Feature: Weekly Blogscan
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Weekly BlogScan: Flu Shots and Fears— In the northern hemisphere, flu season is upon us. Eat healthy food, get exercise and a flu shot - and don't sleep with any poultry!
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Weekly BlogScan: Lost in Translation— Dead kittens, rejuvenated corpses, Satanic verses, and lossy translations confound Internet communications, sometimes deliberately.
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Weekly BlogScan: Karl Rove— Is he a lightning rod? The Anti-Christ? Just another cog in the Bush machine? Or the Perfect Rovian Storm?
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Weekly BlogScan: H5N1 and Avian Flu Fears— The threat may be real, or it may be an inflated concern like the 1976 Swine Flu fiasco...
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Weekly Blogscan: Able Danger and the Gorelick Wall— There's a balloon floating in Washington lately, wafted in and out of view by hot air from bloggers and other new media. Is the name on that balloon Judith Miller?...
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Weekly BlogScan: Hurricanes and End Times— Hurricanes continue to spark news and opinion pieces all over the Web, and prompt worry over the end of days.
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Weekly BlogScan: Lost Orleans— We're still in the anger stage of grief over a lost city...
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Weekly BlogScan: Hurricane Relief – Stepping Up— In the wake of Katrina, people are stepping up to help, in whatever way they can.
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Weekly BlogScan: Katrina and the Mother of All Spin— Did bloggers cause Hurricane Katrina? ...a giant moving mass of hot air? I rest my case...
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Weekly BlogScan: Blogging Katrina (Special Edition)— The virtual storm in the blogosphere is still at Category 5...
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Weekly BlogScan: Lance Armstrong, Icon— The trouble with being an icon, as Lance Armstrong knows, is that you attract iconclasts. Here's the blogging buzz...
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Weekly BlogScan: Poker Faces, Poker Talk— I don't gamble, but I find myself endlessly fascinated with those who do...
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Weekly BlogScan: Watching the Supremes— Once-occult government processes are open to pressure from polls, blogs, editorials, and other popular commentary...
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Weekly BlogScan: Potter and Anti-Potter— Midnight is the witching hour. But midnight on July 16th is the wizarding hour, when the next Harry Potter novel is officially released amidst magic and media fury. So...
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Weekly BlogScan: Live from the London Blasts— Live-blogging and other commentary on the bombings in London.
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Weekly BlogScan: Huffing Nitrites on the Fourth of July— Monday is Independence Day in the U.S. We'll celebrate with picnics and flag-parades. Some may eat corn-bread; some may grill hot dogs. But nearly all of us will wind up...
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Weekly Blogscan: The Organic Diet— Scanning for yummy organic blogs...
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Weekly BlogScan: Dad Day Afternoon— Hero. Competitor. Protector. Queller-with-a-glance of teenage pretensions. Model of manliness. Woodshed punisher. Father, Papa, Daddy, Pop, Dad. Sunday is Father's Day, and many of us in the blogosphere are making...
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Weekly BlogScan: Living with Disappointment— We're a disappointed bunch, bloggers. Perhaps it's because we get our passions invested in either-or elimination events, like American Idol or the Michael Jackson trial. Whatever...
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Weekly BlogScan: Do Blonde Bloggers Have More Fun?— Blonde bombshell. Blonde bimbo. And now... Blonde Blogger.
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Weekly BlogScan: Pranks and Presidential Portraits— Just how common is the decision to commit what the perpetrator invariably calls a "only a prank"?
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Weekly BlogScan: Poetry from the Dark Side— The dark side is on everyone's mind this weekend. Lucas' Darth Vader joins other darkly seductive or seduced characters (Dracula, Frankenstein's monster) in the global gestalt. What is the lure...
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Weekly BlogScan: Fear and Loathing on Friday the 13th— A Friday numbered 13 is doubly cursed, ominous of death, disaster, and doom of all kinds.
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Weekly BlogScan: You Either Love or Hate Meat Loaf— Oh, no! Not Meat Loaf again! There's plenty to go around in the blogosphere...
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Weekly BlogScan: Michael Jackson Trial, Blog's-Eye View— Prometheus 6 refuses to comment. But elsewhere in the blogosphere, others have not been so restrained.
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Weekly BlogScan: New Year's Resolutions, 1st Quarter Assessment— The persistence of words on the Web makes it hard to back down from posted New Year's Resolutions...
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Weekly BlogScan: We'll Be Taxing Your Credulity Next— The topic of the day is taxes, of course. To pay or not to pay, that is the question...
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Weekly BlogScan: (Ding, Dong) The Pope Is Dead— In the midst of a MSM blitz of papal stories, why should the blogosphere be different?
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Weekly BlogScan: April Fools— Traditionally, April Fools jokes are played before noon. But for bloggers still in their jammies, the clock keeps running...
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Weekly BlogScan—"I am NOT GAY"— Think about the social pressures that lead a man to declare publicly, "I am not gay."
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