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We are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the dogs. Each one of us does "try my best to be just like I am," and none of us enjoys working for others, including for Maggie, from whom we receive neither a nickel nor a dime. Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.

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Friday, December 7. 2007

Friday Afternoon Links

Quackery supported by Brit NHS. Why? Because it's political, of course. Socialized medicine is all about politics, not medicine.

Eye disease and Impressionism. Neurophilosophy

Before we go all hysterical like Andy Sullivan, here are the facts about those CIA tapes.

A player to make people like golf who don't like golf

Chavez: Our people aren't mature enough. Dr. Sanity. Not mature enough to want to be serfs to the State?

What is "sloth"? Kimball

When a bad kid smiles at a teacher.

What gun laws do for us.

The case for English as the official language. NY Sun

Is this guy getting a bad deal? I have never seen a child porn site, but what if I just wanted to see what was on them? Cramer

Magna Carta for sale.

Dissent not allowed in Bali. h/t, Insty

More on The Death of the Grown-Up: Driscoll

The logical flaw in modern Darwinism. Auster. It's about the human instinct for teleology.

Kangaroo farts are Green. What about Wallabees? All I have here is a whole bunch of Wallabees.

G.I. Jill. Gateway

Image: Thomas Nast's Santa. History of Santa here.

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Nice stuff from Kimball:

"...worth noting that sloth is not “the most philosophical” but rather the most terrifying and soul-deadening of vices. It is not, despite common usage, synonymous with laziness. On the contrary, as St. Thomas noted, it is a state of “tristitia de bono spirituale”: sadness or despair in the face of the spiritual good that is creation. It is typical of the special idiocy of contemporary academia that it would frivolously pretend to celebrate something that, if pursued in earnest, would spread moral anesthesia and despair."
#1 buddy larsen on 2007-12-08 00:04 (Reply)
Re: Before we go all hysterical

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house

Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;

The stockings were hung
#2 Leag on 2007-12-08 09:36 (Reply)

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