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Entries from July 2005

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July 29th, 2005 No Comments

The inane person filling in for Andrew Sullivan attempted to make some equally inane point about Democracy.
They claim:

Democracies are messy but they work. I know that when one watches “Jaywalking,” one cannot but wonder. I believe the electorate is engaged in a mass exercise of Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Obviously this person [...]

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Prime Vowells

July 19th, 2005 No Comments

Sarah Vowell gets a jump on writing the ban-the-electoral-college-make and make-fun-of-unpresidential-last-names article in the New York Times.
By her count she is about 3 years early, but has this charming comment:

(I will go on the record as being against snowmobiles in Yellowstone - not because I’m an environmentalist but because I am not “fun.”)

Indeed. National [...]

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Hey Mario, Bet you Can’t Break the Sound Barrier

July 13th, 2005 1 Comment

Using Mario to teach physics?
And I thought that monkey washing a cat was the be all and end all of human videographic achievement.
Watch and learn.
(Via Boing Boing)

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Pitchmonkeys

July 10th, 2005 No Comments

An ad agency out of Minneapolis has combined the two elements perfectly aligned with the purpose of burrito sales:

Mopeds
A Cowboy Monkey riding a dog

Catch the action in quicktime.

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Acting Like Judges

July 6th, 2005 No Comments

Law professors Paul Gewirtz and Chad Golder have injected some much needed metrics into the debate over activist judges.
They theorize that the most activist action a judge might undertake is to invalidate a law. The more often judges oppose legislators, the more activist they are.

The tally for all the justices appears below.
Thomas 65.63 %
Kennedy [...]

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