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Enjoy the articles.

Algerian Tells of Dark Odyssey in U.S. Hands

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North Korea Rejects Protests on Missile Firings

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Avian Flu Tends to Kill Youths as in 1918 Wave, Study Finds

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The Lonely American Just Got a Bit Lonelier

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Cheery stuff, eh?

On sperm/egg donor privacy

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It's so stupid. Obviously, if both donor and donee (or donor's donated kids) want to meet, or not be so private, it should be allowed.

Oh, hey, it's by Amy Harmon. Dear God. It seems like every other article I really like turns out to be by her. I'm turning into a fangirl. So embarassing.

NY is pushing for better food options in poorer neighborhoods.

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Transit workers reject deal that ended strike. Well, fuck.

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Loosely on threats to media in Iraq

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On illegal spying, and Democrats, and... gah.

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On raw food for pets

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War: What is it good for?

Giving us time off of work. *nodnodnod*

Hey, if you don't laugh, you have to cry, and that just sucks.

Lazy, y'know?

"An Army of No One"
"Google's Bias for Bigness"
An article on unions
One on groups working to expose Exxon's bad behaviour.
A woman in jail for, she claims, criticizing the Patriot Act
Trees: Nature's Terrorists
An article on Special Interest Groups
An article on polls
An article on O'Conner's replacement
Voldemart and contraception.

One aboug flag worship.

Now, longtime readers of my journal know what I think about the Pledge of Allegience. Indeed, I suspect that I'll have to type up a whole new rant about it soon. Non-longtime readers of my journal can probably guess my general feelings on the subject just based on context, even if they don't know the specifics.

Let's have a new rant for a short time. Most people who support laws or constitutional amendments about the treatment of the flag think of themselves as patriotic Americans. So patriotic, in fact, that they hold a symbol, a flag, in higher regard than one of the basic tenets of American society - the right to freedom of expression. Except, I've noticed something about many of these people. They display their flag proudly - And go out of their way to violate the flag code as they do it. You know, that thing which outlines the proper and respectful way to handle a flag. They let the flag touch the ground. They keep it up all day, every day, unlit at night. They keep it up in all weather, and when it finally becomes so tattered and torn that even they realize it can't be recognized as a flag anymore - they toss it in the trash! (The proper way to dispose of a flag is, of course, to burn it. Or possibly to bury it, but I love telling people that good Americans burn flags.) Oh, and they do a bunch of other things.

I myself think of the flag as a simple symbol when I'm in a good mood and a waste of cloth when I'm not, but I'm not the one being a hypocrite here.

Okay, that rant was random. But man, it pisses me off sometimes.

There's also an article about Iraq.

And one about a PBS documentary on how a kid turns from being very conservative to... well, go read. This is why they want to remove funding from PBS, you know.

One on Iraq. Operation Dagger, Operation Spear, who comes up with these names?
One on the absolutely implausible WMD claims.
One about Marines having to buy their own equipment.
One about lies from the government. I know people have short attention spans, but do they really think we'll believe they said we'd be in Iraq for years?
One on the illegality of British bombing raids.
One vaguely related to That Memo.
More on lies and Iraq.
And another one on The Infamous Memo.

And two from the NYTimes:

One on our descent into theocracy-ville.

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And one on the fact that people don't want to fight in this war - and that the vast amount of parents who still support the war are against their children fighting. Frakkin' hypocrites.

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