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Thursday, August 14. 2008

Thursday morning links

The real story behind the hockey stick graph. h/t, Watts

Jules' wife Amy MacKinnon has published her second book. A novel, which involves undertakers.

Ernest Hemingway and trout fishing in Michigan. WSJ

Brits ban plastic flowers in cemetaries. Too dangerous. What about the dangers of real plants?

Big Brother, Via Englishman, "Councils and health authorities are to be given the right to access e-mail and internet records under surveillance powers to be introduced next year, the Home Office said yesterday." Good grief. For a second, I thought this was satire.

You will be relieved to learn that Al Gore's new boat will have solar panels!

Obama without his script. Related: Rev. Wright is back!

How to revive dried-out cigars

Hooray for blockbuster drugs. City Journal

Swiftboating Obama? Neoneo

Race Preferences vs. Class Preferences. Powerline. What has this crazy world come to? And why is this an issue anymore? America has become so meritocratic that nobody gives a darn about anybody's background these days - to the dismay of the genteel classes (of which I am not a member).

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The real hockey stick graph. Total borrowings of Depository Institutions from the Federal Reserve.

http://reasearch.stlouisfed.org/fred2/data/BORROW_Max_630_378.png I think this is the site.
#1 jappy on 2008-08-14 08:06 (Reply)
Not a cigar smoker myself but I was abroad a while back and brought home some cubans (romeo & juliets, IIRC) to a cigar smoker. It turned out to be a few weeks before I could deliver them and they seemed dry to me when I finally got them. I apologized that they seemed dry. He said it was not problem, he'd just toss them in a baggy with a slice of apple and they'd be fine in no time.

I have no idea if it works.
#2 Knuckelhead (Link) on 2008-08-14 17:03 (Reply)
Yes it does. It's the old-fashioned way to treat tobaccy.
Hence apple-flavored pipe tobacco.
#2.1 BD on 2008-08-14 17:23 (Reply)
"America has become so meritocratic that nobody gives a darn about anybody's background these days..."

That's why we messed up in the beginning in Iraq. We don't understand the mind-set of the Mid-East and Asian people. They are the most racist humans on the planet, and we don't get it.

That little girl who lip-synched the song at the opening ceremonies is Mandarin - the ruling class in China. The other little girl might have had buck teeth, but she was not Mandarin and it would not do to have her on stage.

Our egalitarian mind-set hampers us beyond our military might and good intent. We need lessons in racism.
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#3 Meta on 2008-08-14 18:12 (Reply)

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