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Don Knotts passed away earlier today.
The Andy Griffith Show is still one of my favorite TV shows.
Don Knotts, the skinny, lovable nerd who kept generations of television audiences laughing as bumbling Deputy Barney Fife on “The Andy Griffith Show,” has died. He was 81.
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The West Virginia-born actor’s half-century career included seven TV series and more [...]

A friend of mine just started a blog.
Consumption Rules.
Just like the title suggests, it will cover economics, consumer, and business issues, as well as politics and current events.
Check it out.

i got scooped by NPR, but that does not deter me from recommending boomka.org. this is how the site describes itself and it’s mission:

A Danish paper publishes a cartoon that mocks Muslims.
An Iranian paper responds with a Holocaust cartoons contest -
- Now a group of Israelis announce their own anti-Semitic cartoons contest!
Eyal [...]

watch the video at exposetheleft.com. some excerpts:

“Is this type of accidental shooting a type of criminal offense?”
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american and british leaders have said the printing/reprinting of the cartoons of the prophet muhammad goes over the line of good taste. in some sense, i would agree. in my post pissing in our holy water, i called the posting of “gay lds missionary” photos in salt lake city ethnic intimidation. that [...]

Saudi Arabia and Syria have recalled their ambassadors from Copenhagen and Libya has closed its embassy. Qatar condemned the cartoons and Danish products have been the subject of a boycott in some Arab countries.

boycotting danish goods. see, now that’s a perfectly acceptable, civilized response.* but let us not, from this hint of [...]

file this under….not the best way to respond. after some EU papers published cartoons (like the following) which depict the muslim prophet muhammad as the founder of a violent religion (as well as other drawings ostensibly offensive toward islam), there were angry protests in the middle east.

Gunmen surrounded European Union offices in [...]