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If you think my long-winded posts make your brain bleed, check out the Becker/Posner Blog. Two very smart guys take on the issues of the day.

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Another Stupid Internet Quiz

Via Greenman:

Faramir, Captain of Gondor



Thoroughly dependable, Faramir is loyal to his father. He keeps a watchful eye on the east border of Gondor.

You are earnest and attentive to details. You tend to trust authority and seek security. Time alone is important and solitary activities refresh you. You have good observational skills. In your desire for clarity in life, you may have the tendency of being remote or even "heartless". You try to schedule your life as much as possible. You tend to finish your work before resting.



As Sam says:"I have something to do before the end. I must see it through, sir, if you understand."



Traits: Dependable, beneficient, usually living in the past. On the dark side you could be a hoarder.



Doesn't seem quite like you? Take it again!

Test based upon the Myers-Briggs/Keirsey Personality Tests



Note: The results of this test are based upon the

books' characters, not the movie.



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Do you think they enacted this because of blue voter migration?



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Blogging in oppressed nations can be extremely hazardous to your health: Secret squads operating under the authority of the Iranian judiciary used torture to force detained Internet journalists and civil society activists to write self-incriminatory “confession letters." Saw it on TalkLeft.



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Jeff at Tusk and Talon has some good posts up on the idiocy of the US Postal Service proposal to raise stamp prices, and PETA's campaign against kosher meatpacking plants. Regarding PETA, he speculates: "Today The Kosher Meatpacker; Tomorrow, Everyone Else." I'd say that's a fairly safe bet, considering these quote:

"An animal rights group has captured videotape that it says shows cattle at a kosher slaughterhouse enduring an "absolutely outrageous" level of cruelty. . . .



'They're ripping the tracheas and esophagi out of fully conscious animals, dumping them out of pens into pools of their own blood. The animals stand and bellow and attempt to escape for up to three and even four minutes in some cases,' Bruce Friedrich, a spokesman for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said late Tuesday.



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In May 2003, PETA wrote to officials at AgriProcessors and asked them to investigate and take steps to make certain that cruelty was not occurring there.



According to the PETA Web site, AgriProcessors attorneys wrote back saying "Kosher slaughter is being conducted in accordance with the letter and spirit of Jewish law, which prescribes the most humane treatment of animals that has been known throughout human history."



Friedrich said kosher slaughter is more than twice as well regulated as conventional slaughter, being overseen by both the USDA and the Orthodox Union, and is widely believed to be more humane. "What this case indicates is that anybody who is eating meat is supporting horrific cruelty to animals," Friedrich said."

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New Iowa Blogs



Salieri introduces Fisherpriceman.



Indepundit announces the birth of his blogchild, "Shallow Thoughts from Iowa."



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Milbarge posts the best Booker/Blakely poem I've read.



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Ouch II



As my friend Ellen pointed out the other day, a court in has decided there's no first amendment right for a police officer to sell porn videos of himself in uniform, even without insignia:

"The officer custom-made a video portraying himself issuing another man a citation and then performing a sex act by himself. He wore a uniform, but no badges or other insignia that would identify him as a San Diego police officer."

Let me get this straight, a sex act by himself after writing some guy a ticket? So beyond the firing, he's basically implied to the world: "I can't even get a co-star". We'll end this post like it began: Ouch.