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Ken Layne

March 01, 2010 08:58 AM

Nancy Pelosi says she's got the votes to pass a Health Care Reform bill in the House, but it will be different than the bill the Senate passed last year, so .... move to Canada? [New York Times]

Are you a person who looks at the weather news on your cell phone? Congratulations, you are one of the people doing that. [Wall Street Journal]

The mayor of White Plains, N.Y., is accused of slamming his wife's hand in the car door because she was totally pissing him off. [Lower Hudson Valley]

More than 700 people died in the 8.8 Chile quake. [BBC News]

The Winter Olympics ended with a "mime wearing a tool belt" who beat the shit out of Mitt Romney as Celine Dion sang "O! Canada" to Chile. [CNN]

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Yes, Trump Is Stealing Children. But You Can DO Something.

Send lawyers, lawyers, and money (plenty of guns out there already)

Post-Racial America

Fellow Wonkers, this last week of horror has been wearing on us all, because here we are in a world where the "president" of the United States has ordered that migrant children be taken away from their parents at the border, and is simultaneously proud of it (for his base) and cravenly blaming it on Democrats because even he knows it's morally reprehensible. But what the hell can we do about it, we are all keening, beyond calling our senators and representatives and posting sadness on Twitter, the latter of which is of dubious utility to anyone, and mostly depressing?

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Alan Dershowitz, A Schmuck

CHUTZPAH!

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There are perks to being the only Harvard professor willing to shill for the Bush League Mussolini. Everyone else has to haul ass to the Fox studio and sit for hair and makeup. Not Alan Dershowitz! He just parks his laptop in Pee Wee's playhouse and Skypes in that rant. Is he even wearing pants? We hope never to find out!

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