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News/Misc
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News/Misc, Culture 2
Hand over the children
I don’t know exactly what has been going on in the Yearning for Zion compound. Clearly, this polygamist, separatist sect is neither biblical nor beneficial to its members. All the same, there’s something a little creepy about the state seizing children from their families. The troubling thing is, since they have no absolute foundation, the […]
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Current Affairs, News/Misc, Language
Writing the news before it happens
Robert Novak, in his syndicated column notes the following rather ominously:
The expense of such an intervention is not a problem because the Fed, unlike the president and Congress, can print money. The Bear Stearns bailout, approved in private by unelected officials, contributes to paranoid grievances on the left and right that built support for Ron […] -
News/Misc, Language
Neologism—Petrino
12.17.07 | Permalink | 3 Commentspetrino. v. 1. To cut and run. Asked about U. S. Iraq strategy, Cheney said, ‘We are not going to petrino in this situation.’ 2. To treat a constituency with the utmost disrespect. What an ugly breakup! Brad sure petrinoed Jennifer. 3. To act with supreme self-interest. I haven’t seen anyone petrino that well since Larry Craig.
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News/Misc
Super Size Me: 19th Century Edition
Sure, Super Size Me is scary. But the BBC did that fellow one better, I think. They had someone eat like an Edwardian gentleman for a week. The results? See for yourself. Follow the gastronomical absurdity here.
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News/Misc
Cathy Seipp, RIP
I occasionally read Cathy Seipp’s irreverent blog, Cathy’s World, and almost always read her National Review Online column, “From the Left Coast.”
She died of lung cancer on Wednesday, and funeral was Friday.
What made Cathy so much fun to read was her ability to write about virtually any subject, and speak smartly and straightforwardly about it. […]
