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Tuesday, August 21, 2007
The Mullahs and the Rock Star
Assorted on Salman Ahmed;
"In high school, I prayed to Allah for Yankees to win"
Junoon Official Website (biggest rock band in South Asia, sold over 25 million albums, the first rock band to be invited to perform at the U.N. General Assembly.)
Going Meta on Culture Wars
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Culture wars have two main functions. First, to split an existing, dominant
social or political coalition apart by the clever use of wedge-issues. (Not
all...
Five of the best books about queer relationships
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At the Guardian Safi Bugel tagged five "rich, nuanced LGBTQ+ tales,"
including: Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval Rotting fruit, flies and urine may
not be the ty...
The war to end war, still going on
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Anzac Day (the anniversary of the disastrous Gallipoli landings in 1915) is
always a sad day, but even more so this year, with the horrors unfolding
before...
Impact of Zero Tolerance Laws
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According to the 2019 NSDUH survey, 27.7 percent of 18-22 year olds who are
not enrolled in college full-time and 33.0% of 18-22 year old full-time
college...
What Year Silverado Seats Are Interchangeable?
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Silverado seats can be expensive to buy and more challenging to find
particularly the most fitted ones. Having knowledge of what year Silverado
seats are i...
Should Frozen Russian Assets Fund Ukraine?
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The adversaries during more cordial times.
Unbeknownst to many, one of the linchpins of the post-WWII global
infrastructure is coming under sustained at...
How to run a successful remote workshop
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In-person workshops are a great way to brainstorm, plan, and share new
ideas with colleagues. But as remote work becomes the norm for many
companies, rem...
The two notions of amenities in spatial economics
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Spatial economists use the word “amenity” in two imperfectly aligned ways.
The first refers to place-specific services that are not explicitly
transacted a...
Thatcherism is dead: Thatcherism lives
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Thatcherism is dead. It has ceased to be. It has expired and gone to meet
its maker. It has kicked the bucket, shuffled off this mortal coil and
joined the...
Some Links
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(Don Boudreaux) TweetWriting in the Wall Street Journal, NYU physicist
Steven Koonin reports on how the Biden White House inadvertently told the
truth abou...
Chromostereopsis
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The effect varies for different people. Take a moment and look at this.
Some people don’t see anything special: just a blue iris in a red eye. For
me thoug...
Do Higher Wages Mean Higher Standards of Living?
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Editor's note: We have updated macroblog's location on our website,
although archival posts will remain at their original location. Readers who
use RSS sho...
A new shop for parents who've done better
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It has been a while. Actually, I am not sure anyone reads this blog anymore
and even if they did how they might find out about a new post.
Anyhow, your eco...
The WSJ Law Blog: 2006-2017
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More than a decade ago, The Wall Street Journal launched Law Blog. It had a
simple name but a novel approach to legal coverage in the pre-Twitter era.
The ...
herbal untuk jantung dan darah tinggi yang ampuh
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Apakah Anda tahu bahwa madu mampu memberikan M segala macam manfaat bagi kesehatan
manusia? Madu diakui mengingat bahwa zaman kuno sebagai obat, dan penggun...
Why model?
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The first question that arises frequently--sometimes innocently and
sometimes not--is simply, "Why model?" Imagining a rhetorical
(non-innocent) inquisi...
Good Text Book on Public Policy
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Section I: What Is Public Policy? Chapter 1: Public Decision Making
Chapter 2: Why Is It So Hard to Make the World a Better Place?
Section ...
The end …
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This is the end of our broadcast day here at Murketing.com. Thanks for
having tuned in! Please head over to RobWalker.net for more on whatever I’m
up to no...
this site is moving
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After more than eight years at this address and more than more than seven
years blogging with the same old version of MovableType software, I am
shifting o...
An Announcement
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Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Friends -- You imagine it can't happen to
you, and then it does. Here's why 2Blowhards disappeared: Our webhost,
who'd given ...
Armenian genetics
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Armenian genes: Scientist in Yerevan launches a project to reveal genetic
history of the nation. The description of the science in the piece is *very*
garb...
New site
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I have a new site at *WordPress*:
http://www.harryrclarke.com/
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It is goodbye *Blogger* for at least a whil...
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