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Calling All Adobe Experts

I love conspiracy theories. What do you think, kids? I can’t even get my MacBook to print (yet), so I’m clearly not the guy to evaluate this.

In the other thread, a molecular biologist is pulling his hair out in the comments when I discuss his field. I have sympathy, and I really hope I don’t sound like Soros talking about Hayek (HT2 LRC). If I were paid to pretend to know a little bit about free market economics, but not much, […]

Army Uses Jedi Mind Tricks on Al Franken

Robert Wenzel tips us off to this incredible story from Rolling Stone: The U.S. Army illegally ordered a team of soldiers specializing in “psychological operations” to manipulate visiting American senators into providing more troops and funding for the war, Rolling Stone has learned – and when an officer tried to stop the operation, he was […]

Potpourri

* You know how it wasn’t the Fed that caused the housing bubble, but those Chinese savers? Well Paul Krugman tells us it’s the same story with rising food prices–not the Fed’s fault, but those Chinese eaters. * Lew Rockwell has a really nice historical and psychological analysis of right-wing warhawks. (I.e. he offers plausible […]

I Call Top Bunk

Compilation of TSA Horror Stories

Holy cow, I hadn’t heard about all of these. (HT2 David Kramer) If you get bored, skip ahead to the Dr. Phil segment (starting at 4:45).

Hillary Has a Sense of Humor

(BTW, I only call her “Hillary” because “Clinton” would be ambiguous.) Glenn Greenwald linked to this State Department press release. This is simply hilarious. I don’t know what would bother me more: (a) the people who wrote this didn’t see why it was funny, or (b) the people who wrote this understood full well that […]

A Question for the anti-TSA Team

The more I think about it, the more it seems the TSA did the right thing, in saying pilots should be subjected to the same security filters as everybody else. (Note that I AM NOT DEFENDING THE TSA’S PROCEDURES.) A lot of critics have been saying, “Those idiots! The pilot doesn’t need to take a […]