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... have been created by government mandate. Now all we need to do is figure out how to pay for them . Los Angeles City Controller Wendy Gre...

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I found this on The Corner and thought I'd share.

... whether you want it to or not. Greek bonds are still getting hammered . The Euros have stroked their chins in deep thought, shaken hand...

I'm really struggling with comments right now. I'm getting duplicates that aren't really duplicates and missing others that sho...

The whole thing seems stupid to me. Oil is a global resource. With the 2,000,000,000+ people in India and China rushing to catch up to the...

If you've got a spare hour and a half, here's an outstanding* Google Tech Talk on brain plasticity. * - Well, I think it's outst...

Welcome to another installment of captchadef! prollycl (n): A guess at chemical composition, in this case Chlorine. Related words include ...

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... or so the City of Los Angeles is finding out. They're suffering the same problem all command economies face: reality is too complic...

Who is John Galt?

... if they think that their problems started recently. Meanwhile, they are shrinking away from taking their medicine. April 6 (Bloomberg)...

... is this one from Ed Driscoll: In The Future, Everyone Will Be A Klansman For 15 Minutes . Support for the Tea Party folks now surpasses ...

Or is it liquid? Our Maximum Leader reposing in a sunbeam at the top of our stairs deserves a click on the image.

I read about the iPad's brisk weekend sales on my XP machine and didn't feel even a twinge of interest in buying one. Rawr.

Have a happy and blessed Easter,  everybody!

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Yesterday morning before work, I zipped over to the eastern side of Oahu to get some sunrise photos. The horizon was socked in, so really d...

The right wing blogosphere is all in a lather over Congressman Phil Hare being ignorant of the Constitution and being willing to dispose of ...

After I got out of my meetings yesterday, I zipped over to the northwestern tip of Oahu, hoping for a dramatic sunset. The clouds didn'...