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Well, it’s more of a psychological barrier than anything else, but I suppose they have to spend their money on something.

Of course, now, rig it up to a terawatt laser that fires if the barrier is breached — well, that’s a car-corpse of a different color. So to speak.

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Having persuaded his users to relieve him of the trouble of coming up with ideas for his cartoons, Scott has figured out a way to have them relieve him of the trouble of writing them.

Wally would be right on top of this one.

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Why do the Japanese invent all of the cool stuff?

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Funny how the Overclass suddenly fudges its principles when there comes a pinch in the pocketbook — or the ol’ lifestyle.

Ever see AlGore ride a horse? Wouldn’t you pay for the privilege? I sure would.

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It was Harlan Ellison about a decade ago.
He said, “Hey. Gaiman. What’s with the stubble? Every time I see you, you’re stubbly. What is it? Some kind of English fashion statement?”
“Not really.”
“Well? Don’t they have razors in England for Chrissakes?”
“If you must know, I don’t like shaving because I have a really tough beard and sensitive skin. So by the time I’ve finished shaving I’ve usually scraped my face a bit. So I do it as little as possible.”
“Oh.” He paused. “I’ve got that too. What you do is, you rub your stubble with hair conditioner. Leave it a couple of minutes, then wash it off. Then shave normally. Makes it really easy to shave. No scraping.”
I tried it. It works like a charm. Best advice from a writer I’ve ever received.

Neil Gaiman is the most delightful human being now alive.

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You know, it may be hard to find a candidate who doesn’t belong to a church whose leader delivers eyebrow-singing speeches on the evils of America and also built a house Jim Bakker would approve, and it may be hard to find a candidate who doesn’t move with ease in the same social circles as some people who bombed the Pentagon, but it can’t be that hard to find one who doesn’t do both.

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

I don’t mean to suggest, of course, that environmentalists are all a bunch of narcissistic sociopaths. No, I would never do that.

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But that trick never works.

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I guess regressives are just as shallow as the rest of us.

As a charter member of the ‘attractive but unsociable’ set, I find this comforting. Not that I would ever go to one of these parties, but it’s nice to know that I could if I wanted to. Which I don’t.

Where have all the most appealing men gone? Married young, most of them—and sometimes to women whose most salient characteristic was not their beauty, or passion, or intellect, but their decisiveness.

Read ’em & weep, girls.

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An innovative analysis by Eric Cadora highlights “million-dollar blocks” — individual city blocks where more than one million dollars per block per year are spent to incarcerate individuals from that block.

Care to guess how many People of Pallor live on such blocks?

Tyler Cowan is not impressed by former-Republican-now-liberal-sellout Kevin Phillips’ new book.

Either the current market estimate of inflation is the best estimate available, or you know that it is wrong and you will be a very rich man.  I find the former scenario more plausible.

I have to say I agree with him. Kevin Phillips is the David Brock of the Nixon generation, and his books are bought mostly by Democrats who think that Republicans are on the verge of agreeing with them that America sucks and is headed for the toilet.

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All white people own a pair! Seriously, next time you are at a casual party where guests are encouraged to take off their shoes take a look by the door at the veritable rainbow of New Balance sneakers.

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By any measure, the nonexistent psychological condition dubbed “Islamophobia” has been a huge success for the radical Islamic front groups. It shows up regularly in editorials and commentary in the US, and in Europe the term has taken hold so well the EU is trying to punish those who suffer from it. We infidels certainly are eager to bathe in guilt, aren’t we?

It’s not a phobia if they’re actually out to kill you.

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Too bad we the public cannot conspire, away from the calculating gaze of the political/media class, to pay no heed at all to “gaffes.” To starve them once and for all of the raw material of manufactured controversy, a random bludgeon of opportunity that only serves to introduce an element of caprice into politics and further chill our already tepid national discourse. No, occasional disciplinary lapses into honesty should be encouraged and welcome for what they often are: the brief lifting of the veil of rhetorical obscurity between the people and the governing elite.

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Good. In “open war”, he loses. Please don’t throw us in that briar patch.

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This will make your Y chromosome sit up and bark like a dog.

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This is why Prince Harry was jerked home once his secret identity was blown. These guys see no reason not to target individuals. Wish we were doing the same.

Steve Sailer is always worth reading.

The funny thing is that I bet Rev. Wright considers Obama an ungrateful tightwad. After all, Obama makes $3.9 million in one year off his two books, for one of which Wright’s “Audacity of Hope” sermon provides the title and for the other it provides the central climax.

Does Obama do the Christian thing and tithe? Hardly. Instead of 10%, Obama chips in 0.7% of his income.

Betrayed, I tell you. Betrayed.

On the other hand, it ought to come as a comfort to be shown that Senator Obama doesn’t falue race-hatred all that highly.

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For some reason the Washington Post seems to specialize in publishing the mumblings of black columnists who no intelligent adult would take seriously. Eugene Robinson is the most egregious of these, but King is not far behind.

Anyone who could write “the New York Senator and her GOP allies” and mean it seriously has a disconnect from reality that one can only marvel at.

I do admire his ability to get paid for that kind of stuff.

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And, really, it couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of people.

David Friedman ponders what everyone else ought to be pondering.

Another interesting quote comes via CNN from Angie Voss, a supervisor for investigation at Texas Child Protective Services, who said that about 130 of the children removed were under the age of 4.

Boys were also removed from the ranch, Voss testified, because “I believe that the boys are groomed to be perpetrators.”

Or in other words, bringing up children in their parents’ religion is itself child abuse, provided that the doctrines of the religion are sufficiently repugnant.

We’re from the government, and we’ re here to help. Put your hands up.

Steve Sailer is always worth reading.

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Which shows you how far Chicago has degenerated.

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I wonder whether that strategy would work for the Republican Party? After all, who has been more consistently insulted by CNN?

Oh, right — Christians. But they’re not organized, so it doesn’t count.

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But never at the right people — the environmentalist wackos and the politicians who kiss their asses.

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Researchers have built the world’s smallest transistor – one atom thick and 10 atoms wide – out of a material that could one day replace silicon.

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I like it.

I love it.

I want some more of it.

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1. Thank God you don’t live in Britain.
2. Without eternal vigilance, it could happen here. Probably in Michigan first.

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Once again, the regressives of the Left Coast lead the nation in statism.

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While technology can empower oppression, it can also empower resistance to oppression.  Evil things fear the light.

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There’s a hole with no bottom….

Tibor Machan provides our think-piece for the day.

You know (or ought to know) all this already, but it’s handy to have it all in one place in an ordered format.

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As a result of the DDT ban, more than 30 million children in Africa and Asia have died from DDT-preventable malaria, and an estimated 500 million adults are today chronically ill from this disease. The ban of DDT was the worst act of technological genocide in human history.

 Hundreds of millions of human beings live today on the very edge of existence — with all of their available resources consumed in the quest for food, shelter, and the minimum necessities of life. Without world technology and the energy that makes that technology possible, these people will slip from the lower rungs of human existence and will die. By abruptly lowering world hydrocarbon use, the human-caused global warmers are going to kill these people.

Politicians in the United States have given us a first taste of the horrible suffering of human beings that is to come. By responding to the myth of human-caused global warming by mildly diminishing American grain supplies — in a futile, politicized attempt to burn grain as fuel, American politicians have given the world a slight taste of the starvation and slaughter that is to come.

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But, regardless of Brandon’s track-record, his resignation, reports the editorial board, was a foregone conclusion. Fiduciary duty to Berkshire shareholders required Buffet to avoid a criminal indictment of Gen Re at any cost. And U.S. Attorneys can pressure companies to fire executives as a show of cooperation. Georgetown Law prof John Hasnas says prosecutors rarely if ever tell corporations to fire their target. But all they have to do is to suggest that they are considering whether to indict the corporation, and that the extent of their cooperation will be considered in the decision, and “the message gets across.”

Is anybody surprised?  When merely bringing charges can destroy a company — hello, Arthur Anderson — who is safe from “prosecutorial discretion”?

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Perhaps that explains Michael Moore.

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It’s accurate that Obama doesn’t take money from oil companies; neither do his opponents, because corporate contributions are illegal. But Obama, like Clinton and John McCain, has accepted donations from oil and gas company employees — $222,309 in Obama’s case from donors from Exxon, Shell, Chevron and others, according to campaign-finance data. Two oil company CEOs have pledged to raise at least $50,000 each as part of Obama’s fundraising team.

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Wouldn’t it be nice to see one of these thieves go to jail?

Of course, they wouldn’t be making a big deal out of it if it were a Democrat, but still — progress.

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Now imagine how bad it would be if Mexico weren’t exporting most of their poor people to the United States.

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Remind me why these evil people deserve a country of their own.

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An astonishing notion. Would that it had been around in my day.

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A more accurate headline would have been “Special Privileges for the Chattering Class”.

THERE’S NOTHING like a presidential campaign to help renew attention to the need for a federal law to protect journalists from being compelled by the government to divulge their sources.

Well, duh. They want favorable publicity in order to get elected.

Funny, I read the Constitution fairly thoroughly in Law School, and found no mention of this “people’s right to know”. Nor of any “journalists’ right to be accessories after the fact to crime”.

Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post actually comes down on the right side of an issue.

Hell has now officially frozen over.

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I may have to vote for McCain after all.

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Beyond amusing.

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I guess New York City is over-exposed.

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Well, I’ve always thought so.

But that’s me.