It's been cold, rain and stormy, noisy wind here. "Feels like 34," weatherman said yesterday. We are eager for some global warming - solar, anthropogenic, cow farted, or otherwise.
A new book of Mark Twain's unpublished work. One quote:
Twain describes his dentist: "He was gray and venerable, and humane of aspect; but he had the calm, possessed, surgical look of a man who could endure pain in another person."
Bummer: Online shopping taxes are on the way. Government = Greed.
Dems promise that gummint medical care will deny you treatment. Duh.
Kinky gerontophiliacs? Is it legal?
Piracy: There's been lots of it since the Barbary pirates.
Sin City on the Tigris: Baghdad getting back to normal.
Ban Ki Moon annoyed with Ahmadinejad. Delegates walked out.
The truth behind the Maersk Alabama story.
Spengler outs himself to be...David P. Goldman, of First Things
Miss California (on left) is a gay marriage skeptic. Will Wikinson defends gay marriage on libertarian grounds.
It's about time we added The Other McCain to our blogroll
Cuts of $100 million? A joke. Who is he kidding? (Probably lots of people who can't add.)
What's the state of manufacturing in the US? Not too bad.
I'm with Jules: this is the sort of reporting I want from the NYT
Politics and public pension shakedowns
DHS Threat map (h/t, Moonbattery)
Big Media doesn’t always lie. Despite the transformation from “reporting” to “journalism”, fabricating people and events is still frowned upon. More insidious that outright lies—which can be crushed by genuine reporting
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