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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 22, 2013 31 Comments

Amanda Palmer, who grew up in Lexington, MA, is a graduate of Wesleyan University. Two days before the Boston Marathon Bombing, Palmer "performed live at Wesleyan’s Humanity Festival, a one-day musical celebration in solidarity against bigotry, racism and social divisions within a community": In keeping with the...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 22, 2013 8 Comments

I previously have written how I saw Richie Havens live at My Father's Place when I was in high school, at the time we ran several of his songs as Videos of the Day in late January 2012: I saw Richie Havens at My Father’s Place...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 22, 2013 21 Comments

And you thought it was bad here. Via Tim Blair's blog (h/t sdog), an image that ran last Friday morning in the Sydney Morning Herald, as part of a column praising Obama for not  jumping to conclusions as to the source of the bombing, Bomb response refreshingly...

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 22, 2013 34 Comments

No one cares about the skin color of the Boston Marathon Bombers except to push back against people like David Sirota of Salon.com who infamously hoped that a "white American" was responsible, and others in the media and left-blogosphere who were hoping that another Timothy McVeigh-looking person was the perp. I'm...

Posted by David Gerstman on April 22, 2013 4 Comments

1) The red line? Back in December, NBC News reported that Syria had loaded chemical weapons onto planes and was prepared to use them against civilians. Syria prepared to use chemical weapons against own people; military awaits final orders, US officials tell @nbcnews nbcnews.to/RCH3Cz— Breaking News (@BreakingNews)...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 22, 2013 5 Comments

On April 9, 2013, at 9:37 a.m., I ran a post .@TheFix and @FixSean run dubious Thatcher/Palin story, fail to correct about the failure of The Fix blog at The Washington Post, run by Chris Cillizza, to correct a commonly told story about Margaret Thatcher supposedly refusing to...

Posted by A.F. Branco on April 22, 2013 10 Comments

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Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 21, 2013 24 Comments

Maybe the David Sirota Award? "xaxnar" diarist at Daily Kos, April 16, 2013, The Right Wing Media Is Nervous: Charles P. Pierce noted today that the conservative media wing nuts are freaking out over anything or anyone that suggests what happened in Boston at the Marathon just...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 21, 2013 12 Comments

As frequently reported at College Insurrection, pro-life students on campus regularly are accosted by faculty and other students, their displays torn down, their speakers shouted-down, and their requests to be treated as any other student group denied. (language warning) I wonder if Seals and Crofts would be...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 21, 2013 1 Comment

Not really into that Coxexist stuff on campus: Kangaroo courts for men on campus U. Buffalo Prof in profanity-laced tirade against pro-life students Pro-Life Display Vandalized at Slippery Rock University Chapel at Georgetown Vandalized USC student on the prof who called Republicans ‘stupid’ and ‘racist’ But they've taken the first step,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 21, 2013 33 Comments

Surely this could not be actually true. At best "reportedly" true? https://twitter.com/lamblock/status/325390139868205057 But alas, it was: Statement of the Ambassador of the Czech Republic on the Boston terrorist attack 19.04.2013 / 21:27 As many I was deeply shocked by the tragedy that occurred in Boston earlier this month. It was a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 21, 2013 21 Comments

From Janet: Sending you a photo of bumper stickers. I saw this car parked next to a Unitarian church in Boston. : ) ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 20, 2013 14 Comments

Some random tweets I bookmarked this past week. In no particular order. The One who got away: My artist rendering of what the dude would look like without the backward baseball cap. twitter.com/ExJon/status/3…— Jon Gabriel (@ExJon) April 18, 2013 You've lost Mother Jones ...

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