Recent Links » May 2008
- Bringing democracy to the benighted of the world.
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- A shout-out to BCC’s resident dinosaur rider.
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- Yet more evidence of the decline of Europe.
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This proves how much France needs liberty-based education which promotes sovereignty and independence. #
- …and the fall thereof was exceedingly great.
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- USA, Russia, China, and Israel to Rest of World: Suck it!
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Might makes Right. #
- Woman caught living undetected in man’s closet FOR A YEAR
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- Vatican to excommunicate female priests.
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- Even monsters have trouble on the Internet.
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- Aerial pictures of an uncontacted tribe in Brazil.
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- The Normal Mormon Husband gives birth.
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- Another Republican scandal, but this time it’s a Mormon.
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Another reason to rise above party politics! #
- The Embodied God in Biblical and Near Eastern Literature.
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- “If the problem isn’t your mood, it might be your face.”
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- TX Sup. Ct. will NOT review Appellate Court’s ruling. The FLDS kids will be going home.
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- Haute Dog.
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- Blasts from the Past.
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- “Guarantee people a high price of gasoline — forever.”
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- Horror Frog is real.
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- A conversion story: renting vs. buying.
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- Space Station is SOL.
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- In Memorium
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- “if you can’t get rid of the family skeleton, you might as well make it dance.”
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- Religion and Evolution: Enemies or Allies?
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- A follow up to Brad’s M-Day post.
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- Yeah, but did anyone ever NOT think McClellan hated America?
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- Lehites AND Jaredites
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- National Geographic lied, Judas died. Or something.
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- Rock Band saved my marriage.
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- Satan’s Accountant.
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- The Kenster needs to read more BCC.
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- The biggest drawing in the world (ht: GST)
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- Some respect for dooce, FMH, and Mommy blogging.
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- Strokes of Pure Intelligence
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- “Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life…”
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- Cable costs keep rising for consumers.
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- Manage to get past border guards, to work in the most dangerous job in America? Congrats. Now go to prison, after a 4-day mass trial.
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- “Indy IV is a leaden, dull, dimwitted, tiring piece of cinematic Scheiss.”
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- Mea Culpa, Part 1
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- Poor, poor Brits, part 2. At least they realize they look like Monty Python.
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In contrast to BYU, with the Rodin controversy. #
- Unsuccessful suicide bomb in England.
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- TX appeals court rules that grounds for removing FLDS children were “legally and factually insufficient” under Texas law.
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- Those poor, poor Brits.
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- If two moms are better, how about three or four?
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- “The will to blog is a complicated thing, somewhere between inspiration and compulsion. It can feel almost like a biological impulse.”
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- Interview with (Republican) Chief Justice of CA Sup. Ct., re: gay marriage case: “I think there are times when doing the right thing means not playing it safe.”
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- Harvard Law Review becomes showcase for bleeding-heart liberalism coupled with weak legal analysis.
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- “The sympathy factor just doesn’t run very high with the court” — justice at last!
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Wickedness never was happiness. #
- Checkmate.
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- YouTomb.
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- Prevent lost luggage, pack a (starter) pistol.
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- The latest high-tech, high-mileage car trend: a 1992 Geo Metro. Seriously.
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- Good fences make bad policy.
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- TV vs. HDTV, explained.
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- Watch what you eat
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Not for the squeamish. Pond smelt??? #
- Same-Sex Marriage: A Threat of Interstellar Proportions
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Slippery slope indeed… #
- Eternal, yes; but mapped in a multipliticy of ways.
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- Graphs are the new lolcats.
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- Americans waste 27% of their food, enough to feed an entire nation.
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- A Purity Ball.
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- Pres. Bush crawls begging to Saudi Arabia for oil, is rebuffed.
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- I’m sorry Guy, but your final couple of paragraphs represent a straw man of epic proportions.
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Given that gay marriage has no demonstrable negative effect on God-ordained straight marriage, no “disintegration of the family” is threatened. #
- Homosexual recruiting tactics revealed!
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One good way to recognize your argument is stupid is when it shows up in a satire ‘zine. #
- Mormon Transfigurism?
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Captain Morobocop. #
- Start your blog engines: CA Sup. Ct. paves the way for gay marriage.
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- Yet another reminder of why DRM stinks.
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- The complete ACME catalog.
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- A Nation of Dunces?
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- LDS missionary dies jogging in Britain.
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- The Man’s Library.
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- John Edwards to endorse Obama.
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- A battle not worth fighting, IMHO.
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- Director of Vatican Observatory says it’s OK for Catholics to believe in aliens. This ends the decades-long Catholic/Raelian Cold War.
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- Missionaries are stupid, reckless
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- God bless Lisa and her dad.
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- How green are biofuels?
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- Curator euthanizes living leather jacket made from human mouse stem-cells, has nightmares.
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- thingsyoungerthanjohnmccain.com. Includes Israel, Alaska, and the Hindenburg.
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- Kiss your afternoon productivity goodbye: top 50 commercial parodies of all time.
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- Come to Finland, come to Finland!
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- One more reason to hate Disney.
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- Transcript of KUED interview on the daguerreotype (PDF).
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- Kristine in the Trib…twice.
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- Like rain on your wedding day.
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- “For those of you who feel that the new Star Wars movies robbed your childhood, expect some molestations from Uncles George and Steven…”
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- The Basics of Estate Planning.
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- UT mine disaster was preventable.
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- New FARMS Review: Now with extra Barney!
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- Keep a Master Information Document at home (not the SCMC kind!)
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- Odd couples.
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- BY’s marriage arranging.
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- Homeless James Bond. Warning: probably offensive to everyone.
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- Greater love hath no man.
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- Ardis’s new blog: Keepapitchinin!
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- Toast! heh heh heh.
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- A don’t-miss post at AMV, with a link to a don’t-miss piece at Slate
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- Research: Racial and gender identities start to form in infants at 8 weeks.
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- A comparison of U.S. home prices. Time to move to Topeka!
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- Intelligence is overrated
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- Send your postcards now! Stamp prices going up May 12.
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- Pawnshop owners call for repeal of 22nd Amendment.
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- First World business to Third World hungry: “we’re sorry — the Invisible Hand wants you to die.”
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- Married people have 3 kinds of affairs (warning: language)
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- The 5 Least Influential People in the World.
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- Foreign Policy’s open letter to Stephen Colbert.
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- “Who will tell the people? We are not who we think we are. We are living on borrowed time and borrowed dimes. We still have all the potential for greatness, but only if we get back to work on our country.”
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- Prevent impulse buying with the ‘$100-a-day’ rule
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- The U.S. Gov’t has allocated $1.5 billion for the digital TV transition. The proposed 2009 budget for adult literacy education is $574.6 million.
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- The Post-American World
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- Carne Asada is not a crime!
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- CNN gives us hard-hitting news.
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- Since March 2007, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the price of eggs has jumped 35 percent. A gallon of milk is up 23 percent. A loaf of white bread has climbed 16 percent. And a pound of ground chuck is up 8 percent.
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- Tree-lined streets associated with lower asthma rates.
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- Sweetheart, your voice sounds a bit high. Oestrusly high, even.
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- Indian baby dropping ritual.
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- Exercise pretty much cures everything.
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