A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. --Sir Winston Churchill

Best. Latkes. Ever. - an installment of "How to Cook Like Me"

Yeah, I know, it's day 6 of the 8-day Festival of Lights. I had planned to make a video, or even a photo essay, but could find no co-conspirators, so I'll just have to give the recipe, and the recipe is what it's all about. To make about 8 small latkes (potato pancakes):

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Spammers beware...

Okay, everyone. This will be short and sweet. I've created a group to which articles and seeds by suspected spammers of Newsvine can be clipped. You may find it at Newsvine Spammers.

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Doing My Part to End the Endless Cycle of Conspicuous Consumption Surrounding Christmas

Subtitle: Climbing Down off of that Treadmill I'm going to go out on a limb and proffer a couple of thoughts regarding Christmas gifts, as the current ritual involving the exchange of pseudo-random material goods is both very odd to me, as well as strangely dissatisfying[1].

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Mini-Meet Toronto 2007

Okay, I'm sitting in a slightly skeevy room at the Econo lodge in Toronto with Ryan Stolte-Sawa and Jon Nagelmakers, wondering if we should pick up a couple of hookers from the corner or go to a club, and I've been traveling all day. This is about all I can handle at the moment.

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Best Places to Raise Your Kids, 2007

Hmm. And my town was named #2! Must be because I live here.

Google ads Group Chat to Gmail

I just noticed the announcement this morning when checking my email. Chat with multiple people without multiple windows. Invite your friends to a group discussion.

John Drury, longtime Chicago newscaster, dies at 80

Drury suffered from Lou Gehrig's disease for many years, and retired from the ABC Chicago affiliate 5 years ago. He passed away this evening after 7 p.m. I have not yet found links to stories about his death, but I will update this article as they come in.

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Copyright Info and DMCA Takedown Form for Copyright Violations

Unfortunately, it is not unheard of for a third party to come onto Newsvine with intent to infringe upon our copyrighted materials.

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In Deep: Seattle Entrepreneur Calvin Tang Carries on Family Tradition

Entrepreneurship runs in the Tang family in Bellevue, and so do the uncommon personal qualities of patience and resilience.

Me, on TV. Weird

I know I promised this article a couple of weeks ago. What can I say? I've been, er, busy? Anyway, I figured I'd just give y'all my impressions of the event.

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My FolkinFamilyTree

In lieu of working what some people would qualify as a "job," I've decided instead to devote a great deal of my free time (it's all free time, I suppose) to digging up information on my antecedents.

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RAV: Viki Babbles Gonia

At last, we are happy to announce that Viki Gonia, aka VikiBabbles, is just the 15th Newsviner to ever receive the Random Act of Vineness award. Long overdue - we want to recognize not only the big things Viki has done, but also the many small things.

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We the Users - The New Newsvine

Yesterday Killfile was brought in for discussion on live national TV as a representation of us, the users who make Newsvine. He was of course the obvious choice, as even the most hawkish Conservative would agree, as he brought something more to the Vine.

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Newsvine Hits the "Big Time"

And by "big time," I mean we're entering the world of the mainstream media.

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Viki Gonia On MSNBC - Oct. 30th Democratic Debate

I'm happy to announce that yet another Newsvine user, Viki Babbles Gonia - aka "VikiBabbles" - will appear on live national television, tomorrow around 12PM Eastern Time.

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10/30/07 Democratic Debate - Open Response

This is part of my direct response to the 2008 Democratic Presidential Debate on 10/30/2007. For the rest of the articles in this series, please go here.

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Newsvine User Killfile On MSNBC Television

At approximately 12:30pm ET on October 30th, Chris Thomas, aka Killfile, will appear on MSNBC television during a national broadcast in the lead-up to the Democratic Presidential debate to be hosted in the city of Philadelphia, PA.

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What Is Left Unsaid

Though the general election is still more than a year away, it certainly feels like election season in America. Crisp fall air, a shower of falling leaves, and non-stop political coverage from CNN to MSNBC have set the stage for yet another in a long string of primary debates.

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Springfield sex offender tries to castrate himself

SPRINGFIELD -- A convicted sex offender tried to castrate himself with a fillet knife, apparently after having an urge to offend again, according to a police report.

The Real Carver: Expansive or Minimal?

Tess Gallagher, the widow of Raymond Carver, one of the most celebrated American short-story writers of the 20th century, is spearheading an effort to publish a volume of 17 original Carver stories whose highly edited versions were published in "What We Talk About When We Talk  …

9/11 Is Seen as Leading to an Attack on Women

This book — which concludes that 9/11 led to an assault on the freedom and independence of American women — is the sort of tendentious, self-important, sloppily reasoned work that gives feminism a bad name.

Meta: Society of Professional Journalists: Code of Ethics

I think we all have at least a passing acquaintance with the Code of Honor but a lot of the complaints about violating the COH are motivated by perception or even occasionally a personality conflicts, and even once in a while as a because of ideology clashes.

Frank Crist, February 23, 1973 - October 17, 2007

Frank Bradley Crist, 34, of Chicago and formerly of Terre Haute died at 1:15 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2007, in Chicago. Frank was my friend. And now he's gone. He's presumably floating around wherever atheist anarchists go for the rest of eternity.

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