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Bob Barr Interview
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Brushes with greatness
I went to college with this guy. Ward Anderson was a comic then too, but in much worse shape.
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A tree grows at the Freedom House
I just planted a Royal Empress sapling; it’s currently about one handspan tall. We’ll see if it grows as fast as the experts say.
Incidentally, I got it over the internet, which makes everything available online these days…
I haven’t been blogging much, but not much has been going on besides work these days.
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The Republicans effort to hit rock bottom, and start digging
It seems that John McCain knows that the Republican party needs to rebuild, and wants to make sure they start from the ground up. Case in point, this quote where he seemingly doesn’t know the meaning of habeas corpus. This misstatement seems so flagrant, in conjunction with his lack of anything new in his campaign platform, that it seems intentional.
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McCain’s first wife
Check out this story about McCain’s first wife. Oddly, the hero of the tale is Ross Perot; a crazy nut, but a classy guy.
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Saturday reading
- From George Will –
America says to foreign producers: We prefer not to pump our oil, so please pump more of yours, thereby lowering its value, for our benefit. Let it not be said that America has no energy policy.
- Wilkerson on Global Warming
- Joel Splolsky on Architecture Astronauts – worth reading, especially in conjunction with John Robb.
- This is weird
- Inventions by year
- From George Will –
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Mongol!
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Saturday rapid fire
- Dean Kamen’s Robot Arm – simply incredible. Why Kamen isn’t America’s most highly regarded public citizen is a mystery.
- The liberal media follows me around an takes notes – I had this conversation with some friends last week, it’s an odd coincidence. I don’t cry at movies but my the movies that come closes are The Virgin Spring and On The Beach.
- More HDR Photography
- Groupware is bad
- Russia’s Hypermortality –
Moreover, a large proportion of the Russian workforce may be too drunk to function. Almost one male death in three is alcohol-related. “The increase of alcohol consumption from 10 to 15 liters and an almost simultaneous increase in mortality suggests the central role played by alcohol to mortality, in average up to 426,000 per year in 1980-2001. Alcohol-related deaths total 29.6 percent of total mortality for men and 17.0 percent for women,” the report says.
- My next project is going to be something like this
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Update on the two murders across the street
A news update here. It seems that there were two killers, and also that they planned to torch the house when they were done. Scary business.
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For your viewing pleasure
Just fyi – still no real word on the double murder across the street.
To make everyone feel better, check out this Craig Shirky talk on the internet