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One of the stranger things I've read from the NYT....

I remember September 11th, 2001 like it was yesterday. The despair, the grief, everything. I remember it. The sheer evil it took to do what was done was mind-numbing and the best summation of the term "crazy" that I've ever seen. But as we sit here, embroiled in two wars, 7 years later, I find myself wondering who is/was really more evil. Our government or the terrorists? For me, the loss of civil liberties, the death and destruction through war, the loss of our international standing are all crimes of...

From the Washington Post: 4. Warren asked: Define rich. I mean, give me a number. Is it $50,000, $100,000, $200,000? Everybody keeps talking about, 'Well, we're going to tax the rich.' How do you define that?" Give me a number? An odd question for anyone other than a tax attorney to ask. Are we talking $50,000 in Southern California or Southern Sudan? Rich for people who spend hundreds of millions running for public office or rich for people who work three jobs and can't afford health insurance? A better question:...

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Big ups to the future Mr. and Mrs. Hoover who were engaged last night. Wedding on Nov 1st in Burbank. Very happy for these guys; I'm pretty sure that the first time he mentioned her, I said "you're going to marry her." He probably said "pssh" or something like that. I do remember there was some serious concern early on that she didn't like cigars. We were very worried....

Just goes to show that there is some humanity... Just before noon on July 13, 2005, a Plant City police car pulled up outside that shattered window. Two officers went into the house — and one stumbled back out. Clutching his stomach, the rookie retched in the weeds. Plant City Detective Mark Holste had been on the force for 18 years when he and his young partner were sent to the house on Old Sydney Road to stand by during a child abuse investigation. Someone had finally called the police....

A lot of people love Southern California. I am not one of them; maybe it's that I'm really only ever there for work or maybe it's the frequency of visits I've made there over the past six weeks. Put simply, it's a desert with a coastline and a lot of smog and traffic. Pros, however, include getting to the see Team Hoov/Hawk regularly, the DoubleTree warm-check-in cookie in Monrovia and the fact that the cheapest rental car happens to always be a convertible. Also, I've been frequenting a chophouse where...

Mostly, I read the NY Times. Besides having a great breadth of topics, the care and detail of their subjects is just unmatched by anything else I've read. Story after story are written so poignantly, and most often, about a subject I'd never have considered. In this one, I can see and feel for both sides. Nobody wins. Eight years ago, Mr. Jiménez, 35, an illegal immigrant working as a gardener in Stuart, Fla., suffered devastating injuries in a car crash with a drunken Floridian. A community hospital saved his...