"Ted Wallis, a doctor in Austin, Texas, recently came upon a lost child in tears in a mall. His first instinct was to help, but he feared people might consider him a predator. He walked away. ‘Being male,’ he explains, ‘I am guilty until proven innocent.’"
The solution, as I see it, is to have children of your own. Fathers are innocent until proven guilty.
Via Instapundit
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I’ve gone back to playing Halo 1 and become so enamored with the music that I bought the CD. Reminds me, vaguely, of Carmina Burana. ("I hate that guy," says Mr. B., confusing the name of a symphony with a person. He gets it in the car sometimes on the way home from school in the afternoon. But he also "hates" Willie Nelson, which doesn’t seem possible.) Playing Halo 1 on easy level is cheating, in a way, and certainly less challenging. But on normal I was stuck in the second section. This way, at least, I get to marvel at the scenary of the ring world. Someday we’ll get an XBox and try it that way.
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Pity Miss Teen South Carolina, the national laughing stock, because she got nervous. Don’t we all? I’m sure the ugly ducklings are having the most fun laughing at her. They finally get to feel superior to someone who was born pretty instead of plain, or worse. The Seablogger has it just right, especially the poor gal’s PC indoctrination, which certainly can get confusing if you’re not a paid member of the race industry.
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In tribute to the team that upset Michigan, the little-known Appalachian State University fight song:
Hi-Hi-y-ike-us
Nobody like us,
We are the mountaineers, mountaineers, mountaineers,
Always a-winning,
Always a-grinning,
Always a-feeling fine
You bet, hey!
I have it on good authority that hardly anyone at App State knows these words, let alone sings them. The band just plays the song at football games. So enjoy your inside knowledge.
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Mystery start-up EEStor of Austin is getting a lot of publicity–and got $2.5 million in seed money from venture capitalists last month–despite refusing interviews. Their revolutionary promise is to develop "technologies for (the) replacement of electrochemical batteries," via "ultracapacitors." Some experts at the University of Texas Center for Electromechanics are skeptical. But ZENN Motor Co. of Toronto, licensed the invention in 2005 and expects to start receiving units for its electric cars later this year.
MORE: From CNN. EEStor was talking a year ago, perhaps wildly, about replacing the internal combustion engine! Not just goodbye gas guzzlers, but goodbye gas. Wouldn’t that be sweet. But the commenters at Slashdot see lots of potential problems.
Via Instapundit
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My choice for Labor Day. Older than the information age, certainly, but right on point. From industrialization to information. The statue originally graced the Allegheny Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh, PA.
"Built in 1889, it was an island of calm…and the first free library Andrew Carnegie built in the US, close to Slabtown where he worked as a bobbin boy in a textile mill after arriving from Scotland in 1848. Meant to be a ‘working boys’ library, it was the culmination of his dream to honor his mentor Colonel James Anderson, a pioneer iron manufacturer. Pittsburgh, famous as the Steel City, was actually once known as the “Iron City,” due to the industry of Anderson and his fellow ironmongers, but that moniker now exists only as the name of a popular local beer."
Via Simply Jews
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THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 