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08.31.2008 8:12 pm

Hurricane Gustav: Where people are talking (and trying to help)

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

55 p.m. on Aug. 30, 2008The buzz today is about Gustav, ready to make landfall in the Gulf coast almost three years to the day after Hurricane Katrina.

Have you got a message for the people being threatened? Post your thoughts below.

Meanwhile, they’re talking about it all over the place. Look for resources on Facebook (see below).

They’re buzzing around St. Louis on Twitter. They’re buzzing in the blogs. Here’s a saved search on Flickr.

There’s a number of Facebook groups and wikis that have been set up for support and information.

The Hurricane Gustav Online Digital Support Group.

People are tagging their tweets on Twitter with #gustav.

Gustav Information Center,…

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07.01.2008 4:39 pm

Hey, hotshot! What’s wrong with the minivan anyway?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Look, I’m not afraid to admit it: I have driven a minivan for more than a decade. In fact, we bought our second Chrysler minivan a couple of years ago. And let me tell you: I’ve heard all the jokes. Yeah, I’m less of a man because I drive a minivan. I get it. Ha ha.

Hey, did any of you see Angelina Jolie in Mr. & Mrs. Smith, driving a Chrysler minivan just like she was Steve McQueen in Bullitt? That was my minivan she was driving, folks!

Anyway, riddle me this, loyal readers: Why does the minivan get such a bad…

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05.23.2008 9:57 am

Is A-B in play? Could the brewer really be taken over?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

We’ve got a report online now that says this: “The FT Alphaville blog is reporting that InBev is working on a $46bn takeover for St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch, the maker of Budweiser. The blog did not disclose its sources, and noted that representatives from InBev and Anheuser-Busch did not comment.”

FT Alphaville is a blog by the Financial Times.

Is this an alarming development? Is Anheuser-Busch in play? Could the country’s largest brewer fall into other hands?

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05.19.2008 5:51 pm

Could the Court’s child porn ruling affect legitimate (and mainstream) art?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Let’s start this topic by stating the obvious right at the outset: Nobody is in favor of child pornography. OK? Repeat after me: Nobody thinks child pornographers should get any legal protection.

Here’s another comment that I hope is obvious: All art cannot be about puppy dogs and cotton candy. Some art — legitimate and mainstream art — will and should be about difficult topics, hard topics. Even painful topics.

So, from there, here’s my question:

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a child porn case, upholding a law that “sets a five-year mandatory prison term for promoting, or pandering, child pornography….

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05.07.2008 7:33 am

N.C.-Obama, Indy-Clinton: Now what happens?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

As expected, Sen. Barack Obama won the Democratic primary in North Carolina. But by the narrowest of margins, he lost in Indiana to Sen. Hillary Clinton, who reminded supporters that her rival had called the state “the tie-breaker.”

According to the latest story by the AP:

Obama was on track to climb within 200 delegates of attaining the prize, his campaign finally steadying after missteps fiercely exploited by the never-say-die Clinton.

His campaign dropped broad hints it was time for the 270 remaining unaligned party figures known as superdelegates to get off the fence and settle the nomination.

Meanwhile, “Clinton vowed to compete tenaciously…

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