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When white people talk for a long time
The author of “Stuff White People Like”
And http://stuffaspergerpeoplelike.com/ like is eerily similar to my life.
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The agitator brings the Biden pain
Biden’s record on other criminal justice and civil liberties issues is just as bad. Opponents of the federalization of crime might note that the 1994 crime bill he sponsored created several new federal capital offenses. Biden also wants to expand federal penalties for hate crimes. He supports a federal smoking ban. His position on the federal drinking age is, and I quote, “absolutely do not” lower it to 18. He believes “most violent crime is related to drugs” (if he had said “drug prohibition,” he’d be closer to the truth). Biden also has an almost perfect anti-gun voting record. He said last year he favors “universal national service,” either in the Peace Corps or the military. Sounds like conscription to me. He says he’s opposed to the PATRIOT Act, but he voted for both the original bill and its re-authorization in 2005.
Foreign policy? Biden voted for the war on Iraq. Yes, he’s opposed to it now (and I like the partition plan he pushed in the primaries). But he didn’t vote correctly when it counted most. Biden also voted to send troops into Darfur. He wants to enlarge NATO. He voted in favor of the air strikes in Kosovo. He voted to strengthen the trade embargo against Cuba. His seems to be a meddling, interventionist, Clinton-esque foreign policy. His first instinct seems to be that the U.S. military’s objective include some vague notion of “doing good in the world.” Never mind the disastrous consequences that notion has reaped over the years.
I obviously disagree with Biden on a host of economic and regulatory issues, too (though he does seem to be fairly decent on free trade). But that’s to be expected. My problem with Biden is that he’s not even good on the issues the left is supposed to be good on. He’s an overly ambitious, elitist, tunnel-visioned, Potomac-fevered Beltway dinosaur, with all the trappings. He may well have been the worst possible pick among congressional Democrats when it comes to the drug war and criminal justice.
Meg Whitman seems like a more obvious choice now.
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My new favorite Mencken
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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A day of mixed baggae
Music city = fun
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The surprisingly witty Bob Barr
Not as funny as McCain can be, but close, surprising close
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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…”
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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.