Monthly Archives: March 2005

and keep your eye on the sparrow

Posted on Sunday, 2005 March 20 by Anton

Sean Haugh relays a list of Federal capital crimes. The list is so long, it’s somehow disappointing to look closer and find that nearly all are varieties of murder.

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“terrorism futures”

Posted on Saturday, 2005 March 19 by Anton

Robin Hanson reports: I just produced the following draft (PDF), which tries a new statistical approach on the question of which side is “right” in a media controversy. I applied it to the coverage of PAM, but it might also … Continue reading →

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immunizing against immune response

Posted on Saturday, 2005 March 19 by Anton

Carol Moore passes along a column by Harvey Wasserman which contains this: Anti-Defamation League Director Abraham Foxman has played the holocaust card for the Republicans, saying “It is hideous, outrageous and offensive for Senator Byrd to suggest that the Republican … Continue reading →

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yet another unscientific measurement

Posted on Monday, 2005 March 14 by Anton

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movies 1962

Posted on Sunday, 2005 March 13 by Anton

Jules et Jim (dir. Truffaut). It took me a long time to sort out that the one with an English name is French and the one with a French name is German. I find that in French a German accent … Continue reading →

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evil metaphor

Posted on Saturday, 2005 March 05 by Anton

Ever wonder about the use of the word liquidation as euphemism for political murder? It’s not in Webster’s New International, 2d ed. of 1952.