too stupid to be fiction
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It’s not just software that’s half-assed…
…Tim Geithner’s Treasury Department can’t even print play money correctly. The country’s being run by this guy: Tip from The Belmont Club. Read more
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I’m surprised she eats food that doesn’t have a Michael Pollan logo on it
Check out this latte liberal and her parochial views on food and nutrition. For breakfast, I usually have a cappuccino—espresso made in an Alessi pot and mixed with organic milk, which has been gently heated and hand-fluffed by my husband. I eat two slices of imported cheese—Dutch Parrano, the label says, “the hippest cheese in Read more
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Friedman’s “Law of Statistics”
Kaiser Fung craps all over the latest Tom Friedman column, deservedly. Apparently Friedman never learned any quantitative critical thinking. Read more
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Screen for thee, but not for me
Surprise, surprise. Government bigwigs don’t have to submit to TSA screening. That’s not special treatment, says Armed Liberal over at the Winds of Change. Yeah, I should start traveling with MY Federal Security Detail. “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in Read more
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More explication of the obvious
Even Al Gore admits that putting corn likker in your gasoline is a dumb idea. Knowing Congress, they’ll probably renew the tax credit anyway. Wouldn’t want to get on the bad side of ADM. Update (23 November). Jonathan Adler discusses growing congressional opposition to extend the tax credit, and makes the stakes clear: “If Republicans Read more
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The ’60’s, the gift that keeps on giving
From CBS News: The 1960s songbird Joan Baez is “resting comfortably” at an undisclosed location after falling 20 feet to the ground from a treehouse – a treehouse she purposely had built without walls because she wanted to sleep among real birds at her home in Woodside, Calif. Read more
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