December 2009
73 posts
A Dramatic Proposal →
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Ah the delicious taste of subtlety. Contrasts nicely with Sullivan’s histrionics.
I’m not sure, but I think Andrew Sullivan just called for U.S. or NATO forces to invade Israel…
Flipping A Cop Car →
Another heart-stirring sight from yesterday, just uploaded to the Internets:
Video: Buchanan Advocates Torture for NW 253... →
Here’s crypto-fascist Pat “Hitler Wasn’t So Bad” Buchanan on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” show, advocating torturing the NW 253 bomber by withholding pain medicine for his burns — despite the fact that…
Hitchens on Our Absurd Ideas of 'Security' →
Again, Christopher Hitchens cuts through the nonsense: The truth about airplane security measures.
Why do we fail to detect or defeat the guilty, and why do we do so well at collective…
Blindness in Cairo →
The story of the 1,300 demonstrators stuck in Cairo continues not to attract much attention. The Guardian, generally exuberant in seeking vehicles to cast mud at Israel, doesn’t seem to be noticing:…
Gender Sign Fail or Symbolism Win? →
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Gender Sign Fail
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An Opportunity to Bash Israel! Wow! →
The Guardian is engaged in a series of daily reports from Gaza, commemorating the Israeli operation of last year. Here’s one of the series, predictably telling how awful Israel was and is. …
Report: Bush Administration Released Two Al Qaeda... →
ABC News has a report that two of the Al Qaeda leaders behind the Christmas Day attack plot were released from Guantanamo Bay in 2007, and handed over to Saudi Arabia. Where they underwent “art…
Andrew Sullivan, Hannah Rosenthal and Neocons →
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Andrew Sullivan has (for a while now) lost his damn mind when it comes to anything Israel/Jewish related…
Andrew Sullivan writes, in reference my charge that Hannah…
Relative prices of different liquids →
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Dispatch From The Twitter Revolution →
A reader writes: Greetings from Shanghai. I don’t think you’re on twitter, so I thought I’d give you a head’s up on something pretty amazing. The hashtag #CN4Iran - designated by Chinese…
It's the Repression, Stupid →
The Observer section of the Guardian website offers an innovative way to spin the weekend’s story of violence in the West Bank. It starts just as you’d expect it to: Israel is shooting…
TSA: Dumb as Ever →
So in response to the attempted terror attack over Christmas, TSA will apparently adopt a new policy prohibiting passengers from moving during the last hour of a flight. Also, no pillows or…
Savagery →
From the Times: “Moussavi was first run over by a sport utility vehicle outside his
home, Mr. Makhmalbaf wrote on his Web site. Five men then emerged from
the car, and one of them shot Mr….
Janet Napolitano Did Not Say That →
But Marc Ambinder says she did: “The system worked,” the secretary of homeland security said. As Ambinder writes, “Did those words really escape the barriers
of her teeth? Was this a talking point?…
The Maddening Stupidity of the TSA Security... →
Sometimes the stupidity is too much to bear. From the new guidelines for international air travel: U.S.-bound passengers aboard international flights must undergo a
“thorough pat-down” at boarding…
Video: Chasing the Ice →
Apparently, there are people who deny that global climate change is having drastic effects on the world’s ice caps and glaciers. Who knew? If your mind isn’t closed, here’s a site that will open it…
Scott Roeder Can't Use 'Necessity' Defense →
Scott Roeder, the fanatical anti-abortion “activist” who confessed to murdering Dr. George Tiller in church, will not be allowed to use the ludicrous “necessity defense” in his trial — which is no…
Where Does All That Tuition Go? →
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Hint: Not to full-time instructional costs.
We know that the costs of attending postsecondary institutions are increasing at a rate higher…
World's Highest Glacier Ski Run is Nearly Gone →
The Chacaltaya glacier in Bolivia was once the highest glacier ski run in the world — and in the next few months it’s going to disappear completely, five years ahead of the most pessimistic…
Camera Hack: How to find a lost camera →
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haha (h/t Robert Terenzi Jr.)
Have you lost your camera recently? Mislaid it somewhere in a national park? Left it in a taxi? Dropped it in the gorilla pit? Anyone can be a…
Reason.tv Footage of the Cop Who Brought a Gun to... →
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Wow…
Dan Hayes from Reason.tv was there for the whole thing.
