The Greatest Threat to Civilization Is Civilization Itself -- A.D. Ritter

A contrite Tim Hardaway now embraced by some in gay community - NBA - Yahoo! Sports

Seeded on Fri Sep 28, 2007 7:42 AM EDT (Yahoo! Sports)

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Immigrant Simic to Be U.S. Poet Laureate

Thu Aug 2, 2007 12:17 PM EDT

By Holly Ramer, Associated Press (Clipped by BroodingPoet)

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic, who learned English as a teenage immigrant, will be the new U.S. poet laureate, the Library of Congress announced Thursday.

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Penn Archive Offers Downloadable Poetry

Wed May 9, 2007 12:48 PM EDT

By Kathy Matheson, Associated Press (Clipped by BroodingPoet)

When you're done loading your iPod with Better than Ezra and Carlos Santana, why not try a little Ezra Pound or William Carlos Williams?

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Satire: Underrepresented Conspiracy Theories, or Why I Wish I'd Gone to Yale

Tue May 8, 2007 6:21 PM EDT

One recent seeding on Newsvine, Absurd Bigotry Posted to Newsvine was actually a reseeding of an article in the Telegraph that was seeded by another newsviner.

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Vick linked to breeder | ajc.com

Seeded on Thu May 3, 2007 9:43 AM EDT (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

More developments in the investigation into dog fighting at one of Vick's houses. Apparrently, he runs a breeding business from that address. Do the Falcons regret the Matt Schaub trade yet? Or is all of Atlanta looking forward to Joey Harrington under center?

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James Fenton Wins Poetry Prize

Tue Apr 24, 2007 11:23 AM EDT

By Associated Press (Clipped by BroodingPoet)

English poet and journalist James Fenton has been awarded the 2007 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.

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Virginia Killer's Violent Writings - April 17, 2007

Seeded on Tue Apr 17, 2007 4:38 PM EDT (thesmokinggun.com)

Apparently, the shooter was an English major--and here you can see one of his plays... The mass media, of course, will point to this as evidence of mental illness and why the shooting happened. You can judge for yourself...

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