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The weekend roundup: the end is near
“It’s Barack Obama’s party now.”
So led the AP yesterday. It’s been a challenge to sort through this mess. Everyone tip-toeing around the slim prospect of Hillary somehow, someway stealing what Obama wrapped up mathematically at least a month ago. Even though he has been reluctant to say anything definitive, his actions have spoken louder than [...]
Boys and their games
If you’ve ever watched The Wire, you have an appreciation for how it brilliantly characterizes the actions of entire organizations as the whims of a few men in power. Even in a fictionalized world imbued with caricature to prove a point, it’s still frightening to see back-scratching and petty power struggles between city officials [...]
‘we’re in jail, dude’
Via BBC via Murdoch’s Sun, a British tabloid. Surprising how long it took for this to break, but ol’ Rupes is just that kind of player.
The Sun newspaper says it has obtained the cockpit video at the centre of a row over the “friendly-fire” death of a British soldier in Iraq.
An inquest into the [...]
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