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incidentally, my hate meter* (in increasing order):
5. olives
4. terrorists
2. dell computer corporation and 24 hour fitness (it’s a tie)
1. musicals**
*(subject to change)
**(i may be overestimating my hate for musicals, but it is unlikely)

get this response from james lileks, which had me rolling on the floor.

Almost every week I make sure to watch Hora Clave on Canal 9 in Argentina, hosted by the famed journalist Mariano Grondona. It is broadcast over the internet.
Today I found the blog of one of Grondona’s co-hosts, Alejandro Rozitchner. If you speak Spanish it is worth reading, especially if you follow Argentina in […]

Thanks to an all-encompassingly reader (a well connected contact in the LDS film industry), I was able to attend a screening of the upcoming film Mobsters and Mormons last night.
The short take: 3 stars, out of 4, for an LDS film. And a definite “thumbs-up.”
The long take: The plot develops around the relocation to […]

Linda Bilmes had an illuminative piece in the NY Times over the weekend on the true cost of the Afghanistan/Iraq conflicts.
But the biggest long-term costs are disability and health payments for returning troops, which will be incurred even if hostilities were to stop tomorrow. The United States currently pays more than $2 billion in disability […]

From an all-encompassingly reader:
As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as “Euro-English”.
In the first year, “s” will replace the soft “c”.
Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard […]

Google has officialy released (in “beta” of course) their long awaited IM client.

We are banning the use of the word “poker” in the comments section until we get some better spam protection setup over the next couple weeks.

For all fellow geeks who have seen The Princess Bride.
Carl Bialik from the WSJ writes “This article notices a new trend in efforts to fight phishing: Anti-fraudsters are posing as phishers to ‘to train users to be more careful about sharing sensitive information online.’ Or, as the Wall Street Journal puts it, ‘To fight computer […]

If you haven’t herd about the iBook sale at the Richmond International Raceway in Henrico County, Virginia…read on.
A sale of second-hand Apple laptops costing only $50 have caused a near riot in Virginia in the US.
More than 5,500 people queued for a chance to buy one of the 1,000 laptops and stampeded when the sale […]

From Chrenkoff:
When parents of a Marine from Ohio killed in Iraq call in question President Bush’s strategy in Iraq, advocating either escalation or complete withdrawal, and call Cindy Sheehan “the Rosa Parks of the new movement opposing the Iraq war”, “The Washington Post” thinks the story is important enough to make page A02 of the […]

María Zaldívar opines:
But why do I ascribe authoritarianism to the Peronists? Because they do not disagree, they disqualify; they do not debate, they criticize; they do not discuss, they accuse; they do not reason, they mandate; and many of them do not think, they obey. They simply obey.
Via Sine Metu.
Additional all-encompassingly coverage about the Peronist […]

Michael Barone asks:
How much coverage would the press have given a World War II-era Cindy Sheehan who camped outside Hyde Park or Warm Springs demanding to meet with President Roosevelt?
Hat tip: Instapundit.

Yikes.
The first was on the morning of October 22. Seismometers in Turkey and Bolivia recorded a violent event in Antarctica that packed the punch of several thousand tons of TNT. The disturbance then ripped through Earth on a route that ended with it exiting through the floor of the Indian Ocean off Sri Lanka just […]

From Chrenkoff:
Behold, the voice of the new Democratic Party. Kos tells us what he really thinks:
So Casey [Sheehan] and 2,047 US and allies have died to establish an anti-women, anti-Israel, terrorist-harboring Islamic regime that is actually less free than Saddam’s Iraq. How the hell they managed that is beyond belief, incompetence of breathtaking proportions.
Ah, the […]