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Monthly Archives: July 2009

Yes! Yes! Yes!

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

…the persistence of these educational achievement gaps imposes on the United States the economic equivalent of a permanent national recession. A quote of a quote. See it here. The point, less subtly: a hell of a lot of people don’t get that when liberals are whining about educating the poor and giving health care to [...]

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In a nutshell

Monday, July 13, 2009

The interesting thing about Sarah Palin is how she seems to think that, for her, the rules should be different. To some extent the rules _are_ different for her: she’s clearly an idiot, her responses to any question are a combination of word salad and jingoism, and yet the only inhibitory effect this had on [...]

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Amnesty

Sunday, July 12, 2009

I’ve decided that for the next year, starting in September, I have no responsibility whatsoever to write. I won’t think about it, won’t feel guilty about it, nothing will bubble away in the back of my mind killing me slowly with obligation. Call this Point D. Which to the astute reader suggests Points A, B, [...]

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Awesome

Friday, July 10, 2009

This site lets you play a giant collaborative game in trying to imagine the impact of hypothetical scenarios. This site is sort of similar, but different. This is the presentation that pointed me toward these interesting things. This one allows you to help imagine what a world in the early throes of an oil shortage [...]

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Endless entertainment

Friday, July 10, 2009

From the ABC News interview: As to whether another pursuit for national office, as when she joined Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., in the race for the White House less than a year ago, would result in the same political blood sport, Palin said there was a difference between the White House and what she had [...]

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Eggs

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Here’s your public service announcement about eggs. The USDA will tell you that all eggs are created equal, just as all vegetables, whether organic or not, are equal. Somehow the output from a chicken doesn’t depend on the inputs in the USDA’s world, which is frankly a ridiculous assumption. It’s like a chicken is a [...]

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