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Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries: "HUMAN EVENTS asked a panel of 15 conservative scholars and public policy leaders to help us compile a list of the Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Each panelist nominated a number of titles and then voted on a ballot including all books nominated. A title received a score of 10 points for being listed No. 1 by one of our panelists, 9 points for being listed No. 2, etc. Appropriately, The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, earned the highest aggregate score and the No. 1 listing."

That's right kids. Hitler and the guy who designed the foundations of the modern public school system are in the same category.

Roger Ebert takes a few questions:
Q. I greatly enjoy your reviews and the thoughtful observations they contain. However, I get a little worried about the strength of your argument in your review of "Unleashed," when you make the case for women being able to stir a man's humanity by using Ann Coulter as your example. That is the same person who claimed women should bear arms but not be able to vote. - C. Perla, Miami

A. Wouldn't you sleep more soundly at night knowing Ann Coulter was in the Army and not in a voting booth?

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"A cop stopped a Toyota compact and found Laverne Dunlap, 35, in the car and a passenger in the front seat with a 10-year-old boy on her lap and four children, ages 5 to 17, wedged in the backseat, none of them wearing seat belts. 'When the officer asked to look in the trunk, [Dunlap] said, 'absolutely,' and sure enough there were two kids in the trunk,' says an officer. (Los Angeles Times)"

WSJ.com: "Pressed about security by (Wall Street Journal reporter) Mr. Mossberg, (Intel CEO) Mr. Otellini had a startling confession: He spends an hour a weekend removing spyware from his daughter's computer. And when further pressed about whether a mainstream computer user in search of immediate safety from security woes ought to buy Apple Computer Inc.'s Macintosh instead of a Wintel PC, he said, 'If you want to fix it tomorrow, maybe you should buy something else.'"

Apple have* recently released Mac OS X 10.4/Tiger. The two biggest selling points are Spotlight and Dashboard.

Apparently the implementation isn't all that some must have hoped for, because there's now a utility designed to disable those two features:
DisableTigerFeatures 1.0.2 -

* We would like references to support the policy of referring to a company in the plural.

World's most expensive cab ride.
MR. RUSSERT: There is a road, a highway from the airport to downtown Baghdad that's called the Road of Death by many. I understand there's a taxi service on that road to take someone from downtown to the airport.

MR. FILKINS: Yeah. There's actually a company in Baghdad that does nothing except offer rides to the airport and back. They've got an armored cars and some guards. And they charge $35,000 for...

MR. RUSSERT: Thirty-five thousand dollars?

MR. FILKINS: ...for a ride to the airport. And I think you know, if you miss your plane and you have to come back, it's another $35,000. But...

MR. RUSSERT: How long--is it six miles?

MR. FILKINS: I think it's about six miles, yeah. It's not a happy six miles. So, you know, they earn their money.

Link from nucular.net.

So, I get a link today to a column written by yet another ex liberal. His main beef is that he couldn't find any liberals who celebrated the Iraqi elections. He just didn't try very hard.

Actually, I'm sympathetic to this guy's position. It's basically the same reason I left the church. At some point you are just too embarrassed to be in the same room with these people.

(You thought I was going to take a cheap shot, didn't you. he he.)

This is why we have the internet: Crying, while eating