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"My dick is now only this big!"

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This, which was just posted on Yahoo! today, is interesting for three reasons.First, the contents. The odds that a man will be homosexual depends on how many older brothers were born to his mother. Each older brother increases the odds by approximately 1/3. This is believed to be due to an allergic reaction by the mother to antigens produced by the embryos' H-Y genes. The response of her

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Like a tsumi originating far off-shore, censorship and privacy invasions by foreign countries and interest group had crashed head-long onto the beachhead of the American companies that we rely on for information. companies and Like a tsunmi, it rises out of the Where is the outrage?Google's capitulation is well documented. Compare a search for "tiananmen" on American Google to the same search

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I thought I was going out on a limb when I sent this email into Kathryn Jean Lopez, who posted it, typos and all, onto the National Review blog, "The Corner".But now it seems that "the corner" has been turned in public opinion, and the hysteria over the UAE port deal is being seen as just that - hysteria.That's all - I just wanted to gloat.

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In August of 2005, Democratic Senator Harry Reid suffered a stroke. But despite his position as the minority leader in the Senate, he didn't report the event for three days."Asked why an announcement of the event was delayed for three days, Hafen said, 'The reason was the tests and the evaluations that they were doing. We wanted to make sure we knew what we were announcing. You need conclusive

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Over on The Corner on National Review Online, Ian Murray felt moved to ask "How Did It Get This Bad?", "it" being the explosive situation in Europe.He links to an article full of detail, but it, he, and everyone else seems to be missing the big picture. I can say this with certainty, because we are on the same path. A few people oppose that path, but all that I have heard do so for relatively

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Sir,I read with interest your essay on National Review's web site. What you wrote seems to be to be correct. However, I believe that you miss the point.The problem with oil isn't oil; the problem is with the oil's suppliers. It is unacceptable to be dependent on suppliers who are politically, culturally, or otherwise incompatible with our Constitution and way of life.Your point that oil is

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As you may or may not know, I am struggling to write a novel. Naturally (for me, at least), I bit off rather more than I can chew. This is not only my first attempt at a novel; it is also a sci-fi, detective, coming-of-age, social-commentary-ala-Brave-New-World kind of novel. Keeping track of characters, motives, plot points, and dramatic moments was a real challenge for me, because each part

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Another tip from Nation Reviews' blog, "The Corner", this time to a congressman from my own stomping grounds: Rep. John Boehner, R-West Chester, Ohio.Apparently, this guy doesn't do pork! From the article:And Boehner certainly could. As a senior Republican and committee chairman, his refusal to get pork has probably cost the district at least $100 million in lost funding over his 14 years.Even

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A joke:"I've got good news and bad news.""What's the good news?""A limo full of lawyers crashed through a guard rail and into the sea. There were no survivors.""My Lord! What's the bad news?""There was an empty seat."That tasteless bit of humor popped into my head tonight when I considered the news coverage of tragic death of the coal miners in West Virginia. So much has been made about the

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A letter (edited) to Peter Robinson in response to this post on National Review's blog, "The Corner":So Washington was a gentleman, and so was Howe. How very civilized of them!You know, I've almost come to hate the stories of those early "battles" that they teach in school. They make it seem as though all we were fighting were some unwelcome house guests; as though all that winning required was

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In the 1920's, two Italian immigrants, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were arrested, convicted, and executed for killing two men while during a robbery in Massachusetts. Upton Sinclair wrote a novel, "Boston", which condemned their trial. Fair enough... except that, before the decade was out, Sinclair found out that the two men were unquestionably guilty... and he kept that to himself

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Ever since Massachusetts legalized same sex marriage, I've been tempted to marry myself. I think I'd make a good match. Though I do have a few annoying habits, I think they are all things that I can tolerate. Besides, I know I can trust me to stick with me when times get tough.The benefits of marriage are many: my tax rates would be lower; my SS benefits would be higher; and whenever my boss

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I have to admit something up front: this isn't about the linked article. But the last sentence reminded me of something that I've wanted to address for awhile: As well as being against abortion in all cases, the Church opposes stem-cell research which extracts useful cells from unused embryos left over from fertility treatments. This notion that "left-over embryos" might as well be dismantled

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There doesn't seem much doubt that the form and function of our bodies - all living bodies - is determined by the content of our DNA. There doesn't seem much doubt that that DNA can change, and that those changes can be inherited.Some doubt that those changes can accumulate enough to produce clearly distinct species; others do not doubt. But, for the moment, assume that to be so.Then all the way

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The crying you hear about even the possibility of torture, even for those who would happily run any one of us through a meat grinder, is merely indicative of our society's ongoing rotation of the meaning of evil. At one time, evils were mostly action-oriented, as conveyed by the "thou shalt nots" - i.e., thou shalt not lie, steal, kill, and so on. Disobediance of those comandments was

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Quotes from Mary J Blige, as interviewed by Zoe Williams for The Guardian:Whether or not Blige ever believed the record industry actually meant to kill her is up for grabs; her main point is that it wouldn't have been like killing a person - it would have been like killing off old stock. I think Blige just doesn't like the industry: she thinks it's grabby and atavistic. "I do know that in this

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It is apparent to anyone with half-an-ear that there are rumblings throughout this country. Discontent and suspicions about the election process continues to grow. People distrust all parts of the process: the voting machines, the ballots designers, the precinct workers, and, of course, the politicians.To address this problem, we need a new voting process - one that the American people can

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There has been a fair amount of banter in the media and among the pundits about Intelligent Design vs. Evolution. On "The Corner on National Review Online", among other places, this discussion has "devolved" into something like "Science vs. Religion". This is a fascinating topic to me, and far too poorly understood by non-scientists and non-believers alike. Someday, I'd like to tackle the

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I originally wrote this post (as "hottub") as a comment on this blog entry. After editing a bit, I decided to re-post it here:You know, somebody should just tell the truth about all this. Critics of the war, especially Hollywood critics, don't give a rat's ass about the soldiers. A death count of 2000+? There were training exercises during WWII that killed more Americans.They don't really care

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We, the people, sometimes wonder why there is such a bitter divide within this country. Well, I think I can tell you - it's the headline writers!Take a look at this article: Cheney says war critics 'dishonest, reprehensible' - Yahoo! News. Now, the phrase "war critics" covers a lot of ground. There are plenty of people who opposed (and still oppose) the Iraq war regardless of what the pre-war

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Things that make you go hmmm... Al-Qaeda claims that Queen Elizabeth ("Wot?" Moi?") is “one of the severest enemies of Islam” just about the same time that Charles starts claiming the Islam is get rawther a bad rap. Surprising? I mean, I understand that Charles wants the throne, and understand the principle of "an enemy of my enemy is my friend", but isn't applying that to one's mother taking

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Questions for Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D –Nev.), in response to his demand for a promise that the White House never pardon "Scotter" Libby: 1) Senator, do you presume that Libby is innocent? I mean, he hasn't been convicted of anything. For that matter, neither have Karl Rove or Vice-President Cheney - they haven't even been indicted. Do you presume that they are innocent? Or do

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Since I got a compliment on my part of this exchange on slashdot, I thought I'd post a link. I, of course, am "solarrhino"; the link points to the post to which I replied.The Link

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In the alternate reality of U.S. policy debate, nothing is what it seems. Words get twisted, motives hidden, and basic principles of cause and effect are ignored. This is never more true that in the current furor over U.S. policy toward our enemies.On the one hand we have "Iraq war critics" (i.e., the partisan Left) which shamelessly repeats the oldest logical error in existence: A is a

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