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Cue Lee Greenwood – TalkLeft picks up an ABC News report that, well, this:

According to Time, activities leading toward release of the 140 prisoners have accelerated since the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case. It said U.S. officials had concluded some detainees were kidnapped for reward money offered for al Qaeda and Taliban fighters.

Whoops! [...]

Weekly Fitness Blog Item – 161 pounds, 32.5″ waist. Strangely for a holiday week, that’s three pounds below last Sunday, but like I said, the actual number has been bouncing around within a four-pound range. There was a typo in last week’s waist figure too – it should have read “32.75,” not 34.75.
Goal for the [...]

with the graphic novel, as in ready to set it aside? Not remotely. As I suspected, I had to start writing it to figure out what I had. Now I know. I know where it’s going and, more or less, how it will get there. Bill intends to have thumbnail sketches of the first chapter [...]

Metrics System Redux – Here’s a measurement I missed until now on Chief Wiggles’ blog – size of the “green zone.”

I was relieved to see the green zone expanded back to its original size as the 14th of July Bridge was closed again, after being opened for only a few weeks. The two bombings of [...]

Our Man Deeds – Have just discovered the newish Deeds blog by a CPA employee in Iraq. I highly recommend it. I will confess to reading quite a bit of it “against the grain” – I think it needs to be – but it’s a useful addition to your “perspectives collection” and it has some [...]