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View ArticleI'd like to see a Death Panel for Corporations
Why are we discussing Grannie Death? Why is this getting more than a snort?While we are defending Grannie's right to know the insurance corporations, and they are corporations not companies, have no...
View ArticleHealth Care Reform Debate LiveBlog-Shuttlepod 5
Please DON'T Rec this diary .. Rec the Mothership by Adam Blomeke This is the FIFTH shuttlepod diary on the health care reform bill. I am a nervous wreck how about you?Shuttlepod #1 by jnhobbs...
View ArticleAnd the winner is . . . Commonwealth Writer's Prize - Africa Quarter
The Commonwealth Writer's Prize has the biggest scope of the major awards I looked at for this series. By announcing the finalists, I would think the Commonwealth Writer's Prize sells books. It is no...
View ArticleAnd the winner is . . . Commonwealth Writer's Prize - Canada and Caribbean...
"The sun never sets on the British Empire." If you want to get through the finalist reading list for the Commonwealth Writer's Prize, that is a good thing.The Commonwealth Writer's Prize is divided...
View ArticleAnd the winner is . . . Commonwealth Writer's Prize - South Asia and Europe...
My crystal ball of Kindle availability proved right for last week. Room by Emma Donahue (Canada) was announced the winner of her group and will be going to Sydney for the big winner party. In the...
View ArticleAnd the winner is . . . Commonwealth Writer's Prize - South East Asia and...
The Commonwealth Writers' Prize is an ambitious prize. It awards £10,000 for the best book winner and £5,000 for the best first book winner. The finalists from a short list of 48, 12 in each...
View ArticleMeta Warts- Redirect Negative Energy to Republican Maggot Factory Instead of...
You are depressed. Obama has a wart.You know what, I doubt Obama is skating without any criticism. So if you want him brought down, others will do that for you. You need only to sit back and...
View ArticleAnd The Winner is . . .The New Zealand Society of Authors Hubert Church Best...
Suppose a literary award was the only thing standing between you and a lobotomy. That's the way it happened in New Zealand in 1951.I first learned about Janet Frame watching An Angel at My Table. I...
View ArticleAnd The Winner is . . .The OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature
April 2011 will be the first time the prize of US$10,000, sponsored by One Caribbean Media, will be awarded. The short list for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature is going to be announced...
View ArticleAnd The Winner is . . .The Caine Prize for African Writing
The Caine Prize's nickname is the African Booker. Many here know and love the Booker Prize. Sir Michael Caine was the CEO or Chairman of the Booker prize from 1975 to his retirement in 1993. As a...
View ArticleAnd the winner is . . . The Man Booker Prize
Ian Fleming didn't want to pay his taxes on his estate. He was dying young and still felt the need to protect his family. In England the taxes for artists are mighty and his friend, Jock Campbell,...
View ArticleAnd the winner is . . . the Edgar® Awards
On Edgar Allen Poe's birthday, January 19, in 2011, for the 65th time the finalists for the coveted Edgar Award were announced.The winner will be announced April 28, 2011. They are going to honor the...
View ArticleAnd the winner is . . . The Hugo Awards
You can vote for the winner. Members vote. You can become a member. There are several levels of membership. I am not sure which would allow you to vote. It looks like even the lowest level of...
View ArticleAnd the winner is . . . The Diagram Prize
I know in these diaries I have mercilessly added to your reading list. Not only asking you to read the winners, but also the entire short list. Then when you have extra time on your hands, I plop...
View ArticleAnd The Winner Is . . . The Locus Index to Science Fiction
Two weeks ago I diaried the Hugo Awards. The Hugo is an award for science fiction. I didn't know the Hugo is not the only one. There are between 132 and 134 major awards for science fiction.I...
View ArticleAnd The Winner is . . . Akutagawa Prize and the Yomiuri Prize
Two famous and generous, million dollar prizes, Japanese literary awards are the Yomiuri and the Akutagawa Prizes.My first question, how many of these are in English? I randomly selected Kaizu by...
View ArticleAnd The Winner is . . . Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism
I was casting about trying to find an award to talk about this week when AdmiralNaismith published one of the best best 100 lists of all time. I picked a few books to find what awards they got. I...
View ArticleAnd The Winner is . . . The Newbery Award
John Newbery, a publisher in the 18th century, published children's books for the first time. Newbery sold children's books cheap and made his profit from a patent medicine. Bestselling Newbery books...
View ArticleI am sorry Dick Cheney 3 years of success don't validate 8 years of failure.
Dick Cheney you fought the Al Queada in the most expensive in life and treasure way possible.You are a rich man now and you presided over the unnecessary death of millions.
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