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🙁 http://www.good.is/post/the-loneliest-whale-in-the-world/ On their most recent episode of their always-enjoyable Dinner Party Download podcast, American Public Media’s Rico Gagliano and Brendan Newnam featured the story of “a lonely whale with vocal problems whose love song supposedly chases lady whales away.” According to a 2004 New York Times article on the subject, this particular baleen whale Continue Reading

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2011/0225/Wisconsin-GOP-wins-Round-1-over-unions-but-final-victory-still-eludes Horrible…

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/20/chinese-officials-detain-activists-protests Chinese security officials have questioned or detained scores of activists and warned others against staging protests after an online call was made for demonstrations in 13 cities, campaigners said. The message – posted on an overseas website on Saturday – was titled “The jasmine revolution in China”. The swift Continue Reading

http://www.counterpunch.com/zeese02172011.html On Tuesday, February 15th Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave a speech on the importance of Freedom of Speech in the Internet age. She focused her attention on foreign countries and chided them for curtailing the speech of their citizens. During that speech Ray McGovern, a veteran who also Continue Reading