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* The Tea Party republicans in Congress are declaring victory over the American people as the sequester they demanded is now in effect. I can't imagine hating my fellow citizens so much that I'd want to do this sort of damage to the US economy and create this sort of job loss in the middle of a world financial crisis, but they are incredibly proud of the human misery they are about to cause and are smugly crowing about how much damage they are doing. Charming. It annoys me that people who hate their country so much get to call themselves "patriot" without any sense of irony.

* "Nine meals from anarchy:" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1024833/Nine-meals-anarchy--Britain-facing-real-food-crisis.html#ixzz2Me0zQSB0

* They think they've cured a baby of AIDS. The baby was born with ADS, and they started giving retrovirals within 30 hours. The treatment stopped at 18 months. At two and a half years, the toddler shows no detectable virus. Pre-natal treatment is better, but this case gives some hope.

* "“So horrific that it’s hard to believe”: Amnesty International launches petition to overturn “disgraceful” flogging sentence:" http://minivannews.com/politics/so-horrific-that-it%E2%80%99s-hard-to-believe-amnesty-international-launches-petition-to-overturn-disgraceful-flogging-sentence-53919

* Police Chief Kevin Murphy apologizes to Rep. John Lewis for the horrible things Montgomery police did to him and others during the civil rights era and thanks him for making the world a better place:

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* "So Cardinal O'Brien is a raging hypocritehttp://www.sparkindarkness.com/2013/03/so-cardinal-obrien-is-raging-hypocrite.html:"

* Stephen Colbert on the Sequester:

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* Lost Scallop Gonads:

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* It look like my ear drum is healing. The cleaned out the gunk in the hopes the anti-biotic will now actually work on the external infection. The super strong anti-biotic pills should clear up the middle ear infections as well as my lungs. I can actually notice improvement from one hour to the next.

I still feel like crap, but it's a better class of crap.

I ordered a cab for more than enough time early as the appointment was in the middle of poor Squirrel's sleep cycle and if I'm too dizzy to sleep there is no way I'm fit to drive. They never sent the cab and the lines to the cab company were jammed. Of course. I ended up having to wake poor Squirrel after all. He was kind enough to let me stop at Haggens to get fresh fruit, yoghurt, juice, and ready meals.

* "Evolution of Vietnamese Clothing (and Ao Dai):" http://lilsuika.deviantart.com/art/Evolution-of-Vietnamese-Clothing-and-Ao-Dai-287945386

* "Bid to save mural art for the people:" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21628083

* Brain Food Review of Tulpa or Annie and Me

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* "Underworld saint becoming more popular in US:" http://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Underworld-saint-becoming-more-popular-in-US-4325619.php#photo-4278665

* Dr. Seuss Cake: http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2013/3/3/sunday-sweets-a-dr-seuss-celebration.html

* "Grand Canyon Star Trails:" http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130303.html

* One Day More on Ebay:

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* Hugo Chávez has died. It's not unexpected given the severity of his illness. I struggled to find something clever to say, some way to explain his importance and the controversies surrounding him, but I am still pathogen dulled, so I'm giving you the quite intelligent conversation on him with Eugene Robinson from the Maddow show.

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* In the Maldives, they have arrested deposed President Nasheed and are dissolving eleven political parties over the veto of the current president.

* Explain to me again why we are subsidizing an industry that made 171% profit last year? Couldn't we take the money we are wasting on subsidizing big oil and do something useful with it like ending child hunger or free pre-K for all?

* Melissa Harris-Perry breaks down why a sexualized attack on a nine year old black girl isn't funny to people who still don' get it.:

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* Where are the white feminists when young black girls are under fire?

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* I miss Anne Richards, Damnit:

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* I remain skeptical, but there is a theory about prehistoric depictions of women in statues being floated: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2013/02/seeking-meaning-in-the-earliest-.html?rss=1

* "Polish archaeologists working in Sudan have found remains of human settlements that appear to date back as far as 70,000 years.:" http://www.thenews.pl/1/10/Artykul/127828%2CPolish-archaeologists-in-Sudan-claim-unique-human-settlement-discovery

* A previously unknown Arabian Peninsula culture may have domesticated the first horses: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21538969

* "Ancient Shoes Turn Up in Egypt Temple:" http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/ancient-shoes-turn-up-in-egypt-temple-130227.htm

* This article's exuberance fills me with doubt, but the find is interesting. "Temple of 'Jupiter the Stayer' found." http://www.gazzettadelsud.it/news/english/36543/Temple-of--Jupiter-the-Stayer--found.html

* "Sasanian palatial house discovered in Lorestan:" http://www.cais-soas.com/news/index.php/component/content/article/65/371-sasanian-palatial-house-discovered-in-lorestan

* Roman Diet and Social class: http://www.livescience.com/27569-ancient-romans-ate-millet.html

* "Eros mosaic found in southern Turkish city:" http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/eros-mosaic-found-in-southern-turkish-city.aspx?pageID=238&nID=41523&NewsCatID=375

* "Researchers uncover earliest tobacco use in the Pacific Northwest:" http://phys.org/news/2013-03-uncover-earliest-tobacco-pacific-northwest.html

* "Richard the Lionheart's mummified heart analyzed:" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21609783

* Alas, the cupboard did not lead to Narnia. "Canons Ashby 'masonic' chamber discovered after 400 years:" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-21577807

* Stephen Colbert looks at the Texas Gun Training Bill & Free Shotgun Experiment. I love him trying to apply the scientific method to the "experiment.":

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* Only fourteen people were killed in the election in Kenya. While it is certainly horrible that anyone died, given the violence in the lead up to the election and the over a thousand who died in the previous one, this is a huge improvement. There are questions about fairness as a large number of votes are being rejected. Still, turn out was high, and again, the death toll is much lower than they thought it might be. They were still counting last I checked, so I can't give you a winner.

