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April 10, 2007

BREAKING:  ALL CHARGES VS DUKE 3 DROPPED

Well, at least we’ll always have the patriarchy, eh Amanda? (via ESPN Sportscenter; story here.)

Peter Fonda comments on Dom Imus’ apology to Al Sharpton for remarks made at the expense of the Rutgers women’s basketball team

Fonda:  “When I was working on Two People, I pinched a handful of Lindsay Wagner’s 714s from her trailer without asking—only to have her rat me out to Bob Wise, then lecture me on what she called my ‘drug problem.’ Which really harshed my mellow, because she was zoomed on blond hash at the time—and when I asked her for a taste, the little princess just slammed the trailer door

Another moment of unabashed pragmatism

This post could have been a lot longer.  But it’s not like there’s a law or anything.

Governmental Hugs

From Jacob Sullum’s fantastic “An Epidemic of Meddling,” May 2007 Reason (subscribers only): What do these four “public health” problems—smoking, playing violent video games, overeating, and gambling [framed as such by, respectively, Henry Waxman, Hillary Clinton, Surgeon General Richard Carmona, and Thom White Wolf Fassett (general secretary of the United Methodist General Board of Church and Society(] have in common?  They’re all things that some people enjoy and other people

The Thing that Wouldn’t Die

If you can believe John McCain—and let’s face it, why wouldn’t you?  He is, after all, a plain speaker and a political maverick™ — then his comments to Sean Hannity seem to back both Drudge and the AFP report in the Michael Ware Hecklegate “scandal”.  —Or, as I like to call it, “the time that one Aussie adrenaline junkie got his load on and disrupted a John McCain presser with

“the yin and yang of intimate interpersonal relationships, 31” (from the protein wisdom conceptual series)

yin: “I should be home at around 4-4:30, I should think.  Though do remember that within quantum mechanics, the science of the body in motion, the intricacies of the interiorities of mnemonic time—no longer an arrow—are being realized in the (traditionally) feminized shape of the body of the matrix.” yang:  “So, then, what?—closer to 6-ish?  Well, just so long as you leave yourself enough time to make sure my baked