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2 weeks, 3 days, 13 hours, 14 minutes ago...

Someone endanger that species, quick
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In Going mental

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Just when you thought the Hollywood Actor Vulgaris couldn't compete any dumber in the Darwin Awards, Exhibitionism comes in and meet Indiana Jones.

Jules Crittenden relays Vodkapundit on Access Hollywood's chest hair waxing Harrison Ford to "demonstrate the pain of deforestation". I wish I could make these up, and earn a much better living.

Coming up next: Brad Pitt has Harrison Ford's chest hair transplanted to demonstrate the pain of global warming. Hot!


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2 weeks, 3 days, 14 hours, 54 minutes ago...

Deaf, dumb and blind
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In France · Masters of Disinformation

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Bruce Bawer
(...) consider the riots that gripped immigrant suburbs in France in the autumn of 2005. These uprisings were largely assertions of Muslim authority over Muslim neighborhoods, and thus clearly jihadist in character. Yet weeks passed before many American press outlets mentioned them—and when they did, they de-emphasized the rioters’ Muslim identity (few cited the cries of “Allahu akbar,” for instance).
Not a surprise, when one knows how quickly Canal Plus (one of the five French national channels) buried its own footage of Youths On A Rampage Whose Religion Thou Shall Not Name, when people started noticing the aforementioned cries in the background.

Even to the most disinformed audience—re the French coverage of Iraqi Freedom for instance—it's hard to make "Allahu akbar" sound like "Will work for food".


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2 weeks, 3 days, 17 hours, 14 minutes ago...

Possible Interruption of Service
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In The Site of The Me

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I'll be doing a bit of maintenance under the hood (kicking the MySQL server till it reboots and stuff), which means that the site could vanish into thin pixels, leaving Brigitte Bardot's National Nationalists and the Islamo-Lefties in the "opposing" team with one less virtual outlet bashing their behinds.

At least until I get the backup, er, back.

Update


Piece of cake.

Update II


I'm getting rid of the ranking system—so fear not if you don't see the five stars thingy next to the titles anymore—it's not that I don't value your feedback (on the contrary) but it seems to be a poster child for "underutilization", while putting a bit of a strain on resources and page weight. So unless there's a public outcry to have it back, it's out.

I'm thinking of other features to replace it—including some that might actually be useful.

By the way, anybody here uses any of the numerous social bookmark-linking things (Digg, Technorati and other "Web 2.0" crapozoids)? And for those of you who did not give me that blank "Social what thing?" look two seconds ago, which ones do you use?

Yep, I'm in the Spring cleaning mood.


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2 weeks, 3 days, 17 hours, 38 minutes ago...

Great moments at the French Etat-major
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In France

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One of many, that is:
French expectation of victory in the Franco—Prussian War of 1870 was so great that its officers were issued maps of Germany, but not of France: "Alas, maps of the roads leading to Paris would have been more useful, so fast was the enemy's advance."—Geoffrey Blainey, The Causes of War
Pas si vite! Funny as it is, that doesn't beat sitting idly (crapping your pants listening to the defeatist tune of the anti-war Left) while Adolph H. remilitarizes the Rhineland, the Wehrmarcht guts Poland, invades Denmark & Norway and regroups its forces for a Summer of Love in the gay Paris while you stack men and tanks at the Maginot Line even though you know perfectly well that the bulk of the Teutonic Horde is elsewhere.

Compared to the abject pacifist apathy of 1940's French army and society, there is something of an appeal in its mindless 1870 optimism, no matter how misguided1.
  1. Ha-ha. You know, misguided, coz they had like, you know, no maps and all.


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2 weeks, 3 days, 20 hours, 29 minutes ago...

God’s Green Card
Print × Imprimerthe dissident frogman • Monday, April 28, 2008 · 0821 zulu time
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In EU and other debilitating diseases

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The irregular quote of the day courtesy P.J. O'Rourke, in a somewhat old piece (a couple of months, or 10,000 years in Internet Time) Letter to our European friends:
After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.
(Found by leapfrogging1 from his 24 hours on the 'Big Stick' story).

I'll just add that judging by the forces in presence at the dawn of the 21st2, He's not about to come back any time soon.

Can't blame Him, really—Hell3 I'll follow Him as soon as I get a chance.
  1. I just can't resist doing that.
  2. Waffles anyone?
  3. Sorry, Dear God.


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