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Archive for October 12th, 2007

Friday, October 12th, 2007

Briefly Noted

Verified this week: Two dogs chasing a squirrel up in a tree are more than twice as funny as one dog doing it. This is a perfect example of the concept of increasing returns.

Friday, October 12th, 2007

Sushi Cookbook Bleg

By Mona
I need to know what Japanese “cookbook” UO readers think is best. Sushi and sashimi are high priorities for the person I must make a gift of it to (daughter-in-law). She’s already good at the basics — we roll our own at least once a month — but she’d like to advance, and Xmas [...]

Friday, October 12th, 2007

Kill a Lot of People, Then Stop

Jesse Walker helps you, yes, you, win the Nobel Peace Prize.
(In 1919 it gave the prize to League founder Woodrow Wilson, whose previous contribution to peace was to plunge the United States into the most pointless major war in its history.)

Friday, October 12th, 2007

George Washington et al.: Or, the Origins of our Leftist Plague

By Mona
Greenwald takes a look at Bill O’Reilly’s (brief ad click-through)designation of Jonathan  John Edwards as being “too far-left.”
After highlighting all the scary, fringe positions Edwards holds, O’Reilly summarized what the Far-Left America would look like once John Edwards got done with it:
[W]ould you support President John Edwards? Remember, no coerced [...]

Friday, October 12th, 2007

This Story Shall the Good Man Teach His Son

One day we’ll tell our grandchildren that we were there for the funniest day in the history of the internet, starting pretty much now. Unless we already have grandchildren, in which case we’ll be IMing and e-mailing links all day with them. They’ll hold their manhoods cheap, they will. Especially the girl grandchildren, cause of [...]