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Lawmaker apologizes for insult to unwed parents

9th February 2008

Read it.

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Republicans for Hillary

5th February 2008

Read it. The day you never thought would come.

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Robert Fisk: The curious case of the forged biography

2nd February 2008

Read it. Of course, if he weren’t the sort of fellow who writes that kind of shit, people wouldn’t be so ready to believe it.

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Hello Kitty Darth Vader Tattoo

22nd January 2008

Read it.

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The LapDome: tent-shaped sunscreen for your laptop

16th January 2008

Read it. Now this is just silly.

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Unpaid bills halt wiretaps by FBI

11th January 2008

Read it. I guess Federal employment goes to the lowest bidder, too.

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Permission to reincarnate, sir?

7th January 2008

Read it. Even Communists get weird in Tibet.

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Another Washington Toilet Scandal

7th January 2008

Read it. Our government cannot be parodied. It’s just impossible to keep up.

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Man follows GPS directions onto train tracks, into dummy hall of fame

4th January 2008

Read it.

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President Considers A Boost to Economy

4th January 2008

Read it. Just the sort of thing we’ve come to expect from a Democrat President.

Oh, wait….

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Bill aims to protect English on the job

29th December 2007

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.

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The Top Ten Stupid Criminals of 2007

18th December 2007

Read it. Where Jonah Goldberg finds this stuff I have no idea.

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At the Body, Mind, and Spirit Expo

18th December 2007

Read it. It’s good that we have these things to get all of the flakes in one room where they can be identified.

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Paris Suburb Hit by Rioting Tries Healing Power of Talk

3rd December 2007

Read it. No, I’m not making this up. Sometimes you have to wonder where they find these people.

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Bask in Bumper Sticker Wisdom

16th November 2007

Read it. Where Jonah Goldberg finds this stuff I’ll never know.

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Violence Breaks Out at Terrorist Memorial

12th November 2007

Read it. Sometimes irony is a completely inadequate word.

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Obama Addresses Income Inequality

8th November 2007

Read it. I guess he’s running for Pope — not one of these things is the job of the President of the United States.

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Microsoft Wants A Patent For Saying ‘Goodbye’

7th November 2007

Read it. Words fail me.

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The Invisible Lesbian

31st October 2007

Read it. And this.

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Kenyan tribe punishes developers with curse

26th October 2007

Read it. That’ll show’em.

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Solar-powered donkey carts bring power to African villages

11th October 2007

Read it. There are so many things that I could say that I just can’t choose.

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Chinese Student Sues Microsoft; Claims WGA A Violation Of Privacy

15th September 2007

Read it. I just find this terminally amusing — some guy in a Communist dictatorship suing an American company for violation of privacy. What’s beyond irony? Titaniumy?

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iPhoneSIMfree’s end-user solution tested, it works!

10th September 2007

Read it. If you were so foolish as to buy the special Screw The User And Fill Steve’s Pockets edition (soon to be a Classic Collectible) of the iPhone, this ought to reduce the pain somewhat.

Hey, maybe $100 on top of $400 for the phone seems like a lot now, but if it saves you from those $3000 roaming bills later…?

Here’s the video.

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Heelys put to good use: energy harvesting

10th September 2007

Read it. Put that kid on the treadmill….

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Lebanon Kills Hundreds, Destroys Camp, World Yawns

4th September 2007

Read it. So if we hire the Lebanese Army to take over in Iraq….

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A winning argument in la la land

29th August 2007

Read it. I wonder if you have to pay admission to cross the California state line?

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Illinois: Lesbian Is a Finalist for Bishop

29th August 2007

Read it. Wonder how she’ll do in the swimsuit competition.

Episcopalian, of course. Wonder if they every thought about auditioning for Saturday Night Live? They’ve got the parody of a Christian church part down pat.

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Recycle bin hard drive stores your deletions, mimics a trash can

26th August 2007

Read it. As George Carlin says in his comedy routine, if you nail together two thing that have never been nailed together before, some schmuck out there will buy it.

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Osaka University develops teeth-controlled iPod interface

21st August 2007

Engadget. The question that immediately leaps to mind, of couse, is: Why?

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Planet Academia

20th August 2007

Read it. Truly, you cannot make this stuff up.

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Born again, and again, and again . . .

16th August 2007

Read it. The Communist Chinese are forbidding reincarnation without government authorization.

Where the personal is really political.

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Evangelicals Join Interfaith Effort to Write Rules for Conversions

15th August 2007

NYT. “Rules?! In a knife fight?!

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Wikipedia EditGate: Wired’s List of Juicy Edits

15th August 2007

LGF. Turn on the light, and the roaches scuttle.

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The automatic Bike Dispenser — like PEZ but good for you

15th August 2007

Engadget. How long would it take to remove the RFID chip and sell it on the black market? Take a guess.

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Scottish Shari’a Watch

14th August 2007

LGF. Truly, you cannot make this stuff up.

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Minnesota: Cautions on Bridge Rebuilding

14th August 2007

NYT.

The mayor of Minneapolis cautioned that Minnesota transportation officials’ swift timetable to replace the collapsed Interstate bridge could overlook safety and the unique elements necessary to make it a memorial.

Truly, you cannot make this stuff up.

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Ohio: Killing at Event Promoting Nonviolence

14th August 2007

NYT. Guess it didn’t work.

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Who Are You?

12th August 2007

Read it. Then realize that this person actually got paid real money to write this, and it was published in a major newspaper.

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Nerdcore: Runnin with my beta cuz I’m takin chances

6th August 2007

LanguageLog. Nerds as an oppressed minority group? Uh, I dunno….

Steve Sailer has more to say on the subject; some very useful stuff, too. Apparently he’s been pondering this for some time.

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A Goddess Once Again

28th July 2007

NYT. Well, that’s certainly a load off of my mind.

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Norway’s psychic Princess Martha Louise turns clairvoyant

26th July 2007

Item. I’ll bet you didn’t know that Norway had a psychic princess.

Well, you do now.

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Renewable Energy Seen As Harmful To Environment

25th July 2007

FuturePundit. You knew it was coming….

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How to prep for the SAT while taking a shower

23rd July 2007

Item. People are training for the SAT by reading comic books. I suppose it had to happen.

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GPS-equipped spy squirrels ‘arrested’ by Iranians

22nd July 2007

Engadget. A picture is worth a thousand words.

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The Left Wing and a Prayer

20th July 2007

Item. It’s all about spin.

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The Path of Least Congestion

18th July 2007

NYT. Of course! The way to solve New York’s problems is … imitate Paris!

I wonder if the string of unemployed-Muslim-slums around Paris are also in the plan.

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Finding America’s aviator

13th July 2007

Item. I didn’t know there was an International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery. Sounds like something the U. N. would do.

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I Bet An Austrian

11th July 2007

Item. Some dweeb was willing to bet that Ron Paul will be elected President.

I’d take that bet.

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Does each member of the family need an individual bar of soap to prevent spreading germs, or do we have to switch to liquid soap?

10th July 2007

Item. Some people are too dumb to live.

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New York’s Antiterror Funds Disappoint, Officials Say

8th July 2007

Item. You gotta love New York.

“The sky is falling! The sky is falling!”

“Well, then, we’ll need more funding.”

Iterum. D.C. wants it’s turn at the trough, too.

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