Links and Minifeatures 07 11 Tuesday

Carnival of Liberty Recommended: Homeland Stupidity (dairy industry regulations), London Fog (Milton Friedman on do-gooders)

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Both predictable and completely consistent with past actions: Iran Plays For More Time. Basically, they are trying to give the West, or more precisely, the leaders of the west, who are democratically elected, an excuse to look the other way while Iran develops nuclear weapons. Failing that, do their best to delay action until it is too late.



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detainees to be given Geneva Convention rights.



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I've just agreed to host the second Carnival of Real Estate. I do have a reservation about a Carnival of Real Estate, which is the major reason I didn't try to start one, and that is steering a middle course between "bash the professionals" (as all too many forums on the internet do - see the financial ones for some pretty egregious and stupid examples) and "Everything is so beautiful!", the standard sales-oriented garbage that tries to tell you that real estate is "so wonderful!" and how you "always make money!" and all the similar nonsense put out by boards of Realtors® everywhere.



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Funny! You know the singularity has arrived when... over at Dean's World.



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Armies of Liberation has the human rights report for Yemen. Execreble.



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Finally had the opportunity to watch Serenity. I liked it quite a bit. I had never had the opportunity to watch Firefly (there are only 24 hours in the day, and my usual passive entertainment ration is about 5 minutes per week these days), but I was impressed by the writing and acting and the way the effects didn't try to be spectacular, they just told the story. My wife also liked it, and said we'd have to get Firefly now.