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Brad Delong with the zinger of the day!: The Bush administration, having entered office as social conservatives, leaves office as conservative socialists, proprietors of the most sudden large expansion of the state's role in the US economy since mobilisation for the second world war.
How to pair books and alcohol: An excellent guide to what to drink when, although the recommendation of "light, American-style lagers" for extruded fantasy product is an invitation to a double-dipping of bad taste.
Cheery thought for the day:: We owe something to people who don't exist yet. People who don't exist yet are waiting in line to take our places. They can't do that unless we die. Don't nonexistent people have rights? Damn right they do. The right to demand our deaths. Luckily, nonexistent people have Bill McKibben and Frances Fukayama speaking up for their right to kill you. Which they can't do, since they don't exist. So Kass and Fukayama will kill you for them, by legislating against doctors interfering with your long slow death.
(via H+ Magazine, a new magazine for Transhumanists, and transhumanist critic Bryan Appleyard)
Children of the... broccoli?: I'm going to have to buy a box and confirm this, but Bread & Honey is claiming that Cascadian Farm Frozen Broccoli has little tiny faces photoshopped onto the broccoli florets on the package.
Sarah's $150,000 shopping spree: The Republican National Committee spent nearly $150,000, including $4700 for hair stylists, for Sarah Palin and her brood in the weeks since her nomination. Now, why isn't that as newsworthy as John Edwards' hair?
Jim Horne argues that, really, we're getting enough sleep.: Jim Horne argues in New Scientists that, contrary to popular belief, we're mostly getting plenty of sleep, that the link between sleep deprivation and obesity is oveblown, and if we had a 25 hour day, most people wouldn't spend the extra hour sleeping.
Homeschooling Hints recommends "blowing up gay schools.": In an article entiled "Sodomites in School," Homeschooling mom Raani (that name is so going to some heavy bottom queer cumdump Mephit character) says,
I've also known of people personally over the years who were known as gay yet "experimented" with the opposite sex. The term bisexual is an unnecessary distinction, because a faggot wants to defile anyone or anything he can get his hands on.

If we were living in a biblical society, homosexuality would be punishable by death so such a school would be unnecessary. Although I'm against the special accommodations, perhaps this new trend of segregation will protect straight kids from these predators. With any luck, some radical will blow up the gay school.
Aren't these people charming? (via Pharyngula)