A Stitch in Haste

Gee, being a deadbeat implies a lack of the "character and fitness" needed to be a lawyer? Go figure. http://tinyurl.com/ktac52 #
One more time: Internet access for a private individual/household/business/charity is NOT a "public good." http://tinyurl.com/ko5m43 #tlot #
"Krugman did not win a prize for mechanism design; he could not have predicted E-bay." http://tinyurl.com/lvg2hn (P.S. See my [...]

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Two consecutive CNBC commercials with people intentionally singing badly. Blech… (P.S. And of course one was a GE commercial.) #
One more time: In rent-seeking, any regulation you can afford but your competition can't is, duh, "good policy." http://tinyurl.com/mcvwnm #
"[W]ho wants to be mistaken for a generic consumer?" Remember: These people get to vote. http://snipr.com/l9iip #
Big [...]

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Another "Render what unto whom?" moment: Why should an amusement park deserve a religious tax exemption? http://snipr.com/l6ak1 #
CNBC commentator: "I never met a man I didn't like — but I've met plenty I would never lend money to." Or vote for. #
Dogs and cougars, living together — MASS HYSTERIA! http://snipr.com/l6f61 #
While we're at it, let's [...]

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Wisdom from CNBC guest: "Obama's legacy will be, 'I tried a million things, and ten worked.'" Ten might be a generous estimate. #
Dear Britons: Please stop using "stone." Really, what's the point? http://tinyurl.com/lwk8ra #
Gee, "a firehouse is not a university" could only garner 5 out of 9 votes? This is the sound of one 14th [...]

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Enumerated versus unenumerated rights (funny) http://is.gd/1gKab #tlot #lptwits #
One more time: No economy ever taxed itself into prosperity. A new tax is never, ever "a driver of economic growth." http://snipr.com/l23wa #
Famous last words: "just because a institution of the state declares an act legal does not make it so" http://snipr.com/l27dh #tlot #lptwits #
Am I becoming [...]

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Meanwhile, still no NYS vote on SSM. Who could've seen that coming? Oh right — me. http://snipr.com/ky5ci #lgbt #
I suppose it would be bad manners to order a pizza and have it delivered to Starbucks (where I am stuck due to lack of Internet access). #
Five words I hope — almost to the point of [...]

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"Canterbury has been told it is sufficiently gay – after an investigation costing thousands of pounds." http://snipr.com/kuqmt #lgbt #tlot #
Apparently breastfeeding is now a public good. http://tinyurl.com/kse8wx #tlot #lptwits #
Why isn't Obama demanding taxpayer subsidies to save this "green job"? (Shh! Don't give him any ideas!) http://snipr.com/kus5a #tlot #
Sneak preview of Cloverfield 2*. http://snipr.com/kut8j (*Not [...]

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"Canterbury has been told it is sufficiently gay – after an investigation costing thousands of pounds." http://snipr.com/kuqmt #lgbt #tlot #
Apparently breastfeeding is now a public good. http://tinyurl.com/kse8wx #tlot #lptwits #
Why isn't Obama demanding taxpayer subsidies to save this "green job"? (Shh! Don't give him any ideas!) http://snipr.com/kus5a #tlot #
Sneak preview of Cloverfield 2*. http://snipr.com/kut8j (*Not [...]

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I suppose it's now pointless to get uppity at occupational journalists who don't know that "data" is plural. #
In the end, the mob always turns on itself. Especially an anti-gay mob like the Southern Baptists. http://is.gd/1bRHk #lbgt #
Post your blogroll & call it a "Top 100 LGBT Blogs" list? No research, no metrics? How junior [...]

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FTC to (try to) monitor (i.e., control) bloggers for (hypothetical) conflicts of interest when reviewing products. http://snipr.com/koxlr #
"Jobs may have gotten a liver that should have gone to someone else…" Should? According to whom, by what standard? http://snipr.com/kp1j1 #
Meanwhile, whether right or wrong, lucky for Jobs that he didn't go to Canada for his ("ugly [...]

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