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Category Archives: Around the Web
Bail or Consequences
Joseph E. Stiglitz says bail out the poor, not the rich. It’s like a parlor game for abstractions to decide who can be the noblest thief. How about no one bails anyone out, and we all sustain the material consequences … Continue reading
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Tagged abstractions, bailout, consequences, economist, homeowners, investments, Joseph E. Stiglitz, revolutionary, theft
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China’s Hurt Feelings
Blogger FangKC queried the archive of the People’s Daily, the Chinese Communist Party’s mouthpiece, and discovered that 19 countries and organizations have been officially accused of hurting the feelings of the Chinese people. You can anticipate some such as the … Continue reading
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Tagged blogger, China, Chinese Communist Party, Chinese people, FangKC, hurt feelings, japan, prc, United States
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Found on Ebay
Illinois Senate seat for sale.
An Appointment with Defeat
Blagojevich’s senate appointment might not be as valuable to a political career as he seemed to believe. Nate Silver takes a systematic look at senators who were appointed to fill vacant seats by governors over the last fifty years, and … Continue reading
Less is Less
Can’t shake the impression that you’re running out of of your groceries slightly sooner than you used to? You are.
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Tagged design, groceries, packaging, product design, trickery
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The Penalty of Touch
Your ominious police state technology news item of the day.
Bend [Over] Don’t Break
McQ on Obama’s health care “reforms”: “One of our commenters here says since it is inevitable we should try to influence its implementation instead of fighting it. Reminds me a bit about some discredited advice concerning rape.”
Into the Memory Hole?
Hmm. It seems that media reports filed on November 5th explicitly stating that Obama met with Governor Blagojevich to discuss his Senate replacement, are suddenly disappearing from the web.
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Tagged archival revisionism, Blagojevich, censorship, journalism, Media, media bias, Obama, senate
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Formula Zero
The Onion brutally satirizes Hollywood and its formulaic, politically correct, and downright cheap storytelling techniques.
Plumber Politics, the Finale
Joe the Plumber joins the party and throws McCain under the bus, describing him and his campaign as apalling, praising only Sarah Palin. Apparently he asked McCain some questions about his views on the federal bailouts and McCain responded like…well, … Continue reading
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Tagged bailouts, joe the plumber, Joe Wurzelbacher, McCain, Sarah Palin
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Fill in the Blanks
The NYT has a nice little interactive diagram of Governor Blagojevich’s web of criminal influence.
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Tagged Blagojevich, criminal, interactive, network diagram, New York Times, Rod R. Blagojevich
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Rootless
Sure, it’s still only December 2008, but Wayne Allyn Root, the millionaire Republican Libertarian, is already running for president in 2012. I was seriously amused by some of the slanderous assessments posted by former Root employees Libertarian Peacenik found.
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Tagged 200, 2008, libertarian, Libertarian Party, Republican, Wayne Allyn Root
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The Medicare Handgun
Medicare to Cover Prescription Handguns? (HT Professor Volokh)
Graveyard of the Mind
Should we weep for reason, or be encouraged that people are the same wherever we go? “The Americans executed the 9/11 attack perfectly. They managed the media very well. The Indians tried to repeat the formula but goofed up. The … Continue reading
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Motive for Mumbai Attacks Emerges
A Deccan Mujahedeen gunman has spoken by telephone to a television station from within the Oberoi Trident Hotel (which has since been raided by Indian special forces units), and said the motivation of the attacks was to end persecution of … Continue reading
Nebraska Boots Ayers
A bit of old news I didn’t have a chance to mention, but it seems that grotesque little terrorist William Ayers won’t be speaking at my beloved UNL. Good for us.
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Tagged Ayers, Bill Ayers, Nebraska, Terrorism, terrorist, University of Nebraska, UNL
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Flight of the Flightless
Boy, I love this charming ad for the Washington state secret tax on the poor lottery.
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Tagged ad, advertising, birds, flight, flightless, marketing, poor, tax, video, Washington Lottery, youtube
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Elephant Memory
The less widely known corollary of elephant memory.
Scars Are Sexy
According to research conducted in the UK, women find men with facial scars more physically attractive, if the scar appears to be the result of violence. Unfortunately it may be a brief affair for the scarred, as some theories suggest … Continue reading
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Tagged attraction, facial scars, masculinity, men, personality types, relationships, research, scars, sex, UK, violence, women
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The Cardboard Armor Lifestyle
Modern pessimists of the human condition often see the loss of mankind’s dignity deriving from deviation from traditional religious orders. Their secular opponents see the fall conditioned by a retreat from scientific rationalism. They can have their debate. For my … Continue reading
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Tagged cardboard armor, human dignity, LARP, LARPer, lifestyles, religion, science, scientific rationalism, secularism
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Applied Russian Bride Rule
Our friend Steve Newton picks up on my post of Rudius Media’s forum rules, and applies it to the comment management of Delaware Liberal.
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Tagged Ayn Rand, cult, Delaware, Delaware Libertarian, forum, libertarian, Radius Media, Rudius Media, rules, Steve Newton
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Tequila into Diamonds
Scientists have developed a process for turning tequila into diamonds. I’m more of a whiskey man myself.
