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Posted on November 14, 2005 in Roundup

This roundup covers the period of 7 November to 13 November 2005.

Justified fury over the Alito nomination appeared on many blogs. Judy Miller was either fired or left the New York Times. The Dover School Board went down to defeat in two ways: at the polls and in the courtroom. Here in California, we saw AHnold humiliated by the failure of his initiative gambit: will he decide not to run for reelection? And fields of white phosphorus appeared on the plains of Iraq and the skins of its people, suggesting that Bush was no better than the man he deposed.

Among the other choice bits from blogs and the news: a biblical curse generator; Meggido Prison; do aliens have souls?; stealing hairy crabs; vampire bats on the loose; how brain pathways control body weight; supersonic booms as weapons; William Dembski finds new ways to promote Unintelligent Arguing; whale penises and sea monsters; Alberto Fujimoro now arrested; the end of the Bush presidency?; riots in France; a faith-based organization gives up caring for the elderly; bees can solve puzzles; film about schizophrenics angers psychiatrists in India; new award for films on mental illness; naked rainbows; Kansas loses it again; Americans deluded by global warming involvement; spousal notification laws; Diebold prevents Schwartzenegger from voting; Bill Frist likened to a douchebag; blog wars; O’Reilly calls down the wrath of God on San Francisco after citizens vote to prohibit on-campus military recruiting; Robertson threatens Dover with cataclysm (sooner or later); fatal poisoning with antipsychotic drugs; drug kingpin Patrick Arnold indicted; thugs for God; the brain of T-Rex; women who led the way in California; AHnold continues to not keep his promise to public education; Libby covers for Cheney; torture in America; a list of tips for how to act with people who have disabilities; Methodist bishops repent their silence about Iraq; Pope Benedict tells Bush that U.S. presence in Iraq is immoral; Catholic bishops condemn Bush’s treatment of the poor; squandering the “social capital” of the United States; mental trauma widespread in quake zone (but why?); satanic curses; is T.O. Owens schizophrenic or should Dr. Z keep his mouth shut because he isn’t a real doctor?; vacations good for women; being upset leads to more bullying; and health resources for troops and families.

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