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Posted on entry "But this is good!" "Well, then, it's not SF." ::: April 21, 2009, 10:23 AM:
Or one could say that it got old a long time ago.
Posted on entry The 600 Series Had Rubber Skin ::: March 25, 2009, 07:42 PM:
Oh, you're such a Nervous Nellie. Nothing can go wrong. Nothing can go wrong. Nothing can go wrong. Noth
Posted on entry Web advertising fail ::: February 01, 2009, 11:31 AM:
That ghastly ad is everywhere.
Posted on entry “Sex with robots is more common than most people think”. ::: December 18, 2008, 10:25 PM:
I'd be very nervous about getting familiar with a robot that could slap me.
Posted on entry The Myth of the Likely Voter ::: October 23, 2008, 11:33 AM:
It's not a myth, though. The problem is how to determine who's a likely voter. That's tricky in any election and seems to be more so in this one.
Posted on entry The Latest Iraq Surge ::: June 30, 2007, 06:57 PM:
Lizzy at 17: Thanks. I used to keep thinking of new things to add to it, but I haven't for a while. I think it's finally complete and authoritative. :)
Posted on entry The Latest Iraq Surge ::: June 30, 2007, 04:45 PM:
How do we know that bin Laden attacked us? Because the Bush Maladministration assures us it's so? Because bin Laden praised the 9/11 attacks but didn't take credit for them?

That he attacked us gets repeated often, but I have yet to see an explanation for assuming he was behind 9/11.
Posted on entry Yes, a little fermented curd would do the trick ::: June 16, 2007, 11:25 AM:
"Whine" is American? That's news to this immigrant.
Posted on entry Top 25 SF ::: May 05, 2007, 10:26 AM:
When I read that they had put The Matrix at #1, I didn't bother reading the whole list.
Posted on entry Dafydd ab Hugh moves on ::: February 16, 2007, 06:42 PM:
Miriam! Matrilineal religious identification!

Dafydd not a Christ-killer, after all, because his mother isn't. Always remember that.

He prefers to think of himself as his mother's son rather than his father's son, or something like that, which is why he chose to identify with her Welsh ancestry.

Of course, none of that means anything. He's just an American.
Posted on entry Dafydd ab Hugh moves on ::: February 15, 2007, 11:54 PM:
Teresa (41), that's a good point, and I should have made it at the time. I think that's when I angrily stopped reading anything he posted, though. I should have stopped much earlier.
Posted on entry Dafydd ab Hugh moves on ::: February 15, 2007, 09:41 PM:
I'm not surprised. In retrospect, I can see that he was moving in that direction.

At times, when he was in his sane, calm mode (yes, he did have one!), he could be witty and engaging. I always hoped he would slip into that mode one day and not leave it.

On the other hand, in response to a page on my Web site lampooning Dubya, Dafydd referred to me as "behaving like a cement-headed traitor." I think that was the phrase.
Posted on entry Haifa Street ::: January 26, 2007, 11:30 AM:
One street in a city of five million ...

Now we know where the surge needs to go: into Haifa Street. Once we have that fully under control, and have solved the problem of getting helicopters in and out of there safely, we can send in additional troops to expand the area under control until the entire city has been pacified.

That should take no more than three million men and ten years. We can do it.
Posted on entry The unsleeping eye ::: January 03, 2007, 01:10 PM:
He fell asleep reading Camus, natch.

Oh, that's good!
Posted on entry The unsleeping eye ::: January 03, 2007, 10:41 AM:
Americablog has an interesting post today that argues that there are two videos, and the second one is of professional quality, not something from a cellphone.
Posted on entry War with Iran ::: September 19, 2006, 10:31 AM:
David Dvorkin, you have inadvertently duplicated a message style and format used by comment spammers.

Oops. Sorry. My posts will look like this, from now on.

Not that they'll all start with apologies!

Well, I hope not.
Posted on entry War with Iran ::: September 18, 2006, 02:53 PM:
Are the professionals trying to remind tha amateurs about logistics?


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Posted on entry President Torture ::: September 17, 2006, 12:55 AM:
At some point over the past few years we seem to have left our good, green earth and landed on a strange planet where everything is more than slightly bizarre.

That's a common experience as we get older. But normally it applies to clothing and music and so on, and it usually happens incrementally, so that one wakes up one day and realizes that one has become an alien visitor.

What's so depressing in this case is that it's not a matter of kids listening to horrible noise they call music but of adults listening to the top figures in their government espousing grotesque and un-American policies, and those adults nod and call the opposition unpatriotic. Now, that's bizarre.


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