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She has dropped the fatwa. Maybe now that they are in the minority, who knows?

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Not a good thing with ones first coffee of the morning. Aaargh.

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only if we're talking about Möbius, the famous electronic dance music DJ

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It's a version of Pascal's Wager. I sometimes wish spiritualism were true, so we could ask old Blaise how that worked out.

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(language NSFW)

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It's not just plausible - their absence in Iraq plainly proves it's true!!!!!1!!

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And when you're whining for publicity, don't negate your Offensensitivity by admitting that you agreed to participate <i>even though</i> you didn't know "how the interview footage would be used."

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<blockquote>“They said they couldn’t say who else they were interviewing. It seems like they were under a gag order. They couldn’t tell me who it was for. I asked to see the video of me, but they weren’t willing to show me that,” Earley said.</blockquote>

He is dumb. It probably seemed like the interviewers were fighting their gag <i>reflex</i> while in his presence, but that's hardly the same thing as a "gag order."

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It never gets old.

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Maybe I exaggerate. Not *all* math nerds -- OK, a rather small subset of math nerds. But normal people can enjoy the grace and beauty of it.

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"consistency isn't one of their strong suits..."

They're void in that suit.

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"Anyone who quotes what I said, is lying."

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<i>Science and technology that proves the humanness of the womb</i>?

What does that even mean?

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Oops. I wondered about the capital 'L', but didn't catch on. Belated upfists for a Killing joke.

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Asking someone what he thinks? OMG!!! What other horrible thing will Obama do next?

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About as much as "the round square cupola on Berkeley College". Whether that meant anything kept Willard Van Orman Quine gainfully employed for quite a while. (Confession: I just wanted to type "Willard Van Orman Quine". It has the same effect on me as "Patience Roggensack" does on Charlie Pierce.)

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