A Very Modern Crime
A daring scheme to use craigslist to rob a bank was ultimatley foiled by DNA.
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Tagged Anthony Curcio, bank robbery, craigslist, Crowdsourcing, DNA evidence
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Operation Leper
RedState launches Operation Leper to expose recently unemployed McCain aides who are trying to pin their failures on Sarah Palin. Hardly unexpected. As Grover Norquist noted yesterday, the only time the McCain campaign led the polls was during the two … Continue reading
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Tagged Grover Norquist, McCain, Operation Leper, Palin, Sarah Palin
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Change the Leadership
This is good. This is great. This is not. John Boehner has presided over nothing but Republican defeats, why not keep him around eh? If you’ve had enough House GOP, you might notice someone of quality was reelected.
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Tagged Eric Cantor, GOP, House of Representatives, John Boehner, John Shadegg, Republican leadership, Roy Blunt
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Tax Policy in the Obama Administration
For a technical look at what’s ahead, fifteen tax profs offer their thoughts on tax policy in the new Obama Administration.
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Tagged obama administration, tax policy, tax professors, taxes
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Visualizing Wine Taste
Carl Tashian has an interesting conceptual approach to an elusive problem. (via: Cool Infographics via Information Aesthetics)
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Tagged Carl Tashian, graphics, infographics, information aesthetics, taste, visualization, wine
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You’re Doing a Heck of a Blog Brownie
Former head of FEMA Michael Brown, now has a blog. And you’ll pardon me for saying but (outside aesthetics which don’t matter a whole lot to me) I find myself liking a lot of his posts! Read some for yourself. … Continue reading
Buy Ear Protection
The collision of Mr. Obama’s ambitions with the architecture of reality is going to be a thunderous thing to hear. Be prepared.
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Tagged ambitions, collision, ear protection, Obama, sound, thunder
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A Childhood Dream of Death
Equal to the horror of this, is the futility.
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Tagged BBC, Islamic Jihad, Israel, Palestine, suicide bomber, video
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Texas = Best State in the Country
Financially according to the Financial Times. Check out this interactive map of the states and their comparative rankings in different financial categories. (HT: Megan McArdle)
105% voter registration in Indianapolis???
Well, with any luck our voter ID law will weed out anyone not legitimately registered to vote.
Advice on your 401k
from Megan McArdle. Don’t look. I looked yesterday, but I’m just going to pretend I didn’t.
The Big Lie of Being Nice
Outside the Beltway“It’s quite possible, though, that we’ve simply created a culture that values sparing hurt feelings over individual freedom of expression.”
More Big lie – the False Patriot
Stop the ACLU“but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak of self-interest.”
Consumers get credit for their part in the debacle
Washington PostThis is not good news for consumers. Reminds me of Phil Gramm’s “whiners” comment. “Wall Street has lived beyond its means, but so has Washington. Both did so, in part, because consumers and voters on Main Street wanted it … Continue reading
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Tagged bailaout, budget deficit, Economics, intervention
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Against all of that stand these two.
InstapunditBill Whittle talks about McCain and Palin and their stand against a Legion of Narcissists and a Confederacy of Despair – the Liberal Left.
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Tagged Domestic Politics, patriotism, the Ring
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More Electoral College Prediction
American Digest
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Tagged electoral college, mathematical model, Prediction, Voting
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Shine on Richard Wright
The keyboardist for Pink Floyd, responsible for the texture of the bands surreal sound, passed away on Monday.
Hacks & Hackers
Sarah Palin’s personal email account gets hacked by an anonymous operative and Farhad Manjoo blames Palin for “Rovian tactics.” Indifference to irony isn’t a new thing in Palin reporting, but there’s a certain amusement about the event in liberal circles … Continue reading
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Tagged dirty tricks, Domestic Politics, email, hacked, Joe Biden, Karl Rove, Palin, Republican, Rovian, Sarah Palin, yahoo
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Palinmania Snippets
Like so many others, Elizabeth Johnson is out for that Palin look. Sarah always has such choice footwear…and eyewear retailers are getting explicit in their advertising. In case you were curious, this is where you end up when your anti-Palin … Continue reading
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Tagged advertising, Alaska, childhood, Elizabeth Johnson, eyewear, fashion, glasses, hysteria, ideology, Palin, Palinmania, political indoctrication, Sarah Palin, style, women
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Sarah vs. Joe
Who would win in a head-to-head contest of the Veeps for the presidency? Palin, according to Rasmussen, by 47%-44%.
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Tagged Biden, election, Joe Biden, Palin, poll, Rasmussen, Sarah Palin, veeps
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Changing Themes in the GOP
Had the radio on driving to get coffee. Rush Limbaugh was denouncing sexism and patriarchal privilege. McCain ad comes on pitching expanding embryonic stem cell research. Boy, haven’t things changed in the Republican party? For the better, says me.
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Tagged coffee, embryonic stem cells, Feminism, GOP, McCain, patriarchy, radio, Rush Limbaugh, sexism, stem cell research
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