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Winter Bowling Begins (and Ends?)
Sep 09 2008, 01:02 EDT [updated Sep 09 2008, 01:16 EDT]
The Winter bowling season, which runs September through May, has begun [Summer runs just the Summer]. More on that below.
First Night
I bowled 162, 129, 167. Which is nice because this league is on a PBA pattern; the same tougher lane conditions that
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Actual History and Actual Ideas
Aug 31 2008, 21:40 EDT [updated Aug 31 2008, 22:03 EDT]
A constant theme here (I hope that comes through) is that the left behave as if there is no history and every idea is brand spanking new (and new is good!). But that would be repeating the entire purpose of Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism [I'll work up
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Somerville/Ball Square News
Aug 31 2008, 19:08 EDT [updated Aug 31 2008, 19:33 EDT]
The block of Ball Square anchored by Kelly's Diner is closed for renovations, except for the Diner itself.
The Powderhouse Pub is due to reopen in a week with a new kitchen and new everything; possibly to compete with the Tavern on the Hill instead of j
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Laws Have Consequences
Aug 31 2008, 18:02 EDT [updated Aug 31 2008, 18:29 EDT]
More on laws & consequences in a minute. Our Standards and Practices guidelines come pretty close to outlawing the cute, via the spirit if not the letter of rule #2
2. If you purchase a cat you will be expelled. If you post a picture of a cat it will be
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Rants is Blogging Again
Aug 31 2008, 16:44 EDT
Granite Rants is blogging again. Mostly good eye-rolling about the Dem convention. But also a Kerouac piece about a Radiohead concert:
The whole contrivance of live popular musical appreciation: Parking Lot, red party cups, drunk, go through admissio
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Winning a Campagn as Experience
Aug 31 2008, 16:29 EDT
Lisa Schiffren at NRO has a long post about how winning a campaign (as Obama has done) shouldn't count as proof you can govern.
Well yes, and if you've read your Hayek/Mises you would know this is exactly why politicians are worse at running things than
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Taxonomy
Aug 31 2008, 06:45 EDT
One of the cheapest flights to Birmingham, England was $330 plus $440 tax (total $770). I picked the option that was also $770 but with more of the money going to the airline than the state. See you at PyCon UK.
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Email.com == Tools
Aug 30 2008, 03:05 EDT [updated Aug 30 2008, 03:09 EDT]
First they made the service unusable by inserting ads every other page and recently they have instituted a 60 day purge policy. If you don't log in once every two months your mailbox (10 megs max for the free account) is deleted. Guess who just lost 10
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Sarah Palin as McCain VP
Aug 29 2008, 19:54 EDT [updated Aug 29 2008, 19:55 EDT]
Ignoring all her politics Sarah Palin is just plain likable. Extraordinarily likable. In this and her thin record of experience she is like Barack Obama but that is where the similarities end.
Her politics are small-L libertarian and her life is all lu
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Obama vs Bill Clinton
Aug 29 2008, 04:28 EDT [updated Aug 29 2008, 04:29 EDT]
Both Barack Obama and Bill Clinton are/were telegenic. One difference is that Obama includes in his speech "this in not about me, this is about you" whereas Bill just implied it, and mightily.
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Hunting, Safetily
Aug 29 2008, 03:40 EDT
bobsalive and I are now signed up for a hunter safety course. The course is not perfunctory; your choices are 10 hours of instruction or a written test, and both are followed by an 8 hour field practical that includes map reading, how to safely cross a
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Green New Deal
Aug 29 2008, 03:02 EDT
From the BBC
The outcomes of our plan, though, are not to be feared. They will create countless green collar jobs, introduce greater economic stability, bring huge benefits to the real economy and establish prudent environmental policy.
My main obje
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Obama's DNC Speech
Aug 29 2008, 02:24 EDT [updated Aug 29 2008, 12:29 EDT]
Lots of promises. The world, in fact. Good luck with that.
[petedied] I like when he called on past democratic presidents that showed the proper example for the party. FDR and Kennedy. He skipped the other meat heads like Buchanan who enabled the ci
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Good Eats Lied to Me
Aug 28 2008, 02:04 EDT [updated Aug 28 2008, 02:06 EDT]
The usually reliable Alton Brown's assertion that "Bananas are Iceland's third largest export crop" struck me immediately as bullshit and undercut my reverence for his show; especially where it lined up with my mothers non scientific advice
Mom: Let th
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Better Spin on the 2004 Graph
Aug 28 2008, 00:46 EDT [updated Aug 28 2008, 00:56 EDT]
A more concise way to explain my 2004 election rehash is:
You are most likely to live in a county that was evenly divided Bush/Kerry
The chances that you live in a county that went +5% for Bush or Kerry are about even
If you live in a county that wen
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How Many Communist Mentors Are Too Many? (2 images)
Aug 28 2008, 00:28 EDT [updated Aug 28 2008, 00:35 EDT]
The two party system doesn't allow for much gradation but the idea there is a fat middle is wrong. The pundits focus on the thin middle because that is where most of the action is. Here is a stylized graph of the US electorate.
