Blood Libel at SFSU
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G Bernard Shaw

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

A misquoted economist remarks:

. . . (“I’m reading right off Fox news!” gets my vote as worst argument from authority ever).

Dangerous metal object for all you subversives to carry in your pocket. (Link from Lenny Foner.)

At 22:00:29 we had what felt like the biggest quake since 1989: a 5.2 near Gilroy. Details here.

My latest spam report to kornet got bounced by – what else? – a spam filter.

At Politechbot, a close look at Southern Poverty Law Center and “hate groups”.

Today, the SPLC’s treasury bulges with $120 million, and it spends twice as much on fund-raising – $5.76 million last year – as it does on legal services for victims of civil rights abuses. The American Institute of Philanthropy gives the center one of the worst ratings of any group it monitors, estimating that the SPLC could operate for 4.6 years without making another tax-exempt nickel from its investments or raising another tax-deductible cent from wellmeaning “people like you.”

See also Vince Cook’s essay The Libertarian Menace (1996).