OK, I take it all back
The Kenyan is enabling terrorism.I know this is racial profiling, but if the person next to you on the plane is wearing a kilt, don't even look in his sporran, just jump out. Now. Never mind the...
View ArticleIntelligence
OK, so nobody's going to find the time or interest to do this, but here's Obama arguing with House Republicans for over an hour. If you want to skip the introductory remarks, the Q&A starts about...
View ArticleGolly
http://mashable.com/2010/01/30/amazon-macmillan/Not sure what this means, but I think it's getting harder to know what books exist, and this won't make it easier.
View ArticleAt last
Heh, heh."if they truly believe that less regulation would lead to higher quality, more affordable health insurance, then they should vote against the proposal I’ve put forward."Still with the fancy...
View ArticleHappiness
This is good.Because it's about a happy event.Because of the quote: "I often tell my students that, in my humble opinion, one purpose of government is to help people be happy."Best of all, because of...
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US healthcare
As happy_potterer says, congratulations.I wonder how the GOP will react. On the one hand, relentless obstructionism almost worked, on the other, it's not yet clear what the consequences will be.Obama's...
View ArticleJökulhlaup
I have a global warming denier colleague and from time to time we pile on him in a desultory sort of way.Today, though, he was commenting on the flight cancellations because of Eyjafjallajökull, saying...
View ArticleParsing English
"Wrong in fact and in law"Wrong in fact means we didn't do it.Wrong in law means if we did it, it wouldn't have been illegalif we did it, it wouldn't have been illegal means we did do it (or we...
View ArticleOh, that election
I have to say, I think a Lib-Lab coalition would be a bad thing in the circumstances. The Tories would vote down all tax rises and progressive legislation, while standing aside for spending cuts....
View ArticleTexan education
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37271857/ns/us_news-life/ and a non-denumerable number of other links.I won't bore you with the obvious, since I can't imagine anyone reading this not knowing where I stand,...
View ArticleNow that's what I call Youtube...
All this map needs is little grey dots for the commuters running for their trains.ETA: or Mooney, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs. Why didn't I think of that before?
View ArticleDancing Auschwitz
Unbelievable.I mean, if it had just been the kids and their mother, it would have been excruciatingly bad taste. But the grandfather? That's a kind of bravery I can't really get inside the head of.
View ArticleGeek and Gamer Girls
This time tomorrow I'll have seen this linked all over the place...
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Tour of the Northern capitals #4
This time next week I will be in Washington, DC, visiting alpheratz for a couple of days before going on to spend two weeks in San Antonio.#1 was Newcastle, the capital of Geordieland, from where a...
View ArticleVirtue
Excellent post by Krugman, summing up an awful lot.I think, though, that he's only talking about one kind of virtue, the kind that always saves for a rainy day, and looks down on the feckless and...
View ArticleWhat happens when you combine Christmas with a Tea Party?
Ah ha ha.http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2010/11/03/read-the-tea-party-childrens-book-about-how-obama-stole-christmas-no-really
View ArticleWake up and smell...
I see that Starbucks have wisely abandoned their claim that the stuff in their cups is coffee.
View ArticleI dunno.
All this stuff about moderating the tone of political debate in America in the wake of the Tucson shootings.I don't see that the Republicans have anywhere to go except screaming and shouting for the...
View ArticleMoney and happiness
This (pdf warning) deserves to be the viral hit of the year.H/T @maralenenok
View ArticleCelebrity lookalikes
Anyone else noticed the resemblance between Glenn Beck and Futurama's Zapp Brannigan?"What makes a good man go neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?"
View ArticleChristmas nation
I see God supports the separation of church and state.Or possibly just thinks that February is way too late to take down the decorations.
View ArticleDidn't they know the Brontosaurus isn't real?
OK, so early humans didn't really coexist with dinosaurs.But, man it was mean of the ancient people of Utah to take advantage of the gullibility of creationists with their hoax dinosaur pictures! What...
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