!{float: right}http://static.flickr.com/28/48074831_087d1ffa19_m.jpg!:http://www.flickr.com/photos/thudfactor/48074831/ The Elf and I decided to take a long weekend in Boston while it was still warm enough to walk around without dashing from doorway to doorway. I’ve been to Boston twice, first on a business retreat with my old company, the now defunct and much mourned Clara Vista Corporation. This trip was [...]

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So I see on Thought Mechanics that The Times of London trumpets a study saying religion is bad for you:

RELIGIOUS belief can cause damage to a society, contributing towards high murder rates, abortion, sexual promiscuity and suicide, according to research published today. According to the study, belief in and worship of God are not only [...]

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What’s this? _Fiscal Responsibility_ from the Republicans? Say it isn’t so! Well, yeah. It isn’t so. Talking Points Memo says Operation Offset’s “math is wicked warped”:http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2005_09_18.php#006610, cutting billions (with-a-b) from programs that are only funded in the millions (with-an-m). Operation Offest also suggests significant cuts to the Centers for Disease Control, which is an agency [...]

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From the director who brought you “_The Assassination Bureau_”:http://www.anvilandsprocket.com/review.php?rec=166 comes “_The Man Who Haunted Himself_”:http://www.anvilandsprocket.com/review.php?rec=181, an overall much less satisfying film. But “the Elf”:http://www.elfnoodles.com says it’s my best review to date, so at least something came out of it.
We actually have something of a backlog at “A&S”:http://www.anvilandsprocket.com/: later this evening, look for a review from [...]

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Just bought a copy of Coldplay’s X&Y and tried to rip it to my iPod because — guess what? I don’t carry CDs and CD players around any more. But it was copy-protected. So now, not only am I annoyed that I have yet another product that interrogates me each time I use it, but [...]

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