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– Peter Pribik kicks ass, on a variety of subjects. Get over there and check it out.
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– leaning to the right is a new blog by a California Republican momma who bashes Gray Davis and the lack of patriotic assimilation by immigrants, and praises the Opinion Journal feature boosting Western Civilization. I’d say she’s off to a good start.
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– A couple of weeks ago, the Mercury News broke the story of a $95M no-bid, sweetheart deal between California and Oracle for some software that few agencies wanted or needed. Gray Davis, who’s established the reputation for being an autocrat who micromanages all aspects of state government, is now pretending to be outraged, as [...]

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– HealthCentral:

A new device recently cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration promises to help the approximately 43 million American women who suffer from female sexual arousal disorder (FSAD).
FSAD is an umbrella term that refers to any or all of the following: lack of sexual sensation, lack of lubrication, inability to achieve orgasm [...]

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– Another piece of bad news regarding fatherless boys from Times Online

The American sociologist Charles Murray was the first to identify the emergence of the underclass in Britain.

Analysing the margins of society in 1989, he studied the levels of young men dropping out of the labour force, violent crime and births to unmarried mothers.
He predicted [...]

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– A new book suggests that the push for careers is making women miserable:

Prof Tooley, from Rothbury, Northumblerland, said: “I’m not suggesting we ban girls from the labs, but my research shows that 30 per cent of young women are unhappier with their lives than previous generations were, while young men now seem happier than [...]

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– Byte has an interesting feature on the Google API, something that allows websites to exchange info with Google. See The Google API Is a Two-Way Street for examples of using it from Python, the only scripting language worth a damn:

…a number of these Google explorers popped up. The one I latched on to was [...]

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– Once you fall prey to a group with a death wish, like California Republicans, you know one when you see one, and Dick Riordan sees one at the L. A. Times:

“I don’t think any paper should have a monopoly, and The Times has a death wish for Los Angeles,” he said. “It would [...]

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– The most important piece of news from the Middle East in a long time is discussed on Rantburg:

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Cabinet on Sunday approved a U.S. proposal aimed at ending the month-old siege outside Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s compound in Ramallah. The U.S. plan calls for U.S. and British personnel to guard six [...]

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– There’s an interesting article on VA Linux in the print edition of Red Herring, but it’s not on their web site. The gist of it is what VA Linux had the largest first-day pop in history, jumping from $30 to $2 hundred and something, but now they’re down around $2. Selling servers with Linux [...]