• Doing important adding to Wikipedia tonight. Let's see if it's all reverted/devolved into edit wars when I wake up tomorrow. #
• Added to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_He info from Journal of Chinese Studies about why the Ming barely recorded the Zheng He voyages #
• Thanks to @superaleja I had source needed to create this new section http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucianism#Women_in_Confucian_thought #
• Finally! @nprnews CDC Has Tips For 'Zombie Apocalypse' And Other Disasters http://n.pr/mtKSDn #
• Obama's #MEspeech "America values the dignity of the street vendor in Tunisia more than the raw power of the dictator" is all over the media #
• but no one in U.S. media will cover how street vendors within U.S. are treated: hardly with "dignity," banned, jailed, restricted, harassed #
• watch this video about an legal effort by @IJ to overturn laws across the country that all-but-ban street vendors http://iam.ij.org/ggJSil #

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• “Muslim societies that are most repressive toward women…also have some of the highest pornography usage in the world." http://is.gd/LCf3lV #
• When Zhu Yuanzhang overthrew the faltering Mongol dynasty in 1368 AD, he founded the Ming Dynasty, "Ming" meaning #brilliant or light #
• The name Ming, meaning #brilliant reflects the Manichaean Ming Cult that catapulted the Dynasty to power. #
• The Ming were the last Dynasty led by majority Han Chinese people. The Ming were overthrown & the Manchu-led Qing dynasty took over in 1644 #
• The Manchu-led "northern barbarian" Qing Dynasty saw the fall of Imperial China; they ruled until 1911 when replaced by Republic of China #

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• My hometown Mobile, Alabama, it's like New Orleans' slower twin, identical on the surface, but with DD & one milky filmy eye @SaraJBenincasa #
• Oh YAY! #DailyShow #039;s @TheInDecider magnificent @SaraJBenincasa retweeted my description of Mobile, AL for her high school #CityArchetypes #

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• Stunt comedian Mark Malkoff proves that buses in Manhattan are so slow, he's faster on a child’s big wheel tricycle! http://huff.to/e8RQIT #

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• Booo @ChuckSchumer for planning a security crackdown on trains. http://bit.ly/iynMhA #SchumersFolly yet another hit on the #4thamendment #
• Before you know it, the TSA will be at every PATH & Amtrak station checking every boob & scrotum like airports. Thanks a lot @ChuckSchumer #
• I wish the Duopoly (Team Donkey and Team Elephant both two wings of the same unjust system) would care about our liberty! #SchumersFolly #
• I joined Twitter on the 9th of May 2008 (1,095 days ago). Find your age at http://www.twuration.com/ #
• Mayor Bloomberg & Commissioner Kelly Honor 10 Members of 9/11 Cleanup who Perished of WTC-related Respiratory Diseases http://t.co/ZZn2Kv2 #

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• Classic #SNL opening, Tina Fey & Maya Rudolph singing a soulful R&B double duet–quartet?–between themselves and their "unborn feti" LOL #
• Watching #SNL Jason Sudeikis' devil character on #WeekendUpdate compares v. poorly with Jon Lovitz's Mephistopheles in the '80s, so lame #
• The decline of #SNL watch Jon Lovitz's Mephistopheles sketch http://hulu.com/w/ind compare with Jason Sudeikis' flat, lame devil character #
• RT @nycHope: @NickDupree @Book_Dude I really can't get over how awful #SNL was tonight. They wasted Tina Fey TwitLonger: http://tl.gd/aauh80 #

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• Watching the #GOPdebate on foxnews.com with shock and wonderment! #
• Rick Santorum on #GOPdebate just said Obama is wrong on Central America and Colombia policy. Why?! He didn't have time to explain. #SCGOP #
• Unintentional hilarity! @TheInDecider: Every time a candidate goes over time I think somebody is winning on Jeopardy. #tweetthepress #scgop #
• Shocking, watching big applause for waterboarding #tweetthepress #SCdebate Mr. Cain got cheered for justifying torture bc "want to kill us" #
• I'm live-tweeting the appalling first debate of the Republican presidential primary #tweetthepress #SCdebate amazingly scary right-wingers #
• Herman Cain, former Godfather's Pizza CEO, explains plan to eliminate income tax but nothing on how to pay for it #SCdebate #tweetthepress #
• Fmr. New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson wants Medicaid replaced with block grants #SCdebate #tweetthepress he also has hilarious muppet hands #
• Why is former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain getting the bulk of the questions and screen time?? #SCdebate #tweetthepress #
• Once studying how to address climate change "a clunker in [my] record" & a terrible thing, Governor Pawlenty says #SCdebate #tweetthepress #
• Comical, weed-smoking muppet Gary Johnson predicts Obama can't win because U.S. on the verge of economic collapse #SCdebate #tweetthepress #
• Santorum says people shouldn't be bullied into NOT running bc of morally "falling short" (gross ethical hypocrisy) #SCdebate #tweetthepress #
• Human muppet Gary Johnson says he climbed Mt Everest; that would be a weird sight #

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• Hello Twitter hive mind: Do you want me to live-tweet the crazy right-wing Republican presidential primary debate tonight? #NickpollQuestion #

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• Pakistan de facto sheltered #OBL to 1) keep the manhunt funding $$$ flowing and 2) it's always been in their interest to help the Taliban #
• Pak's foreign policy is abt countering India: they want Taliban, anti-infidel forces to keep India from influencing Afgh. & surrounding them #
• Look at Central Asia map, Pakistan DNW Afghanistan falling under India's sphere of influence, they'd be pinned in along every border! #
• Pakistan's military and intel (ISI) has always seen Taliban, with their insane hatred of infidels, as a bulwark against India's influence. #
• I'm sad to see the gorgeous Qing dynasty exhibits gone from @metmuseum they were incredible & very relevant to understanding #ChineseHistory #

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• Way to go ADAPT brothers & sisters! 89 arrested in Medicaid protest – POLITICO.com http://politi.co/jb5ovU peaceful assembly shnt be illegal #

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