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Entries from March 2007

The Into Themselves Crowd

March 25th, 2007 No Comments

Task: Attempt to maintain interest in Conservative Historian Andrew Roberts’ diary-thing beyond the first recounting of names.
If you make it to this description of Bush, you win:

He was full of resilience and fortitude — as I’d taken for granted he would be — but he was also thoughtful, charming and widely read. If he wasn’t [...]

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Culturality

March 23rd, 2007 No Comments

Glenn Reynolds says of urban african immigrant polygamists:
Interesting report. This would be dealt with more effectively in a non-multicultural framework, I suspect.
So let’s try that:
*Enter non-multicultural framework….
Wow, people who broke the law by creating polygamist marriages before I entered this non-multicultural framework are still breaking the law!
*And we are done.

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Heuristic Ideological Principle Parties

March 23rd, 2007 No Comments

Kevin Drum discusses how “principles” make it easy reach conclusions quickly and wrongly (which is correct) but ends his discussion with a strange tidbit:
On a slight tangent, have you noticed that although “ideology” and “principles” have nearly identical meanings in common usage, we usually use ideology when speaking about people we don’t like and principles [...]

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mlb.com Sidling up to your Wallet Side Pocket

March 12th, 2007 1 Comment

The number of things aggressively wrong with this email I received from mlb.com is astounding:
Dear 2006 MLB.TV Seasonal Subscriber,
MLB.TV is back and better than ever…

Innocent enough. Things take a turn for the worse (emphasis added for empasis).

As a reminder, your subscription to 2007 MLB.TV Yearly Package is being renewed at the same low price as [...]

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