The Allen Almanac

Hopefully, we’ll be telling our grandkids about this one.

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Go read this great article on Slate

We have become such “good Americans” that we no longer have the moral imagination to picture what it might be like to be in a bureaucratic category that voids our human rights, be it “enemy combatant” or “illegal immigrant.” Thus, in the week before the election, hardly a […]

The Guardian has an interesting piece by Simon Jenkins on their blog, commentisfree, about the US’ and Britain’s attempt to find a replacement for the Cold War.

Blair has not been able to persuade his Nato allies in Europe of his apocalyptic world-view. The use of the word terrorism to imply some grand military offensive against […]

Bent Corner found something interesting on a trip to Wal-Mart. They are selling T-Shirts with Nazi symbols on them.

Wal-Mart Shirt
Nazi Death Head

I stopped in at Wal-Mart today after I got off work. I had to pick up a few things. As I was walking past the men’s clothing area, something caught […]

Democracy and Freedom cannot be force fed at the point of an occupier’s gun. To think otherwise is folly. One has to stop and ponder. How could we have been so impossibly naive? How could we expect to easily plant a clone of U.S. culture, values, and government in a country so riven with religious, […]

Did you know that the same inventor came up with both Freon and leaded gasoline? His name was Thomas Midgley, Jr. and he worked for General Motors in the 1920’s and 30’s. One historian remarked that Midgley “had more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in earth history.” At […]

Boston 1775 has an interesting post up detailing an Irish immigrant’s experience upon arriving in Boston in 1737. It is remarkable how similar it is to how modern immigran’t are treated. This is from Hector McNeill’s memoirs:

Here we met with a verey indifferent reception from the People of the country, who seem’d to […]

12 If this doesn’t work, we’re trying in vitro! In Madagascar, families dig up the bones of dead relatives and parade them around the village in a ceremony called famadihana. The remains are then wrapped in a new shroud and reburied. The old shroud is given to a newly married, childless couple to cover the […]

Ob/gyn residents at Yale’s School of Medicine must undergo training in abortion procedures in a required residency program established by Planned Parenthood’s Connecticut branch (PPC).

Second year ob/gyn residents will have to complete two four-week rotations with PPC for training in abortion techniques such as vacuum suction, medical abortions, and other “family planning” services in a […]