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Item. Those who know the truth don’t need convincing, and those who need convincing persist in denying the truth. But it’s interesting.

Item. Good news.

Ross Douthat. Rather a can of worms, but interesting.

Item. Whoa.

Item. I bought a 35 when it came out, as did pretty much every guy in my Division on the USS John F Kennedy. It was $400, about a month’s pay for me at the time, and I was damned glad to get it.

Item. Another corrupt Democrat. They must not pay these guys enough.

The woman accused of buying the bargain-priced city land, Tamika Riley, was expected to appear in court with him.

“Tamika”? Boy, there’s an Irish name for you.

Item. This is actually very clever.

Item. Count me in.

In countries where voting publics have a lot of influence over their rulers the elected officials will get scared out of enacting more fuel taxes.

Well, that leaves us out. Shucks.

Item. I’m simply astonished to see this in the WaPo.

Item. Oh, yes.

Item. Don’t see what all the fuss is about.

Item. Why does it always surprise people when a Communist government acts like a Communist government?

Item. Another Democrat busted for bribery. They must not pay these guys enough.

Steve Sailer. I have always been underwhelmed by “competitive” debating, since I never found any of the presentations persuasive, and if debate isn’t meant to persuade it’s just verbal wankery. Apparently I’m not alone in my discontent.

Obviously, this emphasis on speed isn’t good training for much of anything in the real world, where trying to talk faster than the other guy is more likely to get you a punch on the nose than the acclaim of your fellow men. When FDR, for example, was in debate at Groton in the 1890s, they taught him to try to persuade his audience, not overwhelm them.

Item. Universal surveillance and EngSoc. Orwell was right, he just got the dates off a bit.

David Friedman. The term “evolutionary psychology” strikes me as very odd, and I’m not exactly sure why. It does, however, prompt me to want to read Wright’s The Moral Animal.

Item. I didn’t know there was an International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery. Sounds like something the U. N. would do.

Item. Does anybody really need a “home server”? or is this just a technolust geek toy?

Item. Just a shameless ploy to gain sympathy with the American left, I think.

Item. Well, it does rather fit the UN definition of “peace”, as exemplified in Darfur, Rwanda, Kosovo, etc. etc.

Item. Now that’s entertainment.

Item. Steve Sailer is always worth reading.

Bruce Bartlett. An interesting fellow.

Item. He’s got a point.

Item. Here’s how you get kids to wear those dorky bike helmets.

Item. More on the Great Badger Invasion of 2007.

Item. As if the old life was such a great deal.

Item. Note that the primary reason for the high prices is that government restricts the supply. The markets work whether you want them to or not.

Item. At last, an article that treats San Francisco politics with the dignity that it deserves.

Item. “Take our liberties … please.”

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Libraries and intellectual salons stopped holding workshops and discussions; Sufi concerts and sitar lessons were canceled.

The horror….

Item. Clever.

Item. We all want minions some day.

Item. In every sense of the word.

Item. Yeah, well, how do you think Bin Laden feels?

Item. In related news, it is reliably reported that many poor people wish they could be rich people.

Item. Some dweeb was willing to bet that Ron Paul will be elected President.

I’d take that bet.

Item. Every prank will come back and bite you in the butt. Guaranteed.

Item. But of course it’s probably George Bush’s fault.

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One-hundred-year floods could come as often as once every 10 years by the end of this century … New York City might have to swelter through a full month with temperatures over 100 degrees.

Personally, I’m in favor of anything that makes New York more like Texas.

Without reductions in emissions, sea levels could rise, inundating coastal areas on southern Long Island and pushing water over parts of lower Manhattan, flooding the financial district and pouring water into the subways, making them inoperable.

So what’s the bad news?

Item. One would think that gun manufacturers (and those who love them) are constantly pestering lawmakers to, well, make laws — presumably mandating the ownership and use of guns. This notion is of course absurd on its face. The real question is, Can the House Buck the Anti-Gun Lobby? It is the gun grabbers, not the gun owners, who are constantly pestering lawmakers to, well, make laws — laws attempting to nibble away at Second Amendment rights in ways about which these morons would be the first to scream if somebody tried it with rights under any other Amendment.

Item. Just what exactly is “educational justice”? Inquiring minds want to know.

Apparently it involves (a) transferring students from schools close to home to schools far away from home and (b) the government spending a lot of money.

Somehow that doesn’t surprise me. After all, liberals have been telling us for years that black kids can’t learn unless there’s a white kid in the room.

Yaacov Ben Moshe.

I am finding out that it is a peculiarity of Beast Encounters that often we don’t recognize them right away- sometimes its only as we recall them years later, that we see how the impression left by them fits the footprint of the beast. The art of Beast Tracking- something I am learning to do as I go along- requires attention to detail, sensitivity and, above all, memory.

Read The Whole Thing

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Feeling old is good enough for me….

Item. Perhaps they realize, as most journalists do not, that he’s full of it.

Item. Wonder how AlGore feels about that.

Buying in Los Angeles did not appeal to Ms. Pike, who says that although she finds it the easiest city to live in, she is turned off by its natural instability: “the earthquakes, the landslides, the fires.”

Not to mention the wierdos.

Item. How soon before they apply it to beer?

Item. This will make your brain hurt but it’s good exercise.

Item. “Unintended consequences”? Naw, we never bother with that stuff.