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For my rompah lovahs! The auction ends in 28 hrs, and it’s still only $9.99.
Or perhaps this full-length one?
![Just what I don’t need: I’ve stumbled upon an awesome ebay store, Time’s Up Vintage. Based out of Amsterdam, of course. (All good things come from A’dam, including the elephant [tattoo] that’s always got my back.)
Love the subtly sexy dress above, and the festive skirt below, and this sunny, easy dress. And plenty more besides….](http://media.tumblr.com/zkfIIODV5bt40d5aF0QlDYHu_r1_400.jpg)
Just what I don’t need: I’ve stumbled upon an awesome ebay store, Time’s Up Vintage. Based out of Amsterdam, of course. (All good things come from A’dam, including the elephant [tattoo] that’s always got my back.)
Love the subtly sexy dress above, and the festive skirt below, and this sunny, easy dress. And plenty more besides….
Guess who just got offered a FREE TICKET to the SPRINGSTEEN show at Giants Stadium!
Hint: IT’S ME!!!!!!!
No sketchy Craigslist ad required.
Thanks, Katie, you done made my month!
“China Presses Hush Money on Grieving Parents” (NYT)
After his daughter died when her high school collapsed in the May 12th earthquake, Yu Tingyun began organizing other grieving parents. He was looking for answers about the construction of the school. What he got was a police interrogation and a pay-off:
In exchange for his silence and for affirming that the ruling Communist Party “mobilized society to help us,” he would get a cash payment and a pension.
Why did McCain cancel his planned trip to New Orleans — and his visit to an offshore oil rig?*
Sure, the weather forecast isn’t sunny — it’s partially cloudy with a 20% chance of thunderstorms, and there’s a hurricane in a neighboring state — but the real reason seems to be that oil spills do not make for good photo ops.
An oil tanker and barge collided on the Mississippi yesterday, leaking hundreds of thousands of gallons of heavy fuel oil. The NYT reports that “the accident had nothing to do with the safety of oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico,” but it sure doesn’t look good when your planned message is about the environmental safety of offshore drilling.
*Lord knows he needs the press coverage. Later today, his opponent, a mere American presidential candidate, is expected to draw a crowd of 100,000 in Berlin — frankly astounding and, I am certain, unprecedented.
I could also be into this one.
Hint hint hint HINT!!! My bday is (slowly) approaching….
This Time story, the second most e-mailed, was published last Thursday.
Dudes is dumb. Dudes’ dicks is double dumb.
I took the Pew News IQ Quiz. Got three questions wrong. Scored a 76%, compared to the national average of 50%.
One of the questions that I got wrong was this… (See if you know the answer, and no peaking below!)
Since the start of military action in Iraq, about how many U.S. military personnel have been killed?
- Around 2,000
- Around 3,000
- Around 4,000
- Around 5,000
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I guessed around 3,000. I guessed too low. It’s around 4,000. How’d you do?
After you complete the quiz, you can look at a question-by-question breakdown of how you compare to the rest of the population. This was the question that most people got wrong — 72%, to be exact. Viewed demographically — no college vs. college grad and across age groups — the rate of incorrect answers was quite consistent. The only marked difference is that men got it right 10% more often than women.
I find this very interesting. It is almost as though the deaths in Iraq have become a blur. I remember well when the death toll reached 2,000. I remember that some newspapers printed thumbnails of every fallen soldier.
Since then, it’s dropped off my radar. And not just mine. What I’d like to find out is if most people also underestimated the number of American lives lost to the war.
Not surprisingly, the question that most people got right — a whopping 84% — is:
What is the name of the talk show host who has campaigned for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama?
So it looks like we can all agree on our priorities, even if they are wrong.
California is doing its part to mitigate rising temperatures in the Artic … without even trying:
Robert Stone of the University of Colorado, Boulder, and colleagues report that wildfire smoke that reaches the Arctic has the net effect of cooling the surface by reducing the amount of sunlight that makes it through.
From Discovery News.