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Archive for January, 2007

Improper Military (Un)dress

Friday, January 12th, 2007

While the Pentagon abandoning active duty time limits, and Bush’s more-of-the-same-only-better “surge” underway in Iraq, it’s nice to know that the Air Force has plenty of spare resources to get bent out of shape because a female drill instructor is hot.
“I was extremely excited about it,” Manhart said. “I remember asking, ‘Is there anything […]

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Texas Is Broken

Friday, January 12th, 2007

There are a lot of reasons I find the state as a whole at least marginally upsetting at times, sex-toy ban, no alcohol sales before noon on Sundays, the fact that churches get to disrupt traffic patterns so people can get in and out of the parking lot more easily… Anyway, a lot to […]

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We Should Have Expected This

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

[Via Drudge] Yesterday LA County voted to look into following New York’s lead in banning Trans-fats from food in restaurants.
New York’s ban, the first in the country and to be expected from somebody like Bloomberg, took regulatory nannyism to an entirely new height. Banning trans-fats lacks even the “what about the workers” excuse that […]

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Quantum Gravity!

Monday, January 8th, 2007

For some reason, in 2006 a lot of people spent a lot of time talking about a non-falsifiable idea called “String theory.” Which is a real shame, because there’s some genuinely cool stuff going on at the intersection of gravity and quantum mechanics: Scientists recently measured the gravitational constant G by observing the […]

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…shall stop Dubya from reading the US mail.
Now, far be it from me to discourage a learning-disabled person from trying to read more, but I’d rather that he not read MY private mail. However, Bush has decided to attach a signing statement to a postal reform bill affirming his right to open mail […]

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Torture and Office Politics

Monday, January 8th, 2007

First,I’d like to thank Timothy for hosting us Inactivists while our blog is inactive. If I ever get up some gumption or something I’ll go out and buy him a thank-you present. But I’m too inactive for that sort of thing. In the mean time, it’s only fitting that my first blog […]

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Dear Inactivist(s),

Monday, January 8th, 2007

Hey, I know you’ve been going through some troubling server stress recently, and that Inactivist.org has been down for several days at least, maybe longer. I’d like to know how much bandwidth y’all were going through monthly over there, mainly because if it isn’t too much I wouldn’t mind hosting all of the Inactivist(s), […]

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