Monthly Archives: June 2004

Limbaugh: Surely You Didn’t Expect Honesty

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Via Steven Taylor we learn that Rush’s weblog is consistent with the rest of his act.
Apparently his researchers and web builders steal material from others and use it without attribution. The most recent example and an earlier one is noted at Jessica’s Well. Taylor also is a victem.
Kevin Alyward has some action items to which I’d like to add: 1) write a letter to your local paper and 2) call/email other talk shows to discuss Rush’s dishonesty.
I suspect some of his listeners might finally realize that he’s not such a good roll model and quit listening.
Update: See Steven Taylor’s comment below. He point’s out that nothing was taken from his site so my classification of him as a victem is not correct.

Morning Again in America

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R.I.P. Ronald Reagan
Our condolences go out to the Reagan family.
The Commissar has an extensive link roundup.
Government is not the solution, it’s the problem

Update: I had thought about writing something about how Reagan died and now I don’t need to.
S-Train has already written it:

That’s a fucked up way for a person to check out of this life…
You progress to a damn statue. No ability to do anything. No response. No emotion. Just a lump of flesh. Damn!
So I got to thinking about Ronald Reagan. Here’s a man that was an actor, governor, U.S. president, husband, friend, and father. All those experiences. All those memories. Reduced so far at the end by this disease. Terrible.
So my condolences to the family of Ronald Reagan. I know you stuck it out to the very end with him. Something family is supposed to do. Even if he was unable to express it and tell it, he left this life a happy man since you were there with him in the end.

Update (6/7): Brian Leiter has some more links. Via PZ Myers.

Where is the Book?

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Amanda Butler at Crescat Sententia writes:

At Books-a-Million tonight (no, I don’t normally go there, but it was next to the wine store), I could not find a copy of The Federalist Papers, though I searched in American politics, philosophy, and the other likely categories. When I asked the store clerk where I’d find it, he said, “Oh, I shelved that yesterday. It’s in fiction.”
what?
“It’s in fiction and literature. It’s been declared a classic.”
[continued look of skepticism]

“I agree it makes no sense, but that’s where it is.”
[figures the guy has to shelve things where he’s told to shelve them]
There may be more to this. I was equally puzzled the other night when I entered my new copy of The Anti-Federalist Papers into my Readerware database. I had Readerware set to search Amazon or Barnes & Noble for book information and here is what it returned: Literature & Fiction: General: Classic.
On the other hand, Randy Barnett’s Restoring the Lost Constitution returns: Nonfiction: Government. Legal System. Seems like this would have worked for the others. I wonder if the nonfiction tag means that Barnett is right?
I think it is a problem with whoever (the publisher?) categorizes books. The clerk at the store was simply following current industry practice…broken as it is.

No prior art?

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Microsoft has just been awarded another stupid patent:

Microsoft has successfully patented using short, long or double clicks to launch different applications on “limited resource computing devices”
How long did it take you to think of a code that used short, long or multiple iterations of some symbol or activity to represent something or initiate an action?
All I can say is -… ..- .-.. .-.. … …. .. – (go here to translate).
Via the Apostropher.