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This is God telling you not to go kayaking.

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We have the technology.

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You would think that they were “activists”.

A parliamentary vote has led to more than 20 regional languages now being officially recognised by France’s constitution for the first time in history, horrifying those who see France’s single tongue as its unifying force.

Oh, no. The forces of centralization and uniformity have suffered a perhaps fatal blow.

The revolution has been brought about by lobbying from an unlikely alliance of minority groups, including Corsican nationalists, Breton druids, Germanic-leaning Alsatians, and even romantic poets from the southern Languedoc region.

What, riff-raff can lobby? Whoda thunkit.

Despite furious opposition from L’Académie, Article 75 of the revised constitution now states that all the languages “are part of France’s heritage”. As a result, French tax payers also face a multi-million Euro bill to make everything from road signs to menus into “regionally acceptable” dual-translation form.

No good deed goes unpunished. Nowhere is it explained, of course, why, just because a language is recognized as part of the national heritage, every conceivable nook and cranny of the government bureaucracy has to accommodate it. Why, you’d think they were becoming Americans. Or perhaps that Americans were becoming Europeans. I’m becoming confused….

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Gee — I wonder why?

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Nils Olav, a king penguin at Edinburgh Zoo that doubles as the honorary colonel of the King’s Guards of Norway, was knighted in a ceremony involving 130 guardsmen.

Sounds like a Monty Python skit, doesn’t it?

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Shucks, I missed it.

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People can surprise you. Even New Yorkers.

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We have the technology.

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The old Britain still exists, it’s just well-hidden.

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Brought to you by Joss Whedon, so you know it’s good.

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

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This is getting pretty silly. Although I suppose it would come in handy if you were stranded on a desert island that just happened to be covered in roses that badly needed pruning.

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I’ll believe it when I can buy it.

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Yeah, but can he run down a fox?

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It’s funny watching reporters for the New York Time try to cope with black people who don’t buy their SWPL culture.

Later, when I mentioned that it could be hard for a white journalist to understand all of the nuances of race, he looked over at his press secretary, who is black, and interrupted me. “He’s not black?” Nutter deadpanned, motioning back at me. “You guys told me it was a skin condition. I thought I was talking to a brother.” Nutter is known to have a dry sense of humor, but I also had the sense that he was tweaking me in these moments, watching with some amusement as I tried to navigate subjects that white and black Americans rarely discuss together. He seemed to think I was oddly preoccupied with race.

Oh, ya think?

I asked Nutter if he found it insulting to have me come barging into his office, demanding to know why he didn’t pick the black guy.

“It’s not insulting,” he answered. “It’s presumptuous. It demonstrates a continuation of this notion that the African-American community, unlike any other, is completely monolithic, that everyone in the African-American community does the same thing in lockstep, in contrast to any other group. I mean, I don’t remember seeing John Kerry on TV and anybody saying to him, ‘I can’t believe you’re not for Hillary Clinton.’ Why?”

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And rightly so.

Most people would say that we live in a world in which we are not slaves to government. It could be that, or it could just be that our masters are somewhat diffuse and dysfunctional.

Steve Sailer dreams of Olympic gold.

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that China had a “wild west”.

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In Britain, anyway.

Lacks only the key phrase “scientists say” to have ultimate authority.

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Think of all that methane….

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Historically, this isn’t so odd. Christianity went from being a capital crime — you could be executed merely for being Christian — in 300 AD to being semi-official 25 years later.

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Hm, I don’t see any mention of Sherman here….

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Maggots’ flesh-eating ways have long been used to cleaning nasty wounds. Just a few years back the FDA even decided maggots could be regulated as medical devices for prescription wound care.

Don’t say you don’t see important issues being discussed, here.

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I guess “scientists” are like “activists”, there’s always one around when you least expect it.

Sheep and cattle in Australia alone produce 11 per cent of the nation’s total emissions.

Gotta love Australians.

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James Bond never had it so good.

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Looks like a Smart ForTwo without the personality.

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Well, this doesn’t come as a big surprise to me.

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Hah.

To Jerry Pournelle.

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Julie Burchill can’t stand them. According to her new book, Not in my Name: A Compendium of Modern Hypocrisy, she thinks all environmentalists are po-faced, unsexy, public school alumni who drivel on about the end of the world because they don’t want the working classes to have any fun, go on foreign holidays or buy cheap clothes.

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Money spent developing cancer drugs should be diverted to researching innovations in surgery which would save more lives, the President of the Royal College of Surgeons has said.

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We have the technology.

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C’mon, baby, do the locomotion….

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

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Me want.

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Funny how that works.

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I have to say, I’d rather do plastering than be an actuary any day.

And, the way things are going, a good plasterer will soon be harder to find than a good actuary. This may be a smart move on her part.

Steve Sailer is always worth reading.

Yet, as the quantity of American distance runners exploder, the quality declined. Could it have been the shoes? American runners had the best shoes money could buy, but they kept getting injured. One theory is that the more your feet are cushioned and stabilized, the weaker their muscles get, and the more likely you are to get hurt.

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Well, there you go.

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