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Your Monday reading
- Visual Thesaurous
- SchellingPoint.com
- Reporter gets shot, keeps reporting
- An alternative to business requirements
- The Pop vs Soda map
- David Friedman on Bob Barr
- An interview with Bob Barr
- An Asian rant about Europe, which had the memorable quote
Heaven is a place where the police are English; the chefs are Italian; the car mechanics are German; the lovers are French and it’s all organized by the Swiss. Hell is a place where the police are German; the chefs are English; the car mechanics are French; the lovers are Swiss and it’s all organized by the Italians
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Saturday link clearing roundup
- Visual thinking from the 1960s
- Schelling and the Nuclear Taboo
- Mexican cartels running pot farms in U.S. national forest – who says no one makes things in America anymore!
- The Pill makes women pick bad mates
- ‘Peter Pan’, ‘Snow White’ busted at Disneyland – People and their free time…
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My new favorite title for any long story
“A funny thing happened on the way to the grave…”
Tommy Womack -
Google and the Russia-Georgia War
Georgia does not appear on Google Maps, whereas Russia does. How odd.
Update: They do have Georgia, just not at a very good level of detail.
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Early tech support
Via PurpleSlog, here is the first tech support call.
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Link of the day
Old-Picture.com – very cool.
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Quote of the moment
Michael Scheur –
When you don’t do the hard things, you end up doing the extreme things.
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Foreign Policy is not what defines what America is, it defends what it is.
Here is the interview
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Least surprising headline ever
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My one Edwards adultery post
And why adultery matters.
Marriage, among other things, is a legal contract between two people. A contract that can be terminated by either party at any time. Adultery is a breach of that contract. It matters politically since it is (again, among other things) a breach of contract, arguably the most important contract anyone ever into into. Marriage is, by design, not a private matter.
If someone breaks a contract with someone he or she knows quite well, and at least at one point cared deeply about, shouldn’t that factor into one’s decision on who to elect president? Especially in our current age when presidents have enormous discretionary power and can make people disappear unilaterally?
The analogy I use in these situations is: suppose someone defaults on a car loan, does that affect the likelihood that they will default on a mortgage?
And yes, McCain’s adultery was equally horrible, and an equal sign of low character and trustworthiness.
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An ethnic map of the Sough Caucasus
Pretty cool. There’s a surprising number of different ethnicities there.
