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Archive for October, 2009

Yankees 3 Phillies 1; World Series Tied

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, October 30th, 2009. Filed under Baseball, New York Yankees, Sports

The Yankees came back last night and tied up the World Series:
When the World Series ends, one team revels in glory and the others sharpen their plans. The off-season calendar begins, and teams start counting the days to free agency. As the Philadelphia Phillies savored their championship a year ago Thursday, the Yankees flipped the [...]

New Hitler Parody Parodies Studio DMCA Takedown Notices

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, October 29th, 2009. Filed under Humor

Heh: “Brad Templeton, chairman of the board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, has produced his own Downfall parody video, making fun of the fact that Constantin Films has issued DMCA notices to remove all of the Downfall parody videos from YouTube.”

H/T: Matthew Yglesias

George Will And The “This Week” Round Table Endorse Legalizing Marijuana

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, October 29th, 2009. Filed under Economics, Individual Liberty, Politics, War On Drugs

The Times They Are A-changin’

Sting Has An Obamagasm

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, October 29th, 2009. Filed under Barack Obama, Celebrities, Dumbasses, Obamagasms, Politicos & Pundits, Politics

Gordon Sumner apparently thinks we care what he thinks:
NEW YORK (AP) – Sting isn’t a religious man, but he says President Barack Obama might be a divine answer to the world’s problems.
“In many ways, he’s sent from God,” he joked in an interview, “because the world’s a mess.”
Of course 29 years ago, Sting had a [...]

Ron Paul Teaches Turbo Tax Tim Geithner About Moral Hazard

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, October 29th, 2009. Filed under Credit Crisis, Economics, Politicos & Pundits, Politics, Ron Paul

You’d think he’d know about it already:

Einstein Proven Right Again

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, October 29th, 2009. Filed under Science

Albert Einstein’s theories remain un-debunked:
Astronomers said Wednesday that a race halfway across the universe had ended in a virtual tie. And so the champion is still Albert Einstein — for now.
The race was between gamma rays of differing energies and wavelengths spit in a burst from an exploding star when the universe was half its [...]

DailyKos/Research2000 On NY-23: Hoffman Surges, Scozzafava Fades

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, October 29th, 2009. Filed under Politics

It looks like the national attention being given to the insurgency candidacy of Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman is having an impact:
Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 10/26-28. Likely voters. MoE 4% (10/19-21 results)

Scozzafava (R) 21 (30)
Owens (D) 33 (35)
Hoffman (C) 32 (23)
Scozzafava is down nine, and Hoffman is up nine. While Scozzafava got 46 percent [...]

Obama Administration Condemns Muslim Efforts To Mandate Censorship

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, October 29th, 2009. Filed under Barack Obama, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, Individual Liberty, Islam, Politicos & Pundits, Politics, Religion

It appears I owe the Obama Administration an apology.
Last week, I wrote about a column by Law Professor Jonathan Turley reporting that the United States was allowing a resolution about free speech to go through the United Nations despite the fact that it continued language supporting Islamic efforts to censor so-called blasphemy.
Well, I’m not sure [...]

Fear Of Pedophiles Bars Parents From Watching Kids On Playground

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, October 29th, 2009. Filed under Dumbasses

Call it sex offender insanity, British style:
Parents are being banned from playing with their children in council recreation areas because they have not been vetted by police.
Mothers and fathers are being forced to watch their children from outside perimeter fences because of fears they could be paedophiles.
Watford Council was branded a ‘disgrace’ yesterday after excluding [...]

Coming Next Week At Reason TV: Honoring Ayn Rand And Her Ideas

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, October 29th, 2009. Filed under Ayn Rand, Individual Liberty

This promises to be very interesting:

Coming November 2, Reason.tv will debut “Radicals for Capitalism: Celebrating the Enduring Power of Ayn Rand’s Ideas,” a new video series featuring segments on the novelist’s continuing presence in American culture and exlcusive interviews with Nathaniel Branden, Barbara Branden, Reason Foundation founder Robert W. Poole, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), and [...]

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