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PARIS FOR PRESIDENT

DRILL HERE * DRILL NOW

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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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Of course the guy looks like a card-carrying metrosexual.

Megan McArdle appears to be challenging Jonah Goldberg for the position of “finder of weird stuff”.

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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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Times have changed.

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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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The most importnt question we have to day is private property. Does stuff belong to the alleged owner, or to the State, with the alleged owner merely a temporary custodian?

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Let that be a lesson to us all.

Steve Sailer takes a look at the Ivins anthrax case.

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Ordinarily I detest sports metaphors but in this case, dealing with “grade inflation”, it’s very well done.

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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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That’s great. Hey, I have a work fear. Can I be excused from going in to work?

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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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That’s because the gang will whip your butt if you don’t do what you’re told, and parents these days won’t.

This isn’t rocket science….

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And you can believe as much or as little as you care to.

Andrew Sullivan scored 92% probably male, so I take it with a grain of salt….

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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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I suspect it’s because they didn’t want to get saddled with her care under their “everybody gets covered for free” health care plan — like the one that the Democrats are pushing for this country.

This is what happens when the goverment turns into a monopoly provider of basic services.

Welcome to the Candian Soviet Socialist Republic, comrade.

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Sometimes the old ways are best.

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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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I think God is telling you to move somewhere else. Take the hint. Or put up concrete posts.

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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.

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Darwin Award nominee.

A mature student choked to death during an impromptu competition to see who could eat the most fairy cakes, an inquest has heard.

Guess he wasn’t all that mature.

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Not your grandfather’s Britain.

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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Think of it as evolution in action.

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I’m tellin’ ya, don’t mess with Marines. Just don’t.

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Makes you wonder what they would do for £50,000.

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Except intellectually, obviously.

Think of it as evolution in action.

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The TSA has thoroughly replaced the Post Office as the Platonic Ideal of government incompetence and sociopathy. At least the Gestapo were efficient.

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If everyone enforces the law, the laws get enforced.

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Pundits like Thomas Frank deplore the role of interest-group lobbying, but aren’t we all part of some interest group or other?

The New Yorker continues to have some of the finest writing you will find anywhere.

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Over the weekend a crew came round my neighborhood offering to paint house numbers on the curb.  Large bold curb numbers, they pointed out, make it easier for emergency service workers to easily find houses in the dark.  Good arguments.  The price was good too.  Then I noticed my neighbors were having their numbers painted.  So of course, I declined.

I avoid flu shots on the same rationale. If everyone around me has had a flu shot, then I have no one to catch it from.