Current Affairs
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"Alien earths may be plentiful" This one and the variant about life probably existing on a jillion other planets. They never have any real evidence, and although the details may vary (like the stuff about the metals here), it's always nearly pure conjecture and speculation. The fascination of the modern secular mind with this stuff is…
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And indeed it's a thought that's occured to me more than once: "…the one major upside of Obama’s election: that it kept Meghan McCain from becoming America’s first daughter." I do disagree with the reviewer about the title. It's a good thing that the book doesn't live up to it.
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"He never talks to me!" she said. "He just withdraws into his shell." So she bit off a piece of it. (Hat tip to Neo-neocon.)
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Probably the best thing I've read about The Wire. And also very astute on the condition of our society. Thanks for the link, Grumpy.
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Analysis of radio transmissions previously thought to be irrelevant has some investigators believing that they now have a picture of what happened: a landing on the uninhabited atoll of Nikumaroro, and then…starvation? thirst? drowning? I've always found this story haunting.
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Interesting comments at National Review Online from John O'Sullivan and David Pryce-Jones. I like P-J's closing line: "The British monarchy survives by representing everything the nation once was, and what the British people would plainly wish it still to be." Do they really? A great many do, perhaps. I think the years when O'Sullivan edited…
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Much excellent coverage of the Diamond Jubilee from the BBC. I would like to have been there. If I can be excused for using the crude Americanism, she's a class act.
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Yes, I would say so. Update: not true, unfortunately. It's a humor piece. Thanks, Noah G.
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Part of my routine when I arrive at work every morning involves downloading some data from the web site of a company we work with. They always have a quotation on the login page, and they change it every day. Sometimes it's humorous, more often it's vaguely inspirational in a pop-psychology self-help you-can-do-it sort of…
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…but I expect this is the funniest thing I'll read today: The Prez could go seal-clubbing and much of the media would see it as a new epoch for winter sports. From the Telegraph, on President Obama's distinctly unsurprising endorsement of same-sex marriage.
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