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Archive for January, 2008

• Worse than useless

  Barbara’s Blog: Hillary’s Real MLK Problem
  “Change” is this year’s Democratic battle cry, but if you don’t know how it happens, you’re not likely to make it happen yourself. A case in point is Clinton’s 1993 “health reform” plan. She didn’t do any “listening tour” for that, no televised town meetings with heart-rending grassroots testimonies. Instead, [...]

• Gee, why don’t they just go to Sonic?

  Chew This Over: Munchable Ice Sells Like Hot Cakes - WSJ.com
  When Kyle Burkhalter gets up in the morning, he goes into the kitchen and fixes himself a nice cup of ice.The 24-year-old director of research for a Web site chews the ice in the car on his way to work in Atlanta. He downs [...]

• eek.

  Hmm. Winds gusting to 50 mph and the lights keep going out. Temp is dropping fast. We filled jugs with water because if the power goes, as seems likely, the well pump won’t work. Then we all freeze.
  Now I really blame Al Gore.

• that ain’t right

  Those are severe thunderstorm and tornado warnings in Indiana, moving right at us.
  Tornadoes in January.
  I blame Al Gore.

• A twist in the algorithm.

  Interesting.  A mention of John le Carré in the Capa item below prompts a bunch of Google ads pushing spyware removers.

• Bizarre.

  In the U.S. south, is Canadian a new racial slur?
  It was a routine e-mail from the boss sent to congratulate a junior prosecutor in Houston, Tex., who had won manslaughter convictions against an intoxicated driver.
  “He convicted Mr. Sosa of a double intoxication manslaughter, got a weak jury to give him 12 years in each, and [...]