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Get Happy
Published on 4 Dec 2008 at 9:47 pm.
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It’s catching. Washington Post:
Happiness is contagious, spreading among friends, neighbors, siblings and spouses like the flu, according to a large study that for the first time shows how emotion can ripple through clusters of people who may not even know each other.
The Whiner and the Iron Lady
Published on 24 Apr 2008 at 4:21 am.
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A post by PoliGazette co-blogger Rick Moran: One of the criteria the American people use to judge a presidential candidate is “likability” - a nebulous and indefinable attribute to be sure. Experts tell us that part of the “likability” question is whether the voter wants this guy (or woman) coming into their homes every damn [...]
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Hero Tube
Published on 29 Dec 2007 at 7:16 am.
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Plucky kid credits idiot box with saving his life.
Fat Lady
Published on 27 Dec 2007 at 8:53 am.
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Still in the wings. Quick campaign shift links:
Sioux Vs. Bluecoats
Published on 21 Dec 2007 at 8:53 am.
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Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull descendents take another stab at it. Despite some early successes, didn’t work out so well last time.
Something to be Thankful For
Published on 22 Nov 2007 at 8:16 am.
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Drop in violence “phenomenal.” Financial Times:
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Self-Identifying Uselessness
Published on 28 Oct 2007 at 10:58 pm.
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As IAEA chief protests more effective method … somewhat belatedly:
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Olive, The World’s Oldest Blogger
Published on 20 Oct 2007 at 11:45 am.
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Celebrates her 108th. Looks like she’s getting an assist on the blogging, but you try it. Making it to 108. h/t John Stephenson.
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Hitler has left the game
Published on 31 Aug 2007 at 8:20 pm.
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I close on a lighter note - but then, my compositions have all been allegro scherzando - with this hilariously newfangled approach to history.
(A floor-sweeping tip of my plumed cavalier’s hat to Relapsed Catholic for the funniest thing I’ve read this week).
Oh, and as for DePalma? All he needs is a little attitude adjustment [...]
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Crashing Chandeliers
Published on 31 Aug 2007 at 5:24 pm.
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I’m drunk up on non-alcoholic beer (all they’ll let us have here) and swinging from Jules’ chandeliers again.
I think it’s time I enlighten this distinguished company with my knowledge of complicity and treason on a grand scale, a sort of chicanery not seen in ages:
President George Bush is responsible for global warming!
Hold on there… [...]
Why Britain must hold a referendum on the EU….
Published on 31 Aug 2007 at 12:31 pm.
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One reason and one alone. In 1975 the British public were asked to vote on joining the Common Market (what has now mutated into the EU). I was 9 years old and didn’t get to vote. I am now 41 and no-one has asked me if I want to be in the EU. Every 4 of [...]
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It’s Time
Published on 31 Aug 2007 at 11:30 am.
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Honor their memory.
Kick him in the pants.
Show this guy honor still matters.
Stand up and be counted.
War. And Peace.
Published on 31 Aug 2007 at 9:48 am.
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I’ve been told I have an unhealthy obsession with war. If that is true, and I suppose it is possible, it would not be because I love conflict.
Not that. Never that.
It would be because I hate and fear it so.
Somewhere in her basement my mother has a black and white photograph of [...]
Opium
Published on 30 Aug 2007 at 12:38 pm.
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Reiji Yoshida of the Japan Times:
According to Harumi Goto, an associate professor at Chiba University, opium revenues accounted for 10 percent to 50 percent of the fiscal budgets of many colonial governments in Asia, including the British rulers of India, Hong Kong and Singapore, the Portuguese ruling Macau, the Dutch East Indies and French Indochina.
Yoshida [...]
Hsu-do scandal
Published on 30 Aug 2007 at 11:13 am.
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My column on the Hsu/Paw campaign finance kerfuffle is up at Pajamas Media. Shorter me: The story is going nowhere, unless prosecutors squeeze Hsu into giving up a bigger fish. But click through for the whole thing (it is the first column for those guys, so I need good traffic!), and weigh [...]
Straight to DVD
Published on 30 Aug 2007 at 9:43 am.
