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http://althouse.blogspot.com/ - "But once you start the mental life you pluck the apple. You've severed the connexion between the apple and the tree: the organic connexion. And if you've got nothing in your life BUT the mental 

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At the Purple Grass Café...
... things get chaotic, but it all makes sense somehow.
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"We want this list to be as accurate as Palin is delusional."
Then if your list is completely in accurate and Palin isn't at all delusional, you'll have what you want . How devilish! Or, no. Are you going to tell me that's not what you meant, obviously? Aha! By your own standard , you are a liar . Oh, but that's not really your definition of a liar, that's ...
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Just now, the wind catches the rye.
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"Like Reagan, Obama is a detached loner with a strong, savvy wife."
"But unlike Reagan, he doesn’t have the acting skills to project concern about what’s happening to people." Wow. That's Maureen Dowd. (Obama's in trouble!) She's writing about the importance of reaching people on a "visceral" level, the way Sarah Palin does. Dowd quotes a "spiritual ...
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"The ice caps are melting, oh ho ho ho ho ho."
Hey, it's the Tiny Tim song Thomas Pynchon was talking about! This insane song appears on Tim's 1968 album "God Bless Tiny Tim," so all that ice caps melting business has nothing to do with our present-day angst over polar bears and obeisance to the Great God Gore . Unless Tim started it ...
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"Fellow scientists who disagreed with orthodox views on climate change were variously referred ...
althouse.blogspot.com — "In other exchanges, one climate researcher said he was 'very tempted' to 'beat the crap out of' a prominent, skeptical U.S. climate scientist." *** From WaPo: [T]he newly disclosed private exchanges among climate scientists at Britain's Climate ... (more) "Fellow scientists who disagreed with orthodox views on ...
Senator Mary Landrieu doesn't want you to think she got $100 million for her vote.
althouse.blogspot.com — She wants you to know she got $300 million . If this is what is trumpeted these days, I wonder what goes on behind closed doors. (more) Senator Mary Landrieu doesn't want you to think she got ...
In the Last Geranium Night Club...
... the music is soft and sweet and the lights are deep purple.
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At the New Tree Restaurant...
... you can talk about trees, shoot the breeze, have some wine and cheese, do whatever you please. Dig in!
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"Democrats Clinch Vote on Health Debate."
In case you want to talk about it. I'll just be over here in a corner curled up in a little ball.
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And the viral diavlog hits...
... the NYT.
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Andrew Sullivan has discovered the Michelle Goldberg/Ann Althouse diavlog.
He says "Michelle Goldberg gets it." Fine, but did he get as far as this clip, where Michelle says something that makes me say, "You hear that, Andrew?"? Goldberg went to Wasilla to report for The Nation during the campaign, and there she heard the wildest rumors but the one thing nearly ...
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The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists.
"The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS) is a club for scientists who have, or believe they have, luxuriant flowing hair."
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Said the President to the 1,500 troops in camouflage uniform: "You guys make a pretty good photo op,"
I'm thinking he said it with knowing — perhaps even self-deprecating — humor, but still, extracted and quoted on Drudge , it looks awful. Also at the first link: "President Obama will not announce his decision on sending more troops to Afghanistan before the Thanksgiving holiday, senior aides ...
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Steven Pinker talks to Robert Wright.
On Bloggingheads. They're talking about language and evolution.
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The AP, describing a case the Supreme Court recently turned down, writes: "the school valedictorian strayed from an approved text to provide a graphic account of Jesus' crucifixion..."
That piqued my curiosity, and not just because I teach "Religion and the Constitution" and want to know about the cases in the area. I wanted to know just how graphically a high school girl would describe the crucifixion in front of the assembled graduating class. During McComb's speech at the ...
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Is "The White House Butler" an outrageously racist headline?
There's been some discussion here in Madison, Wisconsin, where former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Louis Butler is a visiting professor at the law school, about whether that headline, on a Wall Street Journal editorial , is racist. The editors begin: As consolation prizes go, Louis Butler ...
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"New Consensus Sees Stimulus Package as Worthy Step."
althouse.blogspot.com — How do economists reach consensus? Do they confer and corroborate like climate scientists ? Or is the consensus achieved through a newspaper editorial process of strategically collecting quotes and designating the speakers as "dispassionate"? Or is it ... (more) "New Consensus Sees Stimulus Package as Worthy Step."
"They always understood that they might someday be called to account for that conduct and always have been prepared to accept full responsibility for it."
"They have done so today." Walter K. Myers, 72, and Gwendolyn Steingraber Myers, 71, step up and take responsibility for 30 years of spying for Cuba, motivated by "conscience and personal commitment." By the way, Walter Myers is the great grandson of Alexander Graham Bell.
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Ravenous hunger for Sarah is making even Hoosiers nasty.
Hoosiers! What's going on? Things move from good to bad so quickly, like Woodstock to Altamont. This could be the most beautiful evening...
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