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June 25, 2002

Plagiarism’s one thing.  But schtoopid plagiarism?

Great catch, Dailypundit! Y’know, I like the name of that last signatory quite a bit: “Ivona Xiezopolski.” Kinda trips off the tongue, don’t it? Perhaps Saddam can use it as the pen name for his next novel. Provided a Daisycutter hasn’t turned him into desert spam before he’s finish writing it, of course.

Plagiarism’s one thing.  But schtoopid plagiarism?

Great catch, Dailypundit! Y’know, I like the name of that last signatory quite a bit: “Ivona Xiezopolski.” Kinda trips off the tongue, don’t it? Perhaps Saddam can use it as the pen name for his next novel. Provided a Daisycutter hasn’t turned him into desert spam before he’s finish writing it, of course.

Janie’s Got a Gun

Best get your own. And fast, too. (I hear gun shows are good places to find what you need. Plus you can circumvent all that bureaucratic red tape. Blessed, blessed loopholes.). [via Rand Simberg]

Janie’s Got a Gun

Best get your own. And fast, too. (I hear gun shows are good places to find what you need. Plus you can circumvent all that bureaucratic red tape. Blessed, blessed loopholes.). [via Rand Simberg]

Death Race 2002

Writing in The Times Online, Michael Grove explains (yet again — only he’s British, so he does it with that cool accent those dudes have) why “hopelessness” and desperation neither excuse nor ennoble terrorism: The terrorist responsible for the bus bombing which killed 20 Israelis last Wednesday, Mohammed al-Ghoul, was explicit in his motivation. ‘How beautiful it is to make my bomb shrapnel kill the enemy,’ he wrote immediately before

“…then, once you’ve painted the pine cone and applied the craquelature in short, even strokes (tak

Ah, the speed (and the greed, and the need, indeed) of capitalism! [thanks to Gary Mittin]

“…then, once you’ve painted the pine cone and applied the craquelature in short, even strokes (tak

Ah, the speed (and the greed, and the need, indeed) of capitalism! [thanks to Gary Mittin]

Another Leading Question…

All the cool kids are doing it. Are you…?

Another Leading Question…

All the cool kids are doing it. Are you…?

Rumblings in Arafatistan

“Peace finally has a chance,” writes James Robbins in The National Review. “On Monday, President Bush announced a bold initiative for Israeli/Palestinian reconciliation, setting forth conditions that should have been set long ago. In so doing, he implicitly rejected the framework established by the 1993 Oslo Accords, and emphasized one point in particular — Yasser Arafat has got to go.” Okay. But the question is, does Arafat know this. His