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Monday July 06, 2009 · 10:19 AM PDT

2009/07/06 · 10:19

There's been a lot of chatter and speculation on the fate of Sarah Palin, why she resigned, and generally a lot of "What the hell is going on?" discussions. In a short post on the subject, Josh Marshall at TPM pointed out something caught by one of his readers in an op/ed at foxnews.com:

"She should also lead the nation's mothers to oppose mandating replacement of incandescent light bulbs with the new mercury poison gas bulbs."

In an otherwise unsurprising op/ed about how smart and awesome Sarah Palin is, Peter Ferrara's one-off comment about "poison gas bulbs" left me flabbergasted. Is there a conservative anger toward CFLs? I guess if you don't believe in global warming and think that CO2 can't be bad for you because it's "a natural byproduct of nature!" then I suppose you might not like a mandate for CFLs. In the reality based world, however, the potential benefits are immense.

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Wednesday May 27, 2009 · 1:20 PM PDT

2009/05/27 · 13:20

Talking Points Memo is reporting that Democratic Congressman Joe Sestak will challenge Republican-cum-Democrat Arlen Specter in the Pennsylvania Senate Primary. TPM has very few details at this point other than that Sestak is planning a run. Regardless of the final outcome, Pennsylvania's Democratic voters will be getting the opportunity to choose a strong candidate who was a Democrat without needing a poll to push him into the party.

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I just posted this to get the info out there, as I'm at work and haven't the time to get into it properly. Someone with more time please take a deeper look at this for a proper diary.

Update: TomP has a more detailed look at the news and what it could mean here.

On torture, robbery, murder, and a gallon of milk.

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Wednesday May 13, 2009 · 2:10 PM PDT

2009/05/13 · 14:10

My first post on Daily Kos, hopefully, a decent one.

As pointed out in the Midday Open Thread post from today, there's been a continuing discussion on whether or not torture works. I have a hard time believing that this is the discussion we're having, as opposed to, oh, say, who committed torture, who authorized it, who's going to be punished for it, and things like that.

I went through what Einstein used to call a "thought experiment" today on the subject:

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On torture, robbery, murder, and a gallon of milk.