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Links: The "Most of you have already seen these" Edition
Can You Call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath?
While queuing up a Pokemon video on the family's computer upstairs, Michael turned to me and remarked crisply, "As you can see, I don't really like Allan." When I asked if that was really true, he said: "Yes. It's true," then added tonelessly, "I hate him ( Read more... ) -
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RIP Dick Clark -
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Believing that men will act in their own best interest is not cynicism, but sheerest optimism; in reality men do not meet so high a standard. -- Less Wrong -
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So, I'm really, really sorry that I haven't been updating. I said I'd start again around the beginning of this year, and then Stuff Happened, and LJ has been the last thing on my mind ( Read more... ) -
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So an Oklahoma Senator (Republican, natch) has introduced a law that aborted human fetuses cannot be used in food products.
To my mind, the money quote from the article is
In an e-mail to The Associated Press, U.S. Food and Drug Administration spokeswoman Pat El-Hinnawy said: "FDA is not aware of this particular concern."
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Guess Who?
"We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered ( Read more... )
