day 2 of foolishness from time magazine as little green footballs charles johnson and the daily gut captured time magazines second place finisher for their person of the year year award received an unusual caption on times website little green footballs charles johnson asks the obvious questions what the hell is wrong with time magazine and why did they describe the genocidal holocaustdenyin...
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the tv crime drama the closer returns tonight with a twohour movie to kick off its third season or part two of a divided second season im not sure how the producers and cable channel are categorizing it. the program stars kyra sedgwick as a harried middleaged unmarried southern belle who works as a deputy police chief in los angeles and has to adjust to professional and personal problems in the un...
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i stirred up some concerns among pkd fans with my philip k. dick article which was crossposted at the reform club site. francis poretto commented thoughtfully there suggesting that there is no way to discern true greatness in a writer. after stating for my money a great writer is one who inspires me to great emotion francis asks how shall i judge dick or any writer great even if permitted to use m...
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the washington postreports that the house of representatives this week overwhelmingly passed a measure imposing severe penalties for price gouging an alleged phenomenon it was unable to define and has left to the federal trade commission to define. once the federal trade commission figures out what price gouging is it is authorized to impose fines of up to 150 million for wholesalers and 2 million...
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new header graphic clipped from a picture of a thunderstorm forming over the atlantic ocean at crescent beach fl. baseball season is in full swing and im a bart ride away from both bay area stadia. riding to jfk in a cab on sunday it turned out my cabbie who lived in queens was a yankees fan. the most hated team in baseball. i was deeply offended and asked him to stop the cab immediately so i cou...
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ed brayton is commenting on baylors controversial decision to deny tenure to francis beckwith who has published extensively on philosophy and law. brayton believes that the decision was due to the internal politics at baylor and criticizes the inevitable conspiracy theories and blame mongering from the id crowd whom hes sure will claim that the decision was based on beckwiths acceptance of intelli...
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hunter baker at the reform club passes along a column by maggie gallagher that has him rethinking his position concerning illegal immigration. gallagher notes economic studies suggest that overall immigration is a net wash or a slight plus for the american economy. but the pluses and minuses are not evenly distributed over the whole population lesserskilled americans who compete for jobs that dont...
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this means first of all exporting its islamism to iraq and afghanistan undermining their relatively proamerican regimes. second it means undermining the secular regimes in syria lebanon pakistan and saudi arabia and attempting to establish a panislamic confederation that both controls a significant portion of the worlds oil supplies and with iranian and pakistani nukes remains relatively invulnera...
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