Stuff below the fold

Did you hear: The NYTime says that "experts" now approve of fathers...
but notice the "father" hasn't bothered to marry mom? He isn't a real "father", but a boy playing at fatherhood when it suits him...

Scifi writer OrsonScottCard notes that the movie "Where the wild things are" is really about lack of a father in a boy's life...

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They are remaking the series "V"...
those aliens who promise "Change" and enthrall the public and the press...

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Archbishop's editorial to the NYTimes was refused, but the Post has all the gossip...

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The antibiotics linked to birth defects are those used for urine infections:
not the ones we usually use in pregnancy, and the rates are very low.
And urinary tract infections/std's can also cause miscarriage and birth defects..

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First Robert Reich, then Rolling Stone, now the Village Voice: We bailed out the banks, now when do we go after the crooks?
Hmm...Sounds like they listen to Coast ToCoast...
(viaSpengler)

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Tehran24 photo blog says that "Internet filtering removed from Tehran 24 since today morning and website is again accessible for visitors in Iran."
Lovely photos of autumn, go check it out...

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Before the Boxing day Tsunami, there was the Lisbon Earthquake, on AllSaint's day 1755...
(headsup TeaAtTrianon)

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Even the Taliban has computers,
and information that the Pakistanis have found on captured computers is finding information on 911 conspirators.

and when one reads about Afghanistan, remember: the heroin trade is behind a lot of the violence: And a lot of the drugs are going to addicts in Pakistan and Iran...

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Tiny, Morphing, Electricity-Stealing Spy Planes Developed

so if you see something hanging from an electric wire, it may not be a dead kite or a bird, but an AFRL MAV



so kids may be dying for lack of Measles vaccine or two cents worth of WHO Rehydration fluid in their Afghan village, but the bad guys will be zapped efficiently.
(Of course, it's the bad guys who bomb clinics and prevent women from being literate enough to be nurses, but that's another story...sigh).