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People who think about these things recognize that senators just don’t become president. The last two sitting senators were Warren Harding (1921) and JFK (1961). Maybe it’s the perceived lack of experience, or maybe it’s the easy access to voting records as fodder for attack ads. For whatever reason, senators don’t become president.
Oh, and neither [...]

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Thanks to a point-to by Gnomic to one of those choose-the-candidate quizzes, I took the two minutes to fill it out. It spat back the list of candidates ordered by intelligence.
The results are here.
Bottom line: Dennis Kucinich and Chris Dodd seem to be the smartest of the pack, while Fred Thompson and Tom Tancredo show [...]

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So the Wall Street Journal has a story today, “Ethanol Craze Cools As Doubts Multiply.”
In the span of one growing season, ethanol has gone from panacea to pariah in the eyes of some. The critics, which include industries hurt when the price of corn rises, blame ethanol for pushing up food prices, question its environmental [...]

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Sears stores’ policy for Web orders is to accept every order, even if the item is not in stock. I learned this a while ago.
The store also has a huge disconnect between its online and offline stores. Order something online that has to be delivered, and if there’s a problem both the local store and [...]

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It’s via CNN, so you know she’s white.

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(Via Fark)

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“Sir, about the title of this kids’ cookbook…”
“I don’t have time for this, Jenkins. I’m sure it’s fine.”

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“There’s strong, and then there’s Army strong.” So goes the Army’s commercial. It shows what you might expect: Soldiers in various garb in various situations. They climb walls, crawl through foliage, jump from helicopters, and so on.
But in the dozen or so scenes of soldiers in action, not one — not one — showed a [...]

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“Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.” — Rudy Giuliani, 1994

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Blogging has been light lately because we decided to take our 1800-someodd square feet of stuff and move it from one perfectly good storage space to another.
In the meantime, thanks to the incomparable Eric Berlin, we have John Scalzi on the creationism museum:
Here’s how to understand the Creation Museum:
First, imagine, if you will, a load [...]

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From a scan of Munro Leaf’s My Book to Help America, and oddly apropos today:

Did you get that? Let’s obey. Cheerfully.
Obey.
Obey.
Obey.

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The "sequel" to JPEG images — the worldwide standard for photographs — is a bit closer today, now that the Joint Photographic Experts Group has approved using Microsoft’s HD Photo format for the job. That means Microsoft gives up the rights to it, and Windows Media Photo, er, HD Photo JPEG XR becomes the new [...]

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