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The touchy-feely police state
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Interesting “debate” using video clips of Milton Friedman as rebuttals to a speech by Naomi Klein, who manages to surprise even me with her startlingly simplistic “Liberals are good people, conservatives are bad people” formulation.
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When kids and kittens do it, it’s cute
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Anyone who has an indoor/outdoor cat knows this situation well, especially in the winter: the cat begs to be let outside with that irresistible blend of cuteness and obnoxiousness. You relent. The cat steps outside for maybe ten seconds and immediately puts on its most ( Read more... ) -
Nice little business you got here…
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Law Talk, a legal scholarship podcast, recently talked with fantasy author George R.R. Martin about the legal and historical inspirations that make Song of Ice and Fire so engaging and “melancholy”
Meanwhile in Los Angeles, old-style powergrabs are never far away, as this ( Read more... ) -
Alt.Santas
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Bored with Santa? Check out Lore Sjöberg’s whole line of holiday santas:
Pagan Santa That Christmas tree? Pagan. Those red and green lights? Pagan. That yule log, if anyone still had yule logs? Extremely pagan. Pagan Santa shows up in a breechcloth and antlers and enacts a ( Read more... ) -
I can has pictures?
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You can, on my new flickr account! There are pictures of Nink, New England, postmodernist babies and, of course, kitties.
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Batman: Dark Knight trailer
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I thought that Batman Begins was by far the best of the movies, not only compared to the terrible later movies but even against the early Tim Burton films. Maybe the sequel will carry that on. But this trailer, with Heath Ledger running around in Shriner makeup and sounding ( Read more... ) -
Am I Too Picky?
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I really like to think I’m not that judgmental, but is it really that much to expect that a guy can spell simple words, like “where”? Or that they remember the last time they read a book?
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Technology is fun
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James Lileks on the YouTube debates:
I heard some of the YouTube presidential debate. It’s a brave new medium that empowers the citizens, you know. The first video-question was some guy singing a song, chosen no doubt for its keen piercing insight. I expect CNN will next ( Read more... ) -
maybe two people will get this
I just got my warlock to 70 and have been doing arena... formed a 3v3 named....
THE ROWDY ROC BRIGADE! -
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