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Order Chicken Around
One of the more surreal uses of the web that I've witnessed. Apparently a live webcam on a guy in a chicken outfit. You can order him to do stuff and he d…
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Vote for Top Legal Thinkers
The magazine Legal Affairs is conducting an online poll of the top 20 Legal Thinkers in America. Of course, they recognize the poll is unscientific, but it'…
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Richard Sanders' Stanford Law Review Affirmative Action Study Critiqued
Goodwin Liu of Boalt Hall has a nice rebuttal to Richard Sanders' bizarre claim that affirmative action hurts blacks by leading them down a primrose path:…
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Poll Suggests Quarter of Americans Want Muslim Americans to Register Location
A new poll conducted by Cornell researchers finds: About 27 percent of respondents said that all Muslim Americans should be required to register their location…
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Robert Zoellick Likely World Bank Head
The Bush Administration seems likely to appoint U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick to the Presidency of the World Bank. Colin Powell had been mentioned…
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Just When Did We Loan Saddam $4.1 Billion?
The U.S. has kindly agreed to cancel the $4.1 billion dollars that Iraq owes to us. But the news stories don't explain what this debt consists in. When di…
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Bah humbug.
Those creative folks at Jib Jab have come out with their Santa Claus parody... ho ho ho. See www.jibjab.com.…
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Please Someone Explain "Physics" to Rumsfeld, and then "Incompetence"
In his response to soldier Wilson, Rumsfeld said that the failure to produce more armored Humvees was a matter of "physics." It seems hard to imagine…
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Kerik Fathered and Abandoned Daughter in Korea
As reported in the Korea Times, Kerik fathered a daughter with a Korean woman while he was stationed as a policeman in Korea in the 1970s. New US Homeland Chie…
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Presidential Medal for Failure
Incompetence has its rewards. Bremer badly mismanaged the Iraq Occupation. Just yesterday, the Iraqi interim President complained bitterly of the disbanding o…
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Google to Scan Books Still in Copyright
According to Harvard University Libraries, Google will scan not only books out of copyright, but also books still in copyright. It will not make those latter b…
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Saddam Found in Hole: The first anniversary
BBC.com reports that "More American soldiers have died since Saddam's capture than before." That makes this a much sadder anniversary than it mig…