Lawmaker apologizes for insult to unwed parents
9th February 2008
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9th February 2008
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5th February 2008
Read it. The day you never thought would come.
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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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22nd January 2008
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16th January 2008
Read it. Now this is just silly.
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11th January 2008
Read it. I guess Federal employment goes to the lowest bidder, too.
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7th January 2008
Read it. Even Communists get weird in Tibet.
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7th January 2008
Read it. Our government cannot be parodied. It’s just impossible to keep up.
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4th January 2008
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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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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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18th December 2007
Read it. Where Jonah Goldberg finds this stuff I have no idea.
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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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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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16th November 2007
Read it. Where Jonah Goldberg finds this stuff I’ll never know.
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12th November 2007
Read it. Sometimes irony is a completely inadequate word.
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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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7th November 2007
Read it. Words fail me.
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26th October 2007
Read it. That’ll show’em.
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11th October 2007
Read it. There are so many things that I could say that I just can’t choose.
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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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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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10th September 2007
Read it. Put that kid on the treadmill….
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4th September 2007
Read it. So if we hire the Lebanese Army to take over in Iraq….
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29th August 2007
Read it. I wonder if you have to pay admission to cross the California state line?
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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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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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21st August 2007
Engadget. The question that immediately leaps to mind, of couse, is: Why?
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20th August 2007
Read it. Truly, you cannot make this stuff up.
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16th August 2007
Read it. The Communist Chinese are forbidding reincarnation without government authorization.
Where the personal is really political.
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15th August 2007
NYT. “Rules?! In a knife fight?!“
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15th August 2007
LGF. Turn on the light, and the roaches scuttle.
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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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14th August 2007
LGF. Truly, you cannot make this stuff up.
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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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14th August 2007
NYT. Guess it didn’t work.
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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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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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28th July 2007
NYT. Well, that’s certainly a load off of my mind.
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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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25th July 2007
FuturePundit. You knew it was coming….
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23rd July 2007
Item. People are training for the SAT by reading comic books. I suppose it had to happen.
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22nd July 2007
Engadget. A picture is worth a thousand words.
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20th July 2007
Item. It’s all about spin.
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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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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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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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10th July 2007
Item. Some people are too dumb to live.
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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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