Monthly Archives: August 2007

Re: Your Brains

August 31, 2007 – 9:05 am

Great song from Jonathon Coulton, including an elegant recovery from a mistake. If you can’t tell, the chorus is “All we want to do is eat your brains”

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Unbelievable

August 30, 2007 – 7:56 am

You would think this is a fake, except that the filmmakers wouldn’t even be allowed to fake it.

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Tutu

August 29, 2007 – 9:21 am

A quick break from politics to slip in some religion. I’ve read a couple of things recently pointing out what is obvious but somehow ignored: Religious people are obsessed with the gays! (and if Desmond says it, you know it must be true). The latest in a long, long line is Senator Craig, who just [...]

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Draft

August 28, 2007 – 12:05 pm

There’s some talk at the moment about reinstating a draft, which got me thinking about the idea of troop levels in general. For some time the goal of the Pentagon was to be able to operate in two regional-level wars – a step down from world war, but then in theory there should only be [...]

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Heat

August 27, 2007 – 7:11 pm

I was thinking about the issue of the Iraq parliament taking August off, and the stock response from Tony Snow and others that it’s awfully hot in Iraq in August. Yes, it’s true that it is very hot, even if, as I imagine, it’s a dry heat. It’s also true that this pat answer is [...]

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