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From the excellent Gateway Pundit comes the news that A-mini-jihad has given tentative approval to Oliver Stone to film a crockumentary of his life. I can’t wait to see how Stone is going to work gay right-wing Cuban CIA-paid assassins into this.
Money quote: “Stone’s publicist referred to the bad image that the U.S. media has [...]
U.S. most armed country with 90 guns per 100 people.
Published on 30 Aug 2007 at 8:58 am.
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That’s the headline.
Which means, based on the article, that I’m having to carry 166 of you slackers on my back.
My take here - c’mon, visit my basement, check out the hardware… and know that I might live next door to you.
Or across the street. Well, maybe not - because while everything you see there is [...]
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I Dunno; I’m Thinking a Case of Ding Dongs and a Six-Pack of Yoo Hoo
Published on 29 Aug 2007 at 7:41 pm.
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Al Gore has had a meal named after him by a couple of Australian caterers. It’s a “take-away mutton dish”, one of those strange things they eat in the antipodes (you know, like platypus fritters and bandicoot chops).
Somehow, this just doesn’t seem to do Big Al justice. The man has put on a tremendous amount [...]
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Hanoi Jane was wrong about aerobics too
Published on 29 Aug 2007 at 4:21 pm.
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Cross posted at Don Surber, the 2,711th most trusted name in news.
Remember those Jane Fonda workout videos in the 1980s? Turns out high-impact aerobics was the worst thing people could do to their knees, CBS News reported:
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Reincarnation
Published on 29 Aug 2007 at 12:29 pm.
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Voice of America has a report about a new Chinese law: “The new law bans Tibetan lamas, or monks, from reincarnating without Chinese government approval.”
To commemorate the 10th anniversary of Princess Diana’s death…let’s bring back landmines….
Published on 29 Aug 2007 at 12:16 pm.
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…not the old drop and forget kind that are a lasting menace to civilians, but new and improved ’smart’ landmines.
There are certain border areas in the world where our enemies are allowed to move with impugnity, by deploying air dropped anti-personnel mines we can prevent their movement and put them on the back foot. These [...]
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Thought experiment: Will the stalled reconstruction of New Orleans teach Americans a valuable lesson?
Published on 29 Aug 2007 at 8:27 am.
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We’re back around to the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, so naturally there is a lot of press coverage provoking a lot of questions — indeed, questions other than “Will the Katrina retrospectives end with the Bush presidency?” In particular, the press is full of stories about the delays in rebuilding New Orleans, as if [...]
Dead Eyes
Published on 29 Aug 2007 at 6:36 am.
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(Originally posted at Acute Politics)
It wasn’t a good night to have a new LT on patrol. Our LT was out with us, of course- the new guy would be leading the platoon coming to replace us. We were on a mission that could easily turn bad- as it happened, everyone’s night but ours was bad. We [...]
The Hilary Clinton Limerick contest…..
Published on 29 Aug 2007 at 3:29 am.
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There was an old woman called Hilly,
who was married to ‘Wandering Willy’
She came to DC,
Crying ‘Vote for Me’,
but the folks said, ‘Don’t be so silly’.
You might also like The Islamic Nursery rhyme contest.
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Romance
Published on 29 Aug 2007 at 2:58 am.
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Men pick romance over success:
“Men may be more willing than women to sacrifice achievement goals for a romantic relationship, according to a new study by Catherine Mosher of Duke Medical Center and Sharon Danoff-Burg from the University of Albany.”
Update: The original link broke. But ScienceDaily has the story.
Jungle Trader
Anti-war YouTube Bloggers Viciously Attack Vets & Mothers
Published on 28 Aug 2007 at 11:22 pm.
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I just got this in the email today from Freedom’s Watch and thought it was important to pass on:
Anti-war YouTube.com bloggers viciously attack vets and their mothers!
August 28, 2007
Dear Friends,
When I started two weeks ago, I could not imagine the out pouring of support you would give to this mission and how quickly everyone would [...]
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Castro Rises From Grave To Endorse Hillary
Published on 28 Aug 2007 at 11:04 pm.
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You’ve just got to know that this is the key endorsement Hillary’s been waiting for. Sure, he’s like one of those 1950’s Packards that chokes around the streets of Havana, held together with chicken wire and bondo, but he’s got what you and I don’t have: absolute revolutionary moral authority. Oh, and he threw in [...]
