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Not that it’s actually the end of the decade (that’s next year but why be pedantic hey?), but oh what a decade it’s been. I started it out in college, moved to the East Coast, moved in with Peter, graduated college, moved to Seattle, had the bottom fall out of my life’s goals, started a [...]

Categories: Wildcard

I enjoyed reading this. Bits of it reminded me of some of Vanderleun’s stories, but of course in a later, less-charmed decade.

But I don’t have time to quote any of that so I’m going to skip to the funny bit.

The Awl – The End of the 00s: The Stupid Kids of 1999, By Will [...]

Categories: Business & Media

I’ve had this open for weeks and it’s starting to affect my conscience. And Safari performance.

WSJ – Time for a Climate Change Plan B The U.S. president is in deep denial. By Nigel Lawson

Categories: Science and Nature

Here’s an old one from last week:

The Corner – Stupak: ‘You Don’t Buy Me Off’

After watching the Senate’s health-care debate, Rep. Bart Stupak (D., Mich.) tells NRO that he has one message for President Obama and House speaker Nancy Pelosi: “You don’t buy me off.” Stupak tells us that he’s [...]

Categories: Politics

Brett McS and I were just talking about these x-ray things (prompted by one of Vanderleun’s reprints)…

In the wake of the foiled terrorist attack on Northwest Airlines Flight 253, former Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff tells National Review Online that the United States needs to “aggressively pursue” more whole-body imaging during primary searches [...]

Categories: Politics

Telegraph – ‘Twenty Tens’ to become nickname for next decade, survey says

Categories: Uncategorized

I think Lord Black is in an even worse mood than I am at the end of this decade. But then he’s rotting in prison on trumped up charges of making his company too much money.

National Post – Conrad Black: What a dismal decade

I can’t be the only person who wondered if [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Telegraph – First Christmas for the premature babies at Queen Charlotte’s<br/> Christmas as Queen Charlotte’s neonatal unit is a mix of joy, anxiety and grief, as Laura Donnelly discovered.

Premature babies are twice as common as cases of breast cancer, yet they remain one of the most poorly resourced treatment areas of the NHS. [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

Let’s cheer ourselves up with this delightful story from Brett McS:

BBC – Steam train’s snow rescue ‘glory’

Passengers were rescued by a steam locomotive after modern rail services were brought to a halt by the snowy conditions in south-east England. Trains between Ashford and Dover were suspended on Monday when cold [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

The Sunday Times – 9/11: When all that was solid melted into the air The twin towers were there, then they were gone. Money was there, then it disappeared. Welcome to the age of insecurity

In March 2000 the dotcom bubble — based on delirious stock-market valuations of companies that could never possibly [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

A much more interesting Person of the Year:

The Times – Person of the Year<br/> Neda Soltan, killed by a government thug, became a symbol of Iranians’ yearning for democracy and the ruthlessness of a bankrupt regime

Every few years a man, or a woman, whose name is often familiar to few beyond the circle of [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Excuse me while I just quote this whole thing (again: holy crap):

The Corner – Mark Steyn: Let’s Roll 2

On September 11th 2001, the government’s (1970s) security procedures all failed, and the only good news of the day came from self-reliant citizens (on Flight 93) using their own wits and a willingness to act. [...]

Categories: Uncategorized

That dull roar you hear is the sound of my panic welling up and crashing over me…

NRO – Cross the River, Burn the Bridge<br/> Obamacare is the fast-track to a permanent left-of-center political culture. By Mark Steyn

We were told we had to do it because of the however many millions of uninsured, yet this [...]

Categories: Politics

The Telegraph – The Christmas donkey starts on the way home<br/> Truth, light, love – these are things that anyone, Christian or not, rejoices to find at home.

[F]or everyone finds sooner or later that we are none of us quite at home. Christmas is homely with the children, but the children grow up and [...]

Categories: History

Times Online – Pope Benedict XVI knocked to floor during Christmas Eve Mass

Reverend Benedettini said the woman who pushed the Pope appeared to be mentally unstable and had been arrested by Vatican police.

The pope’s spokesman is called Benedettini? Pope Benedict and Reverend Benedettini? That’s adorable!

Categories: People and Current Events