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My major problem with Open Office is that it’s gawdawful slow.

I don’t know whether it’s because everything is wrapped up into one application, or what.

I find myself activating my Windows VM under Parallels and using Word and Excel in preference to NeoOffice (Open Office customized for the Mac — it is, sad to say, quicker than the regular Open Office) just because the combined operation only takes about half the time.

Unfortunately I’m too cheap to shell out Microsoft-extortionate prices for Mac Office, so there you are — I’m just a prisoner of value rigidity.

Tim Blair points out that Australia has just as many tight-assed politically-correct dipwads as the United States — and they tend to inhabit the same ecological niches. But it’s still funny.

Steve Sailer keeps coming up with all this great stuff.

Read it. And attempt to figure out how this local government differs from any other local government — if you can.

IS MONTGOMERY County so jazzed about snagging a world-class music hall for downtown Silver Spring that it is about to finalize a sweetheart deal that treats taxpayers’ dollars like Monopoly money?

A good point. Wonder how the Washington Post can publish something like this and still give the Feds a pass — this sounds like a classic “earmark” to me. Or you could substitute “sports stadium” for “world-class music hall” and plug in the name of any major metropolitan behavioral sink with no cognitive dissonance whatsoever.

Read it. I didn’t think it was possible — somebody grumpier than me. I like him already.

Read it. Surprising to see such a pro-freedom piece in the Washington Post. Enjoy it while you can.

Read it. Although nowadays I think they have medication for that….

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Read it. A good plan. Freebay runs on much the same principle.

Read it. God forbid they might tell somebody like, oh, say, the police.

Read it. I thought that was what Rolls Royce was for…?

Steve Sailer has a GREAT idea.

ParaPundit likes it, too.

Read it. Why anyone in a civilized country pays any attention at all to the U.N. escapes me.

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I wonder when Muslims will awake to the fact that having easily-pushed buttons merely encourages people who don’t like you to do a dance on them? Sometimes with hobnailed boots?

Tim Blair looks at the religion of global warming. I, for one, would be mightily amused by having all of the coastal cities under water.

Actually, all this global warming nonsense would make a great role-playing game.

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A group in Brattleboro is petitioning to put an item on a town meeting agenda in March that would make Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney subject to arrest and indictment if they visit the southeastern Vermont community.

Read it. Tell the truth: Would you trust your ticker to a device called “i-Snake”? If you weren’t Steve Jobs, that is?

Read it. I imagine the Kennedys have much the same problem over here.

Guess we’re not as free from tribalism as we might have thought.

Read it. Rather a stark reminder that Orwell’s 1984 took place in Britain. They’re well on the way.

Read it. An interesting concept.

The parallel with campaign advertisements is just too much of a cheap shot, however.

Read it. I guess enforcement works after all.

Read it. Sounds like the basis for a new series of videos, “Bureaucrats Gone Wild”.

Paid for with your tax money, of course; we don’t want to break too much with tradition.

Read it. Go, Fred.

Although I’m rather frightened by the thought of somebody who’s “wavering between Thompson and Mike Huckabee” being allowed to vote. Surely there’s a minimal threshhold of intelligence required in this thing? But no, I guess not.

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Read it. Next thing you know, My Little Pony will have a note from PETA.

Read it. What I’d love to see is a return headline: “Sarkozy to Egyptian Lawmakers: You Shouldn’t Torture Political Prisoners”. But it’ll never happen.

Read it, if you dare. Here’s the part I like best:

Click here to watch video at MyFOXCleveland.com.

Now isn’t that a scary thought?

Read it. Don’t you wish you lived in New Jersey? Neither do I.

As you might expect, the town is run by Democrats. No wonder it’s a behavioral sink.

Read it. I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked.

Read it. Tell me you didn’t see that coming.

Read it. I think Frankenstein wins this one.

Read it. No suggestion of bechamel sauce, thank goodness.

Read it. Go on and look. You know you want to.

Read it. There will be a prize for the first person to identify correctly the members of the political coalition (some of whom may surprise you) that will succeed in getting it banned.

Read it. Now, if that had happened in this country her estate would sue the manufacturer of the car. And probably collect.

Read it. Markets surface even where you don’t want them to.

NRO. The funny ones are the most likely to turn out to be true.

Read it. A perennial problem in these “countries” that are soldered together by some megalomaniac’s ambitious fantasy.

The official point of view is that there is one Pakistani nation united by the bonds of Islam and the national language, Urdu.

Urdu being a variant of Hindi that is chiefly distinguished by being written in Arabic letters, and has about as many native speakers in Pakistan as there are native speakers of Spanish in the U.S.

In this case the culprit was Jinnah, but India suffered from Mohandas Gandhi’s fantasies even more; by rights, it ought to be about 12 different states, and I suspect would be a happier (and less troublesome) place.

Read it. One of those heartwarming stories that encapsulate the spirit of the season.

Steve Sailer ponders a modern trend in Artificially-Cobbled-Together-stan … and points west.

Peggy Noonan.

We just want a reasonable person. We would like a candidate who does not appear to be obviously insane.

Hm. That doesn’t leave a lot.

Read it. I’d like to get in on this fatwa business. It sounds like more fun than blogging.

Read it. Don’t they have Skraelings in Paris?

Who killed Benazir Bhutto? It’s like a board game.

Between this and the Iowa caucuses, don’t expect to find any real news in the “news media” for about a week.

Read it. We can only hope.

“He tends to think like a gangster,” said Jim Thomas, a former senior defense planner who worked with Vickers. “He can understand trends then change the rules of the game so they are advantageous for your side.”

At last, someone with a clue.

Read it. We’re screwed, basically.

Inside Politics.

Inside the Ring.

Read it. Perhaps Michigan will stop before it goes over the cliff.

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Read it. Ho ho ho.