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I should point to something about the Inauguration.
Hmmm… well, here's David Horowitz: "How Conservatives
Should Celebrate the Inauguration". He's very uncynical, and if
you're like me, you can use all the de-cynicizing you can stand.
Only problem is, if you're like me (and Jonah Goldberg), you keep getting creeped out.
[Update: Iowahawk has a transcript.]
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The "Intellectual Affairs" blog at Inside Higher Ed reacts
to rumors that the Washington Post may be shutting down "Book
World", a Sunday book-review section. I got a chuckle out of this petulant
foot-stomping:
Members of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and the Association of American University Presses (AAUP) ought to contact [WaPo executive editor] Brauchli to let him know that this is not acceptable.
Sure, just what a journalist needs: a bunch of university types telling him what's "acceptable" in his efforts to make his paper profitable.The author, Scott McLemee, identifies himself elsewhere as "a member of the National Book Critics Circle". So add a little naked self-interest to the mix.
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Jacob Sullum's article from the current issue of
Reason is online, detailing the law-enforcement
crusade against pot-smoking
paraphernalia.
There's a local angle: the legal hassles
of Dover NH's "Smoke Signals Pipe & Tobacco Shop"
store (which I've never actually entered, but often drive by
on my way home from work) are described.
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From the Red
Hat Errata site:
The words dictionary contained two misspelled words: "architecure" and "flourescent". This updated package removes both mis-spellings. (Please note: the correct spellings of each word -- "architecture" and "fluorescent" -- were extant in the dictionary. This update simply removes the misspellings.)
If your freshly-baked bread glows in the dark, it's flourescent. -
As Jamie Zawinski points out:
Soviet Nuclear Lighthouse Dead Zones would be a
pretty good name for a rock band.
Jan
20
2009
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