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Internet Radio, including Pandora, has an important bill before Congress. Please consider contacting your elected official to support web broadcast music.

Google Labs has another fun toy. On this one, pick a topic that you'd like to read quotes from by Sen. McCain and Sen. Obama. Hit the 'Spin' (heh) button, and you get two quotes on that topic. Fun toy.

Brother Maynard takes another look at the cost of the American bailout, and a recent suggestion by Barack Obama to spend a bit more to eradicate global poverty by 2015.

" One of the ironies about this financial crisis is that it makes action on poverty look utterly achievable. It would cost $5 billion to save six million children’s lives. World leaders could find 140 times that amount for the banking system in a week. How can they now tell us that action for the poorest on the planet is too expensive?“"

Amber shares a sacred moment with her daughter responding to her God