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The Google Books Settlement as a flow chart — Hey, Sergei and Larry. How’s that whole “Don’t be evil” thing working out? Not so much, is it? At least evil pays well, right boys?
Nuclear Cannon: A Descendent of Orion — Somehow we always come back to Jules Verne.
Is it okay to ignore results from people you don’t trust? — Wow, this was thought provoking…
Humans must be to blame for climate change, say scientists — No possible natural phenomenon could have caused the huge rise in temperatures experienced in last half-century In other news, reality continues its strong bias against conservative beliefs, strong opinions still not freely substitutable for either data or facts.
Back to the crash: The American economy has just had its worst decade since the 1930s — Golly, who was leading the nation during the past decade? Al Gore? Bill Clinton? Clearly this is all Obama’s doing.
The Republicans’ big lie about reconciliation — Huh. The GOP lies about policy to advance their politics. Also, this just in: sun sets in west.
Senator Bunning’s Universe — Speaking of banal evil, more Republican fun and games. Now, the House has already passed a bill that, by exempting the assets of couples up to $7 million, would leave 99.75 percent of estates tax-free. But that doesn’t seem to be enough for Mr. Kyl; he’s willing to hold up desperately needed aid to the unemployed on behalf of the remaining 0.25 percent. That’s a very clear statement of priorities.
?otD: Have you ever seen the rain forest?
3/6/2010
Writing time yesterday: 1 hour
Body movement: 45 minute trail hike
Hours slept: 7.25 (slept well)
This morning’s weigh-in: n/a
Yesterday’s chemo stress index: 2/10
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Posted: 8:41 am Sat March 06 2010 |
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Steve Buchheit
March 6th, 2010 at 5:43 pmCan’t see the forest for the rain.
Jaws
March 7th, 2010 at 12:01 amNow, now, Jay, don’t pick on Sergey and Larry for being oblivious. If Stalin, Pol Pot, and Hitler didn’t consider themselves evil, we can hardly expect G___ — which is acting evilly, but isn’t evil — to recognize that it’s evil. Remember, one of the principles of creating villains and antagonists in fiction is that they don’t believe that they’re themselves evil (outside of Bond movies).