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Barbara Strickland

  • Name: B. Strickland
  • Location: Austin
  • Job: editor/researcher
On October 26, 2009 2:34 PM in We're All Gonna Party Like It's 1916 [News Bits], they said:

It's true that the influenza pandemic took off in 1918; however, it was preceded by smaller, allegedly related epidemics beginning in 1916. Six of one, half a dozen of the other, probably....

Again, I don't see what you are seeing. The paragraph does not imply that Holmes could have gotten her treatment in Canada. It states very simply that: A) Holmes traveled to the U.S. to get her tre...

It's difficult to find very much on Shona Holmes's situation that is not slanted from either the left or right, so I can't properly assess her story or anyone else's recounting of it for claims of "tr...

Wow. That post is well worth the read (For some reason, I couldn't access the page from your link, Luke, so here's the URL if anyone needs it: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/a-senator-...

The Smothers Brothers never made it over to Vietnam, but they did manage to piss off Nixon (bless their little lefty hearts): http://www.tvparty.com/smothers.html...

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