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This is my favorite sentence in the big Hillary-Bill relationship article:
“Over time she came to consider Chappaqua home, too, and she likes spending time there with the president when they can find the time,” said one longtime friend of the couple’s, who was granted anonymity because the Clintons did not want this person to speak. [...]

Sometimes the Prof and I are hard on America’s unions, but it’s all tough love. When it comes to helping the workers of the world improve their lot, there’s no substitute for collective bargaining. Unions help drive up workers’ wages, which forces innovation, by encouraging employers to invest in new technologies. All [...]

Kurt Andersen writes in New York Magazine that we’re ready for a third way:
We are people without a party. We open-minded, openhearted moderates are alienated from the two big parties because backward-looking ideologues and p.c. hypocrites are effectively in charge of both. Both are under the sway of old-school clods who consistently default to government [...]

A state legislator from Queens is introducing legislation to ban the New York State Assembly from anthropomorphizing laws (e.g., “Bruno’s Law”):
Call it Barbara’s Law — or maybe not.
Assemblywoman Barbara Clark (D-Queens) has introduced a bill to outlaw the naming of legislation after crime victims.
She says the number of such laws has gotten so out [...]

If we’re going to have the clean, fossil-fuel-free future that everyone keeps promising us, we’re going to need cheap electricity, and lots of it. And we’re going to need to get that electricity from something other than coal. Our options include:
1. Nuclear
2. Hydroelectric dams
3. Wind
4. Solar
Biofuels like ethanol will be great for powering [...]

Some free association — for some reason, I’m seeing Michael Stipe in spandex . . . “In Living Color” suddenly springs to mind . . . and suddenly I’m eating this up like Jim Carrey loves teeth:
An Israeli cartoonist has launched an “anti-Semitic cartoon contest” to poke fun at fellow Jews in response to furore [...]

Following up on our previous posts on oil policy, here’s a terrible idea on dis-incentives. Apparently several states are seeing the effect of high-MPG cars like hybrids in the form of decreased gas tax revenues. So they’ve come upon the novel idea of taxing fuel efficient cars to make up the difference!
Now, we [...]

The President told us last night we were “addicted to oil.” But he also told us that the saving grace would be “technology.” Not conservation, but innovation. In other words, don’t worry about changing your lifestyle, nuclear energy is the magic big-Government pill (as an Andrew Sullivan reader points out today) that [...]

Slashdot readers will have noted this yesterday, but for those of you not trolling the net in search of arcane arguments among Linux geeks, Emory University announced the results of a study of the psychology of political partisianship, leading one site to conclude that “Democrats and Republicans alike are adept at making decisions without [...]

Upon learning that Google is being forced to hand over search result logs in an effort to waste precious government funds going after sex perverts, The Stranger writer Brad Steinbacher voluntarily offers up his own list of searches for the past week:
Bradley Steinbacher + The Stranger (vanity search)
Bradley Steinbacher + fuckwad (vanity search)
armpit + rash [...]