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...there's one thing more unsettling than a bunch of contestants dragging cameras to skid row as they vie for a book deal and TV pilot, it's seeing their responses critiqued as if they were singing a Christina Aguilera song ("You call that a speech?"). Messengers, to be fair, is self-conscious about that: in one scene, a homeless woman lectures TLC's cameras, "This ain't no damn zoo. These are human beings." She's right. This is possibly the best-intentioned--and creepiest--TV show you will see this year...
...dance. There's no way to know. All the key facts are veiled in secrecy, as they must be. So it's impossible to know from the outside whether it's on the level or not. But with another election looming, it seems we're about to get a bunch of new chances to wonder...
...There are a bunch of things the government should do, and things non-governmental groups should do. Raise the income and wages of low-income workers. Basic things like raising the minimum wage. Helping with grassroots campaigns, ballot initiatives in several states to raise the minimum wage. I think we ought to expand earned-income tax credits. One method available for single workers is to eliminate the marriage penalty. Raise the wages of low-income workers in the service economy, where many millions are now. There will be millions more in that economy. If they're able to organize...
...from the office of former Virginia Governor Mark Warner, one of the 2008 hopefuls. Warner spent thousands on a rooftop bash that included chocolate fountains and a sushi bar, and Bill Richardson, the governor of New Mexico and another potential candidate, flattered the bloggers as if they were a bunch of campaign fundraisers about to hand him checks. Meeting with a few dozen of them in a hotel suite, Richardson, wearing jeans, a T-shirt and a blue blazer, said he spent so much time on in his work as governor he had little to read anything beyond...
...anticipating a U.S. win. The American fans got a good rhythmic chant going before the game started, (not the usual U-S-A) and sounded absolutely patriotic during the playing of the national anthem. That is to say, they actually sang the words - must have been a well-educated bunch - and produced a massive American flag. It was, in fact, quite moving. Sam's Army, as they are known, were ready for battle, and more than a match for the Czech fans who outnumbered them in the stands...