Monthly Archives: June 2010

The Milk Of Human Kindness

June 4, 2010 – 12:50 pm

Here we learn that “lactose intolerance” is a racist slur.

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Homework

June 3, 2010 – 10:35 pm

Here’s the Obama administration’s new National Security Strategy. Let’s all have a look.

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I Think It’s Working…

June 3, 2010 – 10:17 pm

Just got this email bulletin from the Washington Post: ——————– News Alert: Gulf Coast oil cap in place over blown-out well 09:55 PM EDT Thursday, June 3, 2010 ——————– A cap is in place over the Gulf of Mexico gusher, live video footage provided by the company showed Thursday night, but the spewing oil made […]

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Things We Said Today

June 3, 2010 – 10:10 pm

Paul McCartney was honored with the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song at the White House yesterday. He is only the third person to receive it, and he certainly deserves it. (The first was Stevie Wonder, and the second was Paul Simon, who by the way performed at our son’s commencement exercises two […]

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They Also Serve

June 3, 2010 – 4:58 pm

Here is a fine little essay by Thomas Sowell on the seasonal tide of self-congratulating commencement speeches by public “servants”. So good is it, in fact, that I reproduce it in its entirety below.

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Fog In Channel, Continent Cut Off

June 3, 2010 – 12:03 am

To those of you who send me comments and other tidbits by email: I’ve been having technical problems, since Wednesday morning, that prevent me from accessing my main email account from my network at the office. So far I have resisted acquiring an email-equipped cell-phone, but these corporate-firewall issues may push me over the brink, […]

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Time In

June 1, 2010 – 11:09 pm

It’s almost midnight on Tuesday, and we’ve just got back from a long (and, as far as the news goes, completely tuned-out) weekend, with a lot of catching-up to do. So for tonight, here’s an entertaining site that I ran across while putting together last week’s Martin Gardner post. Don’t miss the Mandelbulb.

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