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What Mississippi crimes will cost you your voting privilege if you’re convicted? Tom Freeland has an enlightening post about the confusing state of Mississippi’s disenfranchisement law.
It’s up for a vote on Nov. 8. The NYT weighs in on Mississippi’s proposed “personhood amendment.“
And, another NYT article, this on the decline of manners in the south.
Locked out of your house, computer, wifi or garage? Lifehack offers top 10 ways to unlock the unlockable.
Brian Palmer at Slate on why you should be drinking cheap wine. Like less than $5.00 a bottle.
An elegy to handwriting by Ann Wroe at More Intelligent Life.
Quite possibly the silliest opinion ever from the Mississippi Supreme Court. Thus Blogged Anderson revisits Justice Roberston’s embarassingly bombastic opinion in Dycus v. Sillers, 557 So. 2d 486 (Miss. 1990).
SF Chronicle: A record 49% of all Americans live in a family where at least one member receives some type of government benefits. 63% of all federal spending is checks to individuals for which the government receives no services.

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