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June 22, 2011
Intellectual Toneshops
- Ah, the good old days, when thugs at least had a decent fashion sense and knew how to pull their pants up. -- davidthompson: Ruffians and Ne’er-do-wells
- Armed and Odiforous: Well, at least he remembered to put the seat down
Police in Colorado say a woman who stepped inside a portable toilet at a yoga festival discovered a man hiding in the tank below when she lifted the toilet lid. Boulder police spokeswoman Kim Kobel says the woman told authorities she noticed something moving inside the tank and asked a man to check it out. The man reported seeing someone covered in a tarp inside the tank. A festival security supervisor said the suspect eventually emerged from the toilet—covered in human waste—and slipped away.
- neo-neocon The Kennedy conspiracists' conspiracy
What I've always wondered is, where did the conspiracy meet? I figure it must have been Madison Square Garden, because you had to have the entire Presidential Detail of the Secret Service, the entire Dallas Police Force, all of the doctors and nurses on the ER staff at Parkland Hospital (in each case, somebody might be sick at the last minute and call in a substitute, and you have to cover that possibility), the pathologists at Parkland (they have to cover up that one of the wounds was made by a Secret Service handgun), Earl Warren, Arlen Specter, the US Marine Corps (remember, they faked his marksmanship record, Bupkis) and a host of others. So Madison Square Garden it is.
- The Real Story of America's Founding
Soon, Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence, which includes the famous line, "We hold these truths to be revealed after careful study by Ivy League-educated people, that all men are in need of constant care and supervision, that they are endowed by the highly-educated intellectual class with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are free Health Care, strict and expansive Regulations on all activities, and the pursuit of Big Government."
- The Ideological Turing Test
If we did an apples-to-apples comparison, would liberals really excel on ideological Turing tests? Put me and five random liberal social science Ph.D.s in a chat room. Let liberal readers ask questions for an hour, then vote on who isn't really a liberal. Then put Krugman and five random libertarian social science Ph.D.s in a chat room. Let libertarian readers ask questions for an hour, then vote on who isn't really a libertarian. Simple as that.
- Articles: Twenty-Nine Reasons to Be Angry And/Or Scared If you're not both angry and scared at the world's current situation, you're not paying attention.
The changes will be massive and glacier-like in movement. No generation alive today will see the end of this massive secular change.
- What Samuel Pepys's diaries tell us about healthy breakfasts – Telegraph Blogs
“Either by physic forward or by clyster backward, or both ways, to get an easy and plentiful going to stool and breaking of wind.”
- Barack Obama. Where to begin?
The man is so much more popular, personally, than any one of His policies. And how could this not be the case? How could His policies not be wretchedly unpopular? The unemployment rate is officially tracked, and the under-employment rate is not — both are known, though, and both are unacceptably high. It’s only too obvious what is causing them. But Obama’s policies are not pondered in public and don’t appear to be thought out too well in private. They just sort of pop up. “I’ve decided X.” Everything that goes wrong, we’re supposed to blame on George Bush to prove we aren’t racists. But if you’re Obama, how do you go about not looking like the problem, when you pop up with these bad policies at random times throughout the week, month, year? Like a Pez dispenser. Just because you’re a cream-coffee-color Pez dispenser, doesn’t mean you get a pass! Looking for work is not a fun experience in any situation, but it is a whole lot less fun when the jobs aren’t there and aren’t coming. -- House of Eratosthenes
- The American Spectator : A Comedian of Errors
On Fox News Sunday, Jon Stewart repeatedly reminded Chris Wallace that he is a comedian. While I am pleased Stewart saw fit to show his enthusiasm for his chosen vocation with Wallace and the rest of the nation, it seems to me that if you have to remind people you are a comedian then you are probably not all that funny in the first place.
- CARPE DIEM: Companies Leaving California in Record Numbers
Based on the legislature’s recent rejection of business-friendly legislation and Sacramento’s implementation of additional regulations, signs are that California’s hostility towards business will only worsen.
Posted by Vanderleun at June 22, 2011 1:33 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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