Month: July 2006

Something Stirs South of La Frontera

From the AP President Vicente Fox won’t meet with either of the two candidates who claim to have won Mexico’s presidential race until the nation’s top electoral court has declared a victor, his spokesman said...

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By Their Toppings Ye Shall Know Them

Recently it was reported that Western Union is blocking and/or delaying fund transfers involving parties with certain names.  Money transfers to/from names such as Mohammed and Ahmed have been blocked or delayed on...

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Poverty is a moral issue

(cross-posted at Deny My Freedom and Daily Kos) One of the most important points Al Gore makes about global warming in An Inconvenient Truth is that it is not a political issue; it is a moral issue. To me, this is one of the...

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New York Magazine Gets All Meta

Since all things orange have a way of being of the most intense interest to the BT community despite the protestations of the Kossack Protestants of the Kossack schisms (pie fight, et al), I present to you a thread for the...

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