Around this time (heard some rumblings last week) we start hearing about candidates’ vice-presidential choices.  Inevitably talk turns to the candidates’ weak areas and speculation abounds about what VP options might best shore up said weaknesses.  Should Barack choose Edwards, who would be stronger in the South and among the poor?  Should McCain choose someone [...]

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In the religion and language survey,first written about here, we’ve already got 2800 entries in less than 24 hours.  I’d like to leave this open for at least another week, but am also interested in working with some of you out there to parse the data and come up with some reports.  If you’ve got [...]

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A nephew of the Queen is being named as the victim in the Royal blackmail plot. His name is now being widely touted on the internet, including the authoritative Huffington Post, quoting the Radar publication.
Royal Anecdotes

My wife is really eating this stuff up. The name in question is supposedly David Linley, son of Princess [...]

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In the briefing, parts of which were televised live by cable news channels, Johnson stood behind a lectern, called on questioners who did not disclose that they were FEMA employees, and gave replies emphasizing that his agency’s response to this week’s California wildfires was far better than its response to Hurricane Katrina in August 2005.
FEMA [...]

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UK’s Daily Telegraph had an article about Dr. James Watson’s comments about the genetic implications of intelligence. Some of the conclusions he draws imply that blacks are genetically not as intelligent as whites. Dr. Watson was one of the co-discoverers of the double-helix foundations of DNA.
Another article from the BBC includes the following [...]

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I received this from a podcast listener about 6 weeks ago.
Michael:  I’ve been listening to your podcast for a while.  I’m sad to see you turning toward MS.  Is it because of the influence of your present job?
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Thanks for writing (anoymous by request).  Let me address your comment about Microsoft on the webdevradio.com podcast.
I guess [...]

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Slashdot has an article about this article, which was related to a documentary  I saw last night (it was British, I think from the BBC).  I’ve never been comfortable with the current dogma that humans are causing climate change.  At the very least, our ability to make such huge impact in such a short time [...]

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President Bush is visiting, of all places, Franklinton, NC, today.  I live in Youngsville, NC, which is directly south of Franklinton.  I occasionally go up there for some of my shopping, although we generally head south.  There’s a Food Lion in either direction, about equidistant, so there’s no advantage going to Wake Forest or Franklinton.  [...]

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Michael Charles Smith seems to be someone I could vote for if, well, I could vote for him.  I mean, I would considering voting for him if he was on the ballot.  Unfortunately, he probably doesn’t have much of a chance, but I’m heartened to see someone who might be classed as an ‘outsider’ trying [...]

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Michael Charles Smith seems to be someone I could vote for if, well, I could vote for him.  I mean, I would considering voting for him if he was on the ballot.  Unfortunately, he probably doesn’t have much of a chance, but I’m heartened to see someone who might be classed as an ‘outsider’ trying [...]

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