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95. Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)
— Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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Slate Magazine

The best way to make sense of this legal tangle is to mouse over the title of an individual scandal, which will highlight everyone implicated. [Link]

Cyclist Struck, Killed by Garbage Truck - washingtonpost.com

A 22-year-old bicyclist was struck by a garbage truck and killed just north of Dupont Circle today, authorities said. Police and fire vehicles converged on the scene at 20th and R streets NW, snarling Connecticut Avenue traffic during the morning rush. [Link]

Let's Escrow Our Money to Keep Obama Progressive | Democrats.com

We're asking you to put some of the money you plan to give Obama "in escrow" until he demonstrates progressive leadership on the issues we care about, like warrantless wiretapping. [Link]

Think Progress » ACLU: Pentagon made ‘unprecedented’ effort to hide human cost of war.

The report notes that the administration has gone to “unprecedented lengths to control and suppress information about the human cost” of the wars. [Link]

FOXNews.com - NASA Scientist: Put CEOs On Trial for Global-Warming Lies - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News

"We see a tipping point occurring right before our eyes," Hansen said during his appearance at the National Press Club. "The Arctic is the first tipping point and it's occurring exactly the way we said it would." [Link]

Report Sees Illegal Hiring Practices at Justice Department - NYTimes.com

It appeared to confirm for the first time in an official examination many of the allegations from critics who charged that the Justice Department had become overly politicized during the Bush administration. [Link]

Dan Froomkin - General Accuses WH of War Crimes - washingtonpost.com

"After years of disclosures by government investigations, media accounts, and reports from human rights organizations, there is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes. The only question that remains to be ans [Link]

BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | 50 office-speak phrases you love to hate

It gives me a terrible mental image of the whole country linking arms and goose-stepping in unison, with the politicians out in front doing a straight-armed salute. [Link]

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BOULTON: There are those who would say look, lets take Guantanamo Bay, and Abu Ghraib, and rendition and all those things and to them that is the complete opposite of freedom. BUSH: Of course, if you want to slander America. [Link]

Not Our Best and Brightest? :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs

In a subsequent e-mail to the employee, Cargol described himself as “a rub-your-belly, grab-your-balls, give-you-a-hug, slap-your-back, pull-your-dick, squeeze-your-hand, cheek-your-face, and pat-your-thigh kind of guy.” [Link]

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Democracy Now! Radio and TV News [Link]

Daily Kos: The Two Realities

Let's take a look at how the Los Angeles Times covered the new Senate Intelligence Committee report on the claims made as part of selling the Iraq war, and compare it to how the editorial page of the Washington Post, by which I mean Fred Hiatt, sees the e [Link]

Ex-Press Aide Writes That Bush Misled U.S. on Iraq - washingtonpost.com

Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan writes in a new memoir that the Iraq war was sold to the American people with a sophisticated "political propaganda campaign" led by President Bush and aimed at "manipulating sources of public opinion" an [Link]

TPM Election Central | Talking Points Memo | A Sane Discussion Of Hillary And The Popular Vote

Hertzberg's analysis is noteworthy because he appears to be able to allow several ideas to coexist in his head simultaneously, which quite an achievement these days. [Link]

Check Point - The Trouble With June 1992 as a Case for Pressing On - Series - NYTimes.com

That night, George Stephanopoulos, who was then a top aide to Mr. Clinton, declared that it was “mathematically impossible for Brown to get the nomination” — the start of a campaign to declare Mr. Clinton the presumed nominee, even as several other [Link]