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Posts made in December, 2011

During Football, The Matrix Looks A Lot Like Yoga

Wake Forest Rolesville (N.C.) High returner Petey Williams may have pulled off the play of the year – a deke so slick it looks like it was from “The Matrix” rather than a football game. That’s right, he avoided getting hit by the oncoming coverage team by bending over backwards on his punt return. As Cameron Smith at Yahoo! notes, “he Matrixed his way out of a...

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Pro-Abortion And Anti-Choice Absolutists – Why They Are Wrong

America is the only civilized country that allows late-term abortion on demand yet America is regarded as more hung up on abortion than European countries.  What gives?  Outside the recurring re-election campaigns of people like Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Boxer, who insist if they do not get 80% of the votes in Democrat bastion San Francisco women will be 'having abortions in back...

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Luckily, No One Pays Attention To The UN On Climate

In Last Gasp For The UNFCCC And Climate Change Negotiations? I worried that the departure of sane people from the UN body tasked with...doing something about climate control...would mean only the full-on kooks would be left in attendance, so our chances of a science-based, non-scientization-of-politics solution would...

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Dior, Caviar And Occupy Wall Street

You know you are culturally hip when magazines want to do their photo shoots with you in them - the poor Tea Party folks clearly have to get some representation in midtown Manhattan if they want to get haute couture coverage.Until then, Occupy Wall Street is the cool place to be solely for well-heeled fashionistas.  Kanye West looked silly showing up in a $300 shirt and gold chains to show...

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E-Cigarette Bans? Legitimate, Or The Work Of Cultural Mullahs?

At some point we need to either ban cigarettes or call off the fundamentalist ranting about smokers.  Yes, smoking is bad for you, everyone knows that by now, but having the state of California increase taxes on cigarette smokers - making the state government even more reliant on them - while they use some of that money for anti-smoking campaigns, which means the government now wants to kill...

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