Neither party can lose
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Obama isn't above Scortched Earth
Aug 27 2008, 23:51 EDT [updated Aug 27 2008, 23:55 EDT]
Instapundit linked to this piece with the headline Obama camp blasts National Review writer as "slimy character assassin." My first thought was "please be Stanley Kurtz" and indeed it is.
Kurtz was investigating Obama's connection with Ayers, an unrepen
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Your week in Quickies
Aug 27 2008, 23:03 EDT
Hats of Meat: Photographs and History
[jackdied]
Aug 27 2008, 23:03 EDT
The expression “I’ll eat my hat” traces back as far as the 19t
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Quote of the Week
Aug 27 2008, 01:21 EDT
I remember life before hyperbole. It was the WORST THING EVER.
JD commenting at the Reason blog
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Summer Bowling: Season's End
Aug 25 2008, 23:58 EDT [updated Aug 26 2008, 00:59 EDT]
The Summer leagues are at an end. Leagues don't end with a tournament but with "position night" where #1 bowls #2, #3 bowls #4, etc; You get one last chance to grab points from your closest rival. Helpfully the lanes were arranged so that the first plac
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Michelle Obama Still Isn't Helping
Aug 25 2008, 23:10 EDT [updated Aug 26 2008, 01:10 EDT]
I just caught the DNC highlight show on CSPAN. Michelle's speech (the bit they highlighted) went like this:
The path of history has met with the tide of hope - that is why I love this country.
This may be an improvement over "For the first time in
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Heh
Aug 25 2008, 13:46 EDT
Chicagoboyz has a poll Which of these is not a U.S. ally?. Choices include France and Georgia; The overwhelming choice, currently at 79% with 139 votes, is "The State Department." That's how I voted.
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Obama Picks Joe Biden as VP - Unforced Error #2591
Aug 24 2008, 01:46 EDT
Obama has picked one of only two men known for making more off-teleprompter gaffes than he does. Dan Quayle was apparently unavailable.
Presumably a team of actuaries ran the numbers and Biden helps Obama pick up one or two key states. That must be the
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Your week in Quickies
Aug 17 2008, 09:25 EDT
The Periodic Table of Videos
[bobsalive]
Aug 17 2008, 09:24 EDT
One video per element, and it's surprisingly entertaining.
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Chasing the Sun
Aug 16 2008, 04:55 EDT
According to weather.com sunrise in Boston is 5:53am and in Philadelphia it is 6:14am. That is a difference of 21 minutes which means the sun moves 15 miles a minute as the car drives (screw the crow). The difference is the result of Boston being more N
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Movie Review: No Country For Old Men
Aug 14 2008, 02:26 EDT [updated Aug 16 2008, 05:31 EDT]
4 Oscars for No Country For Old Men? I understand that it might have been "brave" to do a movie with no soundtrack, minimal dialogue, and a slow pace but while this movie might have done the best job possible of that .. it doesn't make it good.
The only
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Olympics Opening Ceremony
Aug 08 2008, 21:07 EDT [updated Aug 12 2008, 13:30 EDT]
The fireworks were beyond amazing. On the other hand they have an extra thousand years of practice over the rest of the world so the bar is pretty high.
I do wonder how they got all the houses surrounding the stadium to coordinate their colored outdoor
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God Damn the Pledge of Allegience
Aug 08 2008, 18:57 EDT [updated Aug 08 2008, 18:59 EDT]
American History continues to surprise. It turns out that the pledge, created in 1892, was the work of a Fabian Socialist and intended to yoke the people to the state. Wowzas. The gang at Marginal Revolution has more on the pledge.
The god bit was add
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Summer Bowling: The Slump is Dead
Aug 07 2008, 21:09 EDT [updated Aug 07 2008, 21:24 EDT]
Tuesday Night Trio: 161, 174, 164. My slump is officially over. The end of the slump is perfectly correlated to me telling my coach he wasn't allowed to add one damned thing to my swing until I got back into the 160s. I'm going to extend the ban until
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