davidl on December 14th, 2011

From the BBC:

A Saudi woman has been executed for practising “witchcraft and sorcery”, the country’s interior ministry says.

A statement published by the state news agency said Amina bint Abdul Halim bin Salem Nasser was beheaded on Monday

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davidl on May 19th, 2010

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STFU Arlen,from Andy Barr, Politico:

As voters considered his fate throughout Pennsylvania, Sen. Arlen Specter warned on Tuesday that without him Democrats may not be able to fend off a tea party “takeover.”

We, the American people, can

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/17/business/media/17coupon.html?pagewanted=all

From the article:
And all that information follows that customer into the mall. For example, if a man walks into a Filene’s Basement to buy a suit for his wedding and shows a coupon he retrieved online, the company’s

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Eric Florack on April 1st, 2010

Welcome, one at all, to the most intense nightly raid anywhere on the web … The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble

For those who didn’t see it on Facebook, I passed the driving test for my new employer.I’m fairly excited about it

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davidl on February 20th, 2010

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International Atomic Energy Agency pulls head out.  There as been a change at at the head of the IAEA.  Wereas the old head, Mohamed ElBaradei, had his head buried whee ithe Sun never shines nad by the way is

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Eric Florack on January 23rd, 2010

Dodd Harris over at OTB makes the excellent point that:

At the core, corporations are just human constructs. We invented them to further our own purposes. They exist as concepts rather than physical objects, but have no more or less

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