* "Republicans who didn't vote for Violence Against Women Act say they did anyway because why not?:" http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/03/04/1191486/-Republicans-who-didn-t-vote-for-Violence-Against-Women-Act-say-they-did-anyway-because-why-not?showAll=yes#

* Climate change is projected to make the North west passage a reality. "Ships to sail directly over the north pole by 2050, scientists say:" http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/04/ships-sail-north-pole-2050

* "'I am one of the Fukushima fifty':" http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/i-am-one-of-the-fukushima-fifty-one-of-the-men-who-risked-their-lives-to-prevent-a-catastrophe-shares-his-story-8517394.html

* "African forest elephants decline by 62% in 10 years:" http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/21655613

* "11 pre-Hispanic bodies found at Peru sports center:" http://phys.org/news/2013-02-pre-hispanic-bodies-peru-sports-center.html

* "The real witch hunters: Hopkins and Stearne:" http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/0/21548716

* Cultural Appropriation and the Harlem Shake:

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* My sister was attacked on separate occasions by seagulls, swans, and geese before she was five. It sounds funny, but trust me it was terrifying not only to her, but to my mother and I as we rushed to rescue her as it was happening. There's a reason geese were used as an alarm system all over Europe for thousands of years. When they spot an intruder, they make loud noises and attack. Don't fuck with geese, Man.

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* Ballots of the Southern Wild:

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* "Good Faith:" http://www.sparkindarkness.com/2013/03/good-faith.html

* "Growing Up Lesbian in Evangelical America:" http://www.patheos.com/blogs/lovejoyfeminism/2013/02/staying-in-growing-up-lesbian-in-evangelical-america.html

* It looks like a gender neutral pronoun may be developing outside of non-binary circles. "Yo as a Pronoun:" http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-yo-pronoun.aspx

* My hearing is still borked on my left side, what little I pick up drowned in static, but my right ear is mostly working and it's expected I'll get most of my hearing back. I'm still icky, but still on the upward trend.

* While this was written in reference to the just released Midnight Blue-Light Special, it's an excellent set of directions for how to support a book/author you like in an era when publishers don't advertise for books/authors like they used to. "Happy bookday to me, happy bookday to me..." http://seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com/499545.html

* "The not-so-slight return of Jimi Hendrix:" http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/04/showbiz/music/jimi-hendrix-new-album-people-hell-angels/

* Inappropriate Cake: http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2013/3/5/faulty-towers.html

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* Hugo Chávez has died. It's not unexpected given the severity of his illness. I struggled to find something clever to say, some way to explain his importance and the controversies surrounding him, but I am still pathogen dulled, so I'm giving you the quite intelligent conversation on him with Eugene Robinson from the Maddow show.

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* In the Maldives, they have arrested deposed President Nasheed and are dissolving eleven political parties over the veto of the current president.

* Explain to me again why we are subsidizing an industry that made 171% profit last year? Couldn't we take the money we are wasting on subsidizing big oil and do something useful with it like ending child hunger or free pre-K for all?

* Melissa Harris-Perry breaks down why a sexualized attack on a nine year old black girl isn't funny to people who still don' get it.:

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* Where are the white feminists when young black girls are under fire?

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* I miss Anne Richards, Damnit:

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* I remain skeptical, but there is a theory about prehistoric depictions of women in statues being floated: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2013/02/seeking-meaning-in-the-earliest-.html?rss=1

* "Polish archaeologists working in Sudan have found remains of human settlements that appear to date back as far as 70,000 years.:" http://www.thenews.pl/1/10/Artykul/127828%2CPolish-archaeologists-in-Sudan-claim-unique-human-settlement-discovery

* A previously unknown Arabian Peninsula culture may have domesticated the first horses: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21538969

* "Ancient Shoes Turn Up in Egypt Temple:" http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/ancient-shoes-turn-up-in-egypt-temple-130227.htm

* This article's exuberance fills me with doubt, but the find is interesting. "Temple of 'Jupiter the Stayer' found." http://www.gazzettadelsud.it/news/english/36543/Temple-of--Jupiter-the-Stayer--found.html

* "Sasanian palatial house discovered in Lorestan:" http://www.cais-soas.com/news/index.php/component/content/article/65/371-sasanian-palatial-house-discovered-in-lorestan

* Roman Diet and Social class: http://www.livescience.com/27569-ancient-romans-ate-millet.html

* "Eros mosaic found in southern Turkish city:" http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/eros-mosaic-found-in-southern-turkish-city.aspx?pageID=238&nID=41523&NewsCatID=375

* "Researchers uncover earliest tobacco use in the Pacific Northwest:" http://phys.org/news/2013-03-uncover-earliest-tobacco-pacific-northwest.html

* "Richard the Lionheart's mummified heart analyzed:" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21609783

* Alas, the cupboard did not lead to Narnia. "Canons Ashby 'masonic' chamber discovered after 400 years:" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-21577807

* Stephen Colbert looks at the Texas Gun Training Bill & Free Shotgun Experiment. I love him trying to apply the scientific method to the "experiment.":

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