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Matamoros, indeed
After a long time coming, US Special Forces have punched Osama Bin Laden’s ticket. So, can I stop taking my shoes off in the airport? Or do we need to rub out another couple thousand of those Al Qaida rat bastards? I suggest we accelerate our troop withdrawals, and focus our efforts on those whack Read more
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Meet the Cape-a-Bility Challenge
59,000 of us got jobs, but all another 6,000 of them got were these stupid capes. I wonder how the capes will look on their resumes… Tip from Drudge, who couldn’t permalink his a$$. Read more
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In France, nobody expects the Spanish Inquistion…
…but apparently some French Catholics might welcome it, after destroying Andres Serrano’s “Piss Christ.” Yes, it’s illegal, anti-intellectual, and dangerous to free speech. But I’m amazed Christians have for so long turned the other cheek to a world of insults, oppressions, and outright massacres. When Radical Islam gets results by videotaping decapitations, fundamentalist Christians take Read more
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The Dutch Book, made simple
Briggsy gives a dead-simple explanation for spotting and profiting from a Dutch Book set of odds. Even an undergrad can do it! Read more
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My kind of guy
Read about the energy biz in the NY Times: “Things are picking up,” said Cody Chase, 24, who had just finished an overtime shift at a coal mine north of here and was having a 7 a.m. burrito and beer at a downtown breakfast joint. Hours at the mine are up, said Mr. Chase, who Read more
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Happy farookin’ Tax Day
The latest in Drudge fu: Gee, I wonder how much overlap there is between these two groups. Freeloading bastards. Update (19 April). Michael Walsh, writing in the New York Post, gets behind my idea of the Non-Alternative Minimum Tax: One way to get a grip — unemotionally, intellectually — on the problem doesn’t even involve Read more
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I gotta get busy on my lecture videos!
On his Forbes blog, Jerry Bowyer espies an Internet iceberg dead ahead of Titanic U. …you and your iPod (or desktop) can listen to the smartest people in the world give interesting lectures on the most important topics for free, or you can pay lots of money to hear an inarticulate and resentful grad student Read more
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Let’s push the “abstract behavior rules”
The latest in NewSpeak is renaming Easter Eggs as “spring spheres”. We were doing some linguistic horsing around yesterday, and decided “spring spheres” lacked any sort of multicultural element. We decided to call them “cojones colorados.” That should provoke some discussion. Tip from the Corner. Read more
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It’s past time for a name change, let’s do it
Glen Reynolds has a great idea, but he missed a cool opportunity for a killer rebranding: change the name from “Tea Party” to “Beer Party.” What’s not to like? Read more
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