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certus veritas gives us the “four stages of santa claus:”
Stage 1: You believe in Santa Claus.
Stage 2: You have questions about Santa Claus.
Stage 3: You are Santa Claus.
Stage 4: You look like Santa Claus.
heh. merry christmas, everybody. i’m declaring a temporary truce with all political rivals ’til…oh say, friday so they can enjoy […]

in the controversy over whether the proposed “freedom tower” at the world trade center site will be the world’s tallest building (or whether its uninhabitable parts are too significant to count toward the total height) a notable quotation was overheard:

One outspoken critic of the redevelopment at ground zero, John Lumea of the Phoenix […]

tonight i made a lower-case comment on a weblog somewhere, and became the butt of an immature joke. i–the very purveyor of immature jokes–the head honcho of horseplay, the skipper of spoof, the chieftan of chiding, the ringleader of ribbing (if you will)–was razzed.

Is all-encompassing.com one of those capital-impoverished areas? Is it […]

the captain over at the 100-hour board (an entertaining Q&A project run by student volunteers) offered a much appreciated and very unexpected plug in response to this question:

Q Are there any online sites or anything (that doesn’t cost) to help one learn really fast or raise IQ? [edited for coherence]

among some other […]

If you ever want to entertain yourself for a few minutes, hop on over to your neighborhood leftist forum and peruse what those “on the other side of the spectrum” are saying.
Democratic blogs, forums, and message boards have been overloading servers across the internet today with collective sadness at the news of Saddam’s capture. […]

we got this comment the other day to our “miserable failure” post. while i sympathize with this person’s situation, i believe some misconceptions taint the argument:

Sigh…
Call Clinton a miserable failure all you want, but my family moved up over his eight years, despite our struggling financial situation.
Now that Bush’s changes are starting […]

very busy!
NO TIME!
but read this fresh argument against same-sex marriage from the best weblog that nobody knows about, the one staffed by professors at the claremont institute:

“Gay marriage” will do anything but strengthen the already weakened institution of marriage. Marriage has been weakened by many things—from adultery to divorce to cohabitation. Marriage, however, […]

this week, al gore officially endorsed howard dean for president, surprising those who assumed he would support joseph lieberman, a former running mate of his.
UPDATE: scott ott compares the switch to the biblical story of jacob and esau. [link]
now, in yet another twist to the democratic party soap opera, former president […]

there is a google-bombing war going on in the blogosphere. it was started by a bloke or two who thought dick gephardt was right to label a certain president a “miserable failure.” he encouraged others to link the words “miserable failure” to an official website of an american president (who shall, for the […]

A short quote from an outstanding article outlining the complete failure of the Bush administration to further the conservative principle of limited government:
Government must be limited. Growth in government is not good, because government is based on coercion. Individuals do a better job spending their own hard- earned money than government, which lavishes its ill-gotten […]

this story appeared in the provo daily herald on 03 december 2003. it is one more voice urging patience in the difficult reconstruction process. now, if only liberals had as much patience with the war on terror as they do with the “war on poverty”…
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what would the world be like if the world’s leaders (like kim jung-il, saddam hussein, george bush, and dick cheney) all carried on instant messenger conversations like old friends? it would probably be like this, which is to say, VERY FUNNY:

this site is HI-LARIOUS. i haven’t laughed this hard in…well, i try to […]

my vote in this week’s NBS goes to a talented and ideologically kindred new blogger at ripe bananas for her post, vegan marshmallows. but i recommend the whole blog for your consumption, especially if you happen to be mormon, anti-idiot, a scientist, or just appreciate the quirks of human existence.

a few weeks ago on all-encompassingly, we pondered what the german philosopher immanuel kant would have thought of howard dean. it wasn’t pretty. our conclusion:

kant would call howard dean imprudent, and probably give him a good old-fashioned prussian beating.

now we turn to another old european mind (from back in the day when europeans […]

from fox news:

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has won this year’s “Foot in Mouth” award for the most baffling statement by a public figure.
The prize went to Rumsfeld for this logic-twister he gave at a press briefing on Iraq:
“Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we […]