Am I the only one vaguely disturbed by the fact that North Carolina at some point felt it necessary to enact the specific crime of “malicious castration”?
http://www.wfmynews2.com/news/local_state/local_article.aspx?storyid=47432
I’ve got it! Bush’s endorsement of teaching “intelligent” design in schools is really a clever, subtle plan to deeply entrench school vouchers by making the Left want vouchers as well. Or maybe it’s even more subtle — to eliminate the Left altogether by causing its adherents’ brains to explode due to simultaneously wanting [...]
…succor yourself with this.
I despise Ed Markey from the bottom of my heart, but I have to give him credit for this one-liner about the big energy bill that’ll be passed tomorrow:
Right now Adam Smith is spinning in his grave so fast that he would qualify for a subsidy in this bill as an energy source…
Over on LFA someone posted this howler:
I wonder whether the “population growth” parameters wasn’t what kept Arlington from making the initial screen. The population has declined from a high of 53,500 in 1970 down to the current 43,000-something. So that may have given a false impression of non-growth.
Yeah. How could anyone see [...]
I happened to find out today that iRobot co-founder Helen Greiner (a) was the same class at MIT as I was (1989) and (b) lived in the same dorm that I did (Burton-Conner).
Those obvious right-wing loonies on the WaPo editorial board have this to say about AI’s latest bit of idiotarianism.
[shakes head sadly]
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/330/7502/1221
If the IRS had discovered the quadratic formula…
Why is the snooze alarm interval nine minutes on virtually all alarm clocks?
Even if you don’t watch Enterprise (and if you don’t, I can’t blame you that much), try to catch one of the re-broadcasts of “Into a Mirror, Darkly (Part 1)” and then “Into a Mirror, Darkly (Part 2)” next Saturday (or whenever your TiVo grabs it).
A great shout-out to fans of the One, True Series.
Ah [...]
or, New Socialist Muppets
Another reason to chop CTW off at the knees…
Turns out there is a federal Leaking Underground Storage Tanks program.
[see here, which mentions it in passing]
A fascinating article about Apollo 13, from the IEEE Spectrum.
[via Instapundit]
In a thread entitled “legal opinion Renaming decision Reeds Brook”, where in a prior post there was a legal opinion of Town Counsel Maher saying that the by-law about requesting the advice of the Public Memorial Committee was not being followed in recent namings, the following was said by someone:
Well, if everyone’s ignoring the by-laws [...]
See:
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/22480.htm
and
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/transcript0.htm
If you didn’t know Harvard was involved, you’d have to think this was an Onion editorial:
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=506289