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When investment banks calculated how to monetize mortgages, they meddled with something beyond money, they meddled with where we live, breath, break bread and raise our children. Yesterday  our attorney general slapped their wrist.

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Many conservatives believe that charities and not tax dollars should provide health care for our poor. But hold on, conservatives also want to deny charitable funds for said poor? WTF

Watch and listen to the frank words of Linda.

Somewhere between the myth and the legend there lived a real man, equally capable of inspiring and disappointing.

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Multi-layered, super absorbent, cleans up nice. We buy our no frills paper towels at Costco. They do the job.

Eli Manning MVP.

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Go Giants

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On Death, Without Exaggeration

It can’t take a joke,
find a star, make a bridge.
It knows nothing about weaving, mining, farming,
building ships, or baking cakes.

In our planning for tomorrow,
it has the final word,
which is always beside the point.

It can’t even get the things done
that are part of its trade:
dig a grave,
make a coffin,
clean up after itself.

Preoccupied with killing,
it does the job awkwardly,
without system or skill.
As though each of us were its first kill.

Oh, it has its triumphs,
but look at its countless defeats,
missed blows,
and repeat attempts!

Sometimes it isn’t strong enough
to swat a fly from the air.
Many are the caterpillars
that have outcrawled it.

All those bulbs, pods,
tentacles, fins, tracheae,
nuptial plumage, and winter fur
show that it has fallen behind
with its halfhearted work.

Ill will won’t help
and even our lending a hand with wars and coups d’etat
is so far not enough.

Hearts beat inside eggs.
Babies’ skeletons grow.
Seeds, hard at work, sprout their first tiny pair of leaves
and sometimes even tall trees fall away.

Whoever claims that it’s omnipotent
is himself living proof
that it’s not.

There’s no life
that couldn’t be immortal
if only for a moment.

Death
always arrives by that very moment too late.

By Wislawa Szymborska

Nobel Prize-winning poet Wislawa Szymborska died from complications with lung cancer. She was 88

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The smooth voiced, groundbreaking host that put the soul in “Soul Train” and brought funk and soul into the living rooms of millions of Americans, including suburban white kids like me, apparently ended his own life. RIP Mr. Cornelius

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It’s looking like Obama vs. Romney