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Yasser Arafat remains in stable condition after dying in a Paris hospital.
The American people are fed up ... with political posturing.' True, but also an example of political posturing.
An industry devoted to serving the public's right to know gives twisted and evil men the means of becoming known. This problem is not obviously amenable to a solution, and it certainly is not amenable to a legal one. A regime of media regulation that would be both effective at preventing mass shootings and consistent with the American Constitution is no easier to imagine than a regime of gun regulation that would meet the same criteria.
Making wise decisions requires more than incentives. It requires wisdom.
The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth disputed whether John Kerry deserved some of his five medals. A large part of Kerry's defense was an appeal to the authority of veterans who supported him-one of whom has now been revealed to have received a medal he doesn't deserve. This doesn't prove the Kerry detractors were right, but it certainly doesn't weaken their case.
If the rest of the world likes Americans only when we're dying, the rest of the world can go to hell.
The Guardian's headline is 'How Going Green May Make You Mean.' We're inclined to think the chain of causation runs the other way - that people who are jerks to begin with gravitate toward verdant sanctimony.
Scary discovery of the day: Most people who RT @yokoono's tweets do so without irony.
