Ah, TWoP. Often better than the shows themselves.
Chris explains that he and Kevin hit Grand Central while Jen and Ivana went to Penn Station. Apparently, they are doing this under the impression that they will hit the Venn diagram in the tiny crossover between people who are about to get married, people who are [...]
Hearing that W thinks the CIA is a “hotbed of liberals” reminds me of my Dad calling the New York Times a right-wing newspaper. Of course, W may be right, I wouldn’t know.
INTEL DUMP -
CIA home to “hotbed of liberals and people who have been obstructing the president’s agenda”
White House begins a purge of [...]
…or you could just buy this.
“The negative view is that it’s akin to tying two drunks together and hoping that they’ll be able to walk a straight line,” retail analyst Sean Egan is managing director of Egan-Jones in Haverford, Pa., told CBS Radio News.
For people who have wayyyyy too much free time in their lives…
OK, so maybe I was wound a little tight during the last bit of the election. For a while I couldn’t seem to read much besides political coverage. If you felt like that too, and like me, you’re starting to chill out a little and your blogreading habits are starting to return to normal, definately [...]
I give you the Atlas E:
The conversion of this Missile Site is extensive and has taken about 5 years to complete. It has been converted to provide for self-sufficiency and self-reliance for peacetime and survival situations. The food flow starts at the greenhouse and continues to the canning kitchen, food cellar, kitchen pantry and finally [...]
What a joke:
But it gets even better: I examined the complaints and found that all but two of them were virtually identical. In other words, one person took the time to write a letter and 20 other people then photocopied or merely emailed it to the FCC many times. They all came from an automated [...]
Over at Crescat Sententia there’s an excellent post on constitutional interpretation that includes a quote from David Strauss
The implicit premise is that constitutional interpretation, if it is really faithfful to the Constitution, should not invariably lead to results that coinccide with the political views of the interpreter.
Discuss.
(my first take: I entirely agree)
I’m a big fan of capitalism, but I’m sitting here listening to the CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi tell us that he intends to create “loyalty beyond reason” through his ad campaigns. (on Frontline)
And I’m not saying the ol’ Tedster was right to do what he did.
I’m just saying I can understand a [...]
Perhaps of interest to folks:
http://faculty.econ.nwu.edu/faculty/witte/B01/handouts/radford.html
The Economic Organization of a P.O.W. Camp
By R.A. Radford
INTRODUCTION
After allowance has been made for abnormal circumstances, the social institutions, ideas and habits of groups in the outside world are to be found reflected in a Prisoner of War Camp. It is an unusual but a vital society. Camp organisation and politics [...]
Interesting comment over at The Belmont Club on Islam v. Christianity vis-a-vis democracy.
In the “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield” episode of Star Trek we had:
KIRK: Destruct sequence one. Code one, one-A.
SPOCK: Destruct sequence number two. Code one, one-A, two-B
SCOTT: Destruct sequence number three. Code one-B, two-B, three.
[...]
KIRK: Begin thirty second countdown. Code zero, zero, zero, destruct, zero.
And in Star Trek III we had:
KIRK: [...]
tjic: hey, group blogging might be fun!
dff: ok, everybody can use AE.
…
rlc: what happened to all the damn posting??
tjic: i don’t know what to write, or where to write it - i’ve got too much freedom! group blogging sucks!
And he’s not only merely dead, he’s really most sincerely dead!
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/11/10/voting/index.html
I know many of the readers probably saw this on InstaPundit, but damnit, it’s good enough that it deserves to be independently referenced here:
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1099986939.shtml
O, sacred stigmata, shield us against the spells of evil…
Conflicting reports on whether or not Europe’s pet terrorist is once and for all dead:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=1&u=/nm/20041109/ts_nm/mideast_arafat_dc