Don Henley's NY Minute. "If you find somebody to love in this world you better hang on tooth and nail...The wolf is always at the door" [dri]

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The meteor that hit Russia turned out to be not 10 tons, as originally thought, but 10,000 tons.

And, the funny thing is, that's so "small" an object we can't even track things that size.

And there are 100,000 objects in that size range "likely" to hit earth at some point.

Ace of Science: I don't know what purpose there is to making cells which actually get healthier after they die (what?), but there's gotta be some purpose.

Posted by: Ace at 01:59 PM | Comments (272)
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Of course, to protect the big secret -- that there are some government-to-government "protocols" on this (that is, agreements), including with Pakistan -- they reveal the big secret to the press.

I'm sure no one in Pakistan reads any American media.

Posted by: Ace at 01:33 PM | Comments (98)
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some cute ones you guys from @rdbrewer's sidebar videos. more...

Posted by: Ace at 01:13 PM | Comments (98)
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Not.

A.

Single.

Media.

Organization.

Covered.

This.

Story.

Why? Because they all might work for Jeff Zucker at some point; so they protect themselves by protecting their own.

In addition, they all believe that values they push on others ought not apply to themselves. They are there to transmit virtue, not act according to it.

Scandalous.

There would be nothing more embarrassing to the media than a conservative guest confronting them with this, out-of-nowhere, on the Sunday shows.

Posted by: Ace at 12:54 PM | Comments (107)
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OFA tweeted this out.

Empty Gestures You Guys.

Moral Vanities and Indulgences You Guys.

Neoshamanism You Guys.

Pseudo-religious Genuflection to Nonexistent New Gods You Guys.

By the way those cupcakes look like crap. You Guys.

Posted by: Ace at 12:35 PM | Comments (341)
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Whoever said Serious You Guys, I owe you. (It was IanS. Serious You Guys, he's awesome!!! (g) )

I'm having lots of fun with this construction. You have to imagine it said in a cloyingly earnest plaintive whine, like an 8th grader saying Let's Not fight Guys at a sleepover, and then it's kind of funny.

You can deploy it a whole bunch of variations:

Plastic Bottles You Guys

Assault Magazines You Guys

Negative Body Image You Guys

The Palestinians You Guys

Condoms You Guys

The Patriarchy You Guys

Maybe this is good for a riff? I dunno. It might be a little limited.

Can You Use It In a Sentence? Here's IanS.'s first use of it.

I'm libertarian sympathetic, but reading the comments at Reason's Hit & Run generally cures me of that impulse. Half of them think global warming is Serious You Guys and all of them think Islamists would shut down the jihad if we left them alone.

Posted by: Ace at 11:50 AM | Comments (416)
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He did propose the sequester.

So why is it "dumb" to say so?

Because Obama's political strategy relies, as usual, upon suppression of the truth.

And that's about it.

Sorry I am sneezing fit sick. It's like a bee done crawled up my nostril and stung my tissues.

I'm also having an interesting (I think) back and forth with John Hayward on Downton Abbey, Why Do Conservatives Like It?, at the Conversation.

I reject the premise because I don't watch the show and I don't respect anyone who does.

No, but seriously, I reject the premise because I don't like this business of Ideology First all the time.

Posted by: Ace at 11:23 AM | Comments (191)
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Break out the Tequila, as it is National Margarita Day.

So do you think You Are Smart Enough To Be An NFL Prospect? Based on the 12 sample questions in the article, you gotta be pretty dumb not to ace the Wonderlic test. Hell, you shouldn't have graduated from high school if you can't ace this test.

Speaking of testing. Do We Need IQ Tests For Juries?

On Tuesday, the jurors had presented him with a list of ten questions which revealed that they simply did not have a clue about what they had heard as evidence, what they had been told by himself or indeed what they were supposed to be doing there at all.

For example, they asked for a definition of reaching a verdict ‘beyond reasonable doubt’. This was despite the fact that the judge had already given them guidance on this in writing.

Posted by: CDR M at 05:40 PM | Comments (907)
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And everything else, really.

Teacher's unions, government bureaucracy. Even the Pentagon.

This applies especially to the media and the Democratic Party, too.

Iron Law of Bureaucracy

In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.

Or, restated:

...in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization, and those who work for the organization itself. Examples in education would be teachers who work and sacrifice to teach children, vs. union representatives who work to protect any teacher including the most incompetent. The Iron Law states that in all cases, the second type of person will always gain control of the organization, and will always write the rules under which the organization functions.

I would say this applies to the Republican Party as well but we also don't seem to be advancing party interests, either. We're advancing neither interests nor goals.

Thanks to steevy. I like that. It's so obviously true but I never noticed.

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