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Via the Poor Man, Assrocket gets a running start, sprints, and crashes through the floor of human decency:I really think that calling Newsweeks blunder the presss Abu Ghraib is unfair.
Henry Farrel has a nice example of the functionalist fallacy as applied by Stephen Bainbridge to the Royal Navy. He also has the single best title of any post I.
Via Prof. B., I tried the "What is Your Worldview" quiz:Existentialist81%Postmodernist63%Cultural Creative50%Modernist44%Materialist44%Idealist31%Romanticist25%Fundamentalist6%What is Your World View?created with QuizFarm.comI guess that given the choices, this seems right (and appropriately unfashionable.)
Jesse Taylor has some fun with Andrew McCarthy's transparently failed attempt to argue that the Constitution prohibits the filibuster of presidential appointees. It must be said that, at least, McCarthy's.
Quiddity presents Rob's point in amusing format, although hopes that the pictures will allow Jonah Goldberg to understand it are probably in vain.
Friday Cat Blogging. . . Stromboli
Nice to see the Senators from my former and current state getting to the heart of the matter:May 12, 2005The Honorable Michael O. LeavittSecretaryUnited States Department of Health and Human.
A shoe that has taken a little while to drop; mainstream conservatives are finally beginning to point out in public that the neo-con project of remoulding the world sits uncomfortably.