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Log — David Chess

Daniel V. Klein, via David Chess' weblog:

"Forget threatening to bomb Afghanistan and the Taliban if they fail to turn over Bin Laden to us. Instead, let's threaten to gather up all of their women and send them to college. In fact, why don't we do that anyway?"

Well, seeing as how there is a 17% literacy rate among women (I read that somewhere recently, my apologies for not linking to it or providing any kind of source for that statistic) in Afghanistan, first you'd have to teach most of them how to read. Then, yeah, send them to college, a truly great idea!

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27Sep/01Off

Scripting News

Oh pooh. Weblogs.com is turning a corner and didn't use its signal light.

I hope the SubHonker Filter will still work tomorrow., and I hope the Fan Favorites page and Weblog Favorites browser will too.

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Land Of The Free?

HELP SAVE POLITICALLY INCORRECT!!

Land Of The Free?

We cannot let them succeed, for, as Benjamin Franklin put it, "Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."

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27Sep/01Off

Webcams in Afghan

Paul Boutin: "But until we can link to some Afghan webcams or bloggers in Baghdad, there's a big hole in the conversation. Our use of the word we doesn't really mean all of us."

It's going to be a little difficult to see webcams in Afghan, considering the Tablian outlawed the Internet earlier this year. Get used to the hole... it'll be a while before it closes.