Mississippi Political Blogwire

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• Dawgs win!

  —State Street Posts

  (Alternate slug: "Apparently there was a big football game in Starkville today...") Bulldogs bury Rebels, 41-27 | clarionledger.com | The Clarion-Ledger: "Quarterback Chris Relf threw for two touchdowns and rushed for another to lead Mississippi State to a resounding 41-27 upset victory over No....
  
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 2:55pm EST
  

• The Twitter on Tiger

  —State Street Posts

  This Is Why The Internet (And Twitter) Wins - washingtonpost.com: "Undoubtedly by now you've heard about Tiger Woods' car crash.... as I'm watching this unfold infront of my eyes on the Internet, I'm reminded that this type of story is exactly why the web is destroying newspapers, and should...
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 12:22pm EST
  

• AT&T responds to WH net neutrality talk

  —State Street Posts

  White House official's net neutrality comments irk AT&T - washingtonpost.com: "AT&T doesn't like the idea of new regulations mandating unfettered access to the Internet, and recent comments from the Obama administration that connected the issue to censorship in China have really gotten...
  
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 11:18am EST
  

• More food for thought from John Robb

  —State Street Posts

  From Robb's Global Guerrillas/OPEN SOURCE INSURGENCY THROUGH SOFTWARE TOOLS: Many people that want to organize groups online, typically attempt to do this through a site dedicated to a specific topic, an inflammatory article/video, etc. This is a fairly arduous and suboptimal process. A better...
  
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 11:07am EST
  

• Bedroom communities doomed, say the futurists

  —State Street Posts

  RC JOURNAL: The Inevitable Failure of Suburbia?: "Are suburban communities viable post crunch? To many, the answer is a resounding NO! under any and all circumstances. They see them, ala James Kunstler, as a gross misallocation of societal resources, that will inevitably devolve into a vast...
  
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 10:46am EST
  

• Facebookers, take note!

  —State Street Posts

  NPR/Facebook Games Invite Spammers To Play: "Facebook's catchy quizzes and hot games can often leave the barn door wide open to spammers. Dennis Yu should know; he used to be one of those spammers. Host Scott Simon speaks with Yu, who's now the CEO of the advertising agency BlitzLocal, and" [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 10:33am EST
  

• Adopt this dog

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  Meet King. He is at the Mississippi Animal Rescue League. Adopt him. Have a heart. How can you let a dog so beautiful be put to sleep [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 10:23am EST
  

• The gentleman doth protest too much

  —Red/Blue

  In today's print version of the C-L, Bill Robbins, a regional leader of the American Cancer Society, takes me to task for my blog post of November 14, "Politics hijacks science."  In that post, I had pointed out the obvious fact that the American Cancer Society has become a political mouthpiece for [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 9:44am EST
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• MS Press writes about Census

  —Mississippi: Census 2010

  The Mississippi Press has a story on what the Census numbers will show us... Census measures students, povertyFriday, November 27, 2009 By HARLAN KIRGANSome 19 percent of the student-aged population in Jackson and George counties comes from families in poverty, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report on the nation's' [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 9:21am EST
  by Reb