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Four on the Floor

Brad DeLong calls Mickey Kaus: ...one of the Four Horsemen of the Stupidoclypse unleashed upon the world by Marty Peretz and Michael Kinsley in that dreadful laboratory "accident." Damn that's good! Why can't I write stuff like that? Especially about Mickey Kaus.

Tagged Again

Here are the rules. Grab the book closest to you. Open to page 123, go down to the fifth sentence. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog. Name the book and the author. Tag three people. OK, that was enough fun that I think I should at least tag a few others who were skeptical. This time I walked with my eyes shut to the book shelf, incidentally knocking Aunt Melba's priceless Ming vase through the screen of my new 80 inch plasma HDTV, and selected a book at random. Their relatives the bushbabies, on the other hand, are energetic leapers, and the have long feathery tails. Tree sloths are tailless, like the marsupial koalas who might be regarded as their australian equivalents, and both move slowly about the trees like lorises. In Borneo and Sumatra, the long-tailed macaque lives up tree, while the closely related pig-tailed macaque lives on the ground and has a short tail. The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins. This time I tag Levi, the visitor from Santiago Chi...

Tagged: The Great Chain of Being

I was tagged by Rae Ann , who was tagged by Lubos , who was tagged by Bee , who was tagged by Clifford , who was tagged by IP ... Here are the rules. Grab the book closest to you. Open to page 123, go down to the fifth sentence. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog. Name the book and the author. Tag three people. It's my opinion that this is only going to work if I tell them, and Los Alamos cannot accept the responsibility for the safety of the Oak Ridge plant unless they are fully informed as to how it works! It was great. The lieutenant takes me to the colonel and repeats my remark. Most physicists may recognize the book. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman by Richard P. Feynman. I tag - hmmm - does anyone read this blog who hasn't already been tagged? I will try Arun, Wolfgang (even if I can't find his blog anymore - if he still has one), and whoever it is that sometimes connects from Helsinki, Finland. If you don't have a blog, you can post here...