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I don’t totally understand Timothy Egan’s guest op-ed in the Times today about (I guess) how Republicans are shooting themselves in the foot about immigration:
He was loud, he was blustery and he was clear: our country is being overrun by Mexicans. To back his bark, he wrote, “Whatever It Takes,” as subtle as a cactus [...]

So to speak.
The Seattle City Council writes a letter to the Zoo:
As construction prices climb, and concerns about global warming come into focus, Seattle City Council members are having second thoughts about a four-level parking garage project at Woodland Park Zoo that it approved three times in the past six years.
The zoo plans to break [...]

The meaningless and pork-laden vote to end the Iraq war was something special. But then Democrats do one better by resurrecting the Equal Rights Amendment. No, seriously:
“Women’s equality has been for too long a dream deferred,” Congessmember Carolyn Maloney declared as she joined with several other House and Senate members last week to reintroduce the [...]

A month ago I mused that the new dollar coin would once again fail, because they weren’t taking the bill out of circulation. But I didn’t know why such a boneheaded decision would be made. Until I read this Slate piece:
Who on earth thinks like this? People who have a vested interest in [...]

Fortunately for the rest of us, no one really pays attention to either Ward Churchill or doucheturd college students:
An ethnic studies professor from the University of Colorado, Ward Churchill, received a standing ovation last night from a crowd of more than 200 New School students after blaming the 2001 World Trade Center attacks on America’s [...]

Creeping Kerryism is back again with headlines like “Lesbian Cheney Pregnant”:
Mary Cheney, the daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney, is pregnant with her first child. While her parents are welcoming the blessed event with “eager anticipation,” the religious right is up in arms about her baby being denied a father. Ms. Cheney, 37, will rear [...]

Not to toot my own horn, but Kinsley makes a point in today’s Slate that I made a couple of weeks ago — namely, that the President’s daughters’ bad behavior reflects badly on the President’s commitment to America’s war effort.  Kinsley writes:
[Bush's] daughters are over 21, and he can’t control them, but that doesn’t let [...]

As part of some general housekeeping, I finally got around to reading some old issues of the Sunday Times Magazine. Since people often slag the Mag for being behind the times on trends, this had the added bonus of being behind the times on something that is already behind the times. Sometimes life is perverse [...]

Follow up to the Contrarian’s piece on life-extending calorie-restricted diets.
In today’s NYT, there’s a bit about a study involving rhesus monkeys.
Check out the sample diets offered, one demonstrating a calorie restricted menu of 2000 calories, the other the “average” diet of 3000 calories. The diets were prepared by one Mike Linksvayer.
Now, I don’t know [...]

Fascinating piece in the NYT about the growing (and apparently already widespread) use of hand sanitizer among politicians.
As you know, I’m a germ-o-phobe myself. Still, I hate hand sanitizer (and its evil cousin — the sanitizer spray they use at the gym). Why?
Purell and its ilk are anti-bacterial. That is, they only [...]