The uniformed officers seemed to have quite a bit more sense about the whole thing than Det. Baylor. Good for…
Flashback of the Day →
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Ah politics. (h/t Faraj Bader)
When Sen. Al Franken objected to Sen. Joe Lieberman’s request for additional time, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said that in his 20-plus years in the…
2009: A Fine Year →
Once the operation in Gaza was over, and Hamas spent another few weeks shooting off rockets merely to prove it was still able to do so, 2009 has been one of the most peaceful years Israel has had in…
Oklahoma Far Right Abortion Law Blocked By Court... →
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In an attempt to threaten and scare women out of having abortions, Republicans in Oklahoma (Sen. Todd Lamb, R-Edmond, and Rep. Dan Sullivan, R-Tulsa) crafted a…
annafrenkel: First snow @Tompkins Square Park... →
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Law Firm Name Fail →
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Report: New York State Crime Lab Tainted by... →
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Oy vey
This week, New York State’s inspector general issued a blistering critique of the state’s crime lab. The report came after a private accrediting organization found…
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Law School Decision Flow Chart →
(h/t Addie Bendory)
All Due to Two Teens Having Sex →
by Conor Friedersdorf
The Ann Arbor News reports on a young man’s travails after being put on a sex offender registry for having sex at age seventeen with his fifteen year old girlfriend. It is…
Lawyer Job open in Texas. Must have 4 years... →
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As this Craigslist ad shows, the legal field is a golden bonanza! Requirements • Must be licensed by the State Bar Association of Texas to practice law •…
Better Hungry Than Unhealthy →
From Reason’s Brickbats feature:
In New York City, the Bowery Mission tossed away a batch of fried chicken brought by a local church to help feed the homeless. The chicken contained trans fat,…
Crack Research: Good news about knuckle cracking. →
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(h/t) Faraj Bader Thank god, I am an unabashed cracker
The latest physical anthropology research indicates that the human evolutionary line never went through a knuckle-walking…
Gay Marriage in Washington, D.C. →
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Mazel tov!
The D.C. city council, by a vote of 11–2, has given final approval to a bill authorizing same-sex marriage. The vote caps a years-long lobbying effort by gay…
Netanyahu ready to deal? →
by Andrew Sprung
A month ago, in a review of Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State, Michael Crowley claimed that Clinton had given birth in May to an accidental Israel policy:
Clinton…
One team, two offices: Israel and Palestine →
One team, two offices: Israel and Palestine: One team, two offices: Israel and Palestine
Sexting →
Pictures of the "apartheid wall" →
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Here are some pictures of that awful “apartheid wall” separating Arab families from each other and causing big problems among Palestinian Arabs.
What Is Hizballah Thinking? →
by Patrick Appel
Andrew Exum reads Hizballah’s new manifesto and the National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends 2025 report one after the other:
If you look at Hizballah’s flag,…
Sex Offender Law Nabs Man Shooting Hoops in His... →
According to the news site AnnArbor.com, 23-year-old Matthew Freeman is facing a year in jail for violating Michigan’s laws for convicted sex offenders. He was caught by a police officer playing…
Better Hungry Than Unhealthy →
From Reason’s Brickbats feature:
In New York City, the Bowery Mission tossed away a batch of fried chicken brought by a local church to help feed the homeless. The chicken contained trans fat,…
One team, two offices: Israel and Palestine →
One team, two offices: Israel and Palestine
One team, two offices: Israel and Palestine →
Wanted: Palestinian "Peace Now" Movement →
Many Palestinians who work with international or Israeli organizations whose job is to promote peace and coexistence in the Middle East are often afraid or reluctant to discuss the nature of their…
Why the Big TSA Screw-Up Story Doesn't Matter →
The TSA inadvertently posted on the web some of its trade secrets, and a kerfluffle is ensuing, but it doesn’t actually matter, because anyone with a brain (or half-a-brain) has already doped out…
Now I'm an Anti-Zionist →
Angry Goldblog readers, among them the correspondent below, don’t like it when I equate the lunatic rabbis of the Samarian settlements with the lunatic sheikhs of Hezbollah: You of all people should…
Apartheid Wall →
The Egyptians are building a 10-kilometer iron wall along their border with Gaza. It starts 20-30 meters (that’s an eight-story building) below ground level, to prevent the Palestinians digging…
Interviewing Evil →
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Adil Najam of All Things Pakistan tries to reason with a suicide bomber: