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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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• 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
  

Whatever

• The high price of energy is a political, not economic, problem. "Windfall" profit taxes and consumer subsidies, i.e. more politics, will only exacerbate the problem. And along with those economic inefficiencies comes corruption.
  
• Um, whoops?
• Ok, I take back what I said last week about science making Science Fiction boring
• Sometimes you win by just letting your enemies be themselves
  

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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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• 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)
  

Who is John Alpha?

If you like science fiction and/or suspense thrillers, I highly recommend the 7th Son Trilogy by J.C. Hutchins. I just finished listening to the last book and I find myself wishing for more. It has clones, blood, computers, government conspiracies, blood, international mayhem, blood, oil, and more. Oh, and blood!

Do yourself a favor and go to iTunes now and download Book One to your iPod (or use whatever feeble mp3 player you find yourself having to cope with).