Entries from November 2007

Why Bill Richardson is the Democrat’s best hope for 2008

Posted 11/30/07

People who think about these things recognize that senators just don’t become president. The last two sitting senators were Warren [...]

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Why Fred Thompson is an idiot, and why only I seem to know what to do in Iraq

Posted 11/30/07

Thanks to a point-to by Gnomic to one of those choose-the-candidate quizzes, I took the two minutes to fill it [...]

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Ethanol: Told you so

Posted 11/30/07

So the Wall Street Journal has a story today, “Ethanol Craze Cools As Doubts Multiply.” In the span of one [...]

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Sears: Why do I bother?

Posted 11/29/07

Sears stores’ policy for Web orders is to accept every order, even if the item is not in stock. I [...]

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Woman missing

Posted 11/27/07

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

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If you watch this video before bed, you’ll have Kafka dreams

Posted 11/21/07

(Via Fark)

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Poor book titles

Posted 11/21/07

“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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U.S. Army commercial — and what it doesn’t show

Posted 11/18/07

“There’s strong, and then there’s Army strong.” So goes the Army’s commercial. It shows what you might expect: Soldiers in [...]

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Rudy Giuliani on freedom

Posted 11/12/07

“Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a [...]

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The creationism museum

Posted 11/12/07

Blogging has been light lately because we decided to take our 1800-someodd square feet of stuff and move it from [...]

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How to help America, circa 1942

Posted 11/5/07

From a scan of Munro Leaf’s My Book to Help America, and oddly apropos today: Did you get that? Let’s [...]

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The next JPEG

Posted 11/3/07

The "sequel" to JPEG images — the worldwide standard for photographs — is a bit closer today, now that the [...]

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