NYT. I was unaware that “jellyfish waste” removal was such a problem.

Item. Admit it … we’ve all wanted to do that. I really love Australians.

Item. Well, it had to happen.

Item. Nothing new under the sun, as the Good Book says.

Item. And rightly so. Go, Fred.

Item. This is simply astonishing … and a good reminder that an IQ of 100 means the middle of the range, not the lower end.

Item. Trust the New York Times to focus on the criminal rather than on the fact that more are being caught.

Item. This is really neat. Very revealing, too.

Item. Makes you wonder what we need a “drug czar” for if all he can do is Point With Alarm.

Item. My Doc’s bigger than your Doc….

Item. Clueless in Los Angeles.

Steve Sailer. The dirty little secret about political correctness and The Test.

Item. Where is Marian Wright Edelman when you really need her? (Probably off pestering a Republican.)

Item. That’s what I’m talkin’ about….

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Hey, being on the left has always been more of a fashion statement than anything else among the People of the Crust.

Next step: The Live Hamas worldwide concert. (Sorry, that’s about as much Barbra Streisand as I can take….)

Item. Not that it’s hard to fool AP.

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More interesting than it sounds. It has cartoons.

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Trust me, it’s more interesting than it sounds. It cites Dilbert.

Steve Sailer.

Read The Whole Thing.

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The American public aren’t as stupid as most People of the Crust believe them to be.

Not that it matters much. Those that make the rules get the gold.

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This would make the basis of a really neat science fiction story.

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That’s YOUR money they want to spend, boys and girls.

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“Moderate”, of course, meaning “having no principles aside from doing whatever it takes to get re-elected”.

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An excess of young males without enough females to go around has historically been the source of much trouble.

Things ought to get very interesting in about twenty years when these guys and the Chinese wind up with the same problem. Perhaps I’ll be safely dead by then.

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I would have a problem with trusting my life to any flying vehicle, much less one controlled by a robot.

The threat from rocket-propelled grenades has grounded the big helicopters.

I don’t see how being unmanned makes vehicles immune from the same threats that face manned vehicles. I’d rather have some guy driving the bus whose own life depends on us getting safely home. But perhaps that’s just me.

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But perhaps we can get it to play one on TV.

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Do a taste test and you’ll quickly discern why people prefer the bottled stuff. Ponder also the fact that bottled water is provided by private industry and tap water is provided by a local government — which would you trust with your health? Apparently, for many, that isn’t a difficult question.

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I am reminded of the classic cartoon about the singing frog. It didn’t work then, either.

Item. Gee, where did that come from? I thought it was a religion of peace.

Item. Isn’t that special.

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Item. More good news.

Item. Don’t ask me, I don’t understand it either.

Item. I love it when they turn on each other.

Review.

Christopher Hitchens responds to Michael Gerson.

However, it is his own supposedly kindly religion that prevents him from seeing how insulting is the latent suggestion of his position: the appalling insinuation that I would not know right from wrong if I was not supernaturally guided by a celestial dictatorship, which could read and condemn my thoughts and which could also consign me to eternal worshipful bliss (a somewhat hellish idea) or to an actual hell.

Well, unfortunately, that’s not what Gerson said.

 Atheists can be good people; they just have no objective way to judge the conduct of those who are not.

Hitchens is a trained and experienced polemicist, so perhaps this particular subroutine kicks in automatically, but it is still unsatisfactory when a sniper shoots a bystander rather than the bad guy.

Item. Really, you can’t make this stuff up.

Item. And sociopathy a marketable man. Look for it in the fiction section of a bookstore near you.

Item Oh, ya think? Welcome to the real world, sweetheart.

Item. Unfortunately, most Retarded countries think of the U.N. the same way they think of their own governments — an organized theft and extortion scheme rather than an organ that’s actually supposed to accomplish something useful.

Remind me: why are we paying for these crooks?

Item. Most libraries that drop the Dewey system pick up the Library of Congress system. Curiously, they seem to have abandoned any classification scheme whatsoever. Don’t know how they go about reshelving books — or directing people to books from the computer catalog. The purpose of a catalog, after all, is not to put like things together but rather to promote finding stuff once you know what it is.

Item. Curiouser and curiouser.

The common bond of Orthodox Jew and Pentecostal Christian is a belief in the right of a devout person to dress according to religious belief, without the risk of being fired.

And why is this in the New York Times? Can you spell “burqa”? Can you spell “moral equivalence”? I’m sure you can.

Admittedly, this one is a bit more subtle than most. But The Agenda is still The Agenda.

Item. Not really a surprise.

Item. You know you’re having a bad day when….

Item. I can’t wait for the movie.

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The charge that universities are directly responsible for almost all the violence in the world today, for example, strikes me as essentially accurate.

Read The Whole Thing.

Cartoon. I don’t care who you are, this is funny.

Item. This would actually be useful.

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Item. Hey, it worked for Eliot Spitzer — he’s governor now.