On a Lighter Note…
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Ye gods. The weather has disrupted my theory of final-week Christmas shopping density. With Christmas falling on a Thursday and last-minute shoppers having three make-up days to catch up after realizing they can’t possibly get it all done on the final weekend, it should have been an easy one this year. However, with most of…
Mark Patinkin humorously suggests that interrogators using rock/pop audio to soften up their subjects could be more effective if they’d change the soundtrack: The Associated Press reported this week that the military has been attempting to break down terrorist detainees by blasting music into their cells. This has created controversy, with some musicians objecting to…
I don’t write much about television or sports here, because if I started, I’d be tempted to write too often on those subjects. However, given that within the realm of television, tonight’s final episode of The Shield is arguably the most anticipated final episode of a television series since the finale of Seinfeld, I’ll bend…
Here’s one of those weekend fluff things to do. The “Typealyzer” (h/t) claims to be able to analyze the content and writing of a blog and then categorize its character. Type in the URL of your favorite blog and away you go. Not for nothing, but both Anchor Rising and, er, Not for Nothing come…
Here, to be exact. So sayeth Cleese, Gilliam, Idle, Jones and Palin:
Dan Barbarisi: All over New England yesterday, the little guy pumped his fist in victory. The kid who was too small to make the team, the one who was told he didn’t have the arm, or was too slow, now has a reason to go into the backyard and take some more groundballs. Yesterday, Dustin…
It is way too early to be playing Christmas music. Thank you. We now return you to your regularly scheduled program of slightly more substantive issues and discussions.
… not to a drug incident but to a prior campaign. From Toby Harnden, US Editor of the Telegraph (UK); h/t the Drudge Report. Joe Biden is enjoying himself so much on the campaign trail that occasionally he gets to thinking he’s about to become president. “In a Biden…an Obama-Biden administration,” he said during an…