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Archive for September 14th, 2007

Friday, September 14th, 2007

I Clear My Browser Tabs

Gene Healy considers Newt Gingrich, the only politician visionary enough to point out that “Real Change Requires Real Change.”
The markets go short on the Surge. (Via Marginal Revolution.)
There’s an Amir Taheri connection to the Alexis Debat scandal that I’m still puzzling out. (Here’s the puzzle: The Nixon Center is no neocon front organization. In fact, [...]

Friday, September 14th, 2007

Those things don’t glue themselves back together

By Thoreau
Since there’s been some discussion of the “Pottery Barn rule” in regards to Iraq, here’s my question:  What would constitute “buying it”, i.e. paying the victims of our mistakes?  Remember that when you break something at Pottery Barn they don’t make you the store manager.  They make you pay for what you broke.  So, [...]

Friday, September 14th, 2007

Your Daily WTF

Radley Balko talks slowly, using a lot of repetition, to get across an abstruse jurisprudential concept.

Friday, September 14th, 2007

Not Getting This Internet Thing

The Tampa Tribune, based on this excerpt from Jaden Hair’s latest Steamy Kitchen entry:
Today, we recorded a Tampa Tribune podcast which will go live in October.
October? I know the pace of life is slower in resort areas, but Tampa’s not even that nice. It’s 2007, guys. Wake up and smell the instant gratification.
Good luck to [...]