The racial-balance movement is taken to a bizarre new level:
Weeks after the birth of their first biological child, Hollywood stars Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are planning to adopt another.
"Next we'll adopt," Jolie told CNN in an interview to be aired on Tuesday.
We all know that gambling is, in effect, a regressive "voluntary" tax, since the poor spend a greater proportion of their income on games than propserous gamblers. But which form of gambling is the most regressive, i.e. adds the most to income equality? No, not casinos:
Drudge linked to this lame editorial, so it will probably get pretty well slammed across the conservative and libertarian blogosphere, but it's such a perfect example of all the rationalizations that accompany America's current Victim Nation status that I just have to throw in my two-cents worth.
I said in an earlier post that one of the most unforgiveable things a country could do was commit its citizens to war, then just fool around with it instead of trying to win it as quickly as possible. Now comes this:
American and Iraqi forces have killed 104 insurgents in 452 raids nationwide since al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed last week, the U.S. military said.
First, they came for cigarettes, and you remained silent, because you were not a smoker.
Then, they came for property, but, you remained silent, because you were a renter.
Then, they came for fried chicken, and you did not speak out, because you were a vegetarian.
Cool, very cool. So, you carry around this cheap, digital screen, which is so flexible you can fold it up and put it in your back pocket. And it costs less than the price of a year's newspaper subscription, so when you subscribe, the newspaper just gives you one. And you can download the entire edition of the newspaper, which will be updated frequently, any time you want.
So, David Lynch and Mary Sweeney get together, have a child, stay together raising that child for 14 years and finally decide to get married, then Lynch files for divorce after one month, citing "irreconcilable differences." That sounds like a David Lynch movie.
A libertarian view of the nanny state -- persuasion is better than coercion:
"Have Gun -- Will Travel" was one of the best of the early TV shows, starrring Richard Boone as Paladin, one of the great existential characters of all time. I don't know if this is more sad or silly, but:
Detroit rapper Eminem will return to the big screen in a remake of the classic television series Have Gun - Will Travel.
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How come I'm never around when stuff like this happens?
A 28-year-old woman has been cited for lewdness for exposing herself inside a store.
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The woman told police she arrived in Cedar City with a circus but was left behind.
And, to think, my parents told me running away to join a circus would be a bad idea.
