i read things
~ Sunday, July 27 ~
~ Friday, July 25 ~
~ Wednesday, July 23 ~
“ The legal definition of torture has been much aired in recent years, and I take “Mamma Mia!” to be a useful contribution to that debate.
“ Political appointees at the Department of Labor are moving with unusual speed to push through in the final months of the Bush administration a rule making it tougher to regulate workers’ on-the-job exposure to chemicals and toxins.
~ Tuesday, July 22 ~
~ Monday, July 21 ~
“ An e-mail sent to the McCain staff by a Times editor said it would be terrific to have an article from McCain but that the one sent in was not acceptable as currently written and that a new draft should articulate how McCain defines victory in Iraq.
~ Saturday, July 19 ~
~ Wednesday, July 16 ~
“ While there wasn’t an increase in naked short selling ahead of the emergency action, Mr. Cox said the move was “prophylactic” to “remove tools of mischief so that markets can operate efficiently.
~ Tuesday, July 15 ~
“ I readily concede it won’t produce a barrel of oil tomorrow, but it will reverse the psychology,” Bush told a White House news conference — his first since late April.
— Doesn’t it only work pscyhologically if we don’t know that’s why you’re doing it? AP
“ Every year, after the AL manager addresses his team, Ichiro bursts from his locker, a bundle of kinetic energy, and proceeds, in English, to disparage the National League with an H-bomb of F-bombs, stunning first-timers who had no idea Ichiro speaks the queen’s language fluently and making returnees happy that they had played well enough to see the pep talk again.
“ A-Rod was hosting a party at the club, and TMZ says the DJ played Madonna and that security “swept the crapper of people, even pulling one guy from a stall” before A-Rod used the bathroom.
~ Monday, July 14 ~
“ I’ll tell you one thing,” said the 21-year-old concrete worker during his lunch break at The Brick of St. Louis bar, in the shadow of this city’s storied Anheuser-Busch Cos. brewery, “if Budweiser is made by a different country, I don’t drink Budweiser anymore. I’ll go back to Wild Turkey.” (Wild Turkey, a Kentucky bourbon, is owned by French drinks giant Pernod Ricard SA.)
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