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With the kind of brutal logic of which often only dictators are capable, Stalin once said: “He who casts the vote decides nothing. He who counts the vote decides everything.” How many democratic elections since he uttered those words have borne out the truth contained in them? For despite the massive propaganda the world has [...] Maybe if I act really crazy people won’t notice how many times I’ve been wrong Presumably on the theory that if he makes enough calls, sooner or later one of them might be right, Jim Cramer just said we are at the real housing bottom now. Honest. Forget all the other bottoms I called. [...] C&L Surf-rock, the genre perfected by the Ventures, is written off by the foolish as a kind of novelty style, but when done right the blend of jazz rhythms, twangy rock and roll guitar and subtle latin flavor is one of the few rock-based genres to ever take off in earnest without a lead [...] This is huge, and confirms there is a massive split in the ruling class of Iran. DOSbox is an open source emulator that will run ancient DOS programs in XP and Vista, including Vista 64. Among my arcane specialties, I sometimes convert and migrate Clipper database programs to modern platforms. Needed to run Clipper on my Vista 64 laptop, but Vista returned an error message saying it was incompatible with [...] “The starving of 1.5 million human beings of the necessities of life — never before in history has a large community like this been savaged by bombs and missiles and then denied the means to repair itself,” Carter said at a UN school graduation ceremony in Gaza City. Tweets about the Iran Election are coming fast and furious now. Many are retweeting about how people should 1) change their Twitter time zone to Iran time and 2) strip Twitter names off retweets from protesters in Iran, so as to confuse the Iranian government. These proposals don’t really make much sense. Think about [...] Andrew Sullivan continues his superb, non-stop coverage. Hitchens For a flavor of the political atmosphere in Tehran, Iran, last week, I quote from a young Iranian comrade who furnishes me with regular updates: “I went to the last major Ahmadinejad rally and got the whiff of what I imagine fascism to have [...] Sounds like a ludicrous plot from a near future dystopian novel. But it’s quite real. Meet the La Familia drug cartel of Mexico. Seeing how difficult it is to find a job right now, the last thing you need is some ridiculous bird or skull tattoo on your neck or forearms or anywhere visible, wrecking your job interview. Thus, the tattoo removal business is thriving. I know several lawyers with major tattoos. But when they’re wearing business [...] |  | ||||
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