If there were no Japanese people trying to talk hip English, why, someone would have to make them up.
Listen For Feel (It Emotions!)
Posted by Ron Coleman on May 31, 2007
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O-U, baby
Posted by Ron Coleman on May 31, 2007
Dawn Eden gives props, as they say, to a somewhat (for her) unusual source, on her favorite topic — chastity.
But like most sincere searchers, Dawn’s open-minded that way.
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Duke netters net some justice
Posted by Ron Coleman on May 30, 2007
This sounds like the right thing to do:
The NCAA has granted Duke’s request for an extra year of eligibility for its men’s lacrosse players following rape allegations that led to the cancellation of much of last season.The decision affects 33 players who were not seniors during the 2006 season, and it grants them a fifth year of eligibility regardless of whether they play at Duke or another school. The announcement Wednesday came just two days after the Blue Devils lost to Johns Hopkins by a goal in the NCAA championship game.
“These individuals were involved in an unusual circumstance that we believe warrants providing them the opportunity to complete their four years of competition,” said Jennifer Strawley, NCAA director of student-athlete reinstatement and membership services.
Of course most people — even lacrosse players — aren’t interested in five years of college. And the real bad guy here was not the NCAA; it was Duke.
When does Duke step up?
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Payaso boy gets serious
Posted by Ron Coleman on May 29, 2007
Chavez is shutting down TV stations and finding dangerous plots everywhere. It’s classic totalitarianism on
the march.
I never liked him, and I can’t imagine you did, either. But… policy? Do we have one? Do we want one?
I don’t know. Poking the likes of this guy with a stick can and does frequently get you a Fidel Castro. The Allende adventure was sloppy, though perhaps a better outcome. But is it ever really possible to deal with tyrants whose stock in trade is anti-Americanism?
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Olbermann same as Bin Ladin
Posted by Ron Coleman on May 28, 2007
First, I want to thank the Anonymous Commenter who encouraged me to go back and look at Keith’s comments on Wednesday. I only wish I had looked sooner. My bad. The good news is Anon was Spot On…
Watch as Keith Olbermann flat out lies in order to excuse Rosie O’Donnell calling U.S. troops in Iraq terrorists then twists HIS lie into a slap at Fox News for CORRECTLY reporting what O’Donnell said.
Thank God on this Memorial Day that Bob Cox is watching America’s back!
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Memorial Day
Posted by Ron Coleman on May 27, 2007
The greatest ever Memorial Day words were uttered not on the eve of summer, but in November:
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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Good Shabbos!
Posted by Ron Coleman on May 25, 2007
The weekly Torah reading is Naso.
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A few fries short
Posted by Ron Coleman on May 25, 2007
Above The Law recounts a story of a very, very confident bankruptcy attorney. A little too confident.
UPDATE: Update.
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The wealth of nations
Posted by Ron Coleman on May 25, 2007
I’VE NOTED REPEATEDLY that gas prices don’t seem to be high enough to affect people’s behavior. Apparently they’d have to increase a lot more to do that:
In 1962 — a year writ large in the popular imagination as the quintessential year of muscle cars and cheap gasoline thanks to the movie American Graffiti — gasoline prices averaged 31 cents per gallon. When we factor changes in disposable income, today’s gas would have to cost $4.48 to be a comparable burden.
The public likewise thinks of 1972 as the last year of energy innocence prior to the rise of OPEC and the onset of shortage. Fuel prices in 1972 averaged 36 cents per gallon, a hefty $2.77 per gallon in today’s terms. While still high, this price is not all that different than the prices we were paying earlier in the year.
No wonder people are still driving fast and often.
Nnyess. And a lot depends on how you figure the “today’s terms” number. You can do a simple inflation-factor multiplication — how many of today’s dollars buy a widget today compared to how many did in 1962 or 1972. But that ignores the wealth effect, namely that even if today’s gas is more expensive that it was then, almost every one of us has (even in real terms) a lot more money to spend on gas than we did then. Will people who spend $20 for a music CD, $50 for ticket to the ballgame or $25 for a haircut really drive less just because a tank of gas costs $45 instead of $35 or $30?
I don’t know about you, but the thought never occurs to me.
UPDATE: My point, Glenn! (He really needs me to connect the dots…)
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Facebook changing a paradigm
Posted by Ron Coleman on May 24, 2007
Facebook may turn out to be a lot more important than any of us thought. It has just launched a major change in its strategy that will transform its role in the Internet ecosystem and could create a raft of new opportunities for companies of all sizes.No longer will Facebook consider itself merely another social network. Instead it is becoming a technology platform on which anyone can build applications for social computing. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg invited me to spend time with executives of Facebook and partner companies in advance of the announcement.
Brilliant. As the oldest member of Facebook (regardless of date of birth, believe me, I am the oldest) I am very impressed.
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