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December 2010
Wisconsin Awards $25,000 to Man Wrongly Imprisoned... →
hearingvoicesagain:
danielholter:
sds:
This sort of thing is exactly why, as I’ve noted before, I am increasingly opposed to the death penalty on practical grounds even while I support it philosophically.
1. me, too. 2. that number seems about two or three zeroes short. 25k?!?!
Surely that number should be whatever money he would have made in his career in those 23 years and then further...
Wisconsin Awards $25,000 to Man Wrongly Imprisoned... →
This sort of thing is exactly why, as I’ve noted before, I am increasingly opposed to the death penalty on practical grounds even while I support it philosophically.
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YouTube is stupid, and I finally found how to... →
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WatchI read 33 books in 2010 (there is a good chance I’ll hit 34 before the year is up). Using Shelfari, I’ve tracked books owned and read for a few years now, but never really looked at the analytics. As you can see, it’s quite the random mix. I like to keep things intellectually and imaginatively spicy.
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WatchI read 33 books in 2010 (there is a good chance I’ll hit 34 before the year is up). Using Shelfari, I’ve tracked books owned and read for a few years now, but never really looked at the analytics. As you can see, it’s quite the random mix. I like to keep things intellectually and imaginatively spicy.
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“We celebrate the lives of the dead
It’s like a man’s best party...”
– City and Colour - “Body In a Box”
Listen here.
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“Poetry is also excessive in the sense that it seems to belabor the obvious. “Why...”
– Peter Leithart: On Poetry
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“Poetry is also excessive in the sense that it seems to belabor the obvious. “Why...”
– Peter Leithart: On Poetry
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How ReadWriteWeb Used Delicious →
“For the past several years, ReadWriteWeb has been using Delicious in a way that I think points to the potential the service truly had. Here’s what we did”:
We had a researcher grab URLs for companies and products that ReadWriteWeb had written about already and look them up in Delicious to see who had bookmarked those same links first.
Then we scrolled back through the...
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“What happens when a left-wing academic persuades parents to “reassign” the...”
– The Deadly Fruit of “Gender Selection:” A Tragic Story
This is so tragic, but it does serve as a beacon to our “enlightened” culture that gender fluidity is an empty and evil concept. This should be self-evident, but sometimes it take lives being destroyed to illustrate a basic truth.
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“…notice how this particular [WikiLeaks] problem was created by a previous...”
– Douglas Wilson
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WatchDrew Grow and the Pastors’ Wives
Formerly of the incredible and obscure Five O’Clock People.
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Twas the Night before Christmas (Postmodern... →
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“Jingle Bells” cat edition
My sister...
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“When it comes to voluntarily spreading their own wealth around, a distinct...”
– Tea Partiers and the Spirit of Giving
Data at the link. Take that, Colbert! Being hilarious is not the same as being right.
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“Christians need to find a way to thrive in a society that looks less and less...”
– Ross Douthat (via wesleyhill)
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The lunar eclipse AND the winter solstice? It's a...
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WatchTroy turns 21. This is hilarious and brilliant.
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WatchTroy turns 21. This is hilarious and brilliant.
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“Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and...”
– C. S. Lewis, “On the Reading of Old Books” (via ayjay)
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“Now there’s a delightful conundrum for modern morality: we’d all love to be able...”
– Further corrosive effects of networked handheld computing | Blog | Futurismic (via ayjay)
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Free (unauthorized) Desktop App for Grooveshark →
Apparently it’s portable. Plus, under 300k.
Merry Christmas to me!
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