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I don’t have anything really snarky to say, today.  I’m plotting my post for tomorrow (specially Halloween edition) and so all the really cool stuff I could say about today’s post pretty much ended up on the cutting room floor.  So, take today’s Ten Post Round-Up with a grain of salt and your morning

"There are few things that make political coverage more unbearable — and more distorting — than The David Brooks Syndrome: the extremely patronizing and ill-informed pretense, shared by media and right-wing elites alike, that they can study the Little Common People like... read more

By Jonathan Kimak An artist from the Netherlands named Joep van Lieshout has created a giant skull dubbed the Sensory Deprivation Skull. The skull allows you to go inside and shut the rest of the world out. No sight and no sound, just you and your thoughts.

[The following, written by Synthesis weekly columnist Julia Murphy, appeared in the Synthesis Weekly on Monday, June 2nd, 2008. Julia can be reached at ninjatreehugger@gmail.com.] Addiction, The Economy, And Environmentalism, Part II From the Secretary General of the United Nations on World Environment Day of this year: “Addiction is a terrible thing.

Gas Prices Send Surge of Riders to Mass Transit DENVER — With the price of gas approaching $4 a gallon, more commuters are abandoning their cars and taking the train or bus instead. Kevin Moloney Mass transit systems around the country are seeing standing-room-only crowds on bus lines where seats were once easy to come by.

Want to read all about the Salt books on the Frank O'Connor long list - an astounding eight story collections, including my own, Balancing on the Edge of the World? Then go to the The Salt Frank O'Connor Prize Blog, where you can also read and watch interviews with the authors, hear clips from their

Here is a comment I made in response to Halpin’s latest post. I did some thinking on the Great Commission today. There are four commands Jesus gives His disciples. 1. Go 2. Make disciples 3. Baptize them 4. Teach them There is no sinners prayer found in this context.

As the presumptive candidate for the Republican nomination, the time has come to ask the question At first glance this article may not appear to be concerned with US politics. However Senator John McCain does get a mention eventually.