A handy compendium.

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Driving a car at a Marine holding a rifle is not something that would occur to a normal intelligent person.

Megan McArdle takes a look.

To be clear, I do not object to the teacher’s unions because they have a union. I object to the teacher’s unions because teachers are among the competing interests that run low-income school districts for the benefit of the various interest groups, rather than the children. The union merely gives them more power to move value from children to teachers.

And that is the essence of a union. Whenever you see a union, you see a group of people who are attempting through politics to gain an economic advantage that they cannot gain through a free market.

Sort of like a government that way, come to think of it.

Or a street gang.

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Perhaps because it helps to be soused when listening to what passes for music these days.

But that’s just me.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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Where have I seen this before? Oh, yeah — Star Treck, one of those episodes where Kirk or Spock or somebody gets court-martialed.

He looks really happy to be wearing it, doesn’t he?

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Money may not buy happiness, but it can rent Harvard and Jimmy Carter for a good long while.

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Megan McArdle points out some common threads of “alternative medicine”.

I love the ionic foot baths that use salt ions and your skin fat to create lye while telling you that the disgusting looking brown stuff is “cleansing your liver”.

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Oh, no!

Wait for the enviro-nazis to mandate it.

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Consider this tough talk from UN chief Ban Ki-moon: “I want to register my deep concern and immense frustration on the unacceptably slow response to this grave humanitarian crisis.” The problem is, something is only unacceptable if it’s not accepted. So, eleven days into the unacceptable, we’re still pretending that the UN is going to get around to caring about corpses that can’t be linked to the American military or the Israeli Defense Force.

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Time to invade Burma?

Remind me what use the U.N. is.

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We have the technology.

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I am not making this up.

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Okay, new technique that differs from what everybody else is doing, and it demonstrably works —

Chances of it getting widely adopted: None.

Amount of time between now and when it is in general use: Approximately 100 years. And homeschoolers will have been doing it for 50 of them.

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I’d want to specify “No socialists need apply.” But that’s me.

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Also, organically reared cows burp twice as much methane as conventionally reared cattle – and methane is 20 times more powerful a greenhouse gas than CO2.

Huh. Organic food is … wait for it … bad for the environment. Who knew?

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Yeah, he talks a good fight, but talk is cheap — can he deliver?

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I think teenagers ought to be encouraged to injure themselves. Saves the rest of us some effort.

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Invade? The international community cannot “protect” the Burmese people from a military government without employing military means.

And long past time, I would say.

The United Nations, of course, is not prepared to use force. So Burmese by the tens of thousands will perish.

Remind me what good the U.N. is.

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“Want to ship American jobs overseas? Ask me how!”

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Boy, those guys really look British, don’t they?

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It has long been common for assassins to target local and state police chiefs in Mexico, but this year, cartels have been increasingly going after some of the biggest names in the federal law enforcement structure.

No wonder they’re crossing the border.

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But that conclusion must of course be interpreted to make conservatives look bad. So the assumption is injected that they SHOULD be angry! No argument is offered to say why.

“Our research suggests that inequality takes a greater psychological toll on liberals than on conservatives,” the researchers write in the June issue of the journal Psychological Science, “apparently because liberals lack ideological rationalizations that would help them frame inequality in a positive (or at least neutral) light.”

Obviously a serious character flaw. Liberals are just too sensitive for their own good.

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The corporate recruiters have a pretty easy time of it, as they can offer higher pay, better working conditions and bonuses.

And it’s not as if there’s any patriotism there to motivate people the other way.

I love these left-wing fantasy movies in which the CIA is staffed by brilliant people with the latest in electronic equipment that can monitor what everybody does all the time. If only….

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Gangs of youths loyal to Zimbabwe’s ruling party beat to death 11 opposition activists in a remote town this week in an escalation of post-election violence, opposition party officials and witnesses said Wednesday.

Sounds like the sort of ‘activists’ that are attracted to the Democrat Party.

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Gee, I wonder how that happened.

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Irony isn’t just about getting wrinkles out of your clothes.

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Well, assume that God doesn’t exist and you’ve got a lifetime of phenomena to attempt to explain. It’s rather like palmistry, astrology, and phrenology that way.

Fine if you have a lot of free time on your hands. Me, I’m pretty busy.

Newberg is an Associate Professor in the Department of Radiology and Psychiatry, Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and director and co-founder of the Center for Spirituality and the Neurosciences, all at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Ah, so we’re grasping at straws hoping that one leads to tenure. It’s all clear to me now.

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Don’t hold your breath.

Steve Sailer is always worth reading, even when he’s mostly quoting (and critiquing) a leftoid idiot.

To say that somebody is, say, white is not just a crude way of saying that they are unlikely to have the gene variant that makes beta blockers ineffective. It’s actually much more of a way of saying that on, average, they are more likely to be genealogically related to another white person than to a non-white person. In other words, a white person has more family ties to white people than to nonwhite people. And who you are related to matters, in all sorts of ways, genetic, sociological, political, and personal, ways both subtle and bleedingly obvious.

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The perennial struggle of Democratic contenders to appeal to ordinary Americans seems very much of a piece with Orwell’s sharp descriptions. Election after election, Democrats argue that once Joe and Jane Sixpack fully grasp the wisdom of the latest six-point college-loan program, or of an 800-page health-care scheme, they will come to wave the Democratic banner. And, sometimes, these voters do just that—provided that the candidate in question has demonstrated a sense that he or she is not treating them as the subject of an anthropological study.

Christopher Hitchens is always worth reading.

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It is not a pretty sight.

There is a Bible on a pedestal in Gretta Vosper’s West Hill United Church in Toronto. She would prefer it did not have a special place, she said, because it is just a book among other books. In a similar way, the cross that is high above the altar has no special meaning, but there are a few older congregants for whom the Bible and the cross are still nice symbols so there they remain.

And these people are nominally Christian. Makes you wonder why they even bother. (“United Church”? United with what? Kind of like “Amalgamated Industries” — the name disguises rather than reveals what they do.)

How would a Muslim react to a nominal Muslim saying, “Well, that Mohammed guy wasn’t all that important, anyway.”

Violently, I suspect.

But that’s me.

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Making Light is typically frequented by tedious retread socialists who think “Bushitler” constitutes clever political repartee (as the headline underscores), but this analysis is well worth reading.

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The collapse of the Cole investigation offers a revealing case study of the U.S. government’s failure to bring al-Qaeda operatives and their leaders to justice for some of the most devastating attacks on American targets over the past decade.

If you want justice, you’re going to have to do it yourself. There is no such think at “international law”.

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Most non-Indians aren’t aware that the social system usually described in the West as “caste” is really varna, or “color”.

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Of course, they’d never hold such a vote in Cuba.

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More cannibalism on the left.

The incompetence of Democrat leaders in Congress must be extreme if even their tame media lapdogs are noticing.

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Of course, you already knew that.

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For sufficiently loose definitions of the term “art form”.

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Whether Shvarts is telling the truth or, as Yale claims, was simply engaged in bizarre “performance art,” the real issue is this: Where did she get such a gruesome, pornographic idea? And who taught her to confuse it with art?

It is possible to get a good education at Yale, but it’s not easy.

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And that’s their basic problem. They ought instead to struggle to reflect Christianity, rather than trying to increase their market share as a social club.

“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”

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I’m sure this is just racism and bigotry on the part of the authorities. Yup. No doubt about it.

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What we need is a pesticide that works on ‘environmentalists’.

Hmm. I wonder whether the EPA would pass it?

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And you pretty much get what you pay for.

Hey, these people think animals are more important than people. Who could be surprised that they take the next step? Who could be surprised that such people are so incompetent at life that a machine could make it better?

Not me….

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He’s shocked, shocked I tell you, that a once-and-future Clinton aide would do such a thing.

And he’s not hesitating to use the same sort of guilt-by-association tactics that have been the hallmark of the political right dating back to the McCarthy era.

And the hallmark of the Clinton machine almost as far back. But he’s shocked nevertheless.

(I almost never link to the Huffington Post, since it’s mostly bullshit, but sometimes it can be entertaining bullshit.)