From Consumerist:
Consumerist’s ongoing lead recall tally has reached 14,431,550 products recalled just for lead in the first 10 months of 2007.
No toys, no problem! I prefer to spend the holidays reading back issues of The Texas Observer on my seaside patio anyway.
From KHOU
An average of over 30 percent of the children tested every [...]
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Max Blumenthal, forever on the front lines of the battle to discredit and embarrass the politically active Christian right, pulls no punches despite talk that the movement is crumbling under fractious leadership in the church, and the state.
That Blumenthal is something else!
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For the scariest sight you’ll see all day, click the permalink.
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KUHF Houston (which has asked us to please start calling it “Houston Public Radio” because, um, it’s just a personal decision that I want you all to respect alright?) reported a snag in plans to turn the Eighth Wonder of the World into a ginormous hotel and convention center. Because Jehova knows how bad H-town [...]
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I can’t believe I’m so bored with presidential debates that I’ve stopped watching or caring about them at all. Even Ron Paul on the Jay Leno Show made me turn off the TV. Ugh.
Apparently last night’s debate was “Attack Hillary” night. I’m kind of sorry I missed that.
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Argentina’s First Lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was elected Argentina’s president on Sunday. That makes her Argentina’s first elected woman president. BBC
As her husband, the outgoing president, stood at her side, she said she would build on his work.
Of course a few articles are comparing her to Hillary but Fernandez de Kirchner said…
“Hillary and I [...]
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We totally forgot to say Happy Birthday! to State Representative Borris Miles. So, consider this our belated condolences. Aging is not pretty.
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