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We read books: let's review them here! Leave your reviews in the comments.

Note: you need not write a long review. Just a few words telling us why you are mentioning the book can be useful. And feel free to stretch the definition of "book" if you like. Read below the fold...

We read books: let's review them here! Leave your reviews in the comments.

Note: you need not write a long review. Just a few words telling us why you are mentioning the book can be useful. And feel free to stretch the definition of "book" if you like. Read below the fold...

Joyeux anniversaire de Serge Gainsbourg! Read below the fold...

When a social movement adopts the compromises of its legislators, it has forgotten its role, which is to push and challenge the politicians, not to fall in meekly behind them. The mantra "the best that we can get" is a recipe for corruption. We are not politicians, but citizens. We have no office to hold on to, only our consciences.

- Howard Zinn (1922-2010)
writing in The Progressive, May 2007 Read below the fold...

We read books: let's review them here! Leave your reviews in the comments.

Note: you need not write a long review. Just a few words telling us why you are mentioning the book can be useful. And feel free to stretch the definition of "book" if you like. Read below the fold...

We read books: let's review them here! Leave your reviews in the comments.

Note: you need not write a long review. Just a few words telling us why you are mentioning the book can be useful. And feel free to stretch the definition of "book" if you like.

Sorry to "post and run" the past few weeks: I am insanely busy, actually at a conference as I post this today, but I've actually read a few interesting books (on the subway trips, mostly!) which I have no time to write about, so I'll mention: Read below the fold...

Traveling home on the subway today, I idly glanced through A copy of the NY Post another straphanger had left behind. In case you don't know, that is NYC's Murdoch outlet.

And what a bizarro world I entered. Here is [columnist?] [journalist?] Charles Hurt's "Inside Washington" for today:

Essentially powerless to stop the Democratic health-care plan from getting rammed through Congress, the Republicans have settled on a strategy of making little fixes where they can and causing enormous discomfort for vulnerable Democrats in conservative districts.

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We read books: let's review them here! Leave your reviews in the comments.

Note: you need not write a long review. Just a few words telling us why you are mentioning the book can be useful. And feel free to stretch the definition of "book" if you like. Read below the fold...

And of course, there's a Tiger Woods connection. You can't make this stuff up.

From Tyler Durden at Zero Hedge:

Golf Resort Linked To Tiger's Apology Files For Bankruptcy, Goldman Implicated (No, Seriously)

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Mark Thoma has two must-read articles up on the subject of the economic benefits of Unemployment Compensation and why extending benefits is an effective form of economic stimulus*.

Blogging at MoneyWatch, he gives a clear explanation of the multiplier effect of UC which can lead to job growth: Read below the fold...

We read books: let's review them here! Leave your reviews in the comments.

Note: you need not write a long review. Just a few words telling us why you are mentioning the book can be useful. And feel free to stretch the definition of "book" if you like. Read below the fold...

Once upon a time, in a land far away. a land where women were on the verge of attaining full humanity:

someone did a study.

And I so hate it when people refer to vague studies that someone or other did, maybe or maybe not, that I'm counting on you, dear friends. Read below the fold...

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Because you are starting your garden for this year, aren't you? Read below the fold...

We read books: let's review them here! Leave your reviews in the comments.

Note: you need not write a long review. Just a few words telling us why you are mentioning the book can be useful. And feel free to stretch the definition of "book" if you like. Read below the fold...