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in the news
A Mount Vernon man was recently attacked by three dogs who tried to eat him. They wounded him badly, but he had to be hospitalized. One more reason to carry a gun. I don’t myself, but with dogs (and people) viciously attacking innocent people in the streets, I certainly wouldn’t discourage anyone from doing so. [...]
foxnews, arepas, internet publishing
No. I’m not on politics again (for the present). But I couldn’t help but comment on this article I saw on foxnews.com. It’s a fun little piece on Chavez responding to some joke Obama made. The point is not the story, though, it’s the way foxnews is failing to adapt itself to the digital age: [...]
“academic freedom” and other such stuff
There’s been an argument over whether the government should be able to regulate academic fraud among grant recipients. The university position, of course, is that the government has no right to interfere with “academic freedom.” And yet you don’t see that university turning down government grants. So the implication, then, Related Posts:A Practical Program of [...]
in the news
Kiryas Joel is a Hasidic Jewish enclave. There’s a sign up in the town, on private property, which tells people to keep their arms and legs covered and to maintain gender separation in town. Now, you can think whatever you want about the practice of covering up all the way and gender separation, and you [...]
ftc bleeds $30 million from innocent company
Ever since Craig of Simul Iustus et Peccator inadvertently alerted me to the FTC’s indirect interference with the blogging world, I’ve been seeing the FTC’s tyrannous hand in everyone’s business. The latest example is the FTC’s thuggish mistreatment of Whole Foods. I couldn’t invent the bizarre dealings of the FTC from my own imagination if [...]
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speaking of ftc . . .
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