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Don’t miss out on this amazing offer.

OK, so I’m doing the get-a-free-ipod thing. Basically, if you haven’t heard about it, the way it works is like this: you sign up for one of several services (you can cancel if you like) including a subscription to the New York Times, trying out Blockbuster’s new by-mail rental service, a coffee subscription, etc, then [...]

I owe my soul

It’s always interesting to compare “how people view the condition of illegal aliens”:http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/08/27/dairy_farms/index.html to “what those conditions actually are”:http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/08/27/dairy_farms/index.html:
bq. By and by,
I got plenty money,
Thanks to you,
American dummy.
Write to friends
in motherland,
Tell them ‘come
fast as you can.’ [from _Illegal Immigrant's Poem_]
bq. For six years, Ramirez’s duties included maintaining a pump that sprayed liquid dung onto the [...]

Kopel on F911

Dave Kopel is working on a review of F911 for National Review Online. You can
preview it here. This is certainly more along the lines of how I think people ought to address the film. Far from saying F911 is unconvincing and leaving it at that, Kopel actually goes into detail.
However, for the most part I [...]

Google Adwords Censored

I recieved email today from Blather.net letting me know (among other things) that Google pulled their Adwords accounts because Blather.net contained language critical of George W. Bush.
Google told Dave Walsh:
bq. We permit sites containing commentary, analysis, and opinions, as long
as they do not advocate against specific individuals, groups, or
organizations. Please keep this in mind as you change [...]

Burn the Witch!

“Scott clues me in”:http://www.gamersnook.com/blog/archives/001830.html#001830 to more evidence of the Bush’s administration’s religious intolerance.
Now, I know Bush doesn’t think Wicca and other neo-paganisms are real religions. But I hadn’t heard some of the more sneering attacks against them. I particularly like this one from Bush’s Domestic Policy Advisor, Stephen Goldsmith. When asked whether or not Wiccan [...]

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