tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59650842011-08-16T06:28:36.182-04:00Law student. Yankees fan. Massive fraggle. Just living the American dream.The Foxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00975906579105286065noreply@blogger.comBlogger18011100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965084.post-1161864049901048122006-10-26T07:56:00.000-04:002006-10-26T08:00:49.950-04:00

I dreamt last night that I was getting a haircut from Ralph Winter.Freudian Interpretation: I subconsciously feel the legal profession is stripping me of my manhood. Winter, a federal appeals judge, obviously represents the profession. And my hair, as in the story of Samson, is a symbol of virility and strength.More Plausible Interpretation: I really need to get my hair cut.

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Just in case you were interested, I have arrived in Fort Worth (in fact, I did so almost two weeks ago, but who's counting....)I've been keeping busy with wedding-y things, and with generally taking in the sights (and tastes...) of Fort Worth. For the curious, future updates are more likely to be had over at our wedding blog, Flesh of my Flesh, Blog of my Blog. Be advised.

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If you need me, I shall be high aloft, en route to scenic Cow Town, to see a certain very special someone.

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And, frankly, it's not even all that new. (She's had the blog for a couple years now, it seems.)It is a little odd to be adding new links to the sidebar as I'm in the process of winding things down, but I just thought I'd be remiss if, before I shut the Fox down for good (which won't be for a little while yet, so feel free to hold off on the weeping and gnashing of teeth), I didn't direct your

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Internet/email access is about to get very spotty for me. I'll hopefully be able to check occasionally, but if you really need to get in touch with any kind of promptness, the best option will be my cell phone until approximately August 6.

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I'm not a smart man (and my brain is perhaps a little addled still from the Bar [plus it's pretty early]), but am I correct in my reading that Dahlia Lithwick's beef with the Washington Supreme Court is that, in its recent gay-marriage decision, it applied the *actual* Rational Basis test, as opposed to Heightened or even Strict Scrutiny under the Rational Basis name, as the Massachusetts Supreme

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Having been declared awesome, I feel I must now do something to merit the title. Should I juggle 3 razor-sharp poodles? Should I recite War and Peace backwards, whilst standing on one foot? Shall I...How about this: I'm done with the Bar exam, I don't think I failed, and somehow I've managed to win and keep the love of the most amazing woman in the world. If that's not awesome (well, the last

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You Are Fozzie Bear"Wocka! Wocka!"You're the life of the party, and you love making people crack up.If only your routine didn't always bomb!You may find more groans than laughs, but always keep the jokes coming.The Muppet Personality TestH/T: Zorak

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Important notice over at Sarah and my wedding blog. (And, yes, we have an engagemet and wedding blog. We're dorks. Sue us.) Basically, I'm almost done compiling the addresses for the wedding invitations but I'm short a few. I'm hoping that a general notice-by-blog will get at least some of those people to send me their addresses without my having to track them down. Is it a vain hope? Probably.

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Eve Tushnet: What this country needs is a good five-cent flophouse? On the return of rooming houses as a way of combatting homelessness.Meanwhile, New Haven closed what I think was the city's last flophouse last fall. (Read the article, and get treated to a nice piece of the "destroy the village in order to save it" logic that largely doomed rooming houses in the past:)Andy Rizzo, LCI's director,

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I get that a lot. It turns out, not without cause. Play with the MyHeritage.com face recognition software to figure out what celebrities you look like. Thusfar, I've been: Joi Ito, John Ritter, George Best, Enrique Inglesias, Kenneth Branaugh, David Copperfield, Vassily Ivanchuk, Rowan "Mr. Bean" Atkinson, Mariah Carey, Philip Roth, and Melanie C of the Spice Girls.

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To my mind, the most interesting part of this piece:The six dioceses that announced their intention to break away — Fort Worth, Pittsburgh, South Carolina, Central Florida, San Joaquin, Calif., and Springfield, Ill. — had long threatened to leave, and they constitute a small minority of the Episcopal Church's 110 dioceses and 2.3 million members.110 dioceses? Does that strike anyone else as an

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Obviously, I think both sides are mistaken.

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Lemme tell you: if I'd known that An Inconvenient Truth was endorsed by Bender, I might have seen it. Maybe.

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Roman numeral humor.You know why they call it the DMV? 'Cause it feels like your online for 505 years.Work with me here, people.

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2014 Winter Games finalists: Sochi, Russia, Salzburg, Austria, and PyeongChang, Korea.How long, O Lord, must we wait for a Kazakh Olympics?

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Sarah Celino at Trashy Diva eyes the door, ready to flip the lock at the first sight of the ringleader’s pink jumpsuit and fluorescent red wig.Am I the only one reminds of the Batman tv series? (h/t: CAEI)

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Sweet manatee of Galilee! New Futurama episodes to air on Comedy Central in 2008.

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A borough turns its lonely eyes to you. woo-woo-woo

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Army called to fight toad invasion in Australia (h/t: Drudge)

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The Monkey does about 50% of the blogging around here. Just so you know.

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Ever find yourself asking, whatever happened to Rockapella? Wonder no more!she put the miss in misdemeanor/when she stole the beans from Lima

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Classic the Onion: Area Man Could Have Sworn Randy Newman Sang Welcome Back, Kotter Theme. Still, the Lovin' Spoonful (easily the dirtiest name of any band from the 60s) are pretty cool.

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Ponder: Bernie Williams is the anti-ARod. That is, fans love him for his role in the championship seasons and have such low expectations of him (I, for one, thought he'd be retired by this point in the season) that basically anything positive he does is gravy. Alex Rodriguez, in contrast, has never won anything and makes so much money that if he doesn't go 2/4 with 2 rbi every game he isn't

The Foxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00975906579105286065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965084.post-1150122876869570962006-06-12T10:33:00.000-04:002006-06-12T10:34:36.943-04:00

So much geekery. (h/t: the Corner)

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I know Derek Jeter's a gamer, but he's really doing damage the team by playing while hurt. For one, he clearly can't hit right now because of the injury to his hand, and no team benefits from having an automatic out in the lineup (especially one batting in the two-hole). In addition, because he can't field he's having to DH, which means that his presence in the lineup requires that either Andy

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For reasons not entirely known to me, I have failed until now to link to Behold a Pale Horse, the fishing blog that a friend of mine set up a few months back. I mean: fishing! On a blog! C'mon! Until somebody I know starts up a bowling blog, this will be, without doubt, my favorite sports blog. So go, enjoy. But remember, if the post is shorter than three paragraphs, you have to throw it back.

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In which our author free associates.This excellent Ross Douthat post got me thinking, of all things, of the book I would write if I were a professional historian and/or a pundit of some kind. It would be a comparative history of the Bush Administration's internal debate over torture post-9/11 and the development of Allied strategic bombing (culminating at Hiroshima and Nagasaki) during World War

The Foxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00975906579105286065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965084.post-1149512471370425182006-06-05T08:09:00.000-04:002006-06-05T09:20:08.810-04:00

Since I was planning to write my SAW on this subject, I thought I should blog on this: the California Supreme Court just ruled to allow warrantless entry into the homes of DUI suspects for evidence collection purposes. (h/t: Jay at Accidental Verbosity) In Colbertian fashion, I'm going to give the Golden State Supremes a combination tip o' the hat/wag o' the finger (that is, a mixed review). [And

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I am returned to New York, having successfully attended commencement (but not yet having successfully been graduated, since my last grade is not yet in, as is the YLS custom). Being a rank sentimentalist, I would have expected this to be a time in which I thought back wistfully on my three years in New Haven, but in fact I feel surprisingly cold on that front. Not that I'm not glad I went, or

The Foxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00975906579105286065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965084.post-1148041925380863472006-05-19T08:24:00.000-04:002006-05-19T08:32:05.433-04:00

Guess who's en route? In the meantime, so much packing and cleaning to do. Oi, oi, oi.Blogging, I suspect, will be muy light, if not non-existent, over the next few days as I prepare to graduate. I know, I know, your heart is breaking. In the meantime, occupy yourself, do please amuse yourself with the irrepressible cuteness of babies, neonates and preonates.

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Don't be fooled by fake-O codes involving hacks like Leonardo. There's only one true code, just like there's only one true genius! (h/t: Amy Welborn)

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Watch it and see for yourself.

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Looks like he's ready to do battle against the evil forces of: the Decepticons! (hat tip: Galley Slaves) It's going to be a long thirteen-odd months, I think.

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Hint: he's massively fragglicious!

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Via Instapundit, an article by Ryan Sager that raises, but then doesn't really discuss, an interesting issue:Perhaps the most interesting fact in the Pew survey, however, was that less than 6 in 10 libertarians voted for Bush in 2004. While few libertarians seem to have deserted the president between 2000 and 2004, they are split roughly evenly between the two parties. The Pew survey finds 50

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He should have delivered it 2 months ago. By waiting until last night, he allowed an enormous reservoir of ill will to build not just on the right but in the country generally. Everyone's already got a view of Bush's real position on immigration is. To those to Bush's right on the issue, he's a pro-amnesty squish, hopelessly in hock to the GOP's business wing, and any proposed efforts to toughen

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Am I the only one who finds this a little worrisome? The film-makers give the impression that we don't know much about the tactics the Spartans used. My understanding is that we actually know a great deal about Hoplite tactics. (As I recall, they locked their shields together to form an essentially impenetrable wall, array their spears forward, and charged the enemy en masse, like a giant anvil,

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...I wholeheartedly endorse this glossary of Christianity. (h/t: Eve Tushnet)

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An interesting Open Book post on the different uses of the "Catholic university as Dante's pilgrim" metaphor. At least, I found it interesting; I can't vouch for your reaction.

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Maggie Gallagher has a great piece in the Weekly Standard about the Massachusetts gay adoption fracas as a foretaste of the coming struggle between church and state over gay marriage (hint: state, not church, will be the aggressor). Worth a read for supporters and opponents of gay marriage alike. (She also briefly discusses the Bob Jones case, which I've come to regard as one of the two or three

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Contra what Moussaoui himself seems to think, his having received a life sentence is not a defeat for America, is not evidence of American weakness. On the contrary, it is powerful evidence of American strength. We are powerful enough to be merciful. We will not kill Moussaoui not because we can't, not because we lack the nerve, but because we do not have to, because he has already been rendered

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This Res Publica & Cetera post got me wondering about something. We typically assume that the Electoral College disproportionately benefits small-state voters because of their disproportionate representation in the Senate. What I'm wondering is: doesn't it also disproportionately benefit voters in states with large non-citizen, felon and under-18 populations, who are disproportionately

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Separated at birth: Harvard-bashing young conservative and world-conquering Kryptonian arch-criminal?

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Personally, I think it's a shame this guy and this guy went in the fourth round. They should have gone 2nd to last and last (aka Mr. Irrelevant) in the draft overall. That way, the 2006 NFL draft would have ended not with a Bing but with a Whimper.Oh, man, I'm funny. So f***ing funny.

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The J!E!T!S! Jets! Jets! Jets! eschew the glamour pick, taking the colossal left tackle from Virginia over the prettyboy USC quarterback. And the fans in Madison Square Garden erupt into...applause? That's right, folks: smartest damn fans in football.

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Joseph Bottum has an interesting reflection on heroism in the American experience up at On the Square, the First Things blog. Surprisingly, it doesn't discuss this.

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Displaced SouthernerYou are 66% true Southern! You're pretty Southern, but something is keeping you from being a true Southern Belle or Gentleman. Maybe you've moved, or maybe your parents were Yankees and brought you up without ever taking you fishing or hunting or to Memaw's for chicken and black-eyed peas. You know your Southern facts and culture, but that literature still escapes you

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"Hi, I'm Richard Wagner. You may remember me from such films as Apocalypse Now and Beetle Juice. You liked me then? You're going to love this medley of my greatest hits."Is there any wonder why I love this woman?

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Like George Steinbrenner himself, I often can't see the forest of success through all thr trees of failure, which is why - though the Yankees will probably win this afternoon's game against Baltimore - I'm a little peeved. The Yankees have succeeded in running themselves out of two big innings, with Andy Phillips getting stupidly doubled up to end the 2nd, and Jeter and Sheffield getting thrown

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You know what's pleasant? When you look over something you wrote for your SAW over a month ago, something you'd believed for a while was basically useless (that at best could be mined for a few choice turns of phrase), only to discover that it is, in fact, pretty good. As in, good enough to be dropped into the final draft once it gets footnoted. Thank you, past-Angus. You wrote better than you

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One of the most charming and enduring human characteristics is man's never-ceasing ability to (incorrectly) believe himself wiser and better than his ancestors. We may scoff at the ignorance and paranoia of our witch-hunting ancestors, but the same passions animate us (even if our witches our different). The same lurking fear that there are enemies among us, the same desire to attribute all bad

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Many happy returns to Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, heir of the great usurper and pretended queen of England, who turns 80 today. Meanwhile the true king of England, Francis II, will turn 73 this July.

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This story makes me very happy - it sort of reminds me of the conversion story of my godson Michi - though I suspect the aforementioned People's Republic of China is not similarly pleased.

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"...no matter who you are, they've got something for you to hate." I endorse today's anti-Hu protests over at Originalisms.

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If you want (slightly frighteningly) thorough coverage of the rumored retirement of Justice Stevens, and of who might succeed him (hint: unlikely to be another white Catholic guy!), look no further than Res Publica et Cetera, who's been all over the story like white on rice.

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"So, maybe passing strict immigration laws is another job we should import Mexicans to do."

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Republicans hate black people! So sayeth the Washington Post:In fact, white Republicans nationally are 25 percentage points more likely on average to vote for the Democratic senatorial candidate when the GOP hopeful is black, says economist Ebonya Washington of Yale University in a forthcoming article in the Quarterly Journal of Economics. White independents are similarly inclined to vote for the

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The Good News: Dawn Eden has reached the near banks of the Tiber. She'll make her profession of faith this evening, and get confirmed on Saturday.The bad news: two of my old teachers are in need of prayers. Miss Cathy Bose, my first grade homeroom teacher, passed away last week. In addition, my old Latin teacher, Mr. Jack Fogarty, has apparently seen his health take a turn for the worse. If you

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So, after three movies ("Annie Hall", "Sleeper" and "Bananas") I think I finally get Woody Allen. He's a postmodern Charlie Chaplin, right? That's the joke?

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Here's an easy solution for the problem of illegal immigration from Mexico that's got something for everyone: the United States should annex Mexico!Think about it:American employers would get the large supply of cheap labor they claim to want and need so badly. But those laborers, instead of working in an underground economy where they're abused and taken advantage of, will be ordinary parts of

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BMI strikes again. The Body Mass Index, which is one of the crudest possible metrics for gauging physical fitness but which is constantly used as a bludgeon to demonstrate how grotestquely obese Americans are, features prominently in this story (h/t: Human Nature) in which the obese are shown to have difficulty identifying themselves as obese (even though they correctly estimated their height and

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Mark Steyn on Iran.

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For those interested, I learned today that I passed the MPRE. Now all I have to do is write my SAW, graduate, and pass the NY bar exam, and I'll be able to enter into the exciting world of highly compensated indentured servitude. Joy.

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Making bold, unsupportable political predictions is kind of our bread and butter here at Mansfield Fox, so I thought it might be fun to provide people with honest-to-goodness, bona fide, take-it-to-the-bank predictions for the 2008 election. And so, without further ado, the top three presidential tickets for each party, in order of probability:Republicans1. John McCain, Tim PawlentyMcCain is

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Eve Tushnet links to a nice post on obscenity, profanity and their relative frequency in American discourse. I'm like Ms. T: I've basically trained myself not to use obscenity (in fact, it was surprisingly easy) but I regularly pepper my language with f*bombs.

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One often hears that the illegitimacy rate is rising, and I don't doubt it's true. I wonder how much the statistic is concealing, though. Specifically, I'm curious as to how many children are born out of wedlock only to have their parents marry shortly thereafter. A kid whose parents marry a month after she's born is just as illegitimate as one whose parents never marry, though obviously they

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Is he just crackers about cheese? (h/t: Drudge)

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Under the Constitution, the president "shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons against the United States, except in cases of impeachment." Does this mean that the turkeys that are ceremonially pardoned each Thanksgiving have to be convicted of some federal offense? The questions that keep me up at night.

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Andrew Jackson spent 6 years as a judge on the Tennessee Supreme Court before entering into his first retirement. In that capacity, he presumably produced some number of judicial opinions. I don't think anyone's taken a systematic look at these, which is too bad, because I suspect they might reveal a lot about Jackson, or about efforts to construct a new legal order in the early Republic, or both

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Has obesity plateaued? (h/t: Althouse)

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It's finally here! The sesquicentennial StrongBad email! Well worth the wait.

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We all have feet of clay. (ht: Open Book)

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People have objected to the upcoming movie United 93 on the grounds that it's "too soon" after September 11th to make a movie about the attacks. Though I disagree (I actually think it's not nearly soon enough) I respect the views of those who object to the movie. I will point out, though, for purposes of reference, that within a year of the Pearl Harbor attack, Hollywood had made five movies (

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Compare this to this. It's not just that Simmons actually answers more than one question (although that's nice). It's the absence of the random cross-chatter. It's the basic followability of the discourse. I suppose the relative age of the Cardinal and the Sports Guy (70 and 36, respectively) explains part of the differences in their web-savviness. But I can't shake the feeling that ESPN.com just

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Well, this is (more than) a little insane. Bravo.

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An interesting Wikipedia category: NPOV disputes, articles whose neutrality are questioned by editors. For many of the entries, one is not surprised that someone disputes their neutrality. Whatever your article says about Accusations against Israel of war crimes during the Al-Aqsa Intifada or Adam and Eve, somebody is likely to object to something you've written. They're genuinely controversial

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...but still, it looks a little, um, well...This photo, along with many others is from the most recent Religious Education Congress hosted in the Taj Mahoney by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.Hat tip to Amy Welborn, with whom I wait in baited breath for the release of the transcript of Cardinal Mahoney's online chat. How will the cardinal answer questions likeName: MattQuestion: "Just curious

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"Mr. T Will Voice Reepicheep"tip o' the pith: Sarah

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Da rules: Go to your music player of choice (iPod, Windows Media Player, etc) and put it on shuffle. Say the following questions aloud, and press play. The title of the song that comes up is your answer. NO CHEATING. (And yes, I am doing this to procrastinate.)How does the world see me? "God Only Knows", the Beach Boys. Will I have a happy life? "Looking for the Next Best Thing", Warren Zevon.

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A great American airline folds up.

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New York Times article (with list of parishes in sidebar) available here. My question: how is it possible that my father's home parish, St. John the Martyr on 71st St, managed to escape the axe (pun intended)?It's a small parish, not attached to a school or any substantial charitable or outreach activities. There are lots of nearby parishes its current population could be transferred to (to wit:

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"Boy gets caught in toy-filled 'claw' machine"(ht: The Slaves)

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Finally, someone will speak for the left at Yale College!

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Theodore Dalrymple on malnutrition and the British criminal class.(ht: Eve Tushnet)

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Where, indeed.Happy birthday, Ms. O'C.

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Did you know: if you eat five or so kiwis in rapid succession, they will start to sting your mouth something awful. Whether this relates to the proteases therein, I cannot say. Also, any connection to this is, surely, coincidental. Surely.

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Hate to say I told you so.(ht, the also bearded Dom)

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This is a reverse story-telling game. It works thusly: below, I have written the last few sentences of an as-yet-unwritten work of short fiction. Anyone who wants can write the next-to-last section of the story and post it on their blog. They should then link to this post, indicating that the story continues here. People who want to add the next-to-next-to-last section can do so, and then link to

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Bruce Ackerman, in The American Prospect:November 2009: After a hard-fought victory the year before, the new Democratic administration has come out of the starting gates in good shape. With the airwaves full of brave talk of new initiatives, there is real hope of a new beginning.Then the unthinkable happens. A small nuclear device rips the heart out of Pennsylvania Avenue: The White House is

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Amy Welborn reminds us of the day's sad anniversary.Mere Comments offers up a good analogy for the Catholic Charities gay adoption fracas.Eve Tushnet pays tribute to a great and well named lady (though perhaps not as constant a one as she is sometimes portrayed).

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or, "Don't ask me about my business, Peach."or, "I know it was you, Luigi. You broke my heart."Super Mafia Bros.(ht: Sarah)

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You're 65% IrishYou're very Irish, and most likely from Ireland.(And if you're not, you should be!)How Irish Are You?(ht: the markedly less Irish Publius)

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Is it just me, or is this baby (Valerie of Accidental Verbosity fame) making some kind of gang hand-sign? Westsiiiiide.I kid because I love.

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Finally: Erin recognizes my God-given right to adulterate coffee. Also, for our Jewish brothers: armor. You can never have enough armor. (ht: Dappled Things)

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What's most astonishing about this video (ht: Goldberg, natch) - beyond the fact that it's f'ing cool - is just how quickly George Lucas, et al., have obsoleted themselves. "Star Wars" is less than 30 years old, and the "Phantom Menace" less than 10, and we're already in a place where a teenager using just his home computer can create a lightsaber duel with just as much pop as anything in either

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Teen shot over tater tots. (HT: Drudge)

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Too cute not to link to.

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...but the artist who did the music for both The Hobbit and The Return of the King is not only still alive, he's still touring! Folsom, California. December 11. Be there, not square, etc.

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Hmmm..."not good"; "lackluster"; "thinks terrorist is a synonym for revolutionary"; "a clumsy assault"; "full of cliched characters"; "extremely talky"; "endless scenes in which people sit around explaining stuff"; "least rousing at the climax".In other words, it's just like the source material.(ht Drudge)

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