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Archive for June 30th, 2007

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

Poorly assimilated immigrant community alert

By Thoreau
This afternoon my wife and I finally visited the Amish Market in Burtonsville, MD. (Obviously, they have no web page to link to, although they do have credit card readers these days.) We witnessed a community that prefers to live apart, retains its original language, adheres to a very strict religion, and [...]

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

Boldly going where no facts have gone thus far

By Thoreau
I’m sure everybody here has heard that two car bombs were found on Friday in a place where new British PM Gordon Brown was to be, and that today a burning car was crashed into an airport in Scotland. Muslim extremists are apparently the culprits (although one should avoid making hasty assumptions on [...]

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

Very Serious, Thoughtful LOLcats That Have Never Been Made in Such Detail or with Such Care

Given that
there is no evidence that [Jonah Goldberg] has actually written anything other than the subtitle — again and again and again, like Jack Nicholson in The Shining. And now he is even rewriting that. The original subtitle, “The Totalitarian Temptation from Mussolini to Hillary Clinton,” had to be changed, probably because the publisher worried [...]