When I was in college I owned a tape of an Emo Philips concert that was quickly stolen. I’ve always thought Philips was one of the funniest men alive, and I loved the tape largely for the following joke about religious intolerance which is both hilarious and all-too accurate. I was walking across a bridge…
December, 2001
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So yesterday near the end of the game between the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars and the Cleveland Browns, the Browns fans became so incensed that they start throwing bottles of beer on to the field. Sure, the bottles are plastic, but I certainly would not want to get hit by a full plastic bottle chucked from…
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A documentary to be broadcast on Great Britain’s Channel 4 on New Year’s Eve claims to solve one of the minor yet vexing mysteries of World War II — the disappearance of band leader Glenn Miller. Miller’s plane took off from Great Britain on December 15, 1944 to carry the bandleader to Paris where he…
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Representatives from the Council on American Islamic Relations have been on CNN, etc., telling Americans that not all Muslims hate the United States, that we shouldn’t discriminate against Muslims, and, if you listen carefully, that Palestinian terrorists really aren’t terrorists. And now, the Washington Post reports, after seeing the video of Osama Bin Laden released…
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From what I can see skimming this morning’s news, a lot of the reaction from Arab newspapers and television is that the Bin Laden video released by the United States yesterday is a fake. This from a region of the world where newspapers regularly republish The Protocols of the Elders of Zion as if they…
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In the wake of the September 11 attacks, the Bush administration took action in October to rid America of the scourge of softwood imports from Canada. On Halloween night, the Bush administration imposed 12.58 percent “anti-dumping” duty on top of an already announced 19.31 percent “countervailing duty” which was levied in August. What’s the problem…
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The San Francisco Chronicle had an interesting report about how even what should be a fundamental job of the California state government — protecting that state from the effects of earthquakes — is subverted by the political process. In 1997, flexible gas pipes were approved for use in California. According to The Chronicle flexible gas…
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James Taranto of OpinionJournal.Com (which is owned by the Wall Street Journal) takes just a few sentences to show the complete and utter absurdity of those who ventured that American foreign policy or poverty or oppression or [insert excuse here] was the “root cause” of the 9/11 attacks. Taranto is writing about the arrest last…
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Sometimes I write something and I know people are going to run across it and send me nasty or bizarre e-mail. Other times, I am surprised at how much people have personally vested in things that I have dismissed or slammed. For example, John Edward turns out to have fans who are almost as dedicated…
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Where would modern civilization be without government-funded art? (Thank goodness the Mexican government already solved its poverty problem so it can focus on things like this!)