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“Your favorite public broadcasting network, NPR, is looking for someone to record their “this… is NPR” voiceover show closers, “support for this...”
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The Happy End title refers directly to there being no fatalities, but he also sees it as “happy end” for the planes themselves. They’ve found a...
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We turned the Times blue!
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a forest of ancient graves - Lindholm Høje (c.5th-11th Cent. CE)
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Blurry Marissa Mayr.
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Aqua by Atelier Teee
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The great workplace dilemmas of our time…
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35 posts tagged News
“The sound had come from far away, in the direction of a neighboring town, Mount Airy. The fireworks show there had already started, pre-empting my town’s. Soon I could see both shows simultaneously, and before long a few families on my street fired off a few shells of their own, and I watched in awe until all I saw in the sky were stars. Today, this is what our news culture looks like to consumers: individual bursts of light that appear out of nowhere and disappear just as fast.”
Local media have reported victims of the highway prowlers being drugged, subdued at gun or knife point — even with a live snake in one case — given a sexual stimulant and forced into repeated sex before being dumped on the roadside.
The sperm hunters first surfaced in the local press in 2009 but police have only arrested three women, found with a plastic bag of 31 used condoms in October. The attacks have continued since they were nabbed for allegedly violating 17 men.
The Arizona GOP is spreading dog poop in women’s yards.
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Not really. But I found these two columns had a kind of synergy.
“If false factual statements are unprotected, then the government can prosecute not only the man who tells tall tales of winning the Congressional Medal of Honor, but also the JDater who falsely claims he’s Jewish or the dentist who assures you it won’t hurt a bit,” Kozinski wrote.
From Advancing the Story:
“You already know that prospective employers are looking for journalists with social media skills. The Statesman-Journal in Salem, Oregon, certainly is. Executive Editor Bill Church recently advertised an opening for a “talented reporter with high…
Berlusconi vows to leave “shitty” Italy
In a sign of his frustration at the investigations into his alleged crimes and misdemeanours, Silvio Berlusconi vowed in July to leave Italy, which he described as a “shitty country” that “sickened” him.
The Italian prime minister’s astonishing remarks are contained in the transcript of a telephone conversation secretly recorded by police investigating claims he was being blackmailed about his sex life. (via Berlusconi vows to leave ‘shitty’ Italy in conversation recorded by police | World news | The Guardian)
