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August 4: Hans Island Update: Danish Expeditionary Force Sets Sail
Canada Grants Citizenship to Hans Island’s Rocks; ‘We Welcome Our 13,925,638 New Granite-Canadian Countrymen,” says Prime Minister, and
our original story: We May Not Be Able To Project Military Power, But Our Ad Copy Will Make You Surrender!)

The crisis started out as […]

From Friday’s Wall Street Journal ($ req’d):
… A new generation of overinvolved parents are flooding campus orientations, meddling in registration and interfering with students’ dealings with professors, administrators and roommates, school officials say.
… A number of colleges and universities are having to assign full-time staffers or forming entire new departments to field parents’ calls and […]

Who shops on eBay?
Using a sample size of two (arguably a little small for statistical accuracy but work with us on this one), it appears that very stupid people do:

Two year-old girls shopping for $245,000 limos
Heat-packing nuts from Kentucky 

Besides eBay, the other thing that they have in common is clogging up the judicial system with […]

The UPI reported this morning that a Washington D.C. woman faces manslaughter charges after killing her boyfriend. Dominique Jackson, 32 discovered that her addict boyfriend had sold her computer to obtain money to buy drugs. From what I understand, this is the manner and order in which she conveyed her anger:

She beat him unconscious with […]

Paul Krugman’s Op-Ed column “The Dropout Puzzle” suggests low unemployment figures are sending false signals that the economy has fully recovered. Even though the current unemployment rate at 5.0% is significantly better than the average for the last 30 years, left-leaning economists claim that the job market is really in bad shape and that the unemployment […]

The “Ask John Roberts” website promised by Barbara Boxer and others is now functional, and in the few dozen words on it, you see their assumption that a Supreme Court justice is supposed to be a legislator in a black robe:
Americans are curious about where he stands on the issues that will impact their lives […]

French people, don’t fret. Things are going well. Just read Paul Krugman’s column in the New York Times and you’ll see that your stagnant ecomomy is actually doing great … even if you can’t find a job!
You’ll also learn that Krugman assumes you’re happy — even when you tell pollsters you’re not.
Krugman kicks off today’s […]

Patterico answers our questions about attorney-client privilege in the Solicitor General’s office while taking the Los Angeles Times to task for poor reporting on the issue.

Technorati Tags: John Roberts, LA Times, Los Angeles Times

For those excited to read IRA Announces End of Armed Struggle, keep in mind that this isn’t the first time they’ve announced a peace deal only to later renege on it. Let’s also remember that it wasn’t that long ago they offered to shoot two members who stabbed a man in a bar fight. Are they […]

It’s not even close. A spokeswoman for Nielsen Soundscan, which monitors US record sales, confirmed: “Carly Simon sold 50,000 more albums than Michael Jackson.”
They both have new CDs out. Jackson’s “The Essential Michael Jackson” sold only 8,000 copies in its first week in the U.S.
Just maybe it has something to do with the fact that […]

First the gun, then the tank, nuclear weapons, and now … Google ads? The AP reports:
Canada and Denmark have taken their diplomatic tussle over a lump of Arctic rocks to the Internet with competing Google ads claiming sovereignty over Hans Island.
… The diplomatic debate began Monday when Denmark said it would send a letter of […]

Huffington’s Toast (not Post — Toast!), “not Al Franken” writes:
The police have no darn business looking in anyone’s bag. What we need to do is invite the terrorists over and have some refreshments and a deli platter–no pork–and maybe do a little group meditation and some role-playing games and try to figure out what […]

Two articles today raise the question of whether Pakistan is as two-faced in its anti-terror policy as Saudi Arabia.
In a review of Husain Haqqani’s “Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military,” Alyssa Ayres writes in the Wall Street Journal ($ req’d):
Mr. Haqqani hopes to defy the conventional wisdom that sees Pakistan as perpetually balancing two forces, with […]

Politicians learned long ago that without a good sound bite, they would not be heard. The same is true with blogs but the headlines are what need to be catchy. With the advent of RSS readers, this is is even more important.
Creative headline writing can be particularly challenging when trying to get a timely posting […]

We recently met xrlq at the Bear Flag League summer conference and were sad to hear shortly thereafter that his father-in-law suddenly passed away.
In a short post, xrlq points us to a hilarious story his father-in-law wrote about the time he was Chief Justice Earl Warren’s student host at Harvard Law School. We look […]