The News Sieve

- Two weeks: After a “mad cow” scare, that’s how long it takes people to go back to buying beef. 
 - To honor your father, who makes a pass at your girlfriend, you might have to kill him. That’s the tribal code among Pushtuns.
- A tourist map of Gotham, including Blackgate Isle, Amusement Mile and [...]

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Made U Look: Ain’t That a Groove

The Apollo Pays Tribute To James Brown

Bobby’s Record Shop,
Harlem’s Oldest Black-Owned Business

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The News Sieve

- The Revolving Door, Chapter MMDXXCII: Gale Norton
- This Land Ain’t Your Land: Who Really Owns the West
- The NRA Comic Book: Real or a Hoax? (”Hurricane Katrina taught American gun owners two essential lessons: 1) Even greater disaster is inevitable 2) when it happens, they’ll take away your guns“)
- Syria’s got nukes, too?
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The News Sieve

- Where the bombs are: The United States’ 10,000 nuclear warheads are located in 18 locations in 12 states and six European countries. If you live anywhere near Bangor, Washington, be careful! That’s where they store more than 2,300 warheads, the highest concentration of nuclear weapons in the world.
- Talk about coming in from the [...]

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Doin’ It to Death

I’ll always remember an afternoon in the late spring of ‘92 or ‘93 when I was walking home from my teaching job in Harlem, heading down 5th Ave and passing a barbershop just up from 125th Street.
There were a few people standing outside, talking and joking.
I looked inside and there was James Brown in a bright red suit, standing [...]

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DC Sex Scandal: Cutler’s ‘Clooney’
Not So Hot, Say His Law Students

The Beltway’s most notorious sex blogger, Jessica Cutler, used to fawn over her favorite lover – former Judiciary Committee counsel Robert Steinbuch – calling him a stud who resembled George Clooney, liked spanking and was “very upfront about sex” and talking dirty.
Well Cutler may be alone in her opinion of his looks – Steinbuch didn’t make [...]

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Pipeline Firm Behind Spill
Faces Stiff Fine for Earlier Accident

Plains All American Pipeline LP, the firm whose pipeline spewed 21,000 gallons of petroleum into the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday, faces stiff fines for a previous accident.
Just three weeks ago, the company filed an 8-K document with the SEC, acknowledging that it could be penalized from $100,000 up to $3.7 million by the EPA [...]

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Hello, Hello…
Is Anybody Out There?

Yes, we’re back… and goddamn if it hasn’t been a long three four five months. (Sure, it’s nice to get paid for work but we just couldn’t stay away from blogging - the energy, the relentless pace, the sweat stains, the bad coffee.)
So, as of now, we will start to creep our way back into [...]

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