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This Day in History
Convicted Nazi war criminal Herman Goering commits suicide behind bars; World War I spy Mata Hari executed; Nikita Khrushchev ousted as Soviet Union’s leader; ‘I Love Lucy’ premieres on TV.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/john_kenneth_galbraith.html
Aleppo hospital bombed again as Assad vows to ‘clean’ city Argentina protests to Britain about military exercises in Falklands Sandy Hook families cannot hold gun company liable in massacre, judge rules Kansas militia members charged in bomb plot targeting Somali immigrants Cardinals see red over Vatican McDonald’s The Great Barrier Reef is under severe stress – but not dead yet
Breakfast Blogs
Friday night soother: Scoop! digby aka heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
The Hubble Telescope Looked 13 Billion Years into the Past This Week Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
This Stupid Election Campaign Ed Walker, emptywheel
The Same Month CBP Missed Tamerlan Tsarnaev, It Was Ramping Up Searches for “Good” Guys emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, enptywheel
Free to be you and me, but not them Dennis Hartley, Hullabaloo
Today In The Tribe That Rubs Shit In Their Hair: Dr. Ben Carson driftglass, at his blog
Armed Intimidators Of Democrats Are The Real Victims Here Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
ven NSA BFF Verizon Thinks Warrantless Location Data Collection May Have Gone Too Far Karl Bode, Techdirt