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Laugh Lines
Published on 28 Aug 2007 at 7:21 pm.
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Stop me if you’ve heard this one.
BTW, my main shtick at Tim Blair’s site is an irregular series of stories, usually involving topical issues, and written in the style of a pulp-fiction spoof. The principal characters include Detective Paco, an anachronistic, 1940’s-style gumshoe, complete with fedora and a line of wise guy chatter, and [...]
On the Ho Chi Minh trail, then and now
Published on 28 Aug 2007 at 4:33 pm.
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To continue with the theme of the last few days, this article that appeared in The American Prospect back in February is edifying in describing exactly how an increasingly antiwar Congress pressured Nixon back in the late 60s and early-to-mid-70s to end the Vietnam War, and what effect it had on our strategy and prosecution [...]
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Name that party: I da ‘ho edition
Published on 28 Aug 2007 at 8:04 am.
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Cross posted at Don Surber.
News outlets were sure on Monday to identify the party of Republican Sen. Larry Craig of idaho who was caught in a homosexual sting operation in a bathroom at a Minnesota airport earlier this summer. The lone exception was the Idaho Statesman. I congratulate all news outlets that identified him properly. [...]
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Time for the Commonwealth to stand up and be counted…
Published on 28 Aug 2007 at 7:12 am.
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… and for the US to join it.
The Commonwealth is a cosy little club, made up of what was the British empire,which meets every four years for the Global equivalent of the Village sports Day. It comprises 53 Nations containing a population of nearly 2 billion. Apart from the UK, other leading members are Australia, Canada, [...]
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Oops!
Published on 28 Aug 2007 at 6:32 am.
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The title of the novella referred to in my last post is The Fatal Eggs.
Going Global
Published on 28 Aug 2007 at 12:14 am.
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I am an international trader, traveling the streets, alleys, and jungles of the global marketplace.
Before I went into business for myself, I was VP of export services at one of the world’s largest banks. I also worked as the manager of an African wildlife preserve, as a consultant to several Fortune 500 companies, and as [...]
In Media We Trust (Not!)
Published on 27 Aug 2007 at 6:58 pm.
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Something . . . and Half of Something has an interesting refresher course on some of the more egregious media con jobs of the recent past. Be sure to follow her links to a hilarious “instruction” video on basic ordnance by the Dissident Frogman.
Meanwhile, on the climate-change front, Tim Blair continues to shine his (fluorescent, [...]
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Bad news, worse news
Published on 27 Aug 2007 at 4:13 pm.
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Bad news — Taliban Opium Boom Linked to Growing Belief in Koran: “The combination of illicit, illegal and infidel is a triple negative,” said Taliban spokesman Mullah Mullaha Mullahaha, “Three negatives make a moral positive, and therefore it is condoned by the Prophet, may he hallucinate forever.” Scrappleface has the, er, “facts.”
Worse News: Oral [...]
Real news about the real world: The Moon disappears tonight
Published on 27 Aug 2007 at 4:00 pm.
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“Nothing I can do/ total eclipse of the moon.” Be there or be…. sleeping.
NASA supplies a handy chart for lunar eclipse totality in your time zone HERE.
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
Published on 27 Aug 2007 at 2:19 pm.
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This suddenly seems relevant after the Gerard Van der Leun post about Iowa Hispanics:
In the U.S. House of Representatives, 61% of the Democrats (152 for, 96 against) and 80% of the Republicans (138 for, 34 against) voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
In the U.S. Senate, 69% of the Democrats (46 for, 21 against) [...]
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Dead men tell no tales—but do they sign essays?
Published on 27 Aug 2007 at 2:04 pm.
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Headline spotted in this AP article from CNN news: “Castro Signs Essay, Keeps Mum on Death Rumors.”
If he’s actually dead, of course, that might go a long way towards explaining Castro’s conversational failings. On the other hand, while it’s true that he failed to show up for his 81st birthday on Aug. [...]
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Department of Left Hand not knowing what Lefter Hand is doing
Published on 27 Aug 2007 at 1:02 pm.
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After hectoring Alberto Gonzales out, DC Democrats seem to have missed this just in:
Democrats Reach Out to Iowa Hispanics
Democratic presidential candidates say they are reaching out to Hispanics—a group that could play a key role in Iowa’s caucuses.
But apparently they need to stretch a little further. Most Hispanics say they didn’t know they were being [...]
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Gonzales Resigns. Autofellatio explosion engulfs leftosphere.
Published on 27 Aug 2007 at 12:53 pm.
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Here’s a small sample of some of the headlines erupting from overly-heated keyboards this morning and the urge to self-gratify becomes too great to ignore. (No, I’m not going to them link here. Not because I’m miffed, but because it is just too much work and I’d have to go to all these sites.)
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Postcards from the Edgy…
Published on 27 Aug 2007 at 10:11 am.
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[Stomps in, kicks boots off, grabs a beer, flops on the couch.]
Nice digs, Jules. I see people are *mostly* cleaning up after themselves.
[Picks up remote, turns on tv.]
Hmmm, Coalition and Afghan forces did a cross-border attack into Pakistan, eh?
Oddly enough, Castle Argghhh! happens to have a blogger resident in that part of the world. Drop [...]
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Teflon Don and Badger Six Profiled
Published on 27 Aug 2007 at 8:21 am.
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Guest bloggers Teflon Don and Badger Six profiled here.
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Holiday Lights
Published on 27 Aug 2007 at 12:09 am.
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Each year the lighting of the National Christmas Tree by the U.S. President is a news event in Washington, DC. But the shadows may conceal a bigger story.
“American Presidents never switched on the lights of the National Christmas Tree,” a dim bulb in Washington told me the other day. “The buttons for the Presidents never [...]
How many Hong Kong Chinese does it take to change Mickey Mouse’s lightbulbs?
Published on 26 Aug 2007 at 6:01 pm.
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At least two.
“Green campaigners invaded Hong Kong Disneyland’s hotel Sunday and tried to change the lobby lightbulbs, in an effort to highlight what it says is the themepark’s energy inefficiency.
Greenpeace activists unfurled a banner reading “Mickey Harms the Global Climate” in the hotel lobby and changed two lightbulbs to energy efficient versions before they [...]
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The enemy of my enemy
Published on 26 Aug 2007 at 4:39 pm.
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There’s an old Arab proverb that goes, “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
It seems that al Qaeda has finally overplayed its hand in Iraq by brutally murdering too many fellow-Muslims and fellow-Sunnis. Which would make al Qaeda the enemy—of the Iraqis.
And that makes us their friend.
For now, anyway; how long the warm [...]
How to hide stuff
Published on 26 Aug 2007 at 4:04 pm.
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The must-read SurvivalBlog has posted suggestions from readers on the best way to hide “precious metals” in the home. My favorite (emphasis in original):
In a basement, with exposed floor joists, several options are available:
1) around the rim joist above the concrete foundation, the rim joist usually is on the outboard edge of the concrete [...]
Little Saddam
Published on 26 Aug 2007 at 2:19 pm.
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From a Michael Totten report:
“When you came and liberated this country,” he continued, “Iraq had 25 million Saddams. America is turning us back into human beings.
The quote makes me think, in rabbit-trail fashion, of an evening I enjoyed with a few Iraqi Army soldiers a few months ago. All three were officers- drawn from [...]
Bush is making the economy too good
Published on 26 Aug 2007 at 9:53 am.
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“But questions remain about how long the West can weather the problems that come with low unemployment.” — Matt Gouras of the Associated Press.
Damn that George Bush. He is making things too good for the American people.
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My soldiering days
Published on 26 Aug 2007 at 6:48 am.
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This seems like an appropriate topic with which to introduce myself to you, Jules’s readers. It is not one on which I’ve ever written before, but even in the most unexpected places you’ll find some military experience. In my own case, it is of a completely unheroic kind. For some years during high school I [...]
Fields of Art
Published on 26 Aug 2007 at 12:21 am.
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At a Japanese village, farmers grow artwork in their paddy fields by planting four varieties of rice with different-colored leaves. Yoko Hani of the Japan Times has the story.
