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Tuesday

Porn "Pornography wants you, it wants your husband or wife, it wants your son and daughter, your grandchildren, and your in-laws. It doesn't share well, and it doesn't leave easily. It is a cruel master, and seeks more slaves." From this fine Salvo

Nine Days with Kuehnelt-Leddihn

The Robotic Soul "There is little doubt that atheism, agnosticism, and the denial of the other world are partially responsible for the rapid technological development which gave us, apart from exquisite instruments for mass destruction, various means to bridge time and space. . . Ortega y Gassets points out very adroitly

Monday

Oil to Ollie BP in the Gulf. Now two pipelines explode in China [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1295466/Huge-burns-15-hours-China-TWO-oil-pipelines-explode.html] . You'd think we'd see more upward movement in USO [http://finance.yahoo.com/q/

Wednesday

Chunks, Checking Out, and Chumbawamba Is this a good or bad thing? a study of schoolchildren found that being overweight increased the risk of being the target of bullying by 63 percent [http://health.yahoo.com/news/healthday/bulliestargetobesekids.html]. That sucks, but I prefer that thin bullies take care

Monday

Little League to Uchitel Strap on your boots and get ready to run. Little League starts this week, and I'm the coach. Between today and June 30th: 29 games, practices, and coaches meetings. And that's just one kid. I have four other kids in four different

Nutty Tuesday

ACORN This ACORN stuff is absolutely hilarious, if it weren't for our President's close ties. The couple on the left posed as a pimp and his prostitute. She's believable. But him? Come on. When did Doogie Howser rip off the set of Joseph and

From the Notebooks

A Futuristic History Many readers of this book have probably heard of the United States or its alternative name, "America." For many years, it reigned as the most powerful nation in the world, both economically and militarily. Like Rome (studied in Chapter Three), historians differ about when it

Marxism and Other Fairy Tales

Like W.C. Fields Criticizing a Drunk Wow, the great Russian bear roars at the United States, but not for its capitalism: for its Marxism [http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/107459-american_capitalism-0]. > It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American

The New Freak Show?

Bulk Up for that SAT, Bobby Yesterday, I wrote (a too lengthy post) about Sam Anderson's "The Benefits of Distraction." This was one of the more interesting passages from the article [http://nymag.com/news/features/56793/index4.html], but I couldn't fit it

Dead Cars, Amish, Marx, and More

Studebaker and Other Corpses In the wake of pending plans to discontinue Pontiac and Saturn, the Mental Floss Blog takes a look at ten discontinued models [http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/25613#more-25613]. Nice prose, nice assortment of pictures. Excerpt: > Started as the George N. Pierce Company