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...Adamstown is one of scores of developments that sprang up across Ireland during the country's boom years in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Families and young professionals quickly snapped up properties in what was to be the first complete new "town" to be built in Ireland in more than 20 years. Four years after the construction started, however, the building sites in Adamstown are as quiet as the empty streets. More than 200 properties are either vacant or unfinished, and the shopping center, soccer field and swimming pool promised in the glossy advertising booklets have yet to materialize...
...recent revelation that ESPN baseball analyst (and former Mets executive) Steve Phillips carried out an extramarital affair with a young production assistant, who then allegedly stalked his family, was shocking enough - enough, in fact, to get Phillips fired over the weekend. But the nasty online spat that followed between popular sports blog Deadspin and ESPN was possibly even more troubling, roping in several seemingly innocent parties and highlighting the questionable journalistic standards of unfiltered new media. (See the 25 best blogs...
...purpose of the annual meeting, the same as it has been since the militia started in 1995, was to bring together the politics of left and right over speeches, food, live music, and, of course, live ammo. The attendees were a wildly diverse group: young activists and anarchists in black, old beat-up Maine woodsmen with beards to their bellies, retired white-haired college professors, Second Amendment zealots, conservatives, libertarians, Marxists. But they all shared the belief that the U.S. government has lost its moral authority, that both political parties had "degenerated," as one attendee put it, "into whores...
...paid fellowship. It also makes sense, says Paschal, since so many law firms today are trimming costs by delaying the start date for new hires by a year or more. That gives law grads time to pursue this kind of work - whose complexity, Paschal adds, is ideal for cutting young legal teeth. Says Froomkin: "It's a great opportunity to give recent graduates some invaluable experience and help your neighbors through this enormous spike in foreclosures," if not help end it sooner...
When the gunfire subsided at the October meeting, chili and cold beer and whiskey came out and someone offered the guests a tall can of marijuana cookies. For entertainment, Michael twanged his Jew's harp, the instrument disappearing in his foot-long beard, as a young couple strummed a song called "F--- You." The scene could have come from Carolyn's latest book, The School on Heart's Content Road, which features (among other things) a militia movement that brings conservatives and hippies together (and polygamists, secessionists, farmers, home-schoolers, intellectuals, vegans - her vision is generously inclusive...