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Tuesday links

Published October 16, 2018 8:23 am by Claire
  • It’s only about 60 years overdue, but Congress is finally considering ending its absurd switchblade restrictions.
  • There’s been a lot of this going on, but this is big: Harvard calls for the retraction of dozens of papers by a cardiologist whose work is so groundbreaking that it influenced major medtech and startup businesses.
  • Who gives a rat’s patoot about Fauxcahontas’s DNA (which shows she may have some dim connection to Latin America)? Not her fellow Dems, who find it rather distracting three weeks before an election that’s making them increasingly nervous.
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    • In the garden

    Published October 11, 2018 6:27 pm by Claire

    From yesterday: There’s something about watching a healthy young guy do sweaty, muscle-taxing “man’s work.” After he’d chopped up three designated planting areas for me. The Wandering Monk and I talked a while. We unfortunately agreed that much of the upcoming crop of young men — with their declining testosterone, estrogen-mimicking soy-and-plastic diets, and cultural castration — will be incapable of doing this sort of work. And that will be a loss both to them and to the women of their generation. To society, as well. Of course, my generation wasn’t fond of sweaty manual labor, either, and as a…

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    Monday-Tuesday links

    Published October 1, 2018 5:54 pm by Claire
  • A teenage girl uses a bow and arrow to save her little brother from a cougar. Naturally, the Internet hates her. (H/T LA)
  • Bryan Caplan’s convincing case against education. (Amazon link to Caplan’s book here)
  • Given the biased source (the NYT), I don’t know if this is accurate. If true, it’s barbaric. Undocumented immigrant kids are being rounded up in the middle of the night and transferred from private homes, shelters, and relatively normal lives to an isolated tent city in Texas.
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    • Basics of Resistance Kindle sale

    Published October 1, 2018 1:43 am by Claire

    The Kindle version of Basics of Resistance is on sale. Right now. Three days only: Today — $0.99 Tomorrow — $1.99 Wednesday — $2.99 Late Wednesday night it returns to its regular price of $3.99. Enjoy. Share. Learn. Subvert. (And thank you all for your wonderful reviews!)

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    Trying to remember to keep petty annoyances in check

    Published September 10, 2018 11:05 am by Claire

    I woke up grumpy after a poor night’s sleep. I was mad at myself for a couple of mistakes. I was mad at my insurance company for giving me an unreasonable quote to protect my newly upgraded house. (They want to insure it and my possessions for way more than they’re worth, and they insist on including coverage for expensive outbuildings I don’t have — all to generate a premium I can’t afford.) In desperate need of a short getaway after this summer’s push-push-push to finish Mo Saoirse’s exterior, I checked the one little beachy studio I used to be…

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