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Tuesday, February 9. 2010

Tuesday links

The Harvard Psychedelic Club: Did LSD really kill the 1950s?


Is it a tragedy for languages to be lost?


Re the Trapp family, here's a good chronology


Pajamas: Hard truths about the immigration debate


At Volokh: What is the EU all about? I think it's about a bureaucratic empire and unelected mandarins who know what is best for the little people


Please, no! Coming together on a climate bill


Pam Geller destroys Reagan Jr


Thinking about John Jay of Rye and Katonah, NY


Day 386 of Chicago-style politics. Related, even Newsweek is worried (h/t, Dino)


George Will: Charting our way to solvency


Public-sector Unions Bleed Taxpayers to Help Dems

That "Cost-Benefit" Thing: How U.S. Intelligence Assessments Misunderstand Iran and Lots More in the Middle East

The Antitrust Exemption For Health Insurers: Meaningful Or Not?
Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 10:16 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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Is there any significance to the Von Trapp story other than local?
I have never heard of them and after skimming thru your stories fail to see much of interest in their story
#1 b wayne on 2010-02-09 10:58 (Reply)
You never saw The Sound of Music? The show/movie is about their life.
#1.1 Bird Dog on 2010-02-09 11:04 (Reply)
I'm not sure if there remains much interest in the von Trapp backstory if you're under forty. I only have a curious as in "I wondered about the family that was the impetus for Sound of Music" .... mainly because Sound of Music was one of the Rogers & Hammerstein plays that the arts department put on, and I was part of, in high school. (I was on the sound crew)

As in all things, time fades all memory, and even significant, momentous events become historical curiosities. And so goes even World War 2 events (and worse for footnote events like the von Trapp family)......
#1.2 JoeC on 2010-02-09 11:14 (Reply)
Nope, never have seen the Sound of Music.
Sorry but from the title, it doesnt sound interesting.
#2 b wayne on 2010-02-09 11:54 (Reply)
My 30 year old niece planned a trip to Europe several years ago around visiting sites featured in the Sound of Music.
#3 Gringo on 2010-02-09 13:31 (Reply)
Well here we go again--illegal immigration and truth--haven't seen it yet. But, how about this perspective: wonder if we included in the discussion about illegal immigration some scientific facts. Facts about soil and water capacity. Facts about over crowding. Facts about forcing the Mexican people to finally, get what it takes to create their own government, take control of their own lives in their own country. MOSTLY any discussion about immigration must contain an agreement on population: how many, how to control, etc. The real fear in all of this is that we will look like them in the very near future. Overcrowded, hungry, corrupt beyond our comprehension, helpless, etc. If we cannot come to a systemic approach to dealing with these issues we will never come to an agreement about immigration "policy". Now--there's honesty for you!
#4 another one on 2010-02-09 13:56 (Reply)
Re: Chicago-style politics.

BHØbama and his White House Clowns give "Chicago-style" politics a bad name!
#5 Kondratieff on 2010-02-09 14:39 (Reply)
RE: Climate Bill: Here's the answer - Shell Oil’s Marvin Odum, Duke Energy’s Jim Rogers and NRG Energy’s David Crane. Anybody who follows CNBC or business news on a regular basis understands that these three folks, which I'll bet money that most of you don't know anything about, stand to make BILLIONS (illions with a B) for themselves and their companies off the cap and trade schema - in particular Duke Energy's Jim Rogers.
#6 Tom Francis on 2010-02-09 15:16 (Reply)

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