Straight from the I Am Not Making This Shit Up Department: Apparently, citizens of border state Georgia were fed up with Latino immigrants trying to obtain education and medical attention for their kids. They were just sure that all those immigrants were in the Peanut State illegally. So Republican Gov. Nathan Deal pushed through and [...]
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It had hit 102 degrees in the shade late yesterday afternoon and was shaping up to be just another 24 hours of Texas drought when I heard the thunder. A half-hour later, big, cold drops of actual rain began falling. It rained hard, briefly. Just a quarter-inch, not quite enough to fill up the rain [...]
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It could be my independent nature or maybe a genetic streak of isolationism – or maybe simple fear – but when news of a an epic crisis crosses my computer screen, sometimes my first reaction is to find a way to mentally wall myself off from the event, and convince myself that, while it’s undeniably [...]
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Unless you’re a farmer who wouldn’t mind a three-day heads-up on that freak late spring Norther so’s you don’t lose your crop right off the bat. Unfortunately, if you’ve been relying on the National Weather Service forecasters at weather.gov, you’ve been flat out of luck, as their site – one of the most heavily visited [...]
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Check the fridge, Texans, and make sure you don’t have any Lucerne or Albertson eggs with the dates and lots enumerated in this U.S. Food & Drug Administration recall notice, because people have been getting Salmonella poisoning from eating them. The eggs were sold to a bunch of national food wholesalers and have spread nationwide. [...]
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The bottom line today is that Johnson & Johnson and officials with their McNeil Healthcare pill factory in Puerto Rico are more interested in perpetual maximum sales than in the effects their pills may have on the people who buy them. The bottom line is that some people have been buying those products with the [...]
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Members of Sen. Jay Rockefeller’s Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee just held the latest in what’s become a series of hand-wringing sessions over the state of print journalism, having apparently discovered about 20 years after the fact that newspapers as a viable medium are dead. Said Jay: The numbers alone tell a chilling story. During [...]
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