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“You can make a mainframe / from the things you have at home.” Jeez, I haven’t thought about that song in years.

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1. Thank God you don’t live in Britain.
2. Without eternal vigilance, it could happen here. Probably in Massachusetts or California. Avoid those states.

Watch it.

Eat your heart out, Lee Ermey.

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Perhaps they could adopt the old system of having a guy ride ahead on a horse waving a red flag.

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I have no evidence that this is an April Fool joke. It’s just the sort of crap such people believe.

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Some people just have entirely too much time on their hands.

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Wow, that’s really cosmic, man.

You can almos hear the hippies chanting ‘OM’ in the background….

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Some people don’t deserve to live in a technological society.

The girl’s lawyers claim that MySpace still had a responsibility to protect the girl, even though he doesn’t explain how it can protect a girl who lied about her age and then went off to meet with a much older guy in real life.

I’m sure Shari’a has some appropriate punishment for lawyers like this — cutting their tongue out, say.

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Imagine you were a state legislator and some folks asked you to pass a law making it a crime to give advice about paint colors and throw pillows without a license. And imagine they told you that the only people qualified to place large pieces of furniture in a room are those who have gotten a college degree in interior design, completed a two-year apprenticeship, and passed a national licensing exam. And by the way, it is criminally misleading for people who practice interior design to use that term without government permission.

You might stare at them incredulously for a moment, then look down at your calendar and say, “Oh, I get it — April Fool!” Right? Wrong.

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This has texture, and scope.

The New York Times is, of course, the Official House Organ of White People.

I’m somewhat disappointed that, among the Things Mentioned, they didn’t include “Looking Down Your Trendier-Than-Thou Yuppie Nose At FlyOver Country”. That really ought to be in there.

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You’ve got to wonder at a government that includes violation fines in its budgeting process. You would think this were the Middle Ages.

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Read it. The day you never thought would come.

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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Read it. Now this is just silly.

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

Read it. Even Communists get weird in Tibet.

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

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

Oh, wait….

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

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

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

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

Read it. Sometimes irony is a completely inadequate word.

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

Read it. Words fail me.

Read it. And this.

Read it. That’ll show’em.

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

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?

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.

Read it. Put that kid on the treadmill….

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Where the personal is really political.

NYT. “Rules?! In a knife fight?!“

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

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

LGF. Truly, you cannot make this stuff up.

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.

NYT. Guess it didn’t work.

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

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.