The perfect dog for cat lovers

Judd nodded. “I had a dog that was half coyote,” she said. “I lived in New Mexico.” She continued, “That dog could climb over anything. It was the only dog I ever had to tell to get off the refrigerator.”

(source)

Yep. This deserves promotion, all right.

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Hello, my fellow Americans!

On the left, your National Reconnaissance Office's new logo for their latest spy satellite. Don't you feel safer already?

On the right, something intended to make you fearful.

From a different time. And a different country.

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(Image credit: PsionEdge, on Ars. From that source, you can also get to a long Ryan Lizza piece, subtitled "Why won’t the President rein in the intelligence community?", if you like. I haven't yet found it within me to get to page 2.)

Fair trade?

One hand washes the other?

(pic source: screenshot of the NYT "Recommended For You" sidebar widget. Article links: 8, 9)

Happy Thanksgiving!

I just love this pic.

M. Bouffant: Remnants

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For the shopper who just can't make up his mind?

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Ouch

Writers like Rod Dreher and Daniel Larison tend to be ...

On the other hand, Daniel, it was David Brooks doing the lumping together.

(If you don't already know those two names, this'll illustrate it as quickly as anything: Larison | Dreher.)

Strange bedfellows

The Environmental Protection Agency declined on Friday to relax its requirement on the use of corn ethanol in gasoline, rejecting a request from several states related to a steep decline in the nation’s corn production.

A summer drought that withered crops led to a spike in prices, hurting the livestock industry and others that depend on corn for food. Estimates indicate that as much as half of the nation’s crop will be used to produce ethanol this year to meet the federal renewable energy standard for transportation fuel.

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That would put some environmentalists in rare alignment with the oil industry, which is required to use an increasing amount of ethanol in its fuel production but complains that its system is glutted with the substance.

Since Congress specified a year-by-year gallon quota for biofuels in 2007, total fuel demand in the United States has dropped, so the percentage of ethanol fuel in gasoline has reached unexpected highs.

I don't know enough about the issues to comment, beyond agreeing with the environmental point of view that ethanol made from corn isn't much of a clean energy alternative, but I thought both the article excerpted above and the link in the blockquote were interesting enough to pass along.

The GOP? They've come a long way, baby.

A few months ago:

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A few years ago:

(pic. sources: top | bot)

Nailed it

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Cartoon by Pat Bagley.

(h/t: GF, via email)

Why I wish I went to the home page of Wikipedia more often

Read the full article here, if you like. I don't judge.

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Yeah, okay, I read PART of it. Of course I had to click right to the Death section, for example.

Which brought into view the beginning of the References section, whose first entry …

^ ^{a b c d e} "The Man Who Has Jonah Beaten". The Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Qld). November 16, 1937.

… will appeal to fans of that very serious, thoughtful Leader of Conservative Thought.

Interesting juxtaposition with the start of this post, now that I think about it. Of course, our Jonah's got a bit more work to do on the controlled aspect.

(pic. source: Tintin)

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Update

2012-10-24 06:34

Further evidence that it's all connected, or that the vast left-wing conspiracy is even larger than we thought: screenshot of the home page of The Trustworthy Encyclopedia, right at this moment.

Odd Couples

A few favorites swiped from a great Tumblr called "awesome people hanging out together."

Leonard Nimoy and Jimi Hendrix, 1970

Louis Armstrong and Niels Bohr, Copenhagen, 1959 [ + ]

Gabby Hartnett and Al Capone [ + ]

Grace Kelly and Alfred Hitchcock, by Edward Quinn, 1954

(h/t: Mary Clevenger)

Scenes from the book sale I: with apologies to Fleur Beale

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Also.

Really starting to wonder if anyone at Microsoft knows what year it is

Doop-de-doop, checking my secondary email accounts … Oh, hey, look! Outlook.com now has sidebar ads! Let's click one!

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You must click that image to enjoy the fine print.

(previously)

One of these things is not like the other

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Jesus Christ, Microsoft. It's TWO THOUSAND TWELVE.

If there truly is some reason why this limitation has to exist, because you've painted yourself into yet another backwards-compatibility corner in flailing your rebranding way from Hotmail to Windows Live to Outlookdotcom, you should at least get the UI/UX right: just pick up the first 16 characters and silently ignore the rest. Why is this so hard?

Oh, wait.

You know who ELSE used to "explain" lots of things on whiteboards?

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Cool pic

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Swiped from Patricia Fara, whose lecture I have just begun to watch. [Added: and it's not at all yet another talk on how Darwin rules and wingnuts lose. Give it a look.]

[Added] Dr. Fara says a few moments after showing the above slide that the picture on the right was the prize-winning entry in a 2008 contest called "Designing Darwin," sponsored by the British Society for the History of Science. More here. Worth clicking over to see the original and some of the runners-up.

Bipolar

(h/t: your new Wonkette)

Sprung 2

Growth report from twelve days ago to today:

At other spots in the yard, blossoming, blossoming:

Click 'em to big 'em.

If you look for a dot of purple along the right-hand edge of the middle picture, about two thirds of the way up, that's the single flower shown in the first of the three images. [Added: visual aid 1, visual aid 2]

Just sayin

The second person I thought of after Megyn Kelly was … well, let's just see what she's been up to these days.

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If you're scoring at home: apart from the theater critic gig at Tablet, that's two outlets (Minding The Campus and City Journal) owned by the Manhattan Institute, three owned by Rupert Murdoch (FoxNews, WSJ, The Daily), and NewsMax.

And selling ad space to Ann Coulter.

HAS CNN BEEN BOUGHT BY RUPERT MURDOCH?

Or ...

HAS MEGYN KELLY DYED HER HAIR A DIFFERENT COLOR?

I don't know if you'll be able to make it through seven minutes of Erin Burnett (I failed to make it through two), but it's definitely worth seeing what Taibbi has to say.

Thanks again, liberal media!

(h/t: Jim Newell)