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- Insane Political Ad Must Be A Joke - Gawker
This campaign ad that's been making the rounds, for Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, is such a complete self-parody that it must be an intentional joke. From the John Wayne voice-over to the longtime lawyers' ridiculous cowboy outfits to the ...
- How Islamists Use Our Tolerance Against Us - PoliGazette
How Islamists Use Our Tolerance Against UsPoliGazette, Netherlands - 1 hour agoThe organisers gave floor space in the exhibition section to the genocidal regime in Sudan (festooned with pictures of happy-looking black Africans) and to ...
- Study: Social Networking Teens Learn 21st Century Skills (TechNewsWorld.com)
University of Minnesota researchers say they have discovered educational benefits of social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook. The same study also found that low-income students are in many ways just as technologically savvy as their counterparts. The university says this goes against what results from previous studies have suggested.
- Library to host TeenSpace program, gaming tournament - Journal Times
Library to host TeenSpace program, gaming tournamentJournal Times, WI - 18 minutes agoWhen Nick Demske, a library staff member who leads poetry events, spoke to a theater class at Case High School, 7345 Washington Ave., students listened. ...
- Black Pride - The Oregonian - OregonLive.com
The Oregonian - OregonLive.comBlack PrideThe Oregonian - OregonLive.com, OR - 4 hours agoPoetry Slam!" The evening will feature an exciting collection of artists from Seattle's Voices Rising and Fire & Ink including the Lamba Literary Award ...
- From blogs to best-sellers Sulekha.com launches Sulekha Book Series - Indian Television
MUMBAI: Sulekha.com, the most popular online community for Indians worldwide, has launched the "Sulekha Book Series", a part of the year round Blogprint initiative, which sees the creative works of Sulekha blogger's appear in print. The Sulekha Book ...
- Wedding bells in future for Jim Tedisco - Times Union
Assemblyman Jim Tedisco's name off the eligible bachelor list. The Republican minority leader is getting hitched -- and he's moving out of Schenec- tady. Tedisco, a Schenec- tady political and sports legend, and Mary Song of Saratoga Springs are ...
- Search narrows for poet believed drowned (KMVT Twin Falls)
Authorities say they are narrowing the search for Idaho poet and kayaker William Studebaker, who is presumed to have drowned along near Yellow Pine.
- Manchester Choral Society presents musical prayer for peace - NewHampshire.com
NewHampshire.comManchester Choral Society presents musical prayer for peaceNewHampshire.com, NH - 20 minutes ago“The Armed Man,” which draws influences from wide-ranging sources, incorporates poetry by Rudyard Kipling, John Dryden, Jonathan Swift and Toge Sankichi and ...
- Hold Steady struggle with consistency (Maneater)
The Hold Steady have always toed a thin line between poetry and novelty.
- Music preview: McMurtry makes every word count - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Pittsburgh Post GazetteMusic preview: McMurtry makes every word countPittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 22 minutes ago"He excites me in a way that very few artists do, both on an emotional level, because I love music, and on an intellectual level, because I love poetry and ...
- 'Worst poet' works sold for ÂŁ6,600 - IC Scotland
A collection of works by the man dubbed "the world's worst poet" has sold for more than ÂŁ6,000 at auction. William McGonagall was a weaver in Dundee who turned his hand to poetry but gained the unwanted label for his uninspiring verse. A collection ...
- Hunt for talent hots up (Gulf Daily News)
EIGHT budding performers have so far been selected from more than 100 hopefuls to take part in the semi-finals of a nationwide talent contest. The event, entitled NescafĹ˝ Show Them What You Got, is now in its fourth week of auditions.
- Pulped fiction - Financial Times
I t is an exclusive little literary club. It meets at a portal between heaven and earth, since some of its members are dead. It meets to weep and chuckle, and sometimes rail and wail, over chance, fate and the movies. You probably won’t have heard ...
- THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLY - Urbanite Baltimore
THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLYUrbanite Baltimore, MD - 4 hours agoFacets of his story rhyme all too often with the fatalistic poetry of other inner-city lives. Eric’s father, an ex-convict, was never on the scene—“a ...
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