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An insufficiently brief conversation between your humble scribe and a thoroughly hypothetical individual/correspondent

Your humble scribe: Just sign here on the white piece of paper.

Thoroughly hypothetical individual/correspondent: It’s black.

YHS: What is?

THIC: The paper.

YHS: I’m not sure I understand, I meant this piece of paper right here. The white one.

THIC: Black. It’s clearly black.

YHS:

THIC: BLACK!

YHS: Ohh-kayyy. Just sign at the [...]

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Dealing with adversity

The story of the grounded Raptors in Hawaii reminds me of one of the first TRANSPAC tales I ever heard. I was an ensign, or maybe a JG in Meridian training in TA-4J’s, and one of the Marine IP’s started talking about a WESTPAC pump his squadron had been on.

It seems that eight [...]

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Althouse v. Alterman

Alterman muses that this whole blogospheric “marketplace of ideas” thing has gotten a little out of hand. That it might be time to put a panel of experts in place. Sort things out, like. Otherwise, people might get the wrong idea:

Ever since the beginning of blogging-time, I have worried — in public and [...]

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Good. Sweet. Lord.

Submitted without further comment:

Pop superstar MICHAEL JACKSON has confirmed his conversion to Islam, according to reports in the Middle East.

The Arab-Israeli newspaper Panorama claims Jackson has announced the move and revealed plans to move to Bahrain, where he has bought property.

(Hijab Tip to SondraK)

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Bummer, that

From slash.dot:

“The new US stealth fighter, the F-22 was deployed for the first time to Asia earlier this month. On Feb. 11, twelve Raptors flying from Hawaii to Japan were forced to turn back when a software glitch crashed all of the F-22s’ on-board computers as they crossed the international date line. The [...]

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At the risk of further arguing with fools…

…. and that neutral observers might not be able to tell the difference, here’s an interesting discussion by McQ, on Greenwald, on Lieberman. Contrasting Lieberman’s 2005 WSJ op-ed on Iraq with his most recent effort, Greenwald purpored to find dishonesty in the Senator’s argument. But as McQ points out:

There is nothing factually incorrect [...]

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Obsession

I guess I must have missed this when it first came out:

When

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Flotsam

Money’s tight Chez Lex this time of year, on account of the serial birthday’s that are in it, coming one after another like they do, bang, bang, bang. Bang. Not to mention Valentine’s Day and the not-entirely-paid-off holiday season bobbing in the wake.

You: What is to be done?

Me: Well, you could visit [...]

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An inconvenient image

Mark Steyn on Al Gore at the Oscars:

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The voice of reason

Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman is a lifelong Democrat forced by party activists – including many from outside his state – to retain his seat in Congress by running as an independent after a Democratic primary defeat by a single-issue, anti-war political ing?

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