who had “Thursday morning” in the pool?

Posted on Thursday, 2005 September 01 by Anton

A spam this morning (to a list for which I’m gatekeeper) talked about the hurricane, but I couldn’t tell what the payload was. It had a link to a dead domain.

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what doesn’t kill you doesn’t appeal to neo-puritans

Posted on Tuesday, 2005 August 30 by Anton

Roy Silvernail (Rant Central) muses on his addiction:

What would be intrinsically wrong with Nicotine Tic-Tacs?

I think it’s because they wouldn’t kill you.

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still not settled down yet; give it another good shake

Posted on Monday, 2005 August 29 by Anton

Why “we” went to war, version 7 or so: Rummy says

You do not defeat Al Qaeda until you stabilize the Middle East, and that’s not possible as long as Saddam Hussein is in power.

(Cited, for other reasons, by Tom Parmenter (Desperado).)

Conservatives by definition have an exaggerated regard for stability, but this is a strange kind of stabilizing; things settle down sooner, in my experience, if kept away from explosions. Anyway, wasn’t Saddam’s state tolerably stable over the previous twenty years?

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AFF’s Brainwash :: Freedom and Firefly

Posted on Sunday, 2005 August 28 by Anton

At Brainwash, Sara Hinson analyzes the frontier ethic represented by Mal Reynolds of Firefly.

(Only 33 days to go!)

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they’re trying to drive me mad

Posted on Saturday, 2005 August 27 by Anton

Got a spam this evening, titled abridge, whose entire content is the word ammunition.

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the latest from the kitten front

Posted on Saturday, 2005 August 27 by Anton

Pillow, the kitten, has evidently decided that being picked up and carried by the Big Animals ain’t so bad; he even makes a game of it: runs away and then lies down, sometimes repeatedly.

I hope you’re not too dismayed at finding this column dominated by drivel about cats. It’s because my present assignment has a longer commute than most, plus my insomnia has been acting up a bit.

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“for god’s sake, please stop the aid!”

Posted on Tuesday, 2005 August 23 by Anton

Spiegel Interview with African Economics Expert

If the West were to cancel these payments, normal Africans wouldn’t even notice. Only the functionaries would be hard hit. Which is why they maintain that the world would stop turning without this development aid.

(Cited by FFF in the daily for July 18.)

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