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It’s almost like…
…the Federal tax credits for electric vehicles were just a device to shift the tax burden from GE and some fat dealerships onto the general public. Screw saving the planet; coal-powered cars weren’t going to do that anyway. A cynic would say that all this Greenie stuff is just another multimillion dollar scam. Tip from Read more
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Why Twitter matters
Read about how one artisan blew up Urban Outfitters with a tweet. Then read this take-away. Now I gotta figure out how to leverage Twitter for my students, without it becoming a farookin’ nuisance. Tip from the Instapundit. Read more
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Citation Networks, visualized
Check out this great visualization of the citation linkages in the sciences. Tip from R-Bloggers. Read more
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Mickey Mouse, indeed
While I am usually adverse to Federal agencies throwing their weight around, in this case I’d pay good money to see a team of Navy SEALs drop by Disney corporate headquarters and kick everyone’s ass. Update (26 May). Disney wised up. Read more
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A Texan goes to church
Jay Nordlinger shares a letter prompted by his observations on a cruise in France. The folks in Quanah, Texas broke the mold when they reared up Welborn B. Griffith, Jr. Read more
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It’s my football and I’m going home
Lefties in the Tucson area want to secede from the State of Arizona and form their own liberal state. While the historically obvious name for such an entity would be New Arizona or South Arizona, I humbly suggest something more descriptive: Whinylittlebitchistan. Read more
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Just tatoo “Redneck LOSER” on your forehead…
…it would be a lot cheaper than Confederate license plates. But what the heck, we’re catering to every other gang of perverts, layabouts, and degenerates in society, so why not let these hapless mooks self-identify? Update (10 May). The affliction isn’t confined to pseudo-conservative Jacksonians! The Guardian has a series of essays (inadvertently) explaining why Read more
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Soon we may be smuggling light bulbs in from South Carolina
It’s a good measure of how messed up this country has become that something like South Carolina’s Incandescent Light Bulb Freedom Act is even intelligible, let alone sensible. Tip from the Instapundit, as portrayed by Ed Driscoll. Read more
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Graffiti is vandalism, not art
The New Criterion calls shenanigans on graffiti masquerading as modern art Épater la bourgeois: shocking the middle class has been a cherished goal of the avant garde since the birth of the movement in the nineteenth century. The fact that the middle class long ago enlisted themselves as co-collaborators in this project of rote titillation Read more
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