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Minority Report–Not Just a Movie 0

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If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0

Historiann has the blues.

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Grill of My Dreams 0

I never have quite gotten this notion that a grill is somehow a man’s domain (probably some notion propagated by men who think a big grill makes up fo–never mind).

My father’s mother cooked on a wood-fired stove. It don’t get much grillier than that.

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Tales of the Tarheel Potty Police 0

It’s a disaster!

The North Carolina state legislature is poised to transfer $500,000 from the state’s disaster relief fund to aid in the legal defense of HB2, the heavily-criticized law restricting restroom access, WRAL-TV reported.

“The governor asked for it,” said state Senate Budget Chair Harry Brown (R).

In other words, they want to move the money from a disaster relief fund to a new disaster no relief fund.

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Tales of the Tarheel Potty Police 0

Doubling-down.

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The Born Again Legacy (Updated) 0

There’s the old story about the professor who was speaking about grammar.

“You realize,” he said, “that two negatives make a positive. However, there is never a case in which two positives make a negative.”

From the back of the hall came an anonymous voice which said,

“Yeah.

Right.”

I was raised Southern Baptist back before Southern Baptists went nuts. I know lying hypocrites when I see them.

God knows, I’ve seen enough of them.

Addendum, Later That Same Morning:

Pass the retractors, please.

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Huckster on the Hustings 0

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Undue Burdens 0

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In related news, Dick Polman dissects the con.

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Dis Coarse Discourse 0

Haters gotta hate.

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Check Your PC 0

One more time, those who complain of “political correctness” desire license to mistreat others without penalty.

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The Fires Next Time 0

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Twits on Twitter 0

Warning: Language.

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Plus Ca Change 0

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“He Fits the Profile” 0

And he’s not who you think he is.

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How Stuff Works, Tarheel Potty Police Dept. 0

Man packs for business trip.  Wife asks where he is going.  When he tells her,

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Politics Is in the Eye of the Beholder 0

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Via Job’s Anger.

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Exceptionalism 0

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Just Another Day in NRA Paradise . . . . 0

At the Bangor Daily News, Gwynne Dyer sums up the speculation as of yesterday regarding the Orlando shooter, then wonders, “What’s the big deal?”

“Violence is as American as cherry pie,” as H. Rap Brown once put it, and on the whole Americans have just decided to live with it. That’s not an entirely unreasonable decision because changing a whole culture is hard, slow, uncertain work, and 13,286 gun deaths per year (including massacres, one-on-one killings, suicides and accidents) is only one in every 25,000 Americans.

Read it. It answers John Romano’s question.

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Origins 0

The story of the People of the Book.

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Orlando 0

I got nothing that others have not said.

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