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And Here I Was Just Thinking “What In the World Are We To Call the Next Decade?!”
Telegraph – ‘Twenty Tens’ to become nickname for next decade, survey says
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Delta Flight: Holy Crap
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. [...]
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My Mini Copenhagen
First, curtsies to RC2:
New Geography (reprinted from Forbes) – THE GREEN MOVEMENT’S PEOPLE PROBLEM, by Joel Kotkin
The movement needs to break with the deep-seated misanthropy that dominates green politics and has brought it to this woeful state. Its leaders have defined our species as everything from a “cancer” to the “AIDs of the [...]
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I Suppose There’s An Implied Exception For Cricket
You know how people get about cricket…
The Corner – Mark Steyn: Come Fry with Me
In order to save the planet from global roasting, it seems entirely reasonable to ask Mr. and Mrs. Joe Peasant to subordinate their freedom of movement to an annual “carbon allowance” preventing them flying hither and yon and devastating [...]
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I Just Want To Point Out the Cutest Outfit In the History of Ever, Ever
It’s at Neiman Marcus.
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Modern Girlhood: A Diptych
First:
Telegraph – Date-rape drink spiking ‘an urban legend’<br/> Widespread spiking of drinks with date-rape drugs such as Rohypnol and GHB is an “urban legend” fuelled by young women unwilling to accept they have simply consumed too much alcohol, academics believe.
Young women’s fears about date-rape drugs are so ingrained that students mistakenly think it is [...]
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Great Moments in American Oration
I read this George Will piece that’s been going around and found it mildly amusing but not particularly earth-shattering in its brilliance. I don’t agree with the premise that nobody’s been paying attention to the contents of the Copenhaagen speeches. But whatevs. So then I return to my Google reader and see this go by:
LGF [...]
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This Is Why Girls (Try to) Go Into Marine Biology
(Until they flunk O-chem their freshmen year and decide they’ll go to design school instead and become writers.)
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I Feel Like We're Being Mean
In all, ah, meanings of the adjective:
Wheat & Weeds – Why Are We Snubbing The Poles?
Three months ago Poland invited the President to its 70th anniversary commemorations of World War II. The White House didn’t bother to answer until 5 days before the ceremony, and we sent our NSA instead. [...]
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Guess Where I Am
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Escalation in Twittertime
So we watch our silly movie and eat dinner and then turn the iPhones back on and see the following progression, all within the past hour, from Breaking News:
BULLETIN — NORTH KOREA CALLS SOUTH KOREAN DECISION TO JOIN ANTI-PROLIFERATION PROGRAM A DECLARATION OF WAR. BULLETIN — NORTH KOREA SAYS IT [...]
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What Can You Do With a Muscle Car, When He Stops Being a Muscle Car?
With apologies to Irving Berlin.
I just saw a headline Pontiac is being killed off by GM. Well let me tell you about Pontiac. We had a Pontiac G5 over the weekend from Budget. I wept for the Toyota Corolla we had from Thrifty three weeks ago.
It had an mp3 CD player. But not power windows. [...]
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You See the Importance of Religion?
The Times – Save the whale shark. And say a prayer<br/> Wild Notebook: the ingenious methods of the Wildlife Trust for India, by Simon Barnes
Take the whale shark campaign. Fishermen were catching these, the biggest fish on the planet, simply for their livers, which were used for waterproofing boats. And while there was a [...]
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Rwanda, Foreign Aid and 800,000 to 5 Million
Apparently tonight there will be a candlelight vigil (isn’t there always) to commemorate the 800,000 dead in the Rwandan genocide, attended by, ah, Sandra Bullock and David Cameron. Right.
The Times – Yesterday a victim, today an oppressor: how aid funds war in Congo
Since the genocide, Rwanda has relied on foreign aid for half [...]
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Filed Under: Die Boomers, Die; Section: Malevolent Glee
Alternet – Is the Future Going Down the Drain? Baby Boomers Going Bust
It all happened faster than you can say “senior discount.” Millions of baby boomers born into the dawn of the most spectacular economic expansion in history are being forced to re-imagine their retirement futures. Few news outlets have [...]
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