Self-preservation over self-respect

Amit Varma nails the sad truth in his choice of post header.

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Beyonce Knowles has four arms

A rather amusing blog that chronicles Photoshop edits that went wrong.
(Link via Boing Boing)

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Dangerous policymakers

An Illinois assemblywoman goes ballistic at a witness for preaching a destructive philosophy, one that she rages is so dangerous that children should not even know that it exists.
The philosophy being .. umm .. atheism.
(Link via The Volokh Conspiracy)
 

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On writing

“If you can’t annoy somebody with what you write, I think there’s little point in writing.” 
-Kingsely Amis

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Moral legislation, social hypocrisy

Jeffrey Rosen, in an excellent article, reminds us that moral legislation is far from dead. Indeed, as Rosen points out, the repeal of certain laws (such as those that criminalized homosexuality) should not be viewed as a victory for civil libertarianism but merely as a statement that American society no longer views the concerned act as wrong. An important [...]

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A weekend at Hoegee’s

The reason there were no posts over the weekend is that I went solo-camping in the San Gabriel mountains just north of Pasadena.
The idea of spending a weekend alone in the wilderness first occurred to me during a hike I did in the San Gabriels with a couple of friends last summer. I was awestruck by the utter [...]

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