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In other words, he’s scared of America.

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That’s a great picture of an alpaca. Wouldn’t mind having some of those myself, since my wife is a knitter.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

Intrepid indeed.

Read Kaus every day.

he Refs Dream They’re Being Worked: When McCain’s campaign attacks the press, he’s not “working the refs.” That implies McCain’s strategists still care how the “refs” make calls. I think it’s pretty clear they’re doing something else (and they’re perfectly happy if the refs keep making calls against them). … P.S.: Of course the MSM “refs” like to think McCain’s “working the refs,” because that implies they’re worth working–that their refereeing role is still all-important (as opposed to their role as, say, a totemic focus of political, class and cultural resentment!)

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We have the technology.

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Sometimes the old ways are best.

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The Atlantic takes a look at Stuff White People Like.

Lander’s White People aren’t always white, and the vast majority of whites aren’t White People (he doesn’t even capitalize the term). … Lander, like many of these writers, traces this group’s values to the 1960s, and there’s clearly a connection between a politics based on “self-cultivation” (to quote the Students for a Democratic Society’s gaseous manifesto, the Port Huron Statement) and what Lander defines as White People’s ethos: “their number-one concern is about the best way to make themselves happy.”

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Give it a taser and I’ll take one.

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This looks like it will crawl down off the dresser at midnight and go after your enemies.

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Try to find a cat who would do that.

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I’m glad to see they got the priority right.

I’d like to wrap this around a number of leftoids, starting with AlGore, with an admonishion to Just Chill.

Apparently Steven Brust doesn’t particularly like Aggies.

Well, I suppose they don’t particularly like him, either….

Don’t know who Steven Brust is? The angels will weep for you. Go to the bookstore and buy a copy of Jhereg. You’ll be glad you did.

Just because Brust’s a communist doesn’t mean he isn’t a great writer, sad to say.

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This is very silly. But we have the technology.

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Sort of like a fingerprint for chips.

Roy decides to hop aboard the bandwagon.

We have the technology.

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Get your scorecards out.

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This is pretty cool.

The Maker Movement.

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If Black & Decker made a cell phone, this would be it.

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Really, you can’t make this stuff up.

Blackwater shows what the government could do if used modern business methods.

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Oddly enough, that makes perfect sense.

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Needs a machine gun.

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Doin’ his best to stimulate the economy.

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For Nikki Tinker, Tennessee’s 9th Congressional District hung as sweetly as a plum in the state’s Democratic primary. It has a black majority, is full of churchgoing African American women like herself, and includes the hallowed ground where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by a white man.

But in an election season in which racial appeals may be losing their power, Tinker discovered that looks can be deceiving. On Election Day, she was crushed by her white opponent, Rep. Stephen I. Cohen, whom Tinker labeled as anti-prayer in one campaign ad and tried to link to the Ku Klux Klan in another.

“It was the first time in a state election where race could have been a factor and wasn’t,” said Larry Moore, an associate professor at the University of Memphis. “She fit the demographic perfectly. She was active in the churches. The majority of voters are female. And she got blown out.”

To James Lileks.

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PARIS FOR PRESIDENT

DRILL HERE * DRILL NOW

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Times have changed.

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And you can believe as much or as little as you care to.

Andrew Sullivan scored 92% probably male, so I take it with a grain of salt….

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Sometimes the old ways are best.

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Markets work even when you don’t want them to: When everyone enforces the law, the law is most efficiently enforced.

I think I’ll call it “democracy”, a term whose original use seems to have faded away.

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The End Times are here.

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You want plastic? We got plastic.

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Keeping you informed about the important trends of the day.

*Universalist Unitarian Obamaists: This denomination believes there are other politicians besides Obama, but they enjoy the fellowship of the weekly campaign events.  They are the least reliable Obamaists, as they aren’t certain if they will vote for Obama, or if he even exists at all.

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And there was much rejoicing. Break out the jiffy-pop.

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Steve must be doing something right if the “Southern Poverty Law Center” (a name that is the oxymoronic equal of “Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea”) doesn’t like him.

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And the hits just keep on comin’….

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Introducing the Smith & Wesson commemorative Heller v. D.C. revolver! That’s right, the Springfield, Mass.-based gun maker announced Monday it would present engraved Model 442 revolvers (pictured) to the six plaintiffs in the lawsuit that led to the high court’s June 26 decision.

The famous video.

American politics in a nutshell. (Emphasis on the nut — sorry, Jesse, no pun intended.)

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Swift … silent … deadly….

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Sort of like IFF for ground-pounders. Makes everyone safer from those idiots in the airplanes.

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The sweetest voices in the universe.