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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