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Signing Off
Dear Faithful Readers, I am sorry to say that I must take a brief hiatus from Shiny Steel, an awesome project started by one of the most extraordinary men I know. I have taken a job with Obama for America, and I have to have a media blackout until the Pennsylvania Primary on April 22. [...]
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Hillary and Rush Limbaugh – BFFs
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2004303769_clinpublicans25.html Superdelegates take heed. Maybe the Republicans know something you don’t.
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Ode to Frank Gehry
by Lindsay Perhaps it is because I pass one of his amazing buildings twice a day on my commute, but I find that I have grown quite fond of Frank Gehry. His designs are certainly a love-them-or-hate-them kind of black and white that gets an architect talked about for years to come. For those of [...]
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Why doesn’t DC have a J street?
http://www.snopes.com/history/american/jstreet.asp
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by Lindsay It seems this year’s National Pie Day came and went without adequate celebration on my part. Apparently this festive occasion falls yearly on Jan. 23. I will just have to plan to make next year’s Pie Day better than ever – which given that I have never celebrated the day, probably won’t require [...]
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Great Quote
“Saying that Hillary has Executive Branch experience is like saying Yoko Ono was a Beatle,” – Kos commenter, Jsn.
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Great Vegetarians
by Lindsay Does it really surprise you that these greats were also vegetarian? Albert Einstein * Albert Schweitzer * Benjamin Franklin * Bob Dylan * Charles Darwin * Clara Barton * George Harrison * H.G. Wells * Henry Ford * Jean Jacques Rousseau * John Howard * Leo Tolstoy * Leonardo Da Vinci * Mary [...]
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Prison Population
by Lindsay A new report says that 1 in 100 American adults is currently in jail or in prison. 1 in 30 men ages 20 to 34 is behind bars, while for black males in that group the numbers are 1 in 9. The United States is, in fact, the world’s incarceration leader, far above [...]
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Third Party Candidates
by Lindsay “The Simpsons” taught us a great lesson about third party candidates in the U.S. In “Treehouse of Horror VII,” Homer reveals to his fellow citizens that evil aliens Kang and Kodos have taken over then-presidential nominees, Bill Clinton and Bob Dole: Homer: America, take a good look at your beloved candidates. They’re nothing [...]
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