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Karl Rove on Obama and the "pemanent campaign."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052970203863204574346512956227346.html

Team Obama is suffering from Extended Campaign Syndrome. In an election, campaign staffers are often just trying to survive until the next week or the next primary. They cut corners because they are fatigued or under pressure.They can be purposely combative and even portray critics as enemies.

Carrying this mindset into the White House can get you into trouble, a lesson the Obama administration is now learning the hard way.

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Obama's "Tone-Deaf" Health Reform Campaign

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052970204251404574342653428074782.html

 

Yes, the politics is tremendously polarized and the right is not fighting fairly. But replies of Naziism don't help the liberals and, as the numbers show, biting off big issues is having the expected effect on Obama's approval ratings.  As Dorothy Rabinowitz wrtites in the Wall Street Journal:

It didn’t take chaotic town-hall meetings, raging demonstrators and consequent brooding in various sectors of the media to bring home the truth that the campaign for a health-care bill is, to put it mildly, not going awfully well. It’s not hard now to envision the state of this crusade with just a month or two more of diligent management by the Obama team—think train wreck. It may one day be otherwise in the more perfect world of universal coverage, but for now disabilities like the tone deafness that afflicts this administration from the top down are uninsurable

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CVS fined $$ millions for trashing (not shredding) pharmacy receipts. Seriously.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123497514917413083.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

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Nophobe. Beta blockers erase repressed fears.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,493244,00.html

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High heels improve sex life. Ah, girls only.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7225828.stm

heels

Judging only by the number of page views, "sex" is by far the most popular category on this site! ;-)

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OMG, Facebook is like so way depressing.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10153941-71.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

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All the main food groups but defintely not for vegans. The "bacon explosion."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/dining/28bacon.html?_r=1

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Penile fracture is real, Dr. Sloan.

http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/health/2009/01/23/2009-01-23_the_medical_facts_behind_dr_sloans_penil.html

Cecil Adams from The Straight Dope added some rather humorous examples almost a year before last week's Grey's Anatomy episode.  But really, breaking the jewels is just NO laughing matter.

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I'm looking for a high-oestradiol woman (NOT).

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24913504-23109,00.html

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Take a nap and protect your heart.

http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/health/1349875,CST-NWS-sleep26.article

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