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Morning

A 38K handbag is just crazy, and trust me I'm a bag hag. I have problems justifying spending 100 on a purse and I only have 1 of those (though I'm considering a nice new leather Fossil bag)

Agreed about the price, but there are people that are more outraged over a billionaire being told they can't look at a handbag than say:

Yesterday's blog pointing out how many Americans have died from guns.

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Mornin' all..

Raine, I was following up on your suggestion to come up with a good definition of outrage tourist for UD when I remembered something I'd seen in a movie.. not quite the same, but along the same line:

“Outrage discourse” was found in 100% of cable TV episodes, 98.8% of talk radio programs, and 82.8% of blog posts. On average, examples occurred once during every 90 to 100 seconds of political programming on TV and even more often on radio.

The form of outrage discourse used most often was mockery, followed by misrepresentative exaggeration, insulting language and name calling.

While the tactics used by liberal and conservative commentators are largely the same, incidents of outrage were 50% more common in right-leaning media than in left-leaning media.

Direct confrontation (“sparring”) was rare, most likely due to the lack of opposing voices within individual programs.

Syndicated newspaper columnists used outrage discourse much less frequently than other media analyzed, but more frequently compared to columns from 1955 and 1975.

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Hey anyone hear from Liv yesterday? How'd his hearing go?

HE said it is done. HE's just waiting for one loose end to be tied up.

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On of the few things that outrages me is this.

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There is lots to be outraged about, but Oprah and the 38K bag isn't one of them. If you are outraged at everything, then you might be an outrage tourist. Just sayin...

I also believe thta if you allow oneself to be led by the nose at the outrage dujour, that is a problem.

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Yes, Mr I have a compromised immune system from chemo, you have

Actually, it's a "Typhoid Mary" kind of thing. With Mrs. TriSec working for another school, and my taking on a new Scout unit, I will be exposed to kids from 5 elementary schools plus the middle school in town. I think I need a somewhat stronger defence this year.

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You want to see an excellent timeline (detailed) about the outrage that is being created? Scoop, I think you will really appreciate this.

It coordinated. This Foundation was created in 2012.

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So now, as we head down the stretch, the worst team in baseball is starting to give cause for optimism.

But I also know how the baseball gods operate...by merely thinking this, the Sux are poised to go on a 15-game losing streak, and Big Papi will be the next name on the PED scandal list, but I digress.

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You know, It was Walter Pincus Who was trying very hard to debunk the bullshit WMD argument that lead us into the Iraq war.

And Sadly -- at the time it was Greenwald who initially supported the war. Reading the entire peice (from APRIL, before the snowden mess) is pretty good, but they quote from one of his books:

I had not abandoned my trust in the Bush administration. Between the president’s performance in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the swift removal of the Taliban in Afghanistan, and the fact that I wanted the president to succeed, because my loyalty is to my country and he was the leader of my country, I still gave the administration the benefit of the doubt. I believed then that the president was entitled to have his national security judgment deferred to, and to the extent that I was able to develop a definitive view, I accepted his judgment that American security really would be enhanced by the invasion of this sovereign country.

That Greenwald would attack Pincus and call him a liar is just entirely smelly to me. Greenwald went from politically apathetic (his words) to radical in a few years.

I don't like what is happening here.

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Will, what is your opinion of Catholic schools?

The Boston Archdiocese has an extensive network, and if you've only limited your search to the public schools, it may be worth a look.

There's also the Gann Academy you might want to check.

I have applied to a few positions locally and in Boston for the Catholic Schools. Generally, they do have a good reputation. I just checked Gann Academy but no openings. (I applied to Moses Maimonides in Brookline last week.)

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you know, I don't want to have to let the bar get so low, but is i really wrong to ask that possible candidate's for President of the United States actually KNOW what the executive branch does?

Seriously, maybe Schoolhouse Rock should be part of every elected officials initial orientation. Case in Point: Rand Paul.

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Randi is on vacay next week. Costa Rica.

One of these days, she'll meet Stan -- he goes there a few times a year as well. It would be fun to watch a conversation between Randi and Stan.

I suspect it would be a lot like a conversation between me and Stan.

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Ugh... all the Tebowdiots are going nuts over this news.