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• Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus
• What do you know about what you don't know?
• Django
• I don't know what we did but I know we needed it (??)
• "In the long run we are all dead." Really?

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• Irony
• The government will get you coming and going
• A politician not living up to a campaign promise. Yawn.
• So, if I'm normally frugal and should start spending when should I stop spending? If I'm normally a spendthrift and should save now, when should I start spending again? If I am neither what should I do? And economists wonder why they are looked upon with such contempt.

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• I'm confused. How do I determine whether or not this type of relationship is good or bad?
• At least something good is coming from this economic downturn
• So, Barney isn't satisfied with enabling one boom, he'd like to start another
• Shovel ready
• For performance problems

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• Ancient graffiti
• Great! Let's add stupidity to injury
• What Michael Phelps should be saying
• I know that sometimes hindsight is 20/20, but in this case foresight should have been 20/20
• Online media will never threaten print media
• Even Sith Lords need work
• Arnold Kling makes the case for profits
  

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• Unnecessary Greatest Hist albums
• With apologies to Led Zeppelin, "though the names may change sometimes, money always reaches the power"
• Oh geez...
  
• Rock or Vote
• Why we should let housing prices keep falling
• "Socialism is good for thee but not for me"
  

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• So, why should I believe him now?
• Radley Balko has some good incites into the recent McCain/Obama debate
• The Dark Knight/Toy Story 2 Mashup
• Earth from above
• Markets in everything
• Old school Star Wars
• Credit crunch? What credit crunch? Maybe it is only the big, "well-connected" banks that need help. The sky is not falling.
  

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• Mark my words: the next bubble in the economy will be centered around 'green' technology. Green will be the dot-com of the next decade.
• At least you will be able to enjoy your losses
• Hey, I may be the center of the universe (ok, you may be too)
• The first portable GPS device
• The housing bubble easily understood
• Health care in the U.S. vs in the U.K.
• Homeland Security detects terrorist threats by reading your mind. They probably don't want to be reading the minds of the barefooted, personally violated people waiting in the long lines at the airport.
• “Our advice to drivers is not to panic and not to top off their tanks.” I hate to tell you this, but higher prices work better.
  

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• How can you not love dogs?
• I've always loved good slight of hand card tricks. Ed Brayton links to some YouTube videos of Ricky Jay doing some amazing stuff.
• The future is so disappointing
• Ah! What would a new technology be without a call for "government action." This quote is priceless: "I do think government has an almost infinite ability to screw up things when they can't see the future."
• I wonder if this school teaches bad acting as well
• Just cut their pay
• When markets governments fail, government markets must step in
  

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• If you are reading this then the LHC worked. You might want to keep checking, though.
• 30 nanoseconds?! But I want it now!
• The Darwin Stain
• When markets governments fail the government market must step in. "[I]t was proving increasingly difficult for Britons to get anything beyond basic dental care from Britain's National Health Service." (HT: Carpe Diem)
  
• It is a shame that this question even has to be asked
• Yeah, Google is soooo bad for consumers. Oh wait, antitrust is not about consumers.
• Wow! Is anything legal in Britain? At least you can still vote with your feet.
  

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• The inhumanity of some people
• Robert Samuelson reports on contrary evidence regarding American living standards. I think there is a lesson to be learned here about drawing conclusions from aggregate numbers in a diverse and dynamic society. (HT: CafeHayek)
• More bureaucracy, more spending, and more crony capitalism all in the name of science. I am still trying to figure out what Obama means by "change."
• When you devalue the currency, people go primitive
• Art by paint ball
• Here's an investment tip for you...stay away from renewable energy companies (Investment tips are for sarcastic purposes only. Blogger is not responsible for your money problems)
• Don't laugh, they think they are dying
• The Libertarian Party - where ex-Republicans go to get mocked
  

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• Yes, let's give a stupid movie that will literaly have 15 minutes of fame more attention that it deserves
• Science is making Science Fiction boring
• Ah, rent seeking at its finest (pun intended, of course). So, is the problem here that businesses are lobbying those who will attain power or the power itself?
• This is why Obama was marginally appealing to me
• Man! If you can't rely on the "Republicans are in the pocket of Big Oil" shibboleth what can you rely on
  

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• Just avoid smalltalk all together
• It's always fun to watch central banks blame their ineptitude on businesses
• How to stop a sequel
• Servitude is coming back into fashion. "I solemnly swear that I will never take part in any involuntary civilian service at the behest of the federal government, regardless of the consequences."
• Maybe this technology would be cost effective (i.e., profitable) if water prices were allowed to reflect reality
• A Nudge to fix the wrong problem
  

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• This is sarcasm, but the way monetary and fiscal policy in this country are run it could easily be reality
• I'm hungry for some watermelon. Could I borrow your umbrella?
• I can't wait to see the games that use these Wii attachments
• While Congress fumes about oil prices, those prices are trying to tell us something. Maybe what they are trying to tell us is that governments around the world are mismanaging oil production. Yes, I said governments. After all, 77% of proven oil reserves are controlled by a nationalized entity.
  

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• Check out the new use for the Segway (scroll down about halfway)
• Some good quotes from P.J. O'Rourke
• Ahh! So it ain't so!
• Reverse Graffiti
• And you thought a night at the opera seemed to last forever
• I knew playing Dig Dug would benefit humanity
• So, does this mean that if you vote for McCain you hate people?
• "The stimulus check was a way for some people to entertain themselves."

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• Carbon Nanotubes seem to be the duct tape of science
• Now this is my kind of town
• Oil 2.0
  
• Time to break out the aerosol cans again
• Oh how cute. Cuba is joining the Twentieth Century.
• Yeah, you know you're curious
• This is just unfortunate
• I should keep my witty comments to myself on this one because my wife reads this blog (but I'd love one of these)
  

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• Another reason why Wal-Mart is one of the greatest anti-poverty forces in history
• Neat stuff for space geeks (like me)
• This is utterly disgusting. Check out the sign - "Find out when you should die." (HT: Coyote Blog)
• I beg your pardon?
• The 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time (Purple Rain!?! in the top 20)
• Can you really love your country? "Insisting on the alleged virtue of loving one’s country mainly serves to give those in power a blank check."
  

Wife bloggin

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• Hmmm...and they wonder why businesses must pay extortion money to politicians
• Ok, but what if you are both?
• When I saw this I nearly ruined my keyboard with drool
• Ok, maybe this is a little too much Star Wars for one post...nah! There can never be too much Star Wars!
• The corrupting influence of rock and roll
• You can bury me in the R2-D2 DVD player
• Don't ever try to do something nice for a stranger. It may be illegal. (HT: Coyote Blog)
  
• Stupid people shouldn't be activists (HT: Dispatches from the Culture Wars)
• This says it all (HT: Carpe Diem)
  

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• Paying taxes is patriotic? Boy, have we come a long way!
• Yeah, I know I said that if I had to vote then I would probably vote for Obama, but his pandering and economic ignorance is really why I can't vote for him (HT: Q&O)
• "You've never heard of the Millennium Falcon?"
• An Obama-gasm
  
• If you can't laugh at Manifest Destiny what can you laugh at?
• The Twenty-First Century's Nineteenth Century problem
• More socialized health care problems in the UK. And one of our own.
  

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• Ha! Unintended my behind!
• It's Easter, so it must be time for Peeps
• Holding the sun
• Looks like a dog, sounds like a big ass bee
• What did you do at work today?