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Add a 50-cal mount and I’m there.

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No animals were harmed in the making of this phone.

Mencius Moldbug reveals the truth.

UR can deliver this remarkable savings in both time and tuition because, and only because, our “economics” is an entirely different product from the standard academic sausage. We’ve considered changing the word – but this feels hokey. It also conceals our feeling that (a) for most customers, UR’s “economics” is a more than satisfying replacement for 20th-century industrial numerology; and (b) our version is far closer to the original artisanal craft.

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Well, maybe — you still need to put it on a level surface. But my Y chromasome likes it.

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Gee, I wonder why.

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Some people are bad to the bone. Or perhaps bad to the uncinate fasciculus. Brain scans of the uncinate fasciculus (UF) found distinct differences in psychopaths.

Steve Sailer fisks Dalton Conley’s NYT op-ed.

Personally, I suspect that the main reason that poor people are less likely to pay back their mortgages than rich people is because poor people tend to have less money than rich people, but, then, I’m not the Dean of Social Sciences at NYU like Dalton Conley, so what do I know?

Decades of government programs to make homeownership “affordable” only succeeded by 2007 in making homeownership insanely unaffordable, so I guess the plan is to replace the word “affordable” with the word “attainable” and then just rerun the same old stuff.

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Or ought to be, if the “progressives” can be persuaded to stop attempting to turn the clock back to the Middle Ages.

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How Britain is turning into Londonistan under its Labour government.

Megan McArdle says all that really needs to be said on the subject.

Whether a dish was dreamed up by Mario Batali or the staff at the Cheesecake Factory, preventing people from having it “for their own good” still represents an actual hedonic loss, as well as an actual loss of freedom.  You may think they have some meta-self which will thank you later, but their current self has still had both its liberty and its joy restricted.  Invoking the demon food scientists of agribusiness does not actually relieve you of the obligation to prove that intervening in the liberty of both the customers and the company is morally pressing.

Ultimately, the answer to “what could it hurt”? is that all actions have costs, which you cannot assume away on the grounds that those costs don’t interest you.  But they should interest you, because not least among those costs is the simple fact that the government cannot do everything well.  Making all sorts of changes in the name of obesity means not making others that might be more important, because we have limited political and bureaucratic bandwith.  Do you want obesity intervention, cap and trade, or health care reform?  You may not be able to have any of them.  But you probably can’t have all three.  And if you did, you’d make it more likely that the government would screw all of them up.

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A cartoon expressing disappointment that Lucy Obama has pulled the football away just as Charlie Brown the fringe Left was going to kick it.

x <- world’s smallest violin etc.

Richard Cohen in the Washington Post.

Hell has officially frozen over.

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As rumors swirled that Mr. Chen’s employer, Jianlong Group, planned to shed workers, a group of them found the 41-year-old executive and beat him severely, battering his skull. Workers blocked streets near the factory and hurled bricks, preventing police and paramedics from reaching Mr. Chen.

Bet the Teamsters were just red with envy.

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Hillary had three. Laura only had one. How many does Michelle have? 23.

But Michelle is married to the Magic Negro. She is the Negro American Princess.

Even more than being a NAP, Michelle is a product of the Cook County political machine. Her whine about being a second-class citizen would be a joke were it not (a) such a big fat lie, and (b) so damaging to our social fabric.

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I’d buy one.

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Indeed — God forbid that anybody in Britain might learn self-defense.

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What if China had hobbits?

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Proof positive that New York is an entirely separate country.

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Indeed, one can find anything on the Internet.

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Women’s difficulty in reading maps and men’s uselessness in finding things under their noses could be explained by new research, scientists claim.

For, lo, what would we do without scientists?

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A comprehensive and irrefutable counterexample to the Intelligence Design theory.

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California, of course.

Darwin award.

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

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“It’s not about whether organic food is good or a sham,” says Jules Pretty, an agricultural scientist at the University of Essex in Colchester, UK. “That’s the wrong question. We should be asking how we can make all of agriculture more sustainable.”

Of course — it’s also (and more importantly) about a left-wing New Age agenda, especially in a purported science website.

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Can you think of anything more silly?

Avoid Florida. They’re crazy down there.

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So I guess there’s no chance of the Miss Political Genocide contest happening. A pity; North Korea would have had a lock on it.

Ross Douthat points out that California sucks and Texas rocks.

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You knew it was coming.

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They ought to change it to “Electron Hut”.

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Italian newspaper says plane crash north of Tehran which left 168 people dead was caused by explosion of fuses slated to be delivered to Lebanese organization. According to report, members of Revolutionary Guards among casualties

Wonder what the Farsi is for “Lusitania”.

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What has Tarzan been doing lately?

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Of course, if Christians had done that to Muslims ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, it would be front-page headlines in all of the major media. Funny how that works.

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