

1. An army captain joins the protesters in Cairo on Saturday, Jan. 29: Robert Fisk: Egypt: Death throes of a dictatorship 2. YouTube:  “We will not be silenced. ...
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Memo to Sarah Palin: There are Death Panels, they’re called health insurance companies

K. J. Lansing Make no mistake. There are Death Panels. This is what the American public gets when it listens to craven, whacked-out tea baggers: A Republican ...
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Happy New Year!

Sending our best wishes for the coming year. Thank you for stopping by Flesh & Stone to read and comment. Glad to have you and hope ...
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Decline and Fall (Maybe) January 1, 2010

The Happy New Year Edition (with some good news about 2011) Michael Collins The best thing about 2010 is that it's over.  It was a year ...
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Winnie the Spoof: Presidental Executive Order Renames Black Friday

In a stunning announcement from the White House, President Barack Obama issued an executive order banning all future references to the day after Thanksgiving as ...
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Saturn accused of 'murder' and other violent acts

Ya gotta love press release writers, especially those of the astronomical science persuasion. I’d say they are frustrated fiction novelists, but I think their ...
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Despicable Them: Fewer Buses, Higher Fares, Subway-to-Sea Do Not Make a Transit System

Los Angeles -- One million trees, greenest city in America, 12-2 building permit process, they all have one thing in common: They are all empty ...
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Put the rust-busting bacteria devouring Titanic to work

Deep North Atlantic Ocean -- Until recently scientists thought the once majestic “unsinkable” Titanic had another 30 or so years to continue resting and ...
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Reality check: Where is the leadership in L.A.’s fiscal crisis?

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who is contemptuous of our intelligence and never talks about anything relevant to the financial predicament Los Angeles faces, offers ...
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Physician: Heal thyself?

Newly elected Andy Harris (R), a Maryland anesthesiologist who pledged to repeal health care reform and opposed the so-called “public option” as a steppingstone to  ...
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About those soaring giraffe-size pterosaurs

"Were giant pterosaurs old, flightless members of a species that could fly before they hit the flight-size limit and simply retained their flight ...
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Americans are the most 'ill-informed' society on Earth

Whether it’s newspapers, magazines, television, radio or billboards, we can’t take five steps in any direction without being blasted with fear-mongering about some dreaded malady ...
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Senator Tom Coburn is hazardous to our health

If the first rule of physicians is “to do no harm,” then that should apply to politicians, too, who have the power of life, death ...
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GE salmon labeling: Disclose, disclose, disclose!

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is inviting public comment on whether or not makers of genetically engineered (GE) salmon should be required to label ...
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Report: Americans are shunning fruit and veggies in droves

Three things are constants: The late actor Charlton Heston would never have given up his guns; cars can never be pried out of the hands ...
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Beyond Barbie: Mattel's monster of an assault on girls

by Susan Linn, Ed.D A new study ads heft to the argument that girls are entering puberty earlier than ever before. No one knows why more ...
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