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Here’s your duck tape quote of the day. Apparently the real issue of 9/11 was the need for a flag-burning amendment:

“Ask the men and women who stood on top of the (World) Trade Center. Ask them and they will tell you: pass this amendment,” - Rep. Randy (Duke) Cunningham, R-Calif

[Via: www.AndrewSullivan.com - Daily Dish]

Oddly enough, this seems to encapsulate everything in Pulp Fiction rather accurately despite it’s short time frame. Please keep in mind that “viewer discretion is advised! Contains bunnies cussing and bunnies in adult situations.”

Pulp Fiction in 30 Seconds (and Re-enacted by Bunnies)

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If you ever wanted a sign that the world is coming to an end, here it is: At the time Elvis Presley died in 1977, he had 150 impersonators in the US. Now, according to calculations I spotted in a Sunday newspaper color supplement recently, there are 85,000. Intriguingly, that means one in every 3,400 Americans is an Elvis impersonator. More disturbingly, if Elvis impersonators continue multiplying at the same rate, they will account for a third of the world’s population by 2019. [Read More]

Well, I’ve vanished again. I wish I had some exciting excuse for my absence, but it’s the same old, same old. Working like a dog and being similarly productive. But things are good. We are doing incredible things at work right now and it’s exciting to see it develop. I have very little to report on the social front. I made my way to Chicago a few weeks back for the bachelor party for my friend Rob. [Read More]

I’m glad she’s out meeting people, but I’m not sure about this fellow. ;) [Read More]

Here’s an interesting little article about a classical Greek computing device that was discovered around 1900: At the beginning of the 20th century, historians were shocked to learn that Greek thinkers had built a rather sophisticated analog computer in the neighborhood of 82 B.C. and then, astonishingly, left no record of its existence. [Via: Interesting Thing of the Day: The Antikythera Mechanism] I’ve always been fascinated with knowledge that has been made and then lost for centuries. [Read More]

Perry de Havilland over at Samzidata, in his usual English way, has a much more calm response to this Marxism on the Right article: To be a libertarian is to believe that society (which is the sum of its parts but not more than that), not the state, is what actually matters, and moreover the state, far from being society’s protector as conservatives fondly imagine, is as often as not highly corrosive to many of the very values conservatives often implausibly claim to champion. [Read More]

If you ever wondered why I’m not a Republican, you should check out this article by Robert Locke at the The American Conservative. The Republican Party is made up primarily of pragmatists to whom the following questions are logically consistent: Libertarians need to be asked some hard questions. What if a free society needed to draft its citizens in order to remain free? What if it needed to limit oil imports to protect the economic freedom of its citizens from unfriendly foreigners? [Read More]

According to This Day in Music, the number one song in the US on my birthday was “Play that Funky Music” by Wild Cherry. There is just no way to put a good spin on that.