31st August 2008
The typical military effect on clothing is “effective but totally uncomfortable”. Let’s hope they’ve avoided that here.
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31st August 2008
I’d rather see her President than McCain, but we live with the choices we have.
And that says everything that needs to be said on the subject.
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30th August 2008
And about time, too.
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30th August 2008
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30th August 2008
It used to be that this sort of advance took place in America. What changed?
The surgery was made possible thanks to a revolutionary American-designed laser that is permanently chilled to avoid causing blood clots on contact with the brain or epileptic fits.
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30th August 2008
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30th August 2008
Yeah, but it’s still Coke products. Let me know when Pepsi gets in the game.
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30th August 2008
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30th August 2008
No indication of whether it’s blonde.
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29th August 2008
Can the breakfast cereal be far behind?
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29th August 2008
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29th August 2008
Although why this is a good thing is nowhere stated.
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29th August 2008
Let that be a lesson to us all.
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29th August 2008
“Worth it’s weight in what?”
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29th August 2008
The resemblance to Joe Biden is purely coincidental. Really.
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28th August 2008
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27th August 2008
I’ve said that for years. Children don’t act like humans until they get to be 24 or so. Don’t believe me? Look at car insurance rates. Actuaries are the least delusional people in the world.
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26th August 2008
For between £200 and £2,000, people can buy a cow that stands no taller than a large German shepherd dog, gives 16 pints of milk a day that can be drunk unpasteurised, keeps the grass “mown” and will be a family pet for years before ending up in the freezer.
A lot more useful than a cat. Sign me up.
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26th August 2008
Think of it as evolution in action.
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25th August 2008
And look at the map. An excellent introduction to what’s going on there, and why we ought to stay out.
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25th August 2008
Mickey Kaus has the dirt.
Perhaps Democrats can learn from experience after all. That would be amazing.
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24th August 2008
They don’t make ’em like that any more. Take a look.
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24th August 2008
This is actually a quite useful device. Those who exercise are well aware that it’s Less Like Work if you’ve got something to pace with, be it a friend (or sadistic drill instructor) running beside you or some appropriate music.
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23rd August 2008
Steve Sailer does the Olympics — and nobody does it better.
Warning: Do not be drinking when you read this.
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23rd August 2008
We have the technology.
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21st August 2008
Don’t be afraid to expose your assumptions.
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21st August 2008
Italian food is proof positive that God loves us and wants us to enjoy ourselves.
Believe it.
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21st August 2008
Ah, they don’t make ’em like that any more.
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21st August 2008
We have the technology.
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21st August 2008
That’s a million in modern money, of course, which is worth rather less then it was back then.
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21st August 2008
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21st August 2008
Read it.
Doubtful — anybody who cares about what Jerry Seinfeld thinks already uses a Mac.
One slogan that Microsoft shouldn’t use: “Vista – Not that there’s anything wrong with that.”
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21st August 2008
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20th August 2008
This has the potential to be very cool.
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19th August 2008
Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.
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19th August 2008
Well, yeah — not being around primitive farm machinery and animals that weighed a lot and didn’t really care what they stepped on will do that for you.
Those who mourn the “dark Satanic mills” forget that country people flocked there in preference to working in the fields.
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19th August 2008
This sounds like an excellent idea.
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18th August 2008
Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.
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18th August 2008
I love maps like these.
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17th August 2008
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17th August 2008
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17th August 2008
This is God telling you not to go kayaking.
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17th August 2008
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17th August 2008
We have the technology.
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17th August 2008
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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16th August 2008
Gee — I wonder why?
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16th August 2008
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16th August 2008
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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16th August 2008
Shucks, I missed it.
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