Rosa Parks Originally uploaded by okreitz. It was today in 1955 that Rosa Parks, tired of giving in, stayed seated on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.My how far we have come, and how far we still have to go…

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Mumbai Taj Hotel During Terrorist Attack Originally uploaded by EmploymentCrossing. Jeremy Kahn and Meg Bortin: Counting the Hours in Room 2324.And how do they keep hydrated for 36 hours?As the hours wore on, the men grew hungry and thirsty. Th…

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Screen shot of the status of my MS Communicator contacts today, the day after Thanksgiving. It speaks for itself.

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Leapin’ for Obama Originally uploaded by Delta Niner. Interesting opinion piece by E. J. Dionne, Jr., in the Washington Post titled Obama’s Bush Doctrine. He writes,What’s most striking about Obama’s approach to foreign policy is that he is les…

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The day is done. As I write this, lights are flickering off around the neighborhood, everyone turning in to face tomorrow.

Many of these people enjoyed a Rockwell Thanksgiving today. Roasted turkey and a table overflowing with the bounty of the land. …

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Seaboard Bldg Originally uploaded by Olde Towne Photos. Check out Portsmouth VA Walkabout at flickr. Have pictures of Portsmouth from your own walkabout? Join the group and add to the pool, please.

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Iraqi Killings Originally uploaded by Kier42. I’ve been skipping over the feed from History News Network; buried in a feed folder titled History and current events, I’ve been just wiping out the feeds without reading them. Clearly, that’s been …

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My Lai Massacre Site
Originally uploaded by neilsmith. If Nick Turse’s reporting on A My Lai a Month is close to true, I have to believe that nearly anything is possible. And, if anything was possible 40 years ago, anything is possible today.

H…

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Obama in ‘08! Originally uploaded by therese flanagan. Superb essay by Michael Martin over at Salon. Barack Obama wants you (to spill your secrets): Prospective White House employees must cough up an unprecedented amount of detail about their …

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I use tinyurl, which now offers custom URLs.

I wanted http://www.tinyurl.com/turkeypalin.

It wasn’t available:TinyURL was created!

The custom alias you’ve chosen is not available. We’ve created a random one for you instead, but you can try assigning…

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sailinghdr Originally uploaded by gbyrne2. And not in a good way. Jen McCaffery of the Virginian-Pilot tells us Portsmouth project at Holiday Inn site held back:The developer of the city’s premier piece of riverfront real estate is struggling t…

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The good folks over at Soldiers’ Angels, a non-profit organization, is sponsoring the fourth annual Project Valour-IT, an initiative to provide computer equipment to injured/disabled military members and veterans.AN UNOFFICIAL COAST GUARD BLOG somehow …

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… and is now hanging around my office.

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I shared this video with my parents…

I didn’t pay any attention to what Bacca was wearing. Is it noticeable?

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Moan-etOriginally uploaded by aknacerI continue to be amazed at dinosaur thinking in the workplace. And, no, I’m not talking about my place of employment.I received an email recently from a fellow blogger who has been cut down on her blogging. She’s …

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Telephone Wires Originally uploaded by hyperboreal. From Saul Hansell at the NY Times’ Bits:The biggest expense of offering local phone service is maintaining the wires to each customer’s house (wires which in many cases also carry Internet t…

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This has been one of those weeks…

Last Tuesday, I was headed to New London. My plan was to take the train from Newport News and enjoy ample opportunity to write and think. Of course, the laptop was an integral part of the write part of that.

Too …

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I’ll be on the road today, but you can catch the results here:

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