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We humans like to think of ourselves as superior to all other creatures, in spite of considerable evidence to the contrary. As such, we are the earth's caretakers.

And we're not doing such a great job. We're not only making earth warmer, now it seems we're making microbugs stronger. Heckuva job, people.

And speaking of global warming, Ellen Goodman compares global warming deniers to Holocaust deniers.

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Anyone who remembers the Russia-demonizing, shoe-banging 50s will see more than a little irony in Vladimir Putin warning the world about those reckless, war-crazed, out-of-control Americans.

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Another handful of soldiers killed in Iraq? Tens of millions of Americans without health insurance? That's one thing. But this is what sells advertising.

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Here's another indication of just how unpatriotic the Patriot Act really is. And IM-not-so-HO, the firings of the US attorneys is the same kind of hubris that afflicted Nixon and resulted in the Saturday Night Massacre.

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Making it in America: the Little Golden Book of YES!.