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Crooked Timber
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made
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Michael Chertoff, Euroweenie
Kevin Drum "links to":http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_07/014163.php an unusually stupid (by which I mean 'unusually stupid, even by the standards of the Corner') post by Byron York on Obama's Berlin speech.
It's a small passage from Obama's Berlin speech, but this formulation, common in some circles, grates on some ears, like mine:
The terrorists of ...
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Fiduciary obligation vs creative capitalism
The creative capitalism blog has been set up to examine the idea that corporations could do a job of promoting social goals like improving health in poor countries (that is, better than they do now and better, in at least some ways, than governments or NGOs). Richard Posner objects to ...
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Playing the Building
David Byrne - you might have heard of his old band - has an installation at the Battery Maritime Building in New York called Playing the Building. Basically, he placed an old organ keyboard in the middle of a big room and rigged it up so that each key makes ...
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Minority Pre-Tort
“Mr. Marks, by mandate of the District of Columbia Prepardon Division, I'm placing you under acquittal for the future murder of Sarah Marks and Donald Dubin that was to take place today, April 22 at 0800 hours and four minutes.”
I like the way in which, thanks to Bush, Republican government ...
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24/7 Solar Madness
Via Jim Lindgren at Volokh, some article from the Rocky Mountain News about Al Gore's recent call for the U.S. to be fully running on renewable energy within a decade. The piece itself is hackery (though it does deftly compare Gore to Chairman Mao) but contains the following gem:
Stanley ...
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