3 hours ago by George Dougherty

The medical examiner has ruled that the death of Daniel Kerrigan, the father of figure skater Nancy Kerrigan, was a homicide, the Middlesex County district attorney's office said Tuesday. The skater's brother, Mark, was arraigned in January on assault and battery charges in an incident involving his ...

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4 hours ago by Lew

I’m snowed in with work today (as I was yesterday), hence lack of commentary on the speeches and such. But thanks to Simon Sweetman, I know that the mighty Gil Scott-Heron has released his first album in a decade and a half, titled I’m New Here. And it’s good. The Guardian is streaming the whole [.. ...

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6 hours ago by llcall

I never thought that I would be a blogger. I was a little slow coming to the internet in general. Not that it existed in my most formative years, but still I resisted its place in my life for quite some time. I remember the first time I heard the word blog was in early 2005. I remember because I wro ...

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6 hours ago by mdraughn

A few days ago, Rachel Humphrey Fleet started a blog called The Compelling Brief Blog, which was apparently going to be all about writing legal briefs. Her first post was called "Tweeting the Judge: How Legal Writing is Like Social Media." (For the moment, it's available in the Google cache here.) T ...

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7 hours ago by missycheerio

Good day folks. First and foremost, I am feeling so happy that I can’t sleep right now although its almost 4 am in the morning. Its like things have just somehow blossomed and escalated to something which I’d never imagine,just when you thought that there’s no chance in hell we could dive in any dee ...

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8 hours ago by Werner Patels

If you’ve been to any of my web properties (e.g., www.WernerPatels.com or www.VoxNewsMagazine.com), you’ll have noticed that comments are now moderated across the board. If you look again, you’ll also see that I don’t withhold any comments (even those posted by lefties!). The reason why I switched t ...

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9 hours ago by Werner Patels

I’ve been mad as hell in recent weeks (if not months). To me, it’s felt as if common sense had been tossed into the garbage by the majority of people out there – not only in Canada, but in the US and everywhere else. On the one hand, we’ve been hearing nonsense about how capitalism is “dead” (with t ...

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9 hours ago by Raul

photo credit: CarbonNYC I have lived in an English speaking country for more than a third of my life. Thus, I have managed to speak the language fluently. In fact, I teach, publish research and write in English even much more than I do in my own mother tongue (Spanish). To me, English is even someti ...

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9 hours ago by Colleen Claes

Thanks to the internetz (the “z” is for ironic geeky effect, you see), the general public can now “connect” with celebrities via sites like Twitter and personal blogs. Both of these social networking tools have become almost vital for any modern-day famous person. And we can’t get enough of it. Thou ...

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10 hours ago by raincoatoptimism

Instead of being productive and while nursing an unceasing hangover I’ve been reading: Michael Ezra’s take on the Westminster Skeptics piss-up last night Mostly agreeing with the Pied Typer on market research Interested in Dave’s article on Sikh daggers, but also the comments thread on this one A re ...

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