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I’m in the market for a new world wall map but can’t decide which one I want. This satellite map is by far my favorite — a joint effort by the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab and National Geographic. But it does not have country names; only the continents are labeled. So my runners-up are this […]

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Frank Boosman has an excellent play-by-play commentary on the full, unedited transcript of Sen. Santorum‘s conversation with the AP. Meanwhile, here are some hilarious and oh-so-deep thoughts from the conservative rag Town Hall: Gays are citizens and human beings; you don’t have to like everything they do behind closed doors to appreciate the fact that […]

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Yet another reason to be jealous of anyone who works there: Google Daily Menus.

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The bodies of a woman and a male fetus were discovered separately yesterday at the dog walkers’ hot spot Point Isabel in Richmond: Bodies of fetus, woman found in bay / Cops investigating vanishing of Modesto woman called to site There’s no evidence yet of a connection to Laci Peterson, who’s been missing since December, […]

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How do you go from a record U.S. budget surplus ($236.4 billion in 2000) to a record deficit ($304.0 billion in 2003) in just 3 years? Have the Supreme Court put Bush in the White House. [via bit.ch]

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My Dad worked for the late Assemblyman John Williamson of Bakersfield in 1976. Williamson wrote the Williamson Act, which protects California farmland from suburban sprawl and shopping mall hell. On Friday the Chronicle wrote an editorial (Preserve farmland) arguing against Gov. Davis’ “proposal to eliminate the funds the state pays to counties under the act.” […]

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Today‘s San Francisco Chronicle contains the following apology in the A section: APOLOGY The Chronicle apologizes for the objectionable illustration on the cover of today’s Book Review. Editors noticed it too late to stop the presses and remake the page. This did, of course, pique my curiosity, so I went promptly to the Book section […]

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George McGovern has an excellent commentary in the new issue of The Nation. Here’s a snippet: He (Bush) treads carelessly on the Bill of Rights, the United Nations and international law while creating a costly but largely useless new federal bureaucracy loosely called “Homeland Security.” Meanwhile, such fundamental building blocks of national security as full […]

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On Tuesday I was in a big meeting in a video conferencing room. There are clocks in the room with the time set for various time zones around the world. Someone pointed out that Bangalore, India’s time was 12-and-a-half hours ahead of Pacific Time. Many of us thought it must have been a mistake. A […]

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As the statue of Saddam Hussein was symbolically pulled down yesterday, the mainstream media didn’t seem to pick up on the historic significance of the date, April 9. On the same day in 1865, Robert E. Lee surrended to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, Virginia to end the Civil War, in which 140,000 men died […]

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