Inconceivable!
Hands down, the funniest Day By Day cartoon ever: ....
2008-05-16T12:37:55-05:00
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Criminalizing speech is stupid
I've argued against hate speech laws before, not on the basis that I want to hear more of it, but that I distrust the government with the power to tell me what I can and cannot say. Kate has a...
2008-05-16T10:38:13-05:00
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Canadian Military WHATegy?
Paul Wells has a bit of fun at the Conservative government's expense: We tease Le Devoir because we love it. You had to read that paper's Alec Castonguay this morning to begin to understand the true extent of the Harper...
2008-05-16T09:03:14-05:00
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QotD: Human Rights Commissions
[. . .] off-air the chit-chat went rather more pleasantly, and, in the course of it, Mr. Awan observed that Jews had availed themselves of the "human rights" commissions for years but it was only when the Muzzies decided...
2008-05-16T08:44:37-05:00
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Template issues
I'm finding some odd intermittent problems with the main page template: if I edit it online, it accepts the change I make, but then seems to randomly delete strings of text from the file when saving it. Sometimes it's just...
2008-05-15T09:23:37-05:00
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In praise of gridlock
By way of Samizdata, some political wisdom from a man who calls himself "not just stupid", but a "student of stupidity": P.J. O'Rourke: It occurs to me that America could wind up with a Democratic president. This scares me. Not...
2008-05-15T09:09:23-05:00
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Drug frenzy
Jacob Sullum pens the headline of the week: How Hysterical Do You Have to Be for Newsweek to Suggest That You're Overreacting to a Drug Menace? This doesn't quite make up for Newsweek's anti-crack hysteria circa 1986 or its anti-meth...
2008-05-15T08:52:32-05:00
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QotD: Expert Witnesses
Lawyers and scientists have completely different ways of discovering truth. The lawyers’ way is dueling witnesses. This is as good as any in determining which of two people is lying about a police shootout. It is no good in...
2008-05-15T08:45:19-05:00
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Why is Rogers "improving" my service?
Elizabeth got a very confusing message from Rogers (our ISP) yesterday, saying that "to improve our service" they'd be eliminating all but one email account from each customer account. That is, of the _five_ free user accounts we were previously...
2008-05-15T08:24:16-05:00
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Yahtzee kinda likes Grand Theft Auto IV
2008-05-14T15:58:56-05:00
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My number, he has it
"Understand that this will never, ever change. You will always be lazy, and you will always procrastinate. I know it's tough for you to hear, but it's a harsh truth that you need to internalize." Ouch. That truth hurts....
2008-05-14T11:52:36-05:00
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"Tepidly gung ho" about education reform
In perhaps the least emphatic possible way, Megan McArdle picks a favourite among the various contending educational reform notions: But while taking away much of the teacher's union's power is definitely not sufficient, it does seem to be necessary. They...
2008-05-14T09:09:49-05:00
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QotD: Sign of the times
Would you find it odd to walk into a place that billed itself variously as an "internet café" and a "cybercafé" in the year 2008, only to be told "Sorry, [we] don't have wireless [internet]?" This happened to me...
2008-05-14T09:04:29-05:00
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150,000th reader
A mini-milestone to mark the start of the fifth year of blogging: the 150,000th visitor came in a few minutes ago from ncsu.edu (I'm guessing that'd be North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC). Typically, it was a very short...
2008-05-13T09:26:22-05:00
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Hurrah for Jindal!
Until his name came up as a potential running-mate for John McCain, I don't remember ever hearing about Bobby Jindal. I think this will change regardless of whether he joins McCain or not. Megan McArdle is a fan: With a...
2008-05-13T09:12:09